Tag Archives: regulation

Elizabeth Warren: Too Big to Fail has become Too Big for Trial

By Mark | February 14, 2013

This, my friends, is why we worked so damned hard to get Elizabeth Warren into the Senate, and on the Banking Committee. Shot this morning at a Banking Committee hearing titled “Wall Street Reform: Oversight of Financial Stability and Consumer and Investor Protections,” this video demonstrates, better than any campaign ad ever could, just why [...]

Posted in Economics, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged big banks, Elizabeth Warren, jury trial, justice, Senate, Wall Street, Wall Street deregulation, Wall Street reform | 12 Comments

Agenda 21… Are America’s city planners in on the United Nations plot to enslave us, and force us onto bicycles?

By Mark | November 26, 2012

There’s only one thing people on the far right hate more than the United Nations, and that’s the United Nations setting international guidelines for sustainable development. I learned this a few days ago, while listening to a special episode of Glenn Beck’s radio program about a secret UN initiative to deal with the looming threats [...]

Posted in Environment, History, Observations, Other, Politics, Predictions, Rants, Uncategorized | Also tagged 1984, 1992, Agenda 21, Alabama, ALEC, American Legislative Exchange Council, anti-environment, Arizona, bike lanes, Chip Rogers, city planning, competing visions for the future of America, concentration camps, Conference on Environment and Development, conspiracy theories, corporatocracy, Delphi, deregulation, dyptopia, Earth Summit, Emmeline, fear mongering, Field Searcy, Georgia, Georgia State Senate, Glenn Beck, global climate change, Global Warming, Harriet Parke, mass transit, mind control, paranoia, rationing, Republican National Committee, Republican platform, RNC, sprawl, suburbs, survival seeds, tea party, the collapse of the Republican party, the future of America, The Handmaid's Tale, the hijacking of the Republican party, the threat of Socialism, traffic circles, United Nations, urban sprawl | 26 Comments

Republicans use most recent JPMorgan scandal to demonstrate folly of regulation, instead of criminal corporate behavior

By Mark | May 23, 2012

There’s a great piece in the Washington Post today about Republicans in the Senate, and how they seem determined to focus their wrath not on the individuals at JPMorgan who were recently caught engaging in risky, irresponsible stock trades, but on those federal regulators who didn’t somehow foresee these actions and stop them from happening. [...]

Posted in Politics | Also tagged campaign finance reform, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Dana Milbank, deregulation, Dodd-Frank, Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, Gary Gensler, get the money out of Washington, hypocrisy watch, irony, Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan Chase, lobbying, pathetic Republicans, Republican lies, Republicanan outrage, Richard Shelby, Senate Banking Committee, too big to fail, Wall Street bailouts | 4 Comments

The assault against collective bargaining

By Mark | February 13, 2011

Metafilter has a good thread this evening on the current assault against collective bargaining in America, which is being led by state governments beset by debt. Here’s the post that kicked off the conversation. I’d encourage you, though, to check out the original, posted by a fellow calling himself Saul Goodman, which is chock full [...]

Posted in Other, Politics | Also tagged Ann Coulter, Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand, collective bargaining, deregulation, deregulation porn, John Galt, journalism, labor history, labor negotiations, MetaFilter, National Guard, open for business, public employee unions, Saul Goodman, Scott Walker, state employees, stealing content from Metafilter, Steev Taylor, tea party, threats to journalists, union busting, unions, Wisconsin, Wisconsin is open for business | 17 Comments

Deepwater Horizon

By Mark | August 18, 2010

Esquire has a fascinating piece on the 11 men who lost their lives on the Deepwater Horizon rig, and the circumstances leading up to the catastrophe. If you have time, you should read it. This is especially true if you live in Kentucky, and you’re planning to vote for Rand Paul, who has stated on [...]