Biden cared more about the appearance of having an independent DOJ untainted by politics than he did about holding an unrepentant criminal ex-president accountable.
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What the Amazon-Berkshire-JPMorgan Plan Says About For-Profit Health Insurance
The three paragons of capitalist success have just made one of the strongest arguments yet in favor of single-payer healthcare.
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How to Punish Bank Felons
When a big Wall Street bank pleads guilty to criminal felony charges committed, there seems to be no punishment that fits the crime. When real people plead guilty to felonies they go to jail, but nobody involved in bank crimes will see a day behind bars. Fair?
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Why Public Banks Outperform Private Banks – From North Dakota to Switzerland
Despite the benefits they offer, publicly-owned banks could wind up getting sued for unfair competition under the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
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Surprise, Goldman Sachs: Public Bank of North Dakota Just Outperformed Wall Street
New figures reveal that public banks are safer for depositors, allow public infrastructure costs to be cut in half – and provide a non-criminal alternative to a Wall Street cartel caught in a laundry list of frauds.
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These Seven Giant U.S. Corporations Pay Their CEOs More Than They Pay In Taxes
Boeing, Chevron, Citigroup, Ford, Verizon, JPMorgan Chase and General Motors declared more than $74 billion in combined U.S. pre-tax profits in 2013 – and paid their CEOs on average $17.3 million each.
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The $9 Billion Witness: Meet JPMorgan Chase's Worst Nightmare
One of the world's biggest banks paid one of the largest fines in history to keep Alayne Fleischmann from talking.
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Top Five Bank Bailouts We Never Heard About
What may be the most egregious behind-the-scenes bailouts were a series of settlements with the big banks for blatant wrongdoing – structured so that they could write the penalties off their tax bills.
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City of Miami Sues JPMorgan Chase for Mortgage Discrimination
The lawsuit says the country's largest bank engaged in a continuous practice of discriminatory mortgage lending since at least 2004, violating the U.S. Fair Housing Act.
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Taibbi: The Vampire Squid Strikes Again – With Mega Banks' Most Devious Scam Yet
Banks are no longer just financing heavy industry. They are actually buying it up and inventing bigger, bolder and scarier scams than ever.
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Abandoning Wall Street and Creating a Public Bank for the City of Los Angeles
A Bank of the City of Los Angeles would not compete with commercial banks but would partner with them, using its tax revenue deposits to create interest-free credit for lending programs that go toward funding city projects.
