Wall Street
President takes fight to Wall Street
April 23, 2010In a speech yesterday at New York's Cooper Union college, President Obama, literally in the shadow of the center of world finance, declared that "the crisis was born of a failure of responsibility from Wall Street...
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Financial reform: lesser and greater questions
April 12, 2010The entire progressive agenda hinges in large part on breaking the stranglehold finance capital has on our democratic institutions.
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Finance reform can spur job creation
April 5, 2010The nation's labor movement is on target with its point that the risky practices on Wall Street were behind the destruction of 11 million jobs in America.
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Stock market gets giddy over Massachusetts
January 21, 2010The stock market might not be a useful economic indicator, but at times it just might be an indicator of the class struggle.
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Wall Street vote delayed as Black Caucus demands help for poor
November 20, 2009Members of the Congressional Black Caucus persuaded House Finance Services Committee chairman, Rep. Barney Frank to delay a vote on the systemic risks bill.
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