- Wall Street’s wisest: Bernie Sanders is best candidate for economy https://www.cnbc.com/video/2016/03/09/wall-streets-wisest-bernie-sanders-is-best-candidate-for-economy-.html 3 comments politics
- Americans Blame Government More Than Wall Street for Economy http://www.gallup.com/poll/150191/americans-blame-gov-wall-street-economy.aspx 9 comments politics
- Banksters Pretend that Prosecuting Wall Street Crime Will Blow Up the Economy http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/05/banks.html 7 comments economy
- Wall Street begins playing with the same matches that burned the economy in 2008 http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/19/business/banks-revive-risky-loans-and-mortgages.html 11 comments politics
- Wall Street Sees World Economy Decoupling From U.S. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-03/world-economy-decoupling-from-u-s-in-slowdown-returns-as-wall-street-view.html 17 comments business
- 'Spectacular Betrayal' as Trump Hands Economy 'Back Over to Wall Street' http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/02/03/spectacular-betrayal-trump-hands-economy-back-over-wall-street 740 comments politics
- Wall Street Titans Who Crashed Global Economy in 2008 Go Big for TPP http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/05/06/wall-street-titans-who-crashed-global-economy-2008-go-big-tpp 32 comments politics
- IMF Study-Wall Street Costs Economy 2% of GDP Each Year http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2015/05/31/wall-street-costs-the-economy-2-of-gdp-each-year/ 10 comments economy
- The Finance 202: Wall Street to Trump: Don't restart economy before stopping coronavirus spread https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/the-finance-202/2020/03/24/the-finance-202-wall-street-to-trump-don-t-restart-economy-before-stopping-coronavirus-spread/5e790faf602ff10d49ad2665/ 5 comments politics
- The Response to the GameStop Fiasco Shows It’s Still Wall Street’s Economy https://jacobinmag.com/2021/01/gamestop-wall-street-free-market-finance 9 comments politics
- Paulson and his Wall Street cronies have proven more interested in preserving their own wealth than in stabilizing the American economy http://www.alternet.org/workplace/103004/hank_paulson_and_his_wall_street_cronies_move_to_plan_b/ 21 comments business
- Most Approve of Wall Street Bailout and See Obama as Better Able to Address Crisis. Interest in the Economy Highest in Nearly 20 Years. http://pewresearch.org/pubs/963/wall-street-bailout-approval 3 comments politics
- Wall Street begins high stakes summer with market at critical levels as economy reopens https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/29/wall-street-begins-high-stakes-summer-with-market-at-critical-levels-as-economy-reopens.html 31 comments business
- Megaupload didn’t ruin the economy, Wall Street did. One gets shut down, the other gets bonuses http://www.americablog.com/2012/01/megaupload-didnt-ruin-economy-wall.html 191 comments politics
- Trump’s Decision on Reopening Economy Could Hinge On Fox News Stars And Wall Street Execs https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/04/trumps-decision-on-reopening-economy-could-hinge-on-fox-news-stars-and-wall-street-execs/amp 3 comments politics
- Trump’s Decision on Reopening Economy Could Hinge On Fox News Stars And Wall Street Execs https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/04/trumps-decision-on-reopening-economy-could-hinge-on-fox-news-stars-and-wall-street-execs 44 comments politics
- Trump impeachment may rescue economy by forcing China trade deal, Wall Street analysts say https://www.newsweek.com/trump-impeachment-save-economy-force-trade-deal-wall-street-analysts-1462926 55 comments business
- Two years after destroying the world economy and being rescued by nurses, firefighters and teachers, Wall Street awards itself biggest payout ever for 2010 http://blogs.forbes.com/robertlenzner/2011/02/02/alltime-record-135-billion-wall-street-compensation/ 3 comments politics
- Wall Street has a staggering problem with greenhouse-gas emissions. Regulators should rein in the financial sector’s toxic, risky investments before they do irreversible damage to our economy and our planet. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/wall-street-has-a-staggering-problem-with-greenhouse-gas-emissions-11639677668 9 comments environment
- Yellen rejects Trump approach to Wall Street Regulation, says post-crisis' banking rules make economy safer https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/08/25/yellen-rejects-trump-approach-says-post-crisis-banking-rules-make-economy-safer/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_yellen-1015a%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.f049c11103c5 7 comments economy
- "The system is rigged. Like the Wall Street banks that were bailed out after running the nation’s economy off a cliff just a few years ago because they were too big to fail, Clinton and the power elite of which she is an integral part are too big to indict." http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/is_hillary_clinton_too_big_to_indict_20160705 20 comments politics
- The Economics of Contempt. "The returns are in on the Obama economy. He saved Wall Street, bailed out the banks, declined to prosecute felonious executives and redistributed billions upward into the off-shore accounts of the mega-rich. Pretty much everyone else got the shaft..." http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/05/23/the-economics-of-contempt/ 380 comments politics
- Taibbi: Secrets and Lies of the Bailout - The federal rescue of Wall Street didn't fix the economy – it created a permanent bailout state based on a Ponzi-like confidence scheme. And the worst may be yet to come. http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/secret-and-lies-of-the-bailout-20130104?utm_source=dailynewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter 3 comments politics
