- U.S. states, regulator drop objections to $8.5 billion BofA deal
- Defang Dodd-Frank To Protect Wall Street Vampires? A Look At The Proposed Changes
- Krugman: More on the Roots of Bernanke Hatred NYT
- Wall Street is writing its own regulation bill
- See How Citigroup Wrote a Bill So It Could Get a Bailout—"Citigroup lobbyists drafted a bill to allow more risky dealings by taxpayer-backed banks and—what do you know?—the House financial services committee passed nearly identical legislation."
- Elizabeth Warren to Obama Administration: Take the Banks to Court, Already!
- No Arrests on Wall Street, But Over 7,700 Americans Have Been Arrested Protesting Big Banks
- Why Are Homeowners Being Jailed for Demanding Wall Street Prosecutions?—"Bankers go free while cops tase peaceful protesters and the Department of Justice targets journalists."
- Elizabeth Warren Grills Treasury Secretary on Too Big to Fail—And whether he'll allow banks to get even bigger.
- Jon Stewart rips Obama for aggressive investigation of whistle-blowers instead of bankers
- Turns out much-hyped settlement still allows banks to steal homes—"New data reveals mega-banks still illegally foreclosing on thousands. Get this: The housing settlement allows it." Salon
- Wells Fargo Forecloses On Homeowner For Making Early Mortgage Payments
- New York claims more proof of bank mortgage abuses
- Bankers Explain How They Cannot Possibly Live On $1 Million Pay
- Zombie corpse of Lehman Brothers sues Intel over bad billion-dollar deal
- JPMorgan Caught in Swirl of Regulatory Woes—"The nation's biggest bank, which faces several federal investigations, was warned by energy regulators about 'manipulative schemes' it used in California and Michigan."
- Paul Krugman accused of 'spectacularly uncivil' behavior
- Paul Krugman on Debt, but Are Soaring Interest Rates Running Against Him?
- Entitlements in America—"[D]eficit projections are falling fast. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) now says it will shrink to 4% of GDP in this fiscal year and 2.1% by 2015. No wonder Republicans would rather talk about the Internal Revenue Service and Benghazi than the budget."
- Why Nobody Cares That The Deficit Is Shrinking
- Stop celebrating our falling deficits—"Our deficits aren’t dropping because we're doing something right. They're dropping because we're doing everything wrong."
- Top U.S. tax breaks to cost $12 trillion over decade, benefit wealthy: CBO
- How Far Did PBS Go to Avoid Offending a Sponsor?—"Public television's attempts to placate David Koch."
- Rich Manhattan moms hire handicapped tour guides so kids can cut lines at Disney World
- The Financialisation of Labour—"Frances Coppola argues that flexibility in the labour market could be harming the UKs prospects."
- House GOP Votes To End Overtime Pay With 'Working Families Flexibility Act'—How Frank Luntzian.
- The Long Shadow of Bad Credit in a Job Search—"Many companies, especially some retailers, use an applicant's credit report in making hiring decisions." NYT
- 84 Percent of NYC Fast Food Workers Report Wage Theft in a New Survey
- Valley farm-labor shortage boosts wages for workers
- Working past retirement: 75% will do it, most because they want to
- Old Economy Steve Is A New Meme That Will Enrage All Millennials Everywhere
- Krugman: The Closing of the Conservative Mind—"Is there new flexibility? No." NYT
- Bob Dole: GOP should be 'closed for repairs'—"The Republican Party has changed so drastically in recent years, the current GOP wouldn’t welcome the likes of Ronald Reagan...."
- The Wisdom of Bob Dole—"Old-school Republicans no longer recognize a party full of Tea Party lawmakers that wants to break the government." NYT
- GOP dilemma: draw new voters without irking base—"The Republican Party, having lost the popular vote in five of the last six presidential elections, confronts a dilemma that's easier to describe than to solve: How can it broaden its appeal to up-for-grabs voters without alienating its conservative base?"
- Paul Ryan admits GOP can't govern without a hostage crisis
- Tea Party Favorite Rep. Michele Bachmann Leaving Congress—Ding, dong, the witch has fled.
- I was a liberal mole at Fox News: From Bill O'Reilly to Roger Ailes, here's all the inside dope Salon
- The Long, Sordid History of the American Right and Racism—"Other factors have come and gone for the Right, but racism has always been there."
- Virginia Parents Outraged After Walmart Security Allegedly Suspected Father Of Kidnapping Biracial Daughters—"Well, the customer was concerned because they saw the children with your husband and he didn't think that they fit."
- Ann Coulter Decries "Ethnic Composition" Of Today's US Immigrants
- Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio Racially Profiled Latinos, Federal Judge Rules
- Racist opera voicemail on WorldStar gets Papa John's employee fired
- Family: Michael Clarke Duncan's Grave Desecrated By Racists
- Teacher Fired For Using Word 'Negro' During Spanish Class—Hard to determine what really happened.
- Does the husband of Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein chair a company that brokers sales of USPS facilities?
- Sweet deals are business as usual in Florida government
- Bail bonds dispute surfaces in resignation fracas—"Brawley wrote to Tillis that the legislature had passed 'a bill giving a monopoly to the family of a Republican legislator.'"
