- 26 Lawmakers Live Off Food Stamps To Protest Republican Cuts
- Woman sues McDonald's franchisee for payroll debit
- Fox Searchlight should have paid interns, judge rules
- Costco's Profit Soars To $459 Million As Low-Wage Competitors Struggle
- NYC Restaurant Tells Customers That Tipping Is Not Allowed—"Following the custom in Japan, Sushi Yasuda's service staff are fully compensated by their salary. Therefore gratuities are not accepted. Thank you." To tip or not to tip...
- How Did Work-Life Balance in the U.S. Get So Awful?—"Among all advanced nations, we rank 28th -- barely better than Mexico. Why's our work-life balance so bad if leisure is growing? Because single moms are growing faster."
- Five Truths That Make Saving for Retirement Less Scary
- Elite Traders Are Getting Access To Data Before Everyone Else
- How Schlubs Get Taken By Wall Street Pros
- Congratulations Summer Interns of 2013… Grab a pen. Here are a few words of wisdom.—"20. Don't talk in the fucking elevators… or at a bar."
- Why Didn't the SEC Catch Madoff? It Might Have Been Policy Not To
- The woman who paid for Beazer's sins—"She is not contesting her guilt. But with the government's investigation now closed, Parker and her attorney question why she was singled out to become the public face of mortgage fraud while more powerful, higher-paid executives avoided criminal prosecution. Even a federal judge asked why."
- Sanders, Boxer, Begich, DeFazio File Bills On Fed Conflicts Of Interest—"Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)... introduced legislation that would ban bankers from sitting on the boards of directors for 12 regional Federal Reserve Banks that regulate the financial industry."
- Brown-Vitter struggling for support in Congress
- Occupy Nashville wins ruling that TN violated their First Amendment rights
- HSBC to Be Sued by N.Y. for Foreclosure Law Violations
- Feds crack down on foreclosure auction scams—"In the past three years, federal prosecutors have charged 54 people and two companies in three states for bid-rigging during courthouse auctions of foreclosed properties."
- U.S. lawmakers say FHA may have hidden size of potential losses
- Bank Of America Revives Deceptive Loan Advertising Practices
- BofA Gave Bonuses to Foreclose on Clients, Lawsuit Claims
- Everything is Rigged, Vol. 9,713: This Time, It's Currencies
- German man locked up over HVB bank allegations may have been telling truth—"Gustl Mollath was put in a psychiatric unit for claiming his wife was involved in money-laundering at the Bavarian bank. But seven years on evidence has emerged that could set him free."
- German bank employee naps on keyboard, transfers millions
- Banks profiting from overdraft coverage plans, federal agency says
- UK: Big banks lose 2.4m customers in protest against scandals—"Move your Money campaign says new figures show mass exodus from UK's five biggest banks as clients vote with feet."
- Edward Snowden's worst fear has not been realised – thankfully—"The NSA whistleblower's only concern was that his disclosures would be met with apathy. Instead, they're leading to real reform."
- The Sickening Snowden Backlash—"It's appalling to hear the Washington bureaucrats and their media allies trash Edward Snowden as a traitor, when it's our leaders and the NSA who have betrayed us, writes Kirsten Powers."
- NSA leaker Ed Snowden's life on Ars Technica
- NSA revelations only 'the tip of the iceberg,' says Dem lawmaker
- Edward Snowden and the selective targeting of leaks
- Congress Gets Private Briefings About NSA Spying, But the Public Needs Answers Too—But it looks like some of them can't be bothered to deal with that after all. They'd rather go home.
- After NSA Leaks, Senators Re-Introduce Bill To Reduce Patriot Act Secrecy
- Senators Wyden And Udall Say They've Seen No Evidence That NSA Surveillance Stopped Dozens Of Terrorist Attacks
- Leaked: NSA's Talking Points Defending NSA Surveillance
- Dear Politicians: Exposing US Dirty Laundry Isn't Aiding The Enemy
- Al Gore: NSA's secret surveillance program 'not really the American way'
- Vladimir Putin defends the U.S. on spying programs, drones and Occupy Wall Street
- Column: Building America's secret surveillance state
- Are we doomed to a national surveillance state?—"Analysis: As the Obama administration defends its PRISM program in Congress, experts warn that privacy may be a thing of the past."
- CBS News confirms multiple breaches of Sharyl Attkisson’s computer
- Bank robbery suspect wants NSA phone records for his defense
- Shia LaBeouf, Government Surveillance Whistleblower?
- Why 'I Have Nothing to Hide' Is the Wrong Way to Think About Surveillance
- Five myths about privacy—"Why it matters, even if you have nothing to hide."
- We're Surrendering Our Civil Liberties—Is it worth it?
- NSA, PRISM, and CISPA: The conspiracy behind the conspiracy—"Remember CISPA? The NSA and PRISM disclosures shed new light on that terrible piece of cyber security legislation."
- Secret Court Ruling Put Tech Companies in Data Bind—"The Yahoo ruling, from 2008, shows the company argued that the order violated its users' Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable searches and seizures. The court called that worry 'overblown.'" NYT
- Some Questions For and About Edward Snowden—Saying the NSA has "direct access" to servers may have been overkill.
- NSA Leaks Suggest Microsoft May Have Misled Public Over Skype Eavesdropping
- Hear That Deafening Silence From AT&T And Verizon About NSA Surveillance?
- PRISM-style surveillance is global, Julian Assange says—"The internet is being transformed into a military-occupied space, the WikiLeaks founder says."
- PRISM fears give private search engine DuckDuckGo its best week ever