- The Obama administration cut taxes for middle-class Americans, expects to make a profit on the hundreds of billions of dollars spent to rescue Wall Street banks and has overseen an economy that has grown for the past five quarters. (*WHY DON'T MOST PEOPLE KNOW THIS?!*) http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-10-29/poll-shows-voters-don-t-know-gdp-grew-with-tax-cuts.html?xyz=123 59 comments politics
- The Obama admin. cut taxes for middle-class Americans, expects to make a profit on the Wall Street rescue and has overseen an economy that has grown for the past four quarters http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-10-29/poll-shows-americans-don-t-know-economy-expanded-with-tax-cuts.html 1206 comments politics
- Wall Street's 'Big 3' to Pay $30 Billion in bonuses this year (That's up 60 percent from last year). Apparently there are 2 economies, one in the shitter (for us) and one better than ever (for them). http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601208&sid=ar0e6lsbrfs8 70 comments business
- The Quiet Coup - The "financial crisis" has given Wall Street near-total power over both the economy and the government. http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/print/200905/imf-advice/? 8 comments business
- The implication of the 24/7 Fox coverage is made blatant. It's transference. It's saying to white voters, "we know you're angry about the economy. Don't blame Wall Street. Blame the n-----s." http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/223470.php 3 comments politics
- Out of touch? McCain Defends Deregulating Wall Street...on "60 Minutes": Do you regret that now? "No, I think the deregulation was probably helpful to the growth of our economy." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/22/mccain-defends-deregulati_n_128170.html 7 comments politics
- JPMorgan settlement is justice, not a shakedown "The reality, sadly, is that to date, not one single top Wall Street executive at a top bank has been convicted of criminal charges related to what the FBI called an 'epidemic of fraud' in the financial excesses that blew up the economy." http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/katrina-vanden-heuvel-jpmorgan-settlement-is-justice-not-a-shakedown/2013/10/29/1eabf704-4015-11e3-a751-f032898f2dbc_story.html?tid=rssfeed 39 comments politics
- Fighting Poverty Through Wall Street Accountability | "The banks created a disaster, and economists and politicians said, ‘That’s terrible for the economy, let’s give them trillions.’ And then the folks who were actually hit the hardest were forced into poverty." http://www.thenation.com/blog/174404/week-poverty-fighting-poverty-through-wall-street-accountability 21 comments politics
- Sen. Bernie Sanders: “At a time when the gap between rich and everyone else is growing wider, at a time when Wall Street and large financial institutions are exerting extraordinary power over the American and world economy, I applaud the pope for speaking out on these enormously important issues" http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20130516/news03/305160033/sanders-praises-pope-s-condemnation-cult-money-?nclick_check=1 575 comments politics
- "[The Chinese] are not like these Wall Street fucks pushing financial investments on paper. The Chinese deal in real things, in merchandise. And they will help the real economy in Greece." -Deputy Greek Prime Minister Theodoros Pangalos http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/08/ar2010060805312.html 23 comments worldnews
- Hundreds of Protesters Shut Down Bank of America: "Wall Street has taken over our economy. They are taking our jobs. We are losing our homes. We need to reclaim our rights." – Shirley Samayoa, Providence, R.I. http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latest-news/anti-k-street-protest-snarls-traffic-downtown-washington 5 comments politics
- If you're a United States senator, America may have the best health-care in the world. But if you're an ordinary person, you're better off being in Canada, or France, or Japan, or somewhere that doesn't take your insurance away when Wall Street causes the economy to crash. http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/02/the_best_health_care_for_the_m.html 45 comments politics
- The worst economic calamity since the Great Depression came when the excesses of Wall Street created the housing bubble and financial crisis that blew up the economy. Clinton touts her husband’s economic record, but he championed the deregulation that helped unleash the Wall Street wilding. http://www.vnews.com/opinion/20750048-95/column-sanders-is-the-rational-choice 94 comments politics
- Economy slumps, Wall Street booms: In keeping with the policy of central banks and governments around the world, the Fed made clear that this week it intends to continue pumping virtually free and unlimited credit into the financial system for at least another year. http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/06/20/pers-j20.html 16 comments economy
- 'A Small Tax on Wall Street to Make Big Change': Bernie Sanders and Barbara Lee Introduce New Financial Transaction Tax. "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." https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/05/22/small-tax-wall-street-make-big-change-bernie-sanders-and-barbara-lee-introduce-new 22 comments politics
- As Hillary Clinton Sweeps States, One Group Resists: White Men. Many said they did not trust her to overhaul the economy because of her wealth and her ties to Wall Street. Some said her use of private email as secretary of state indicated she had something to hide. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/18/us/politics/as-hillary-clinton-sweeps-states-one-group-resists-white-men.html?_r=0 15 comments politics
- “We will no longer tolerate an economy and a political system that has been rigged by Wall Street to benefit the wealthiest Americans in this country at the expense of everyone else,” Sanders told a packed theater in Manhattan. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/01/05/bernie-sanders-vows-to-fight-the-fraud-of-wall-street-provide-relief-to-bank-consumers/ 81 comments politics