Zach Carter

Green Alert: Banks Use Bush Terror Team, Threat Tactics to Push Debit Card Fees

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 07.04.2011

Read More: Rudy Giuliani, Visa, Bank Overdraft Charge, Zach Carter, Ryan Grim, Bernie Kerik, Gen. Michael Hayden, Arthur Delaney, Michael Chertoff, Mastercard, Debit Card Fees, Debit Card Interchange, Business News
Richard (RJ) Eskow

Big banks and credit card companies have made a PR misstep in the fight over debit card charges. They're trying to use the Bush administration's anti-terror team to convince Americans that debit card fees are needed for our nation's security.

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Weekly Audit: Foreclosuregate Hits Home

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Market, Foreclosures, Democracy Now!, Edolpus Towns, Moratorium, The Note, Bank of America, Chris Hayes, The Nation, Alan Grayson, Foreclosure Crisis, Mortgage, Truthout, Mother Jones, Zach Carter, Bond, Andy Kroll, Private Property, Liar Loans, Liar Liens, Dean Baker, Politics News
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Weekly Audit: Foreclosuregate Hits Homeby Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger Earlier this month, Bank of America (BOA), the country's larges...

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Weekly Audit: Will Obama Save Homeowners From Wall Street's Latest Fraud Scheme?

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama, Andy Kroll, Bailout, The Washington Monthly, Foreclosure Crisis, Steve Benen, Annie Lowrey, Zach Carter, Laura Flanders, Wall Street, The Washington Independent, Grittv, Danny Schechter, Foreclosure Fraud, Foreclosures, Economy, Axelrod, Mother Jones, Tarp, Alternet, Business News
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by Zach Carter, Media Consortium blogger A massive foreclosure fraud scandal is rocking the U.S. mortgage market. Wall Street banks and their lawyer...

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Weekly Audit: Are Handouts For Billionaires More Important Than Feeding Children?

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Democracy Now!, The American Prospect, Wells Fargo, Unemployment Benefits, Jobs, Annie Lowrey, The Nation, Overdrafts, Juan Gonzalez, Aid to States, Deficit Hysteria, Alternet, Bush Tax Cuts, Washington Independent, Deficit, Cra, Unemployment, Zach Carter, Overdraft Fees, Tim Fernholz, Amy Goodman, Subprime, Economy, Home News
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by Zach Carter, Media Consortium blogger The crazy conservative assault on government spending has become one of the most irrational economic policy d...

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Weekly Audit: Silencing Conservative Deficit Hawks

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Suzy Khimm, The Washington Monthly, Deflation, Jobs, The Nation, Citizens United, Deficit Hysteria, Eric Cantor, Alternet, Best Buy, Bush Tax Cuts, Deficit, Steve Benen, Target, William Greider, Mother Jones, Zach Carter, In These Times, David Moberg, Economy, Politics News
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The same conservatives who spent the past year senselessly screaming about the U.S. budget deficit are now demanding an extension of the Bush tax cuts for the rich.

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Weekly Audit: Why Elizabeth Warren Should Head New Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tarp, Matt Taibbi, Democracy Now!, Elizabeth Warren, Sec, Tbtf, Stacy Mitchell, Financial Reform, Annie Lowrey, Overdrafts, Cop, YES! Magazine, Kevin Drum, Alternet, Financial Fraud, Goldman Fraud, Goldman Sachs, Wall Street Reform, Goldman Sachs Fraud, Mother Jones, Zach Carter, Overdraft Fees, Goldman Settlement, Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzales, Too Big to Fail, The Washington Independent, Home News
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by Zach Carter, Media Consortium blogger With the Wall Street reform bill finally cleared through Congress, activists and intellectuals are pushin...

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Weekly Audit: Brown-Nosing Wall Street Reform

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Scott Brown, Foreclosures, Right to Rent, Greg Kaufmann, The American Prospect, Annie Lowrey, The Nation, Mortgage Crisis, Alternet, Foreclosure Crisis, Wall Street Reform, Truthout, Mother Jones, Zach Carter, Andy Kroll, Financial Crisis, Tim Fernholz, Subprime, Wall Street, The Washington Independent, Economy, Dean Baker, Home News
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by Zach Carter, Media Consortium blogger More than two years after the collapse of Bear Stearns, the House and Senate finally ironed out their differ...

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Weekly Audit: Just Who is Obama fighting for?

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: David Corn, The Washington Monthly, Spending Freeze, President Barack Obama, Financial Reform, The Progressive, Obama, Budget Deficit, The Nation, President Obama. Barack Obama, Paul Volcker, Recession, Alternet, Steve Benen, Bank Tax, Mother Jones, Zach Carter, Great Recession, Matthew Rothschild, Banks, Katrina Vanden Huevel, Talking Points Memo, Wall Street, Too Big to Fail, Rachel Slajda, Glass-Steagall, Economy, Home News
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By Zach Carter, Media Consortium Blogger Progressives have waited a year for President Barack Obama to roll up his sleeves and fight for serious finan...

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Weekly Audit: Four More Years of Bailout Ben

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Taxes, Deficit, The Washington Monthly, The Nation, Weekly Audit, The Media Consortium, Federal Reserve, Economy, Zach Carter, Banks, The Real News, The Progressive, Salon, Tmc, The Uptake, In These Times, Ben Bernanke, Business News
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Why is the Bernanke reappointment a mistake? Put simply, Bernanke is completely culpable for allowing an economic crisis to foment.

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Weekly Audit: EFCA, Tax Cheats and the Racial Wealth Gap

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Nation, Grittv, The American Prospect, Employee Free Choice Act, Housing, Truthdig, Racial Equality, Economy, Scandal, Salon, Ubs, Weekly Audit, Net Work, Mortgage, Unemployment, The Media Consortium, Labor Laws, Bank, Zach Carter, Tmc, Politics News
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The U.S. economy may finally be bottoming out. But while conditions may improve in a dry, statistical sense, the foundation for a productive economy has been decimated over the past three decades.

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Weekly Audit: Fixing the Foreclosure Problem

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Loan, American Prospect, Dick Durbin, Bankruptcy, Economy, Washington Monthly, Labor Department, Colorado Independent, Salon, Labor Cash for Clunkers, Weekly Audit, Unemployment, Michigan Messenger, The Media Consortium, Mother Jones, Zach Carter, Treasury Department, Labor Market, Foreclosure, Wall Street, Tmc, Housing Crisis, Business News
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The U.S. job market may be showing signs of life, but the scenario isn't really so rosy, as our government has yet to relieve the foreclosure pandemic.

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Weekly Audit: Why the Rich Can't Afford to Get Richer

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Elizabeth Warren, Steven Benen, Truthdig, David Sirota, Washington Monthly, Naomi Klein, The Real News, The Progressive, Faisal Islam, Salon, John Talbott, Weekly Audit, The Media Consortium, Zach Carter, Tmc, Alternet, Simon Johnson, Home News
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by Zach Carter, TMC MediaWire Blogger If we want our economy to be strong and stable, we have to start thinking about it as a product of community--n...

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Weekly Audit: Bigger Than "Too Big to Fail"

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Adam Schlesinger, Zachary Roth, Matt Taibbi, The Nation, Robert Reich, Goldman Sachs, Eyal Press, Air America, David Moberg, Salon, Weekly Audit, Mary Kane, The Media Consortium, Laura Flanders, JPMorgan Chase, Zach Carter, Grittv, Talking Points Memo, The Washington Independent, Tmc, In These Times, Business News
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Congress should be writing regulations to curb risk in the financial system as fast as bankers are paying themselves bonuses. They're our representatives, after all, and it's our money.

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