Tag: economy

Central bankers are now aggressively playing the stock market. To say they are buying up the planet may be an exaggeration, but they could.

The Street’s political clout is as great as ever, which explains why the Dodd-Frank safeguards are now being watered down – clearing the way for another crisis.

The USA is fundamentally flawed: it would do little to boost private savings, drain federal revenues, and overwhelmingly benefit the nation’s wealthiest households.

Measure 103 was reportedly proposed to counter efforts to raise corporate taxes at the state level, such as 2016's Measure 97, which voters rejected.

Ending the secrecy of the crisis through massive national attention may destigmatize the shame of financial defeat.

Many of the root causes of the crisis remain today, making another economic downturn or collapse possible.

So we can say that this country is exceptional and is the wealthiest one in the world but that doesn’t make it so.

Trump and his Republican enablers are now reversing regulations put in place to stop Wall Street’s excessively risky lending. That imbalance is back.

"Trump himself has pocketed millions over the years grifting off of taxpayers, but now he wants to make it harder for workers to get ahead."

There won’t be any winner in the trade war.