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Romney Economics: Cheat Main Street

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 05.28.2012

Read More: Bankruptcy, Wall Street, Mead Corp., Bain Capital, Mitt Romney, Main Street, Bain, Ampad, Wall Street Journal, Romney Economics, SCM Office Supplies, Ampad Bankruptcy, Bain Capital Ampad, Video, Politics News

Bain's handling of Ampad illustrates how the rich extract money from these deals and leave behind wounded workers and Main Street shops.

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'I Am Going To Burn Home Depot To The Motherf***ing Ground'

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: Mom and Pop Store, Home Depot 2012, Walmart, Home Depot Fire, Small Business, Big Box Retailers, Home Depot Arsonist, President Obama, Main Street, Randol Stebner, Home Depot, Best Buy, Home Depot News, Video, Business News

It may be National Small Business Week, but lighting fires in a big box retailer to express support for a local shop owner seems a bit extreme. Ran...

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Forecast On Main Street: Clear Skies

The Huffington Post | Alicia Ciccone | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Small Business Hiring, Capitol One, Small Business Survey, Small Business News and Trends, Main Street, Business Outlook, Capitol One Survey, Small Business Outlook, Small Business News

Citing increased liquidity and plans for expansion, small businesses started 2012 off on the right foot, according to a quarterly index from Capital O...

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JPMorgan Loss, Facebook IPO Debacle Combine To Erode Confidence In Wall St.

AP | PALLAVI GOGOI | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: JPMorgan Chase, Jpmorgan Trading Loss, Video, Morgan Stanley, Wall Street, Senate Banking Committee, Facebook IPO, Main Street, Securities and Exchange Commission, Facebook, Wall Street Confidence, Ap, Business News

NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street appears bent on convincing Main Street that the game is rigged. Investor anger is mounting over the initi...

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JPMorgan's $2 Billion Loss and the Price You Are Paying for Gas at the Pump

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: JPMorgan Chase, Gasoline Prices, Wall Street, Oil Prices, Federal Reserve, Financial Crisis, Main Street, Bank Holding Companies, Business News

The Fed's mandate needs a massive overhaul, and our government needs to refocus its priorities from bailing Wall Street out of the mess they have gotten all of us into, and focusing on how bailing Wall Street plays out on Main Street.

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It's Springtime in America -- Can the Occupy Movement Reinvent Itself?

Russell C. Smith | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Egypt Protests, Populism, Occupy Wall Street Protest, Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street, Main Street, Occupy, Labor Movements, Occupy Movement, 99 Percent, American Spring, Occupy Wall Street Spring, Politics News

The Occupy movement has been in hibernation mode for several months, but with warmer weather on the horizon, odds are it will become a fixture in every major city in America during this election year.

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Wrecking Ball: Springsteen's Populist Vision of America

Russell C. Smith | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Greed, Bruce Springsteen Wrecking Ball, Wrecking Ball, Financial Inequality, Main Street, Occupy Wall Street, Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band, Bruce Springsteen New Album, E Street Band, The Pogues, Reinventing Businesses, Bruce Springsteen, Culture News

Shuttered businesses and jobs shipped overseas are a cold reality for the people inhabiting Wrecking Ball.

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Is Growth Stalling On Main Street?

The Huffington Post | Alicia Ciccone | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Economic Outlook, Small Business Survey, Small Business News and Trends, Main Street, Manta Survey, Small Business Economic Outlook, Small Business Outlook, Manta, Small Business News

Recent surveys may have shown that business owners are generally feeling better about the economy, but they're not necessarily acting on that sentimen...

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The Cash Mobs Are Coming!

HuffingtonPost.com | Alicia Ciccone | Posted 03.26.2012

Read More: Mike Patterson, Jill Miller, Cash Mob, Lynn Fitzgerald Kodila, Mom and Pop, Ryan Marie Patterson Scholarship Fund, Andrew Samtoy, Small Business News and Trends, National Cash Mob Day, Main Street, Lisa Croteau, International Cash Mob Day, What's the Scoop, Main Street Program, Small Business News

While flash mobs have become a well-known concept, a new kind of mob is trying to break into the mainstream -- Saturday, March 24, marks International...

