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Flush with Cash From Bank Lobbyists, Conservative Dems Are Killing the Consumer Protection We All Need

Flush with Cash From Bank Lobbyists, Conservative Dems Are Killing the Consumer Protection We All Need

Zach Carter, AlterNet. October 1, 2009.
Wall Street-influenced Democrats may not act as nutty as their GOP counterparts, but they're dealing out the same economic damage.

The End of Money: Take Power Back From the Money and Banking Monopoly

The End of Money: Take Power Back From the Money and Banking Monopoly

Thomas Greco, Jr., AlterNet. July 27, 2009.
If we desire to have a peaceful, equitable society, the power of lending must go to people and their communities.

California Doesn't Need to Borrow Billions from Washington -- It Can Create Its Own Money

California Doesn't Need to Borrow Billions from Washington -- It Can Create Its Own Money

Ellen Brown, AlterNet. May 27, 2009.
Gov. Schwarzenegger thinks CA can only get credit from DC, but there's another way of doing it that the prosperous state of North Dakota figured out.

Credit Card Industry Defeated ... for Now

Credit Card Industry Defeated ... for Now

Harry Hanbury, AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. April 7, 2009.
The credit card lobby is finding itself on the defensive, and turning out in force to oppose legislation from Congress.

How Our Gutless Media Helped Trigger the Credit Crisis

How Our Gutless Media Helped Trigger the Credit Crisis

Trudy Lieberman, Columbia Journalism Review. November 20, 2008.
Government and greedy bankers aren't the only ones to blame.

Credit Liquidity and H2O Liquidity Are Both Drying Up

Credit Liquidity and H2O Liquidity Are Both Drying Up

Max Keiser, Huffington Post. June 16, 2008.
These two diminishing resources have a common cause for their disappearance: a broken neo-classic capitalist system.

Beware the Credit-Industrial Complex

Beware the Credit-Industrial Complex

Susan J. Douglas, In These Times. January 7, 2008.
The subprime fiasco is just one example of how banks profit from shady practices.

Pay It off Later: Debt Is the New American Dream

Pay It off Later: Debt Is the New American Dream

Dee Hon, Adbusters. November 10, 2007.
The U.S. addicted to debt -- and the country and millions of its citizens are at the brink of bankruptcy.

Subprime or Subcrime? Time To Investigate and Prosecute

Subprime or Subcrime? Time To Investigate and Prosecute

Danny Schechter, MediaChannel.org. August 10, 2007.
The "subprime" credit crunch is really a sub-crime ponzi scheme in which millions of people are losing their homes because of criminal tactics by financial institutions.

Young Borrowers Face A Life of Debt

Young Borrowers Face A Life of Debt

G. Pascal Zachary, AlterNet. November 18, 2006.
Veteran TV journalist and media critic Danny Schechter's new film, "In Debt We Trust," shows us how financial insecurity has become a staple of American life.