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The real question is: Do we really want our charities to be marketing arms for the country's largest corporations?
The following conversation did not take place... but wouldn't it have been interesting if it did? Geithner: Glad I found you. We really need to talk...
Memo to the Obama Administration: if you want to see the makings of a national model to hold big banks accountable for fixing foreclosure-devastated neighborhoods, go to Milwaukee and talk to citizen leaders who are practicing what Saul Alinsky preached.
This corruption is why nothing gets accomplished on Capitol Hill, whether it's campaign finance reform or financial dis-services reform.
If regulators do their jobs properly, the resulting institutions should be simpler, smaller, and safer. Those firms would be less likely to fail -- and less dangerous in the event that they do.
The Wall Street Malaise has Seeped Into Our Halls of Justice In the past we have commented about the dysfunctional class action system and how class ...
The house that had been the Schmidt family home for 23 years was set to go up for auction. The sad truth is that stories like this are no longer news. But in this particular case, it is -- because of what happened next.
Through the 2MP initiative, services of second mortgages have the option to modify the lien or to extinguish it -- which is an admission that the mortgagor is not likely to be repaid for the second mortgage, and they clear their interest in the property by filing a lien waiver.
As we head into 2012, I invite you to think about what you can do to shake things up, make your voice heard, and make 2012 another banner year for people power.
Occupying Wall Street was not a crazy scheme that a group of activists did for attention. They did it for us. If Wall Street is king, then Wall Street is ours, and the activists were holding our spot.
Not every family will be able bring rallies to their front lawns, but hopefully, the increasing momentum of the Henrys' fight is a sign of many more to come.
Let me give you some advice I have been giving to people for a decade: quit listening to what your politicians are saying and start watching what they are doing. If you look past the propaganda you'll see that the U.S. government is anti-small business.
In a bad-economy year full of silly laws, mortgage miseries, political gaffes, Hatfield-McCoy feuding, credit downgrades, mysteriously rising prices, fee gouging and art-project political campaigns, here's a guide to help you to weed out the ridiculous from the truly tragic.
When it comes to fraud, if you don't look for it, you don't find it, because when it comes to fraud, there is always a cover-up.
Once again, bankers have bought their way out of being investigated without even acknowledging their wrongdoing. Justice isn't served when that happens.
Most Americans have had it with bailouts of the big banks on Wall Street when so little has been done for Main Street.
 
Banks that are "too big to fail" are too big to exist.
