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The Bankster Welfare State: Where Crime Pays

In a newly published paper, “Wall Street’s Six Biggest Bailed-Out Banks: Their RAP Sheets & Their Ongoing Crime Spree,” the non-profit group Better Markets reports $29 trillion spent in total bailout money.

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One Woman's 10-Year Fight to Save Her Family From Foreclosure

"If we had known from the beginning how corrupt the system was, we probably never would have started."

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Why Wall Street Won the First Round and How We Might Win the Next

Will it take a coming crisis to finally achieve what the reaction of the 2008 financial crisis failed to do – place finance capital under restraints? Iceland may have been the exception to the rule, but it shows that democratic control of the banks is possible.

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Fixed Fortunes: Biggest Corporate Political Interests Spent Billions, and Got Trillions In Return

Between 2007 and 2012, 200 of America’s most politically active corporations spent a combined $5.8 billion on federal lobbying and campaign contributions – and were paid back $4.4 trillion in federal business and support.

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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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How the Federal Reserve and Bank of England Are Fueling Massive Global Inequality

That the U.S. and U.K.'s central banks are encouraging food speculation — and are thus responsible for its disastrous results — shows clearly how both countries' monetary policies are engineered to work against the interests of the majority.

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Ex-Wall Street Chieftains Living Large in Post-Meltdown World

The Center for Public Integrity looks at what happened to five former Wall Street kingpins to see what they are up to these days. None are in jail, nor are any criminal charges expected to be filed.

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