In a Netroots Nation session earlier this week, a panel of activists shared stories about the various grassroots campaigns that they’ve waged against the big banks in their communities. One of the panelists… I believe it was Max Berger, an organizer associated with Occupy Wall Street… mentioned how, when it had first been announced that […]
Posted in Corporate Crime, Economics, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged accountability, Alexis Goldstein, Bank of America, banking reform, derivatives, Eric Schneiderman, FDR, Financial Fraud Task Force, holding people responsible, Max Berger, Mortgage-Backed Securities Working Group, Netroots Nation, New Deal, Occupy, Occupy the SEC, Occupy Wall Street, savings and loan scandal, transformational politics |
By Mark | October 31, 2011
I thought that this video that my friend Andy turned me on to a little while ago might be a good way to start off the week in which millions of Americans are going to transfer their money out of big banks, and move it to local credit unions. Enjoy.
By Mark | October 19, 2010
I’m curious to know if there’s anyone out there who doesn’t buy this, and, if so, why not. My sense is that some will say it’s unfair to lay the massive job losses that began in January 2007 at the feet of Bush, pointing to the fact that Congress was in the hands of the […]
Posted in Economics, Media, Other, Politics | Also tagged Austan Goolsbee, Bruce Bartlett, Council of Economic Advisers, FOX News, Joint Committee on Taxation, middle class tax cuts, Obama is a Socialist, reality deficient, Recovery Act, social security, stimulus, subprime mortgage crisis, tax policy, Tax Policy Center, tax rates, taxes, tea party, unemployment, Wall Street deregulation |
Addressing 1,000 people in Madison, Wisconsin earlier this week, well respected MIT linguist and political critic Noam Chomsky reiterated that we should not underestimate the Tea Party movement. He also warned that fascism in the United States may be a distinct possibility. The following clip comes from The Progressive: …“I’m just old enough to have […]
Posted in Corporate Crime, Observations, Politics | Also tagged anger, banking reform, class resentment, class warfare, consumer, Consumer Financial Protection Agency, Elizabeth Warren, fascism, fear, FOX News, fraud, free market, Hitler, income disparity, investment banks, Madison, MIT, Nazi analogies, Noam Chomsky, Obama, Orpheum Theatre, Roosevelt Institute, Sarah Palin, Securities and Exchange Commission, state capitalism, tax the rich, tea party, teabaggery, things we ignore at out own peril, Wisconsin |
Today, the Wall Street Journal’s Neil Hickey published a story about how the commercial credit crisis is impacting small business growth here in the United States. And, to illustrate the real world consequences, he spoke with local Washtenaw County business owners, like Tom Harrison, the CEO of the Michigan Ladder Company. Harrison, when asked how […]
Posted in Economics, Local Business, Media, Michigan, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Bank of Ann Arbor, banking reform, credit crisis, James Haeussler, Michigan Ladder, Neil Hickey, recovery, Saline, stimulus, Timothy Marshall, Tom Harrison, Wall Street Journal, Washtenaw County |
