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Showing videos filed under: Banks
Sarah Ludwig: Foreclosure Fraud Continues
January 20, 2011"We need to shine a light on the big banks and all their different tentacles," says Sarah Ludwig of the Neighborhood Economic Development Advocacy Project, noting that all too many of the programs put in place to encourage banks to help homeowners fight foreclosure are voluntary, rendering them toothless. Instead, she calls for citizens to be aware of the banks' practices and to think about where we put our money.Sarah Ludwig, The Goldstone Report, and Obama's Op-Ed
January 19, 2011"We need to shine a light on the big banks and all their different tentacles," says Sarah Ludwig of the Neighborhood Economic Development Advocacy Project, noting that all too many of the programs put in place to encourage banks to help homeowners fight foreclosure are voluntary, rendering them toothless. Instead, she calls for citizens to be aware of the banks' practices and to think about where we put our money.The F Word: Obama's Deregulation Dance with Wall Street
January 19, 2011With a new Republican Congress falling all over itself to hand corporations whatever they want, it was only a matter of time before some politician turned up in the pages of the Wall Street Journal, breathlessly describing the “dazzling” and “path-breaking” nature of the free market, and vowing to get rid of regulations that have placed “unreasonable” burdens on businesses.Mike Papantonio: Teaching Obama to Fight Back
January 4, 2011President Obama needs to go after Republicans as aggressively as they go after him, notes Mike Papantonio, "not just for his presidency but for democracy." The new Congress gets sworn in this week, and Darrell Issa is already announcing his investigations, but Papantonio notes that Democrats still control the Senate and that they can still push back against Republican attacks.Mike Papantonio, Freeing the Scott Sisters, and Snow
January 3, 2011President Obama needs to go after Republicans as aggressively as they go after him, notes Mike Papantonio, "not just for his presidency but for democracy." The new Congress gets sworn in this week, and Darrell Issa is already announcing his investigations, but Papantonio notes that Democrats still control the Senate and that they can still push back against Republican attacks.Fighting Foreclosures: It Starts On Wall Street
December 17, 2010Wall Street is set to award $143 billion--with a B--in bonuses this year, while foreclosures continue unabated (and often undocumented) around the country. Protests are continuing around the country too, though, and Desiree Pilgrim-Hunter notes that when her family couldn't get a regulator to examine her family's foreclosure, "What we went to was a grassroots organization."Megan Carpentier, Fighting Foreclosure, and Bradley Manning
December 16, 2010Congress is passing tax cuts for the rich as well as everyone else this week, while Don't Ask Don't Tell is headed for a stand-alone vote in the Senate. Is gridlock over, or are these just issues that actually have some bipartisan support? Meanwhile, Julian Assange may be out on bail, but the debate over the charges against him still rages, and Megan Carpentier of TPM reminds us that it's possible for the arrest to be politically motivated and the charges still not be false.Rick Rowley, Rethink Afghanistan, Peter Bratsis & Harry Potter
December 15, 2010"NATO is losing the war in Afghanistan in every quantifiable way," says Rick Rowley of Big Noise Films, recently returned from a reporting trip to that country. And what's more, he notes, what's clear from the WikiLeaks cables is that the coalition governments are not as deluded as they would like their people to be about the reality on the ground in Afghanistan.The F Word: Harry Potter and the Bailed-Out Banks
December 15, 2010There's a new blockbuster out just in time for the holidays: Harry Potter and the Bailed-Out Banks. Here's a synopsis: While students in London spend hours in the cold protesting tuition fees that may soon triple, RBS, a bank that took a huge government bailout, throws a party commemorating one famous British student: Harry Potter. (Of course, Potter went to an exclusive private school.)Vince Warren, Hamid Dabashi, and the Crisis in Ireland
November 23, 2010The Republicans who will shortly be taking over the house after the recent elections have pledged to shrink the government and cut spending, but, Vince Warren notes, they seem to have no problem with "Big Government" when it's holding detainees indