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Wall Street Likes Your Amnesia
Business  (tags: abuse, americans, business, consumers, corporate, corruption, dishonesty, economy, ethics, finance, foreclosures, government, investments, lies, marketing, money, politics, society )

Kit
- 160 days ago - atimes.com
The Fed insisted that the loans were repaid and there have been no losses, but the Bloomberg report said the banks reaped a $13 billion windfall in profits--> By Ellen Brown - well worth reading.
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The Way to Occupy a Bank Is to Own One
Business  (tags: americans, business, consumers, economy, Entrepreneurs, ethics, finance, goodnews, investments, marketing, money, politics, society )

Kit
- 160 days ago - opednews.com
The campaign to "move your money" has gotten a groundswell of support. Having greater impact would be to "move our money" -- move our local government revenues out of Wall Street banks into our own publicly-owned banks.
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Wall St's Latest Shameless Ploy to Fleece You
Business  (tags: ethics, finance, wall street, investments, americans, law )

Nancy
- 165 days ago - alternet.org
Wall Street is its own worst enemy. It should have welcomed new financial regulation as a means of restoring public trust. Instead, it's busily shredding new regulations and making the public more distrustful than ever.
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Move Your Money, Change the System
Business  (tags: abuse, americans, Banks, business, consumers, corporate, corruption, dishonesty, economy, finance, foreclosures, humans, investments, labor, lies, marketing, money, politics, society )

Kit
- 167 days ago - truth-out.org
Inspired by the Occupy movements around the country, nearly two-thirds of a million Americans joined credit unions in the brief five weeks between the beginning of October and "Bank Transfer Day,"
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The Greatest Hoax in the History of Money: The Fed, the Banks, the Lies
Business  (tags: abuse, americans, banks, business, consumers, corporate, corruption, dishonesty, economy, finance, foreclosures, government, investments, politics, society )

Kit
- 170 days ago - ourfuture.org
It took the journalists at Bloomberg News two years - and presumably lots of legal fees - to pry information out of the Federal Reserve that should have been made public long ago. We now know that the Fed's secret $7.7 trillion lending program--->
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The Trauma Of Unemployment
Business  (tags: americans, business, corporate, corruption, dishonesty, economy, employment, environment, finance, government, investments, lies, marketing, politics, society )

Kit
- 170 days ago - ourfuture.org
This is an interesting post about a new study tracking the attitudes of people who have lost jobs in the Great Recession.
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A Clean Energy Resource Too Large to Be Ignored -- Geothermal Power Gains Steam
Business  (tags: energy, geothermal power, politics, news, money, investments, investing, environment, greenbuilding, government )

Cal
- 179 days ago - enn.com
Globally, activity in the geothermal power sector recovered somewhat in 2010 following a weak 2009, as overall investment increased, according to NRG Expert's 2011 Geothermal Report. A
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MARKETING TO OFFEND?? New York's 'Anti-Semitic' Vodka Billboard
Business  (tags: OFFENSIVE MARKETING, ANTI-SEMITISM, marketing, ethics, business, dishonesty, investments, politics, news, corporate, usa )

Cal
- 184 days ago - theweek.com
Wodka vodka tries to be funny with ads promising "Christmas quality" at "Hanukkah pricing," but not everyone appreciates the joke
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Five Ways That Financial Elites Are Destroying Democracy
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Kit
- 186 days ago - alternet.org
Is democracy compatible with a financial system run by billionaires? Maybe not. Here are five ways that high finance is undermining democracy:
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Boehner's Big Stretch on Small Business
Business  (tags: americans, business, consumers, corruption, cover-up, dishonesty, economy, finance, investments, investors, marketing, money, politics, society )

Kit
- 189 days ago - factcheck.org
House Speaker John Boehner claimed that "small-business people" make up more than half of those who would be hit by a tax increase on "millionaires." Not really. Only 13 percent of those making over $1 million get even as much as one-fourth of that income
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Smear Campaigns Fuel Shutdowns of Occupations Across Country
Business  (tags: abuse, americans, business, consumers, corporate, corruption, dishonesty, economy, finance, foreclosures, government, investments, law, lies, marketing, news, politics, society )

Kit
- 192 days ago - truth-out.org
City officials in Burlington, Vermont, recently used the suicide of a 35-year-old man as an excuse to deceptively close down the occupation. In New York City, just this morning, police threatened arrest to anyone who did not clear Zuccotti Park-> read!
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Wall Street Isn't Winning - It's Cheating -- Matt Taibbi
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Kit
- 195 days ago - rollingstone.com
Think about it: there have always been rich and poor people in America, so if this is about jealousy, why the protests now? The idea that masses of people suddenly discovered a deep-seated animus/envy toward the rich - after keeping it strategically-->
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Movement Brewing to Divest Money From Big Banks
Business  (tags: abuse, americans, BANKS, business, consumers, corruption, dishonesty, economy, finance, foreclosures, investments, marketing, money, news, politics, society )

Kit
- 200 days ago - truth-out.org
Last month, Most Holy Trinity Church in San Jose announced it would divest $3 million from Bank of America. They targeted Bank of America, says Martinez, because the church surveyed parishioners, who are mostly Latino and Vietnamese, and found a -->
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Shouldn't Americans Repair American Infrastructure?
Business  (tags: abuse, americans, business, consumers, corporate, corruption, dishonesty, economy, finance, government, investments, marketing, money, politics, society )

Kit
- 200 days ago - truth-out.org
The $7-billion reconstruction of the Bay Bridge between San Francisco and Oakland is in the hands of a state-subsidized Chinese company.
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Credit Unions See a Boost in New Accounts
Business  (tags: abuse, business, consumers, debt, fees, banks, economy, ethics, finance, foreclosures, government, investing, investments, investors, law, marketing, money, news, politics, society )

John
- 201 days ago - statesmanjournal.com
Bank Transfer Day began as a notion sparked by Kristen Christian, 27, a Los Angeles gallery owner. She launched the movement Oct. 9 after Bank of America and other big banks announced they would begin charging debit card fees.
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