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By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers —
The weekly news is like a recurring bad dream that is becoming an even worse nightmare. While the investor class cheers a rising stock market, the rest of us sink. The headline that jumped out at us this week came from Bloomberg News: “CEO Pay 1,795-to-1 Multiple of Wages Skirts U.S. Law.”
Posted on May 17, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including Jamie Dimon’s “punishment” for a massive trading loss and Jimmy Kimmel spoofs the gun control debate.
Posted on Jan 16, 2013
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A group of CEOs led by Macy’s Terry Lundgren calling itself the Fix the Debt coalition is hoping for a deficit-busting austerity budget this holiday season—not a program to create American jobs.
Posted on Nov 22, 2012
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In late 2008, Neil Barofsky was appointed the Treasury Department’s investigator of the bank bailouts. In the time since, he has suffered dismissal and deprecation from his colleagues and the corporations they’re supposed to regulate.
Posted on Aug 4, 2012
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Traditional investigations by regulators of all the suspect hanky-panky in the banking industry have produced nothing in the way of fundamental reform and protected the worst repeat offenders. So why not bribe big bankers to turn one another in?
Posted on Jul 21, 2012
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JPMorgan Chase’s losses from its hedge-managers-gone-wild in London could go as high as $7 billion. Too big to manage? And Bain becomes Mitt Romney’s bane once again.
Posted on Jul 13, 2012
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On Monday, economist Simon Johnson presented officials at the Federal Reserve with a petition containing 38,000 signatures appealing for the removal of JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon from the Federal Reserve Board of Governors.
Posted on Jun 26, 2012
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Yves Smith, creator and editor of the finance blog Naked Capitalism, and Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone spoke with Bill Moyers about the continuing fallout of the economic crisis and the corruption, ignorance and collusion that guarantee the situation will not improve for most Americans.
Posted on Jun 26, 2012
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By Ellen Brown, Web of Debt —
JPMorgan Chase is the biggest campaign donor to many of the members of the Senate Banking Committee who were charged with investigating the bank’s CEO, Jamie Dimon, in mid June.
Posted on Jun 21, 2012
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By Cora Currier, ProPublica —
Through campaign contributions and well-connected staff, JP Morgan has a few friends on the Senate banking committee.
Posted on Jun 16, 2012
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A look at the day’s political events, including the Arizona special election winner, JPMogran Chase CEO Jamie Dimon heckled and Sheldon Adelson’s latest multimillion-dollar donation.
Posted on Jun 13, 2012
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By Robert Scheer — How did we end up with such smart scoundrels? Even after it was known that Jamie Dimon’s bank blew more than $2 billion, Barack Obama still had praise for the intellect of his political backer.
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JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon may be less concerned with the actual $2 billion his bank lost than the credence it lends to calls for tougher regulation.
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University of Missouri-Kansas City professor, author and former financial regulator William Black explains what’s wacky about JPMorgan Chase’s version of events that led to the firm’s $2 billion loss in the derivatives market last week.
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JPMorgan Chase & Co. weathered the 2008 financial crisis without reporting a loss. But a failed hedging strategy that recently cost the company $2 billion has called into question the ability of its leaders to manage risk and intensified the debate on banking reform.
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Alexander Reed Kelly
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Wall Street protesters joined progressive and community groups Tuesday on a march to the homes of several New York City billionaires to demand that Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state lawmakers extend a surcharge tax on the state’s wealthiest residents, and New York City physician Bertha Bauer stands with them. (more)
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Art exhibitions reveal the real Gertrude Stein; young American Jews are disagreeing with their parents’ views on Palestine; meanwhile, the battle over bin Laden postmortem photos continues. These discoveries and more after the jump.
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