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On 10th Anniversary of Crash, Warren Says: Break Up Banks, Jail the Bankers

Thanks to Obama Bailouts and Trump Tax Cuts, Five Largest US Banks Have Raked in $583 Billion Since 2008 Crash

Jake Johnson, staff writer

"With no jail time for executives and half a trillion in post-crisis profits, the big banks have made out like bandits during the post-crash period."

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As Impeachment Momentum Grows, Trump Warns 'Everybody Would Be Very Poor' If He Gets Ousted

Jake Johnson, staff writer

In "Fox & Friends" interview, the president pointed to his head and...

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Any Invites for Victims of Wall Street Greed? 10 Years After Global Meltdown, Lehman Brothers Planning 'Disgraceful' Reunion

Jake Johnson, staff writer

"People will be absolutely disgusted about this unacceptable and highly...

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Rep. Chris Collins (R-N.Y.)

Facing Insider Trading Charges, Trump's First Congressional Backer Suspends Re-Election Campaign

Buried in Fine Print, Trump Rule a $2.5 Billion Giveaway to Big Bank Fat Cats

Rep. Chris Collins (R-N.Y.)

'Not Surprising': Rep. Chris Collins, Trump's Very First Congressional Backer, Indicted for Insider Trading

In Bid for 'Dystopian' Surveillance Power, Facebook Asks Big Banks for Customer Data

Oracle Co-CEO Safra Catz, right

'This Was the Plan All Along': With Workers' Wages Falling, CEOs Enjoy 'Eye-Popping' Payouts From GOP Tax Scam

Ripping 'Greedy Wall Street Vulture Funds' Profiting From Misery, Warren and Sanders Introduce Bill to Cancel Puerto Rico's Debt

At Rally Outside Jamie Dimon's Home, Immigrant Rights Advocates Demand #BackersOfHate Stop Bankrolling For-Profit Prisons

By Exploiting and Mismanaging Public Pensions, Wall Street Has Cost Taxpayers $600 Billion Over Last Decade

Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner

After Long Career Bailing Out Big Banks, Obama Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner Now Runs Predatory Firm That Exploits the Poor for Profit

'Privatization Is Not the Answer': Grave Warnings as Wall Street Vultures Circle Puerto Rico's Water System

Elizabeth Warren Democratic Party Wall Street

Elizabeth Warren: Democrats Will Keep Losing Until the Entire Party Is 'Willing to Take on the Billionaire Class'

Warren and Wyden Call for Insider Trading Probe After Trump's "Reckless" Jobs Report Tweet

Further

On Hillary, Lloyd, Us and Them

For those puzzled by the rancor and mistrust so many feel for Hillary Clinton, a lucid Matt Taibbi looks at Clinton's $675,000 speeches to Goldman Sachs to reveal they're about not just money but allegiance. Turns out Clinton declared that "banker-bashing (was) foolish," it takes a village to get out of a financial crisis (in fact caused by a few greedy oligarchs), and public anger is something "we" - oligarchs and Clintons - need to wait out.

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Patriotic Millionaires

"Congress and the Trump Administration Are Setting Us Up for Another Crash"...

Greenpeace

Greenpeace USA Calls Out Jamie Dimon’s Risky Oil Addiction at New York Investor Conference

Patriotic Millionaires

Patriotic Millionaire on House Rollback of Dodd-Frank: "Bipartisanship at Its Worst"...

Public Citizen

Trump Caves to Wall Street as China Trade Dispute Nears Resolution; Does Anyone Believe Indonesian Loan Isn’t Coloring His Judgment?

Patriotic Millionaires

New York State Senate Chooses to Protect Donors, Hurt Constituents

Institute for Policy Studies

Wall Street Bonus Pool Dwarfs 'Tax Reform Bonuses' and Minimum Wage Earnings While Contributing to Gender Inequality...

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Views

Ellen Brown

Central Banks Have Gone Rogue, Putting Us All at Risk

Morris Pearl

Remember the Lehman Brothers Crisis. We Need Wall Street Rules, Not Trump's Deregulation

Matt Taibbi

Ten Years After the Crash, We’ve Learned Nothing

Wayne Swan

Ten Years After the Crash, Tax Competition Threatens the Global Economy and Democracy

Thomas Hanna

We Need Public Ownership of Banks to Stop the Next Financial Crisis

Sam Pizzigati

How to Recognize a Plutocracy: The Dead Giveaway

Robert Reich

Marshall Auerback

The Failure to Punish White-Collar Crime After the 2008 Financial Crisis Helped Produce President Donald Trump

Ryan Cooper

Ban Share Buybacks

Richard Eskow

An Economy in the Fast Lane – With No Brakes

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