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Main Street or Wall Street? Why Not Both?

Kristie Arslan | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Main Street, Small Business, Kristie Arslan, Corporate Tax Reform, Wall Street, Self-Employed, Nase, Small Business America, Small Business News

If we're going to talk about tax reform, we need to be talking about reform across the board, not just for those who seem to command the most attention and action from Congress and the White House.

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Obama and Joblessness: Re-Election Hangs in the Balance

Stewart J. Lawrence | Posted 04.07.2012

Read More: Main Street, Jobs, Wall Street, Unemployment Rate, 2012 Election, Economy, President Barack Obama, Jobless Rate, Obama Reelection, President Obama, Elections 2012, Politics News

How should progressives respond to the latest reported drop in the official unemployment rate?

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How Obama Can Win Big

Brent Budowsky | Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: American Davos, Martin Luther King, Obama Second Term, Insider Punditry, Economy, Ronald Reagan, Shared Prosperity, Morning America, Pay Equity, Obama Presidency, Patriotic Capitalism, Ayn Rand, Teddy Roosevelt, Main Street, Abraham Lincoln, Obama 2.0, State of the Union, Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, 2012 Election, Hope America Fails, John Kennedy, News Cycle, Socialism, Newt Gingrich, Made in the USA, Shared Purpose, Food Stamp President, Politics News

While President Obama lifts his presidency to champion the cause of jobs that are made in the USA, his Republican opponents stake their plans for powe...

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Armageddon: An Inside Look At The U.S. Financial Crisis [EXCERPT]

Monika Mitchell and Peter Ressler | Posted 12.12.2011

Read More: Junk Bonds, Video, Wall Street, Lehman Brothers, Great Recession, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Financial Crisis, New York Times, Main Street, Commodities Trading, Homeowners, Corporate Greed, Journal, Business News

The following excerpt is from the newly released book: "Conversations with Wall Street: The Inside Story of the Financial Armageddon and How to Preven...

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Why Occupy Needs to Work With the One-and-a-Half Percenters

Don McNay | Posted 01.28.2012

Read More: McNay Settlement Group, The American Dream, 99 Percenters, Mayor Bloomberg, Wealth Without Wall Street, Move Your Money, Don McNay, Occupy Movement, Main Street, Occupy Wall Street, Move Your Money Campaign, Small Busines America, Arianna Huffington, Wall Street, Business News

If Americans set up their lives so that we depend less on Wall Street and Washington, both entities will notice. We will be hitting them in the place where it hurts the most: their wallet.

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Wall Street: Brush Up Your Melville

Carla Seaquist | Posted 01.23.2012

Read More: Moby Dick, Jon Corzine, Jon Corzine Mf Global, Wall Street Crisis, Wall Street, Melville Moby Dick, Main Street and Wall Street, Occupy Wall Street, Wall Street Reform, Main Street, Herman Melville, Business News

The "monomaniac" pursuit of profit, taken to "demoniac" extremes (two words Melville uses repeatedly) is a killing pursuit that can take every last thing -- even the ship itself (read: the nation) -- down.

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Giving Thanks For The Occupation, Election, Demonstrations

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 01.21.2012

Read More: Unemployment, Social Security, Wall Street, Occupy Wall Street, Thanksgiving, Natalie Merchant, Gop, John Kasich, Main Street, Medicaid, Medicare, Patriotic Millionaires for Fiscal Strength, Recession, Republicans, Politics News

Before the occupation movement began, country club conservatives had confined political discussion and concern to government deficits. No one acknowledged the unemployed, the impoverished or the foreclosed on -- except to condemn them. The occupations changed this.

