To all those who blame the hundreds of thousands of families facing foreclosure for their predicament and argue that big businesses like Bank of America should be able to do whatever they want, whenever they want, in the spirit of “free market” capitalism and the American way, you need to meet Edda Lope
Posts Tagged ‘capitalism’
2010
Video Blog: How Else to Spend Goldman’s $5.5 Billion in Bonuses
What else could we do with $5.5 billion in bonuses Goldman Sachs is giving its employees for the first three months of
2010
Coddling Capitalism
As Americans, we buy a lot of crap, but we’ve finally stopped buying this lie. What’s good for big business is not good for America.
2010
Breaking Down Goldman Sachs and Financial Reform
Here’s Jon Stewart’s take on fraud charges filed against Goldman Sachs and conservative opposition to clearly much-needed financial regulation. Plus my video about Goldman Sachs’ “death bond” scheme
2010
Madoff On The Loose; Impostor In Prison
While as a country we keep pushing for tougher law-and-order treatment of individual crimes, massive and monstrous corporate crimes are routinely overlooked by our political system (which is now officially a wholly-owned subsidiary of corporate America).
2010
$500 Million Dollar Boat Vs. Ending World Poverty
If he has $500 million left over to spend on a one-time use boat to win a race — a boat so big and impractical that it can’t even fit under the Golden Gate Bridge — something is fundamentally wrong with our world and our economic system
2010
Beyond Band-Aids For Our Broken Economy
Our economic policy should not be a vision for today’s small entrepreneurs becoming tomorrow’s titans but, rather, small businesses forged in the mold of 1930s Farm Belt cooperatives
2010
Corporation Runs for Congress
Wal-Mart for Secretary of Labor! Enron for Secretary of Energy! Haliburton for Secretary of State!
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