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7 of the Nastiest Scams, Rip-Offs and Tricks From Wall Street Crooks

Dave Johnson, AlterNet. December 26, 2011.

How many high-level Wall Street players have been put in jail for the crimes that led to the financial crisis? Not. Even. One.

Eliot Spitzer: Our Rallying Cry Should Be, "We Own Wall Street and We Can Stop Corporate America's Worst Behavior."

Eliot Spitzer, Slate. December 21, 2011.

If the public exercised its ownership capacity by influencing board member selection, compensation, and political donations, then these companies would be fundamentally altered.

5 Conservative Economic Myths Occupy Wall St. Is Helping Bust

Dave Johnson, AlterNet. October 10, 2011.

For decades the corporate media has force-fed “conventional wisdom” free-market economic nonsense to the American public.

10 Things to Know About Wall Street's Rapacious Attack on America

Les Leopold, AlterNet. October 6, 2011.

But now Americans are fighting back and there's no telling where Occupy Wall Street can lead.

Guess How Much More Wall St. Spends on Bonuses Than on Penalties for Torpedoing the Economy?

Nomi Prins, AlterNet. June 27, 2011.

The crooks who brought down the economy get a slap on the wrist.

The Long Road Ahead -- Are You Ready for the Worst the Economy Has to Offer?

James Howard Kunstler, Kunstler.com. October 25, 2008.

Are we headed for a deflationary period followed by a tidal wave of inflation?