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Crash Tax: Wall Street Reparations

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 01.14.2012

Read More: 1 Percent, James Tobin, Social Security, European Commission, George Soros, Financial Transactions Tax, Tom Harkin, Main Street, Bill Gates, Occupy Wall Street, Medicaid, Robin Hood Tax, Paul Volcker, Banksters, Rowan Williams, Nicolas Sarkozy, 99 Percent, Bank of America, Freddie Mac, Joseph Stiglitz, Wall Street, Peter DeFazio, Angela Merkel, Paul Krugman, Medicare, Fanny Mae, Crash Tax, Tobin Tax, Peter G. Peterson, Business News

It's time for Wall Street to pay reparations for the financial collapse it caused. It's time for a crash tax, a tiny sales tax on Wall Street transactions, the revenues from which would pay for Main Street restoration.

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My Latest Preoccupation

Marian Salzman | Posted 01.10.2012

Read More: U.S. Economy, Bankruptcy, State Pensions, Main Street, Rhode Island, Bernie Madoff, Harrisburg, Investing, Wall Street, New Jersey, Occupy Wall Street, Greece Debt Crisis, Detroit, Banking, Glass-Steagall Act, Pension Funds, Politics News

Ladies and gentlemen of the Preoccupied movement, allow me to redirect your attention to another location, because Wall Street is getting stale (word ...

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Cities Can "Move Our Money" and "Keep it Local"

Jefferson Smith | Posted 01.04.2012

Read More: Occupy Wall Street, Move Your Money, Portland Oregon, Move Your Money Campaign, Main Street, #Occupywallstreet, Credit Unions, Oregon, Politics News

As thousands and thousands protest Wall Street and 99% of Americans face a challenging economy, many of us have been asking ourselves, "What locally can we do to help?"

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No Poverty Of Spirit

Rev. Earl E. Johnson | Posted 01.02.2012

Read More: Spiritual Care, Main Street, Occupy Wall Street, Unemployment, Chaplain, Jobs, 99 Percent, The One Percent, Christianity, Religion News

What you do with the wealth matters. How you counsel the one percent makes a profound difference. And, relationships built upon common needs build bridges, even as bridges unmaintained may fall at any time.

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Occupied America: Bridging the Divide

Annabel Park | Posted 12.28.2011

Read More: Campaign Finance Reform, Unemployment, The One Percent, Too Big to Fail, We Are the 99 Percent, Ows, Occupy Wall Street, Income Disparity, Regulation, Main Street, Tax Reform, Politics News

How do we define ourselves as a nation and how do we fix what isn't working in America today? This is what has motivated so many Americans to occupy Wall Street and Main Street from coast to coast.

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'Bail Out of America' or 'Bail Out America'?

Paul Heroux | Posted 12.26.2011

Read More: Politics, Jobs, Job Growth, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Government Jobs, Unemployment, Economic Stimulus Package, Great Recession, Economic Crisis, Main Street, President Bush, Barack Obama, Occupy Wall Street, Business News

Republicans have been chanting that public investment "crowds out" private investment. They are missing a major lesson of Macroeconomics 101: public investment doesn't crowd out private investment in the short run; it does so in the long run.

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10 Ways Zombies Became A $5 Billion Industry

24/7 Wall St. | JON C. OGG | Posted 12.25.2011

Read More: Halloween, Zombies, Economy, Zombie Art, Max Brooks, Main Street, Dvds, Economic Recovery, Zombie Movies, Business News

From 24/7 Wall St.: Zombies may be the walking undead, but their contribution to Main Street's economy is very much alive. In modern times, the zombi...

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9 Reasons the Cain Campaign is Done

Shawna Vercher | Posted 12.21.2011

Read More: Federal Reserve, Main Street, Koch Brothers, Herman Cain, Tarp, Godfather's Pizza, 9-9-9 Plan, CNN Debate, Politics News

It has been an intense primary season, with a number of candidates rising to the top of media discussion only to fade just as quickly. Here are nine reasons why Herman Cain's campaign may also burn out.

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When Main Street Occupies Wall Street

Kim Carter | Posted 12.20.2011

Read More: Main Street, Corporate Greed, Occupy Los Angeles, #Occupywallstreet, Middle Class, Occupy Wall Street, Los Angeles News

Occupy Wall Street shows us that the middle class has been attacked, robbed of their ideal existence and experiencing a revolt much like that of the civil rights era.

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