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What Campaign Promises? Trump Backpedals on Yet More Major Pledges

Five Big Banks Flunk Key Test, Proving They're Still "Too Big To Fail"

Deirdre Fulton, staff writer

Federal regulators Wednesday confirmed what watchdogs have been warning for years—the biggest banks in the United States are still "too big to fail." The Federal Reserve and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) found that five major U.S. banks failed to offer credible strategies for how they would enter bankruptcy in an "orderly...

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Sanders: When I'm President, Wall Street Foxes Won't Guard Fed Henhouse

Deirdre Fulton, staff writer

Despite seven years of bank bailouts and alleged financial reform, "Wall Street...

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Bernie Sanders Calls Fed Rate Hike Bad News for Working Families

Lauren McCauley, staff writer

The Federal Reserve's announcement on Wednesday that it would raise interest...

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Avoiding 'Regressive Mistake,' Fed Holds Off on Rate Hike — For Now

Fed Up With Being Shut Out of Federal Reserve, Activists Descend on Summit

Just in Time for the Holidays, Another Wall Street Giveaway

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Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)

The Federal Reserve Needs to Recommit to the Full Employment Mandate

Jubilee USA Network

Federal Reserve Raises Rates and Poor Countries Pay More Debt

Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)

Statement on Federal Reserve and Interest Rates

Jubilee USA Network

Federal Reserve Rate Increase Impacts Poor Country Debt

Center for Popular Democracy

Fed Up Campaign Celebrates Victory for Working Families as Fed Holds Off on Rate Hikes

Senator Bernie Sanders

Sanders Asks Fed Chief Yellen To Help Greece Overcome Austerity Policies Which Are Destroying Their Economy

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Richard Eskow

The “People’s Fed” and the Oracles of Jackson Hole

Ellen Brown

“Print the Money”: Trump’s “Reckless” Proposal Echoes Franklin and Lincoln

Dean Baker

How to Fight Poverty Through Full Employment

Robert Reich

The Economy in 2016: On the Edge of Recession

Dean Baker

The Federal Reserve Board and the Presidential Candidates

Dean Baker

Fed Rate Hike Is the Wrong Move

Ellen Brown

Hang Onto Your Wallets: Negative Interest, the War on Cash, and the $10 Trillion Bail-in

Ralph Nader

An Open Letter To Chairwoman Yellen From the Savers of America

Ellen Brown

Time for the Nuclear Option: Raining Money on Main Street

Isaiah Poole

The Fed Gets It Right. Now Let’s Move to Full Employment

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