…remaining without opinion. But, I do like this one idea of theirs and the idea needs push. The petition is to have a sales tax placed on Wall Street’s transactions….

by Linda Beale crony capitalism and casino capitalism–bad flavors for right or left, per Kristof and Stiglitz The Occupy Wall Street focus on “we are the 99 percent” juxtaposed with…

…How Wall Street, venture capital drive high drug prices, GoozNews, Merrill Goozner This article also appeared at the Washington Monthly. The pharmaceutical industry is the great white whale of American…

…the Wall Street Rule. That is literally the nickname for it. We suspect they know full well the Wall Street Rule is being applied here. Read more at Naked Capitalism…

…Medicare patients, that certainly is a problem. Oak Street Partnership There are reasons for concern about the latest partnership. Less than two months after announcing the AARP deal, Oak Street…

…policy inner circle–Tim Geithner, Gene Sperling, Larry Summers, Christie Romer, Peter Orszag–is not “a group of Wall Street bankers.” It is only 5% Wall Street banker–only 1/4 of Larry Summers…

…we all know, he was preceded and prodded by the growing ranks of the Occupy Wall Street movement spreading nationwide and into Europe. As their visibility and perceived importance of…

…contemporary capitalism’s widespread job insecurity. Wall Street’s War on Workers: How Mass Layoffs and Greed Are Destroying the Working Class and What to Do About It, a new book by labor educator Les Leopold,…

 – by New Deal democrat Despite some very soft employment and production data in the past several weeks, Wall Street has been on something of a tear, making repeated new…

…bailing out Wall Street for their malfeasance, Main Street was also subsidizing Wall Street Executive bonuses. Some potential solutions: Implement Sec. 956 of Dodd-Frank: Rigorous limitation by regulators of Bank…