Tag Archives: banksters

Two-party system = no change

Posted on April 29, 2012 by

I still can’t tell if most “middle-class” Americans really understand what hit them, and why, when the economy tanked in 2008. Robert Scheer takes a crack at explaining the catastrophe with what seems to me the perfect metaphor. But then … Continue reading →

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‘Yes He Can,’ but will he?

Posted on January 19, 2012 by

Has Barack Obama ever acknowledged Robert Reich’s steady stream of criticism regarding Obama’s apparent lack of interest in putting the real economy back on track? He seems to have shunned the former Secretary of Labor, and to have ignored anyone … Continue reading →

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Obama tries, but wing-nuts reject his love

Posted on December 3, 2011 by

No irony about the sick state of American politics is funnier than the fact that wing-nuts, no matter how far to the right Barack Obama tilts, continue to vilify him as the Great Satan of socialism and the bleeding-heart champion … Continue reading →

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Question for NYT: WHOSE economy is growing?

Posted on October 11, 2011 by

News stories often raise more questions than they answer. Such is the case with an article by Robert Pear, who seems to agree with Robert Reich that we’re in a “jobs depression,” then says something else: In a grim sign … Continue reading →

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Obama sides with banksters, not protesters

Posted on October 6, 2011 by

OK, we knew this all along, but I still winced when I read it in Firedoglake: For perhaps the first time, President Barack Obama was forced to explain why there have been no prosecutions of Wall Street executives for their … Continue reading →

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A bankster prerequisite: Scamming 101

Posted on September 28, 2011 by

Matt Taibbi explains what triggered Wall Street protests Actually, this long quotation from a February interview of Taibbi explains why it’s accurate to think of crooked investment bankers — banksters — as scam artists as well as degenerate gamblers of … Continue reading →

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Pesky lawyer still on banksters’ case

Posted on August 25, 2011 by

When it comes to describing the complacency of the Wall Street banksters, their unabashed disregard for the millions of people they defrauded, and the ease with which they continue to push the right buttons in Washington in order to avoid … Continue reading →

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NY Fed’s bottom line: Banksters above the law

Posted on August 22, 2011 by

Most people who buck the system are easily pressured to change course, but a few are more likely to get their back up and hold steady, at least until the pressure becomes unbearable. Gretchen Morgenson wrote today of one such … Continue reading →

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