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IMPACT
Agent for Change: Agent Yogibanker
By Pioneers for Change, Contributor
A worldwide network of talented individuals and global citizen...
What then do I have to offer in light of immense public scepticism and lack of trust? Is it really possible to turn things
POLITICS
Even Dershowitz? Mistaking Odds for Wrong When the Underdog wins
By Annie Duke, Contributor
Author, speaker, decision strategist and philanthropist. Forme...
If Dershowitz missed this, declaring the markets and bookies wrong, that tells me that a lot of people are doing the same
POLITICS
Clinton And Wall Street: What's The Deal, Really?
By OpenSecrets Blog, Contributor
Published by the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics an...
If Clinton was bought by investment bankers, hedge fund managers and the like, we'd expect to see them donating in large numbers to her campaign committee; even though individual contributions to that account are limited to $2,700 for the primary and another $2,700 for the general election, they are a good measure of which parts of the economy are really drawn to a candidate.
POLITICS
Elizabeth Warren for Secretary of the Treasury
By Carla Seaquist, Contributor
Writer-playwright on politics, culture, and ethical-moral issues
Amid "rampant speculation" of a Hillary Clinton-Elizabeth Warren ticket to head the Democratic slate after their recent joint campaign appearances, here is another speculation.
BUSINESS
How Do You Know When Your Company is Ready for an Angel Investment?
By Quora, Contributor
The best answer to any question
Q: How do you know if your company is ready for an angel investment? A: The most successful founders are always rifle-focused
WORLDPOST
Iceland Has Jailed 29 Bankers. Why Can't the UK and US Do the Same?
By Stefan Simanowitz, Contributor
Journalist; Writer; Broadcaster; and Human Rights Campaigner
Just before Christmas, the former CEO of Iceland's Glitnir bank and two other senior bankers were sentenced to jail terms of up to five years for market manipulation and breach of fiduciary duties.
BUSINESS
Misadventures in Finance
By Benjamin T. Solomon, Contributor
Member, Nuclear and Future Flight Propulsion Technical Committ...
The Fed or the U.S. government is not the lender of last resort. It is us, the U.S. taxpayer. Therefore, we the people, as lender of last resort, need to be better informed of what banks are doing.
POLITICS
The Clintons and Their Banker Friends
By Nomi Prins, Contributor
Distinguished Senior Fellow, Demos
The past, especially the political past, doesn't just provide clues to the present. In the realm of the presidency and Wall Street, it provides an ongoing pathway for political-financial relationships and policies that remain a threat to the American economy going forward.
POLITICS
Money, Money, Money
By Gerry Myers, Contributor
CEO, president and co-founder of Advisory Link
There is an old saying, "Money is the root of all evil." While money may not cause evil in all circumstances, it certainly can sway some people toward the path of corruption and bad behavior.
BUSINESS
P2P Lending Is Dead
By Jorge Newbery, Contributor
Jorge P. Newbery is Founder and CEO of American Homeowner Pres...
First, disco bit the dust. Then, punk rock keeled over. Now, peer-to-peer lending has been annihilated. Who murdered P2P? Wall Street.
POLITICS
Hillary and Bankers
By Jeff Danziger, Contributor
Contributor
MONEY
5 Financial Advice Givers You Need to Ignore
By David A. Dedman, Contributor
President and Founder, Lexington Wealth Management
Who did you turn to? Family, friends, online or your bank?
POLITICS
Short Memories, Broken Politics, and the Coming Recession
By Daniel Wagner, Contributor
CEO of Country Risk Solutions and widely published author on c...
If the Great Recession wasn't enough to change the hearts and minds of the bankers, legislators, lobbyists and voters, I really don't know what would be. We bear collective responsibility for perpetuating a terribly broken system.
SCIENCE
This Week in Science: Cheating Bankers, November's Freeze, and the Microbiology of Kissing
By World Science Festival, Contributor
Celebrating science, May 27-31.
Children adopted from China may not remember the language of their birth country, but their brains still respond unconsciously to Chinese more than a decade later.
BUSINESS
Decimate Wall Street
By Bartlett Naylor, Contributor
Expert on corporate governance, financial markets and sharehol...
In a speech October 20, New York Federal Reserve Bank President William Dudley proposed that a major chunk of pay for all senior executives at a particular bank be forfeited when the bank violates the law.
BUSINESS
Secret Recordings Expose Cozy Relationship Between Goldman Sachs And The NY Fed
By ProPublica, ProPublica
Among the New York Fed employees enlisted to help Beim in his investigation was Michael Silva. New York Fed President William
BUSINESS
JPMorgan Hackers Didn't Steal Any Money: Report
By Reuters, Reuters
The Times said the attack began in June, was detected in July and that the bank last week briefed financial regulators on
BUSINESS
Morgan Stanley CEO Doesn't Believe More Bankers Should Have Gone To Jail For Financial Crisis
By Reuters, Reuters
Gorman went on to say that in the few cases where people were proven to have broken the law, such as Bernard Madoff's Ponzi
BUSINESS
Why Only One Top Banker Went To Jail For The Financial Crisis
On the evening of Jan. 27, Kareem Serageldin walked out of his Times Square apartment with his brother and an old Yale roommate
MONEY
Will Bitcoins Become the People's Federal Reserve?
By Fred Lundgren, Contributor
Fred is the CEO of KCAA Radio. He's a "Libertarian Democrat" w...
I believe this will spur economic growth without increasing debt, because U.S. notes can be printed and spent into circulation
BUSINESS
The Average Cash Bonus On Wall Street Is Now More Than $164,000
By Reuters, Reuters
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wall Street's cash bonus pool rose 15 percent to $26.7 billion in 2013 as average cash bonuses hit the
POLITICS
Plutocrats Despising the Poor: An American Tradition
By Joseph A. Palermo, Contributor
Author, historian, professor
It's amazing how these people can whine in public about how they're being mistreated by people who change the sheets at the luxury hotels they stay in. But if you spend your life surrounded with sycophants who constantly tell you how brilliant you are it's possible to exist inside a bubble inside a bubble inside a bubble.
FIFTY
The 10 Resolutions I Want Everyone Else To Make In 2014
By Roz Warren, Contributor
Author of OUR BODIES, OUR SHELVES: LIBRARY HUMOR
Every year I make New Year's resolutions and every year I break them. So this year, I'm trying something different -- resolutions for other people. Hey world -- here are the changes I'd like to see YOU make in 2014.
BUSINESS
Bankers Awaken
By Tarun Sakhrani, Contributor
Periodic Contributor and Blogger
These freshly-hired graduates, with dollar signs in their eyes and visions of grand lifestyles in their heads, are subject to ridiculous working hours and conditions, because the employers know the thought process and know they will do whatever it takes.
POLITICS
Obama, Summers and the Collapse of Trust
By Jerome Karabel, Guest Writer
Guest Writer
Obama's choice of Summers as chair of the Fed would deal a devastating blow to what little is left of the public's faith that the government will serve the common good and not the ultra-rich. For Summers is the perfect symbol of the insider's game that now dominates Washington.
POLITICS
Bankers: The Real House Thieves of New Jersey
By Richard (RJ) Eskow, Contributor
Host of 'The Zero Hour'; Writer; Senior Advisor, Social Securi...
Sure, they still need scapegoats they can indict instead of Wall Street executives. But America doesn't want to see television's too-good-to-be-true housewife take the fall anymore -- not when it can get a caricaturishly bad one instead. Enter Teresa and Joe Guidice, our newest celebrity defendants.
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