By Paul Kiel and Jesse Eisinger / ProPublicaJan 17, 2017
When Steven Mnuchin ran OneWest, the bank aggressively and, in some cases, wrongly foreclosed on elderly homeowners with reverse mortgages. The bank had a disproportionate share of such foreclosures. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )
Chris Hedges / TruthdigJan 2, 2017
The president-elect represents the late stage of capitalism, when corporations, no longer able to generate profits at former levels, pillage the government and society for profit. However, he will be vulnerable to impeachment if we take to the streets. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigDec 1, 2016
Steven Mnuchin got rich with taxpayer money in a legal but “distasteful” corporate welfare scheme in which he used dubious mortgages to foreclose on tens of thousands of families through a failed bank he bought cheap in the 2008 Wall Street crash, says California lawyer Saied Kashani. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
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By Ellen Brown / Web of DebtNov 17, 2016
Instead of privatizing public assets and delivering taxpayer money to investors, the president-elect could fund his promised infrastructure projects by simply printing money. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )
By Ellen Brown / Web of DebtMay 14, 2016
It's been called crazy talk. But the solution of Abraham Lincoln and the American colonials may be the only sane response to a $19 trillion federal debt that has doubled over the last 10 years. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )
Juan Cole / TruthdigApr 24, 2016
Despite getting several years of American history while we're in school, most of us probably have only a foggy idea of who the woman chosen to replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill was. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
By Amy Goodman and Denis MoynihanApr 21, 2016
What better tribute to her lifetime of struggle could there be than to place her image into the hands of hundreds of millions of people? Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigApr 9, 2016
In the wake of the Panama Papers leak, a pending U.S. Treasury rule to discourage the rich from avoiding taxes could in fact enable them to do so, experts say. Release of the new provision is expected soon. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigMar 3, 2016
BlackRock Inc. is the world’s largest manager of financial assets—five times larger than Goldman Sachs. And its CEO, Larry Fink, and his team are poised to take over a Clinton Treasury Department. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
By Deirdre Fulton / Common DreamsFeb 17, 2016
Federal Reserve official Neel Kashkari warns that "we won't see the next crisis coming, and it won’t look like what we might be expecting." Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
By Ellen Brown / Web of DebtOct 28, 2015
The debt ceiling is an unconstitutional gimmick that violates the 14th Amendment, and it could be eliminated for good by restoring to the government its constitutional authority to create money. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )
Natasha Hakimi Zapata / TruthdigJun 25, 2015
In a new segment for "The Daily Show," the ever-charming Jessica Williams argues that not only is the effort to put a woman on the $10 bill half-assed and way too late, the real issue we should be preoccupied with is the gender pay gap. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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