Tag: Wall Street
Tell Congress to pass the Stop Wall Street Looting Act
Sign the petition and help us tell Congress to consider the Stop Wall Street Looting Act as the first step towards halting these abusive practices.
Progressive legislation would tax Wall Street to pay for free college...
"We bailed out Wall Street in 2008. It's time to tax Wall Street's greed to help the American people."
Reign in the ‘recklessness of Wall Street:’ Bernie Sanders and Barbara...
"It is long past time for Congress to rein in the recklessness of Wall Street billionaires and build an economy that works for all Americans."
As 2020 Democrats cozy up to Wall Street donors, Warren and...
Many 2020 Democratic presidential hopefuls have reportedly been spending a significant chunk of their time on the trail cozying up to Wall Street executives and raking in checks at big-dollar events across the nation.
These 2020 candidates are the darlings of Wall Street. The numbers...
Even as these candidates vocally reject corporate America, their latest fundraising reports show corporate America hasn't rejected them.
Individuals working for Wall Street, private equity and Big Pharma love...
Booker has sworn off corporate PAC contributions, but his biggest donors work in fields whose interests run counter to progressive priorities.
A ‘buyback’ for our future?
“Corporate profits should be shared with the workers who actually create them.”
With help of Democrats, regulators move to gut ‘last line of...
"We are barely a decade from the greatest fiasco of financial over-leveraging in history, and we are already unlearning its most obvious lessons."
‘Total embarrassment:’ WaPo rebuked for failed fact-check of Sanders on trillion-dollar...
"The piece portends to be an exercise in empirical rigor and mathematical precision. But he's really just playing games with semantics and definitions. And people who understand the issues he 'fact-checks' can see it."
‘It can’t be Warren and it can’t be Sanders:’ Wall Street...
"The best indication of who you should vote for in the Democratic primary if you actually want progressive policy is who Wall Street doesn't like, which essentially means Bernie or Warren."
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Not very bright
How much of Donald Trump’s directive on U.S. tariffs imposed on nations all over the world—that in recent days has caused a stock market loss of trillions of dollars—is a result of his not being very bright?
Patriotic Millionaires challenge oligarch power with sweeping economic plan
As economic inequality worsens and public frustration grows, a coalition of wealthy Americans offers a radical legislative blueprint to dismantle the grip of the ultra-rich on democracy.
Chevron ordered to pay $744 million for decades of destruction to Louisiana’s coastal wetlands
A Louisiana jury’s landmark verdict against Chevron signals a major shift in holding Big Oil accountable for environmental degradation and decades of ignored coastal restoration laws.
Over 4,000 factory workers laid off as Trump tariffs spark economic chaos
A wave of mass layoffs across the U.S. exposes the real cost of Trump’s trade war, as union leaders and lawmakers warn of deepening instability in American manufacturing.
Israeli soldiers expose ‘kill zone’ campaign in Gaza, citing war crimes and systematic devastation
A new report from Breaking the Silence reveals shocking testimony from Israeli troops describing the creation of a lethal buffer zone inside Gaza, the deliberate razing of civilian infrastructure, and the normalization of killing civilians.