- When fighting Wall Street pays--"Being the biggest enemy of the big banks just paid off nicely for Elizabeth Warren's campaign." Salon
- Warren takes center stage in Obama campaign video--"Are we a people who say 'I got mine; the rest of you are on your own,' or 'We can invest in our future.'?"
- Poll: Warren Leads Brown By 5 Points--They're running 'neck-And-neck'
- Scott Brown hit over female pay after his campaign calls Elizabeth Warren ‘elitist’
- Elizabeth Warren’s gamble Salon
- Eliot Spitzer: Obama 'Has Been On Wall Street's Side Since Day One'
- US to make profit from bailouts, Treasury says
- Wall Street bankers: 'They could not figure out why anyone might be mad at them'
- Giant Banks Now 30% Bigger than When Dodd-Frank Financial "Reform" Law Was Passed
- Rep. Frank Blasts Bills to Blunt Law on Derivatives--"House Republican attempts to blunt Dodd-Frank's regulatory requirements on derivatives would remove transparency and 'allow these prices to continue to be secret,' Rep. Barney Frank told CNBC Thursday."
- For He’s a Jolly Good Scoundrel--"How evil is this? At a time when two-thirds of U.S. homeowners are drowning in mortgage debt and the American dream has crashed for tens of millions more, Sanford Weill, the banker most responsible for the nation’s economic collapse, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences."
- Inside the foreclosure factory, they're working overtime
- Marginal improvement: Corporate profit margins are extremely high. Can they be sustained?
- The Koch Brothers – Exposed!
- Conservative Nonprofit Acts as a Stealth Business Lobbyist--All about ALEC. NYT
- Wal-Mart hushed up vast Mexico bribery case
- Karen Pletz found dead in Florida--"Karen Pletz, 64, was indicted on 24 counts in March 2011 in connection with an alleged fraud scheme that includes unauthorized compensation payments, reimbursements from the university for personal expenses, fraudulent charitable contributions, tax violations and money laundering at the medical school."
- Inside the head of an overpaid CEO
- CEO Compensation Rose Almost 40 Percent in 2010 and 2011
- Average Fortune 500 CEO Now Paid 380 Times As Much As The Average Worker
- Bankrupt Pinnacle should rethink big raises for execs, lawmakers say
- Citigroup's Chief Rebuffed on Pay by Shareholders--"In a stinging rebuke, Citigroup shareholders rebuffed on Tuesday the bank’s $15 million pay package for its chief executive, Vikram S. Pandit, marking the first time that stock owners have united in opposition to outsized compensation at a financial giant." NYT
- Citigroup CEO, directors, sued over exec pay --"Days after being rebuked by shareholders, Citigroup Inc Chief Executive Vikram Pandit and the bank's directors have been sued for allegedly awarding outsized pay to top executives."
- Corporations Use Private Jets, Security Systems To Give CEOs Massive Tax Breaks
- Six Rigged Rules Corporations Use to Dodge Taxes
- Corporations that Spent Big on Lobbying Saw Big Drops in Their Taxes
- Undocumented Immigrants Paid $11.2 Billion In Taxes While GE Paid Nothing