Posts tagged ‘Wall Street’

Are Big Banks Too Big to Regulate?

by , posted on Thursday, October 18th, 2012 at 4:00 pm

from The Real News Network

Michael Greenberger: If somebody understood the economic issues and explained them to the American people, you could easily be elected president by saying you’re going to put an end to the Wall Street hijinks

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The Bill Black Financial and Fraud Report

by , posted on Friday, October 5th, 2012 at 9:39 pm

from The Real News Network

Bill Black: Obama susceptible to attack by Romney because he failed to deal with systemic risk to financial system – even though Romney would be worse

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Financialization and the World Economy

by , posted on Sunday, September 30th, 2012 at 7:36 pm

from The Real News Network

Gerald Epstein, Political Economy Research Institute, and Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst): Financialization of the economy has been developing since the late 19th century and is now at historic Levels

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The Bill Black Financial and Fraud Report

by , posted on Friday, September 28th, 2012 at 8:07 am

from The Real News Network

London and Wall Street in a dangerous competition to create a more unregulated environment for finance

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The Fed and the Crisis

by , posted on Sunday, September 16th, 2012 at 8:31 am

from The Real News Network

A commentary by Jane D’Arista assessing the actions of the Federal Reserve in managing the economic crisis.

Second part of Jane D’Arista commentary on the role of the US Federal Reserve in managing the crisis of global capitalism .

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Green Party Presidential Candidate Presents a “New Green Deal”

by , posted on Sunday, September 9th, 2012 at 12:25 pm

from The Real News Network

Jill Stein: Neither Obama nor Romney have a program that will create millions of jobs

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Bill Black Report: Majority of Wall Street Money Now Goes to Romney

by , posted on Sunday, September 2nd, 2012 at 10:21 am

from The Real News Network

Bill Black: Even though many on Wall Street understand need for regulation, most want a free-for-all and damn the consequences

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Matt Taibbi: The Secret to Mitt Romney’s Fortune? Greed, Debt and Forcing Others to Pay Bill

by , posted on Thursday, August 30th, 2012 at 1:27 pm

from Democracy Now!

… the old-school industrialists, like Mitt Romney’s father, they were men and women who built communities. They had factory towns. They were very anxious to leave, you know, hard legacies that people could see: hospitals, churches, schools—you know, the Hersheys of the world, the Kelloggs. But these new owners have absolutely no allegiance to American workers, American places, American communities. Their only allegiance is to the investors and to themselves. And so, it’s not at all uncharacteristic to have these situations where people are pleading for their jobs or they’re saying, you know, “We’ll tighten our belts, if you just make this concession and keep us.” That’s irrelevant to the Mitt Romney/Bain Capital/Carlyle Groups of the world. They’re entirely about making profits. And if that means shipping jobs to China or eliminating jobs, that’s what they’re going to do. And that’s the new generation of corporate owners in this country. — Matt Taibbi

A new article by reporter Matt Taibbi in Rolling Stone sheds new light on the origin of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s fortune, revealing how Romney’s former firm, Bain Capital, used private equity to raise money to conduct corporate raids. Taibbi writes: “What most voters don’t know is the way Mitt Romney actually made his fortune: By borrowing vast sums of money that other people were forced to pay back. This is the plain, stark reality that has somehow eluded America’s top political journalists for two consecutive presidential campaigns: Mitt Romney is one of the greatest and most irresponsible debt creators of all time. In the past few decades, in fact, Romney has piled more debt onto more unsuspecting companies, written more gigantic checks that other people have to cover, than perhaps all but a handful of people on planet Earth.”

See also: “On Mitt Romney, Bain Capital and Private Equity,” by Matt Taibbi, Taibblog, Rolling Stone online, posted: August 29, 2:15 PM ET

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Matt Taibbi: If an individual on Wall Street was punished, banks would take note

by , posted on Thursday, August 23rd, 2012 at 7:00 am

from Viewpoint with Eliot Spitzer (Current TV)

Matt Taibbi, contributing editor for Rolling Stone, talks about how the lack of any individual prosecutions relating to the 2008 financial crisis has emboldened Wall Street in this “Viewpoint” Web exclusive. Taibbi recently took Attorney General Eric Holder and the Department of Justice to task for failing to bring any cases against Goldman Sachs in a Rolling Stone piece.

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Wall St. “Cheetahs” and the Financial Transaction Tax

by , posted on Tuesday, August 14th, 2012 at 9:31 am

from The Real News Network

The recent stock market volatility could have been restricted by a tax on transactions that would make the small quick score less attractive

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