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Die Suche nach »banking lobby« hat 12 Resultate geliefert. Angezeigt werden die Resultate von 1 bis 10.
Outing the Fed
The Nation by William Greider 05/10/10 The weirdness of this political system is reflected in the fact that it takes a Socialist senator from Vermont, Bernie Sanders, and a libertarian Republican from... ...
rudkla - 8. Jun, 10:06
New Dodd Bill Won't Stop Another Meltdown, "Epidemic" of Wall Street Fraud
Art Levine, Truthout: "The political jousting since Sen. Chris Dodd proposed new financial reforms on Monday seems at first to be just another Washington ideological rift: liberals favoring regulating... ...
rudkla - 6. Apr, 11:21
Who's Killing Financial Reform?
Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog: "Senator Chris Dodd, the chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, scolded Wall Street representatives at a hearing Thursday for sending 'an army of lobbyists whose only... ...
rudkla - 10. Feb, 05:50
The Obama brand
AlterNet by Chris Hedges 01/25/10 Excerpt from Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle, by Chris Hedges. “Barack Obama is a brand. And the Obama brand is designed to make... ...
rudkla - 27. Jan, 11:02
Thousands protest bailout bonuses at bank meeting
Agence France-Presse 10/27/09 T housands of protesters chanted ‘the banks got bailed out we got sold out’ as they marched through the streets of Chicago on their way to a meeting of US bankers Tuesday.... ...
rudkla - 29. Okt, 08:33
Private health insurance lobbyist throws fundraiser for Nancy Pelosi
One day after House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi softened her stance on a public health option, a lobbyist for one of the country's most prominent private health insurers announced a fundraiser for the... ...
rudkla - 10. Mär, 05:10
The Politics of Big Money
Bill Moyers Journal: "As the banking stress-test results come in, the Journal takes a closer look at money's stranglehold on politics. Bill Moyers speaks with Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Illinois) - who declared... ...
rudkla - 7. Mai, 09:01
Revolving door, bailout edition
Mother Jones by Daniel Schulman and Jonathan Stein 04/09/09 Corporati ons hiring departed congressional staffers as lobbyists is a ho-hum practice on K Street. But the stakes are particularly high when... ...
rudkla - 10. Apr, 09:52
The Real AIG Scandal
Eliot Spitzer, Slate Magazine: "Everybody is rushing to condemn AIG's bonuses, but this simple scandal is obscuring the real disgrace at the insurance giant: Why are AIG's counterparties getting paid back... ...
rudkla - 30. Mär, 08:53
Stimulus Time: The Fierce Urgency of Now
Mark Weisbrot, The Center for Economic and Policy Research: "Nobody needs to be told that our economy is going down the tubes at a rate unseen for decades. Every week brings new numbers that are setting... ...
rudkla - 7. Jan, 22:17
