TruthdigMar 12, 2020
Lessons learned from the 2008 financial crisis show that taxpayer-funded blank checks to institutions do nothing to help those struggling Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
JESSICA GRESKO / The Associated PressMar 3, 2020
Its ruling on whether to make it easier for the president to fire the consumer financial law enforcement chief could affect other agencies. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Chris Hedges and Mr. Fish / TruthdigSep 9, 2019
A Business Roundtable statement about the purpose of corporations shows that ruling elites fear their crimes are coming back to haunt them. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )
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Maj. Danny Sjursen / TruthdigAug 10, 2019
The 43rd president—besides leaving the domestic economy in ruins—bequeathed a disastrous foreign policy. Dig deeper ( 15 Min. Read )
Ellen Brown / TruthdigJun 3, 2019
The U.S. government is unnecessarily feeding the “financialized” economy in which money makes money without producing new goods and services. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )
Ilana NovickAug 27, 2018
Seth Frotman, in a scathing resignation letter to acting director Mick Mulvaney, says the agency “has turned its back on young people and their financial futures." Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Beverly GologorskyJul 2, 2018
Beverly Gologorsky's new book is "a rare working-class novel ... about the 2007-2009 foreclosure crisis and how it hit not those 'too big to fail,' but those too small not to be clobbered by it," writes TomDispatch editor Tom Engelhardt. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )
Nomi Prins / TomDispatchApr 30, 2018
There’s a crucial institution in Washington that few in the media seem to be paying attention to, even as President Trump quietly makes it his own. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )
Staff and Chris Hedges / TruthdigJan 17, 2018
Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges discusses "Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century" with author Jessica Bruder in an eye-opening conversation about America's mobile elderly workforce. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
BLANKOct 30, 2016
A 2008 email made public by WikiLeaks this month revealed that a bank executive essentially picked most of the president's Cabinet appointments—including the people who bailed out Wall Street. If you want "a chance to shape history," speak up before this election. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigAug 15, 2016
In a scary and important episode, the "Last Week Tonight" host sounds a warning about a boom in subprime automobile loans that promises to make "your eye twitch with flashbacks to the mortgage crisis." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigAug 13, 2016
The Economic Policy Institute blames the weak comeback from the 2008 recession on GOP policies at local, state and federal levels. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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