JPMorgan Chase has spent upward of $20 million on lobbying and campaign contributions in the past three years. On Tuesday, the bank received a healthy…
…one of her old foes may inadvertently have thrown her campaign a lifeline. The revelation that JPMorgan Chase (JPM) lost at least $2 billion in…
PoliticoSenators put federal regulators, not JPMorgan, on the hot seatWashington PostJPMorgan Chase has spent upward of $20 million on lobbying and campaign contributions in the past three years. On Tuesday, the bank received a healthy dividend on that…
Why can’t the American public nominate their own candidate for president? It turns out we can, and are doing so for the first time in American history.
If the last 12 years have revealed anything, they have shown beyond reasonable doubt that both S…
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WASHINGTON — Campaign contributions to Senator Scott Brown from the financial industry spiked sharply during a critical three-week period last summer as the fate of the Wall Street regulatory overhaul hung in the balance…..
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There are really only three ways to cripple Wall Street’s democracy-killing concentration of wealth and power: take our money out of Wall Street and the TBTF banks, eliminate private money from elections and abolish Wall Street’s dealer, the Federal R…
Scrape away the Human Resource Department rah-rah about “our mission” and how much your loyalty is “valued,” and what’s left? A paycheck and a sucking sound.
Let’s state the heretical obvious: Corporate America, you suck. We could count the ways–s…
Corporate America is profoundly bankrupt. Not in a financial sense, of course; the Federal Reserve’s slow destruction of the U.S. dollar has boosted corporate profits most handsomely as the majority of their earnings and profits are obtained overse…
THE word “plutocracy” is in the air these days. Some say the era of the de facto rule of the mighty top 10%, or top 1%, or whatever insidious sliver of the income distribution is thought to constitute the moneyed power elite, is upon us, or nearly s…
Barry Ritholtz wrote this piece several months ago and it may have already been posted here. However, his perspective now seems so accurate that I felt it was worth another look. It’s also worth noting that this Ritholtz commentary attracted hundreds …
