- Wal-Mart's Loss In Fight For Lower Wages In DC Concerns Congress—Gotta get some ROI on those lobbying dollars.
- More retailers urge veto of D.C. 'living wage' bill—"Top government affairs executives from Home Depot, Target, AutoZone, Lowe's, Walgreens and Macy's..." band together.
- David Brooks Wonders Why Men Can't Find Jobs: Comedy Ensues—"'Times' columnist thinks the unemployed are just lazy, or something."
- Colbert: If poor people want food stamps, they should become massive corporations
- Unpaid Interns: Silent No More NYT
- The Expendables: How the Temps Who Power Corporate Giants Are Getting Crushed
- Just How Low Can Your Salary Go? 117 ALEC Bills in 2013 Fuel Race to the Bottom in Wages and Worker Rights
- McDonalds' suggested budget for employees shows just how impossible it is to get by on minimum wage
- The real budgets of McDonald's workers
- McJobs Are the Future: Why You Should Care What Fast Food Workers Earn
- McDonalds CEO Claims Company Has 'Always Been An Above-Minimum Wage Employer'
- Stephen Colbert on protests against McDonald's and minimum wage
- McDonald's Employees Walk Out In Protest Of No Air Conditioning After Crew Member Collapses
- Fast Cash: How Taking Out a Payday Loan Could Land You in Jail—"Payday loan companies have a new debt-collection tool: Texas courts and prosecutors."
- 80 Percent of Low-Wage Workers Lack Even One Paid Sick Day a Year
- Stop Glorifying Hard Work and Long Hours
- Study: Ugly people bullied at work—"Those perceived as unattractive reported experiencing cruel treatment from colleagues, according to new research." Salon
- Senate ends blockade against consumer chief pick—"The Senate has voted to end a two-year Republican blockade that was preventing Richard Cordray from winning confirmation as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau." Which was supposed to have been Sen. Warren's job.
- Elizabeth Warren's Takedown Of CNBC Removed From YouTube
- CNBC: kid gloves for bankers, boxing gloves for bank critics
- JPMorgan Executive May Escape Penalty—Shocker. NYT
- 'Blagger's manual' leaked: UK authorities concealed private investigators' tactics?
- Shocking Things Wall Street Financiers Say Off the Record About Their Bloated, Corrupt Industry—"A new survey shows how brazenly immoral Wall Street is."
- Archbishop of Canterbury Welby warns of bankers 'lynch mob'—"The Archbishop of Canterbury has described the naming and shaming of bankers in the wake of the financial crisis as 'lynch mobbish.'"
- A Shuffle of Aluminum, but to Banks, Pure Gold—"Regulators have allowed banks to buy companies that trade in commodities, resulting in huge profits for the banks and higher prices for consumers." NYT
- Fed rethinking move allowing banks to trade physical commodities
- Harold Meyerson: Big banks' dangerous commodity monopolies
- JPMorgan to quit physical commodity trade amid scrutiny
- John Oliver lambastes Goldman Sachs for screwing America without fear of jail
- Regulators Fine Barclays $453 Million Over U.S. Energy Price Rigging
- Chase, Once Considered "The Good Bank," Is About to Pay Another Massive Settlement—"...for manipulating energy prices in Enron-esque fashion in Michigan and California."
- Here's Why JP Morgan Is Being Accused of Enron-Style Shenanigans
- Vinton County Woman Wants Possessions Back After Bank Tried To Repossess Wrong House
- Banks shiver as UBS swallows $885 million U.S. fine—"UBS will pay $885 million in a settlement with a U.S. regulator over allegations the Swiss bank misrepresented mortgage-backed bonds during the housing bubble, paving the way for billions more to be paid by other banks."
- Federal Prosecutors May Charge Wall Street Bankers Who Sold Bad Loans Under An Obscure 1984 Law
- Swiss Bank Leaker: 'Money Is Easy to Hide'—It was the most spectacular bank data leak of recent years: In 2008, former HSBC employee Hervé Falciani disappeared with the information of some 130,000 customers. He tells SPIEGEL he wants to help Europe hunt down its tax dodgers and expose a broken system."
- Treasury delays offshore tax-dodge law by 6 months—"The U.S. Treasury Department said on Friday it will postpone enforcement of a new law that cracks down on offshore tax avoidance by Americans by six months to give foreign banks more time to figure out how to comply."
- US blocks crackdown on tax avoidance by net firms like Google and Amazon—"France fails to win backing for tough new international rules targeting online companies in run-up to G20 summit."
- G-20 Backs Plan to Curb Tax Avoidance by Large Corporations—"The plan aims at corporations only and, if widely adopted, would shift some of the global tax burden away from small businesses and individuals." NYT
- Almost 30,000 UK, Austrian tax dodgers disclose Swiss accounts
- Bank of America's Recipe for Getting Away with Massive Fraud, Racketeering and Money Laundering—How much of that contributed to their profit of 63%?
- Guy Walks Into Citigroup Branch, Loses $40,000
- PayPal accidentally credits man $92 quadrillion
- What one billion dollars looks like
- Meet the new $100 bill, the world's most popular bank note
- B.C. police find counterfeit versions of new polymer $100 bills
- Monopoly Is Getting Rid of Jail to Appease Your Busy Kids
- Sen. Ron Wyden On NSA Spying: It's As Bad As Snowden Says
- Senators Udall & Wyden: The White House should end the bulk collection of Americans' phone records
- Hey San Francisco, Your Rep. Pelosi Saved The NSA Phone Metadata Program
- Lawmakers Who Upheld NSA Phone Spying Received Double the Defense Industry Cash
- 'Imaginary threats' justify New Zealand spy bill – Dotcom
