- Former Romney Campaign Co-Chair Tim Pawlenty: Banks Should Just Be Trusted To "Voluntarily" Self-Regulate
- 4 Years After Meltdown, Wall Street Still Calling the Shots
- When Banks Erase a Debt That Isn't There NYT
- How the banking crash sparked a credit union boom--"People are turning away from casino finance and towards a more democratic system that isn't just about money-making."
- Fired Wells Fargo employee cleared to work would have to reapply--"A 68-year-old Des Moines man fired from a Wells Fargo call center for putting a cardboard dime in a washing machine in 1963 has been cleared to return to work in the banking industry...." He lost his job over this, and those who've literally lost trillions of dollars are still running the joint.
- Goldman Sachs can't take a joke--"How Obama's mean standup comedy routine hurt the feelings of Wall Street's premier investment bank." Salon
- Half Of Scott Brown's Top Twenty Donors Are Big Banks Or Other Financial Institutions
- Banker Plan Would Fund Super-PACs to Sway Senate Races
- Proposed Split of Large Institutions: Fight Looms Over EU Plans for Bank Reform
- RBS traders boasted of Libor 'cartel'--"...that made 'amazing' amounts of money by rigging interest rates...."
- FSA: 'Ministers Must Outlaw Rate-Rigging'
- IMF: We got it wrong on austerity and made things worse
- Greek central banker's big pay-off--"The governor of the Bank of Greece was given a severance payment of 3.4 million euros when he left his former employer, a major bank that he now regulates, documents seen by Reuters show."
- J.K. Rowling: 'I didn't build this' on my own--"I worked extremely hard...I take credit for the work. But I received a free education. I received free health care."
- Hillary to World Leaders: Time for the Rich to Pony Up Their Taxes
- France budget: Taxes favoured over spending cuts
- Unmasking the most influential billionaire in U.S. politics--"The most influential billionaire in America is Peter G. Peterson, whose misleading campaign to 'reform' traditional social welfare programs has subtly set the terms of the Washington debate."
- Billionaire says turn aid taps off--"[Lord Michael Ashcroft] has urged the British government to 'turn off the golden taps' of foreign aid and stop pandering to 'St Bob and Bono.'"
- Political and Class Issues Complicate a Colorado Land Dispute"Bill Koch's effort to acquire some public land, including a piece that cuts through his 4,500-acre ranch, has run into hostility from his neighbors." NYT
- Red Bull heir pays $97,000 to family of man he is alleged to have killed with a $1M Ferrari
- Death penalty for family members in India 'honour killing'--"The pair were tortured and electrocuted in a so-called honour killing by members of the girl's family who objected to the union on caste grounds."
- Behind the closed doors of Washington lobbyists--"The 'influence business' is the third-largest industry in the nation's capital; Sharyl Attkisson goes inside the world of access to see what all that money buys."
- Wells Fargo increases its lobbying efforts--"Wells Fargo has built up a significant lobbying presence in state capitals to manage the torrent of mortgage-related bills flooding legislatures."
- Florida: Jacobs' texts show coordinated campaign with foes of sick time--They "paint the clearest picture yet of how the sick-time ballot initiative was kept off the Nov. 6 Orange County ballot. They also show the influence of corporate lobbyists and legal confidantes on Jacobs, who ran as a maverick outsider willing to take on powerful interests."
- Your Cynicism About Lobbyists Only Helps The Lobbyists Win
- US judge upholds Obama ban on lobbyists serving on boards
- The Real Welfare Problem: Government Giveaways to the Corporate 1%
- Corporate Welfare Queens--"Romney has little to say about the many American companies whose profits rely, in one form or another, on government assistance."
- The two forms of corporate executive influence, illustrated--"What do Westgate Resorts' David Siegel and Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan have in common? Hopeless entitlement." Salon
