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House Ag Committee Approves Gutting Derivatives Regulation 21 Mar 2013 | 06:23 am
Important article in Salon, by David Dayen explaining how and why the Agriculture Committee is trying to gut some of the most important Dodd-Frank reforms.
JP Morgan is Too Big to Manage 18 Mar 2013 | 08:52 pm
Great summary of the Too-Big-To-Manage JP Morgan investigation by Jennifer Taub.
The Koch Brothers and the Structure of Democracy 16 Mar 2013 | 10:23 pm
It is a grey day in Fort Greene, with a light mid-March snow; the trees that sit across from my window are gnarled, ominous, waiting to bud. I do not want to think about the Koch brothers. In fact, fo...
The Monsanto Monopoly and the DOJ 16 Mar 2013 | 02:32 am
Read this great article by Lina Khan, tracking what happened to what could have been an important case against Monsanto’s monopolistic practices. She writes: The public will suffer the costs of Monsan...
Break Up the Big Companies for Economic and Political Freedom 15 Mar 2013 | 01:30 pm
Breaking up the biggest banks and the monopolized industries is our best chance at breaking an economic and political stranglehold. Massive unemployment, mounting debt, and collapsing budgets — the bi...
Three Solutions to the Oligarchy Problem 13 Mar 2013 | 08:08 pm
A few years back, Simon Johnson wrote a brilliant and important piece in The Atlantic, called “The Quiet Coup.” Johnson’s basic point was that the United States, like a banana republic, has been taken...
OCCUPYING WALL STREET ON A SATURDAY AFTERNOON 26 Sep 2011 | 09:29 am
A Report from A Front That May Soon Be Shut Down Before you read on, watch this: a video from the base camp of the #OccupyWall Street protest that is now in its seventh day. It’s called “No One Can P...
Will Dodd-Frank Prevent New Megabanks? 23 Aug 2011 | 03:47 pm
Last year’s Dodd-Frank financial reform bill didn’t directly fix the too-big-to-fail problem that necessitated the 2008 bailouts. Instead, it allowed the big banks to grow even bigger, but gave regula...
on wealth redistribution and technology 25 Jul 2011 | 02:32 pm
Both liberty and democracy are seriously threatened by the growth of big business. Today the need is not so much for freedom from physical restraint as for freedom from economic oppression. Already th...
The Debt Ceiling Debate Takes Center Stage and Appears Suicidal 24 Jul 2011 | 05:12 am
THE WAR OF THE KAMIKAZES AS THE DEBT CEILING DEBATE TAKES CENTER STAGE AND APPEARS SUICIDAL New York: During World War 2, the Japanese deployed units of pilots who turned their planes into bombs, and...
