- Mortgage deal is great — for politicians and banks--It's just a "poke in the eye".
- The foreclosure deal: Every little bit counts--"The banks don't get the punishment they deserve, but the White House finally gets some traction on housing woes." Salon
- The Five Things You Need To Know About Today's Foreclosure Settlement
- Taibbi: Mortgage Fraud Settlement is More Like a Bailout Than Justice
- Is the $25 Billion Foreclosure Settlement a Stealth Bank Bailout?
- "Deadbeat Bailout": Right-Wing Media Attack Struggling Homeowners, Whitewash Alleged Foreclosure Abuse
- Missouri Becomes 2nd State to Divert Foreclosure Funds Away From Homeowners to Balance its Budget
- S.E.C. Is Avoiding Tough Sanctions for Large Banks--"Even as the Securities and Exchange Commission has stepped up its investigations of Wall Street in the last decade, the agency has repeatedly allowed the biggest firms to avoid punishments specifically meant to apply to fraud cases." NYT
- Preet Bharara's toothless bite of Wall Street: Time magazine's favorite federal prosecutor chases the bottom feeders and avoids the sharks Salon
- SEC Keeps Giving Wall Street Banks A Break
- Wall Street's Reputation Still Falling--"More than three years after the financial crisis, Wall Street banks are still in the doghouse. In a survey intended to track the reputations of leading companies, only 17 percent of respondents had a positive impression of the financial services industry." NYT
- Volcker Rule Draws Barrage of Lobbying From Banks After Details Released
- Why Wall Street Should Stop Whining
- Wall Street's song of Obama woe: Self-pitying bankers lament a bygone era of fat bonuses and easy money Salon
- Wall Street 'Likely To Set Records' For Political Spending Aimed At Defeating Obama In 2012
- When The Bankers Plotted To Overthrow FDR--"It was a dangerous time in America: The economy was staggering, unemployment was rampant and a banking crisis threatened the entire monetary system..."
- Wall Street's Secret Spy Center, Run for the 1% by NYPD
- House bans federal lawmakers from insider trading--Will it survive the Senate?
- Rep. Spencer Bachus faces insider-trading investigation
- Eric Cantor's Wall Street Insider Trading Loophole
