大银行呼吁华尔街放松管制以“对抗冠状病毒”
正如娜奥米·克莱因(Naomi Klein)在畅销书《冲击主义》(Shock Doctrine)中所指出的那样,富裕的精英人士利用经济和其他灾难造成的混乱,迅速通过支持自由市场的立法予以强制。
正如娜奥米·克莱因(Naomi Klein)在畅销书《冲击主义》(Shock Doctrine)中所指出的那样,富裕的精英人士利用经济和其他灾难造成的混乱,迅速通过支持自由市场的立法予以强制。
处理严重经济衰退的新自由主义方法可能很快就会产生政治危机,让人回想起导致希特勒80年前崛起的债务危机。政治阶层似乎注意到:股市飙升和薪水萎缩所反映的严重不平等是不可持续的。
作者 Jon Jeter
NEW YORK -- The revelation that the Dow Jones industrial average and the Standard and Poor's stock index closed at historic highs this past Thursday afternoon reminded me of an early autumn afternoon a dozen years ago in a glorious San Francisco apartment high in the
Jon Jeter is a published book author and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist with more than 20 years of journalistic experience. He is a former Washington Post bureau chief and award-winning foreign correspondent on two continents, as well as a former radio and television producer for Chicago Public Media’s “This American Life.”
‘One of every five of the corporate executives who met with the Trump administration within the first 100 days represented the banking or financial sector.’
Since his inauguration, President Donald Trump has met with at least 190 corporate executives, not including phone calls with heads of banks or his numerous Wall Street appointees, the watchdog group Public Citizen reported Monday in a new analysis. And
Evo Morales announced that Bolivia will no longer respond to the demands or blackmail of the United States, the World Bank, or the IMF.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and US-dominated World Bank have been major players in the global economic landscape ever since their creation in 1944.These international banking organizations, which are privately
Whitney Webb is a writer and researcher for The Last American Vagabond and a MintPress News contributor and former staff writer. She has contributed to several independent media outlets and her work has been featured by The Real News Network, The Ron Paul Institute, The Zero Hour, and The Jimmy Dore Show, among others. She has made several radio and television appearances and is the 2019 winner of the Serena Shim Award for Uncompromised Integrity in Journalism.
Bank of America,HSBC, UBS, Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase and other financial institutions have, combined, extended a $3.75 billion credit line to Energy Transfer Partners, the parent company of Dakota Access.
Over 1,000 people representing more than 100 tribes are gathered along the Cannonball River by the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation to resist the construction of the $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline. It’s been described as the largest unification of Native American tribes in decades. On September 3, the Dakota Access pipeline company attacked
Recent poll finds 71 percent of Americans believe U.S. economy is rigged.
作者 Nika Knight
A new Marketplace-Edison Research poll published Tuesday found that a full 71 percent of respondents agree that the economy is rigged, affirming the popular rhetoric of the current presidential campaign season. The majority opinion held firm
In this episode of MintPress News’ “Behind the Headline,” host and MPN editor-in-chief talks to Brandon Garrett, author of “Too Big to Jail,” about how the U.S. allows corporate crime to run rampant while cracking down on nonviolent offenders.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTeXN7n_91A MINNEAPOLIS --- Amid the hustle and bustle of the holiday season, Iceland was busy with more than decking the halls -- it was jailing its bankers for their roles in the 2008 economic crisis. In the wake of the meltdown, the Nordic island nation
Mnar Adley is founder, CEO and editor in chief of MintPress News, and is also a regular speaker on responsible journalism, sexism, neoconservativism within the media and journalism start-ups. She started her career as an independent multimedia journalist covering Midwest and national politics while focusing on civil liberties and social justice issues posting her reporting and exclusive interviews on her blog MintPress, which she later turned MintPress into the global news source it is today. In 2009, Adley also became the first American woman to wear the hijab to anchor/report the news in American media. Contact Mnar at mnar@mintpressnews.com. Follow Mnar on Twitter at @mnarmuh