Congress is About to Repeat Same Stupid, Greedy Mistake that Caused the Great Recession
The United States Senate is set to vote Tuesday to destroy America’s (and maybe, the global) economy. Yes, it is a Republican plot, just another supplication before one of their masters (billionaires, corporations, big banks, Russia) as they seek to…
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You Won’t F*cking Believe How Much More Top CEO’s Make Compared to Most American Workers
by John Light In 2016, CEOs at America’s largest firms made, on average, 271 times more than the average US worker. Fifty years ago, that ratio was 20-to-1. The CEO-to-worker pay ratio, calculated annually by the Economic Policy Institute, a…
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Steven Mnuchin Foreclosed On A 90-Year-Old Woman Over A 27-Cent Payment Error
Mnuchin Is An Alarming Pick For Treasury President-elect Donald Trump promised to “drain the swamp” of corruption, and he appears to be doing that by dumping the entire swamp into the White House. One of the Swamp Things that Trump has…
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Chuck Schumer Gives Bernie Sanders The Green Light, Calling For The Democratic Party To Be Transformed (VIDEO)
In the wake of Hillary Clinton’s disastrous loss to Donald Trump in the presidential election, Bernie Sanders and newly-elected House Minority Leader Chuck Schumer are doing what they can to help the Democrats pick up the pieces. Schumer lends sanders,…
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Elizabeth Warren Body Slams Trump Over And Over In Feisty Speech (VIDEO)
Progressive champion Elizabeth Warren declared war on Donald Trump on Twitter earlier this month. While the presumptive Republican presidential nominee has tried to dismiss her with childish personal attacks, the Senator from Massachusetts has brushed them aside, tearing into Trump’s record,…
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You’ll Never Believe How Much A $2,500 Payday Loan Actually Cost This Guy
Let this be a lesson to all who read it: Predatory payday loans can ruin your life, and according to the industry, itself, you can thank Dodd-Frank for that. Elliot Clark of Kansas City, Missouri, took out five $500 payday…
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Trump Says He’ll Talk Nukes With North Korea. It Will Be Terrific, Folks, OK? Trust Him.
Donald Trump Says he will speak and negotiate with North Korea On Tuesday, U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump told Reuters that he is more than willing to meet with Kim Jong-un, the leader of North Korea. The meeting would…
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Elizabeth Warren Destroys Trump’s GOP Nomination On Social Media
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) dove head first into the 2016 Presidential campaign late Tuesday night, moments after Ted Cruz mercifully ended is failing campaign and the Republican National Committee Chairman publicly declared that Donald Trump will be the “presumptive nominee“.…
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How The Koch Brothers Are Secretly Manipulating The 2016 Election (VIDEO)
There will not be a clash of dangerous, right-wing billionaires this year. Some may have reasonably expected David and Charles Koch to confront Donald Trump in the Republican primaries. The Koch brothers typically fuel stuffy, fiscally conservative candidates who rely…
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This Financial Regulator Just Proposed To Break Up The Big Banks (VIDEO)
Neel Kashkari helped the feds bail out the big banks: Now he wants to regulate them. Meet Neel Kashkari, 13th president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. As a Goldman Sachs employee and Pimco partner, he raised funds for the banks; as Assistant…
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