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These Are the Charts That Scare Wall Street
Charts that go bump in the night. By Luke Kawa, Sid Verma, Julie Verhage, and Narae Kim.
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Too Smug to Jail
'The Economist' issues a myopic defense of the white-collar criminal. By Matt Taibbi.
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How Donald Trump Used Fine Print To Make It Harder To Sue Wall Street For Fraud
Sued for fraud, the Republican presidential nominee used the fine print to create a permanent legal shield for himself — and financial firms. By David Sirota.
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Hillary Clinton Economic Team Planned Secret Meeting With Wall Street Mogul Pushing To Shift Retiree Savings To Financial Firms
The Democratic candidate's economic advisers met with Blackstone President Tony James days before he promoted plan to shift retiree assets to Wall Street. By David Sirota.
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Partners in Crime: Goldman Sachs, the Clintons and Wall Street
The cozy relationship between Goldman Sachs and the Clintons has reached dizzying new heights in recent years, giving the Democratic Party nominee Hillary Clinton an immensely influential partner on Wall Street. By Shawn Helton.
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Whether Democrats or Republicans take the election on Nov. 8, Elizabeth Warren wins
Whether Democrats win or lose on Nov. 8, Elizabeth Warren’s influence over politics and the future of financial reform is sure to grow. By Victoria Finkle.
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Here’s the WikiLeaks Bombshell on Clinton that Is Still to Come
Two partners at major law firms have likely been holding their breath since WikiLeaks released an email on November 1 showing that Obama had vetted Hillary Clinton for Vice President and the review came back “too critical,” thus leading Obama to select Joe Biden as his Vice Presidential pick during the 2008 campaign… By Pam and Russ Marten.
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The Democrats’ Fight Over Finance
Movement between Wall Street and Washington is as old as the republic, but this year a resurgent left is pushing back. By Alec MacGillis.
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Billions in damage, but no charges: How U.S. banks pay for protection
The list is long and shameful. The Wachovia Bank helped launder hundreds of millions for Mexican drug cartels. Wells Fargo illegally created nearly two million fake accounts and then charged customers service fees for them. Barclay’s Bank executives manipulated and fixed international interest rates for its own profits. The U.S. operations of Deutsche Bank created over one billion dollars in fake mortgages.
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The Supermanagerial Reich
The managerial class and the crisis of democracy. By Ajay Singh Chaudhary, Raphaële Chappe.
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Mary Jo White to Step Down as S.E.C. Chief
Other financial regulators are expected to follow suit, giving the Trump administration an opening to shift the government’s approach to policing the industry. By Ben Protess and Alexandra Stevenson.
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How Letting Bankers Off the Hook May Have Tipped the Election
There are many facets to the populist, anti-establishment anger that swept Donald J. Trump into the White House in Tuesday’s election. A crucial element fueling the rage, in my view, was this: Not one high-ranking executive at a major financial firm was held to account for the crisis of 2008. By Gretchen Morgenson.
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Break Up the Democratic Party: It’s Time for the Clintons and Rubin to Go – and Soros Too
In the week leading up to last Tuesday’s election the press was busy writing obituaries for the Republican Party. This continued even after Donald Trump’s “surprising” victory – which, like the 2008 bank-fraud crash, “nobody could have expected…” By Michael Hudson.
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No More Flyover Country
The world is rapidly changing, America is, Britain is, and many more countries will, it just takes an election. We’re transitioning to a next phase. By Raúl Ilargi Meijer.
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New Report Examines How Country’s Largest Banks Finance the Private Prison Industry
When Donald Trump won and private prison stocks surged, an unexpected cheer came from downtown Manhattan. It’s a great time to be in the jail business. By Manuel Madrid.
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We must rethink globalization, or Trumpism will prevail
Rising inequality is largely to blame for this electoral upset. Continuing with business as usual is not an option. By Thomas Piketty.
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A Secretive Billionaire’s Dreams of Creating America’s Foremost Guns Empire
There had been Big Pharma, and Big Oil, but never Big Gun. Stephen Feinberg’s Cerberus Capital set out to create it. By Stephen Witt.
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Trump: What the Market Is Really Saying
There is plenty to be afraid of about Trump’s economic plans. It could well be that the new administration, backed by a Republican-controlled Congress, will start cutting needed social services to the bone. So why has the stock market been soaring since two days after the election? By Jeff Madrick.
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Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-Wall Street)
Left populism is the answer to Trumpism. But all incoming Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer has is more favors for Wall Street. By Branko Marcetic.
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Big Banks are more Excited about Donald Trump than any other President in almost 100 Years
Under a Trump administration, Wall Street is in line for a bonanza.
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