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Latino Families' Fight for Banking Reform

Janet Murguía | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Debt, Weak Oversight, Auto Dealers, Job Loss, NCLR's Wealth-Building Policy Project, Nclr, Damaging Payday Loans, Cycles of Debt, Deceptive Lending Practices, Declaw Legislation, Wall Street Bailouts, Latino Families, Accountable, Janis Bowdler, Great Recession, Enforcement, Foreclosure, Housing Counselors, Mortgage Brokers, Small-Dollar Lenders, Greed, High-Rate Credit Cards, Oversight, Devastating Consequences, Innovative Financial Products, Limited Accountability, Economic Turmoil, Subprime Loans, Toxic Mortgages, Protections, Deception, Access to Credit, Product Vendors, Positive Innovations, Banking Reform, Politics News
Janet Murguía

One of the most devastating consequences of today's economic turmoil is the large-scale loss of nearly a generation of wealth among Latino homeowners.

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Why Keep Geithner?

Dylan Ratigan | Posted 11.02.2009 | Business

Read More: Corruption, Greed, Wall Street Bailout, Dylan Ratigan, Bailout Bandits, Financial Corruption, Bailout, Tim Geithner, Timothy Geithner, Business News
Dylan Ratigan

The current custodian of America's wealth, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, is not doing a good job. The time for corrective action is now.

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Crash the Bankers' Party in Chicago

Anna Burger | Posted 10.22.2009 | Business

Read More: Greed, Anna Burger, Wall Street, Bailout, Seiu, Chicago, Banks, Financial Regulation, Business News
Anna Burger

If you could get all the architects of the Wall Street scam together in one place, what would you say to them? They'll all be in Chicago this weekend -- and we're headed there to meet them.

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Frank Rich: Goldman Can Spare You A Dime

New York Times | FRANK RICH | Posted 10.17.2009 | Business

Read More: Timothy Geithner, Larry Summers, Economy, Barney Frank, Jobless, Regulation, Obama, Reform, Lloyd Blankfein, Frank Rich, Unemployment Rate, Goldman Sachs, White House, Jobless Rate, Bailout, Treasury, Blankfein, Wall Street, Health Care, Greed, Sec, Depression, Senate Finance Committee, Derivatives, Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, Goldman, Recession, Financial Services Committee, Health Care Reform, Bonuses, House Financial Services Committee, Business News

As leader of the Wall Street pack, Goldman declared surging profits, keeping it on track to dispense a record $23 billion in bonuses for 2009. But mos...

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Pardon the Interruption, But...

Steven Weber | Posted 10.16.2009 | Business

Read More: Greed, Wall Street, American Greed, Economic Crisis, Corporate Greed, Animal Farm, Business News
Steven Weber

America is itself a living example of greed-fueled inefficiency, reflected in its regressive attitudes, unrestrained profiteering and unceasing ignorance of its own mortality.

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Health Insurance Industry Exposes Its Insatiable Greed

Peter Dreier | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Greed, Cigna, Stephen Hemsley, Edward Hanway, Health Care for American Now, Hcan, Angela Braly, UnitedHealth Group, Humana, Insurance Industry, Profits, Max Baucus, Wellpoint, Karen Ignagni, Ahip, America's Health Insurance Plans, Michael McCallister, Rose Ann DeMoro, California Nurses Association, Richard Kirsch, Nancy Ann DeParle, Evan Bayh, Ben Nelson, Mary Landrieu, Kent Conrad, Blanche Lincoln, Politics News
Peter Dreier

After pretending for months to cooperate with the Obama administration and Democrats to secure a reasonable health reform bill, the industry's CEOs and lobbyists on Sunday double-crossed their one-time political allies.

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The Shiny Storefront on a Hill

Steven Weber | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Greed, Corporate Greed, Capitalism, Corporations, Politics News
Steven Weber

What is so wrong with the things we always depended on to lead a healthy existence in our democratic society?

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The Radical Philosopher: Reflections on Gandhi's 140th Birthday

Mira Kamdar | Posted 10.02.2009 | World

Read More: Greed, Gandhi, Nonviolence, Consumerism, Nuclear Weapons, Global Economy, War, Violence, India, World News
Mira Kamdar

Were he alive today, I have no doubt Gandhi would be utterly appalled at the direction the world and his own country India have taken.

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Sin Map: 7 Deadly Sins Mapped Across U.S.

Wired | Posted 09.28.2009 | Living

Read More: Kansas State, Greed, Maps, Sloth, West Coast, More Gluttonous, Bible Belt, The South, Lazier, Map of Sins, Lust, Sinful, Gluttony, Envy, More Prideful, 7 Deadly Sins, East Coast, More Envious, Sin Map, Pride, The North, Living News

"...A team at Kansas State just served up a feast: maps of sin created by plotting per-capita stats on things like theft (envy) and STDs (lust)."...

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ReThink Review: Capitalism: A Love Story -- A Must-See Subversion

Jonathan Kim | Posted 09.28.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Greed, Dead Peasant, Dead Peasant Life Insurance, Rethink Reviews, Documentaries, Capitalism, Jonathan Kim, Film, Movies, Movie Reviews, Jonathan Kim Movie Reviews, Janitors Insurance Policy, Michael Moore, Documentary, Capitalism: A Love Story, Plutonomy, Movie Critic, Life Insurance, Citigroup, Entertainment News
Jonathan Kim

An excoriating critique of America's economic ideology, Capitalism may go down as one of the most timely and subversive films in movie history

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Worried About Money

Ryan Mack | Posted 09.25.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Ignorance, Greed, Self-Righteousness, America, Money, Worry, Poem, Poetry, Comedy News
Ryan Mack

I woke up early...worried about money. / I think I'm losing my home. / Just text me when you need me. / I just got the new IPhone.

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How Did Europe Respond to the Lehman Collapse?

Georges Ugeux | Posted 09.16.2009 | World

Read More: Greed, Economic Stimulus Package, Wall Street, Bonus Outrage, Ragulatory Reforms, US Regulation, Federal Reserve, Lehman Collapse, European Central Bank, World News
Georges Ugeux

In a strange way, the U.S. was better prepared to manage the collapse of Lehman Brothers than Europe, namely because it was happening within a single country.

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Michael Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story Will Find a Ready Audience

Mark Weisbrot | Posted 09.16.2009 | Business

Read More: US Economy, Greed, Wall Street, Michael Moore, Financial Crisis, Movie, Capitalism, Corporate Greed, Capitalism: A Love Story, Capitalism Movie, Business News
Mark Weisbrot

Moore is questioning whether the whole incentive structure, moral values, and political economy of American capitalism are fit for human beings.

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Americans Have Been Taken Hostage

Dylan Ratigan | Posted 09.14.2009 | Business

Read More: Corruption, Greed, Wall Street Bailout, Bailout Bandits, Dylan Ratigan, Financial Corruption, Bailout, Business News
Dylan Ratigan

We must demand that our politicians stop serving those whose business models are based on systemic theft and start serving those who seek to create value for others.

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Who Isn't John Galt? Part 2

Robbie Gennet | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Human Rights, Bob Marley, Evil, Bubbles, Bill Gates, Architecture, Dick Cheney, Dollar, Greed, Empathy, John Lennon, Wall Street, Ayn Rand, Bible, Artists, Morality, The Fountainhead, Republicans, Alan Greenspan, Ethics, Atlas Shrugged, Capitalism, Republican Party, Jimi Hendrix, Politics News
Robbie Gennet

To those who posted about having to "share" their earnings with those who had "no hand in it at all": you are truly living in a fictitious reality.

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Who Isn't John Galt?

Robbie Gennet | Posted 09.26.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Empathy, Artists, Dick Cheney, Ayn Rand, Dollar, Ethics, Republican Party, Greed, Bob Marley, Bible, Architecture, Bill Gates, Capitalism, Evil, John Lennon, Human Rights, Wall Street, The Fountainhead, Alan Greenspan, Atlas Shrugged, Jimi Hendrix, Bubbles, Republicans, Entertainment News
Robbie Gennet

If you are an Artist, Rand's books free you from the opinions of others and put ironclad gates around your sense of purpose, unlocking the freedom to create your art.

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Where Are the Customers' Yachts?

Leslie Pratch, Ph.D. | Posted 09.18.2009 | Business

Read More: Greed, Executive Compensation, World Financial Crisis, Corporate Culture, Wall Street Compensation, Business News
Leslie Pratch, Ph.D.

Many in the financial sector still are not doing anything curative about the gaping flaws in culture and values in their enterprises. Apparently, they think this is just fine.

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Senator Baucus: "Uniquely American" Is Not an Answer

Jonathan Tasini | Posted 09.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Greed, Max Baucus, Free Market, Health Care, Working Life, Max Bacus, Single Payer Health Care, Politics News
Jonathan Tasini

What industry has done more to deny our citizen the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?

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Goldman Sachs Buys Atlantic Ocean

Tom Gregory | Posted 08.20.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Economic Satire, Greed, Goldman Sachs, Wall Street Crisis, Wall Street, Satire, Nyse, Economy, Economic Crisis, Tarp, Comedy News
Tom Gregory

Revisionist historian Jim Cramer proclaimed that he told everyone this was going to happen -- "The Times" could find no evidence of his claim.

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Goldman Sacks and Plunders

Diane Francis | Posted 08.17.2009 | Business

Read More: Goldman Sachs, Greed, Bankruptcies, Lehman Brothers, Bailouts, Henry Paulson, Aig, Financial Crisis, Henry Paulson Wall Street, Tarp, Financial Meltdown, Bush, Business News
Diane Francis

Goldman Sachs cannot argue that the proceeds it received from the AIG rescue did not constitute an indirect bailout any more than can auto parts makers who are saved by Detroit's bailout.

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From Climate Science to Climate Justice: Climate Change a Symptom of Man's Inhumanity to Man

Sanjay Khanna | Posted 08.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Climate Change, G-8, Law, Greed, Carbon Emissions, United Nations, Ireland, Globalization, United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), Mary Robinson, Human Rights, Climate Justice, Green Technology, Recession Fears, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Seattle, Green News
Sanjay Khanna

The salient and problematic underlying political reality is that it climate change the culmination of longstanding processes of colonization and realpolitik.

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Gross, Bond King: Greed Will Soon Return To Wall St.

Reuters | Jennifer Ablan | Posted 08.02.2009 | Business

Read More: Finanical-Crisis, Greed, Pimco, Corporate Greed, Bill Gross, Consumers, Wall Street, New York-New York, Business News

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bill Gross, the influential investor who runs top bond fund Pimco, said on Wednesday that greed will eventually become the norm a...

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Foreclosure Fiasco

Robert Scheer | Posted 07.24.2009 | Business

Read More: Tarp, Greed, Banks, Foreclosure, Bailout, Wall Street, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Foreclosure News, Business News
Robert Scheer

The Bush-Obama strategy of throwing trillions at the banks is a huge bust. Why was I so naive as to have expected this Democratic president to not do the bidding of the banks?

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NYC: Too Big to Fail

Thane Rosenbaum | Posted 07.24.2009 | New York

Read More: Greed, New York Yankees Stadium, Times-Square-Herald-Square-Closed-Traffic, Unemployment, Wall Street, Central Park, Too Big to Fail, Economic Crisis, Green News, FBI Crime Statistics New York, New York City, Recession, New York News
Thane Rosenbaum

This city of excess had forgotten what it was like to be poor.

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Get Rich and Destroy Lives -- The Bernie Madoff Way!

David Misch | Posted 07.24.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Greed, Madoff Victims, Bernard Madoff, Corporate Greed, Bernie Madoff, Comedy News
David Misch

Life isn't about the day you die; it's about making money every second till you're arrested. Now, in just 6 easy steps, you can live just such an enchanted life: the Bernie Madoff Way!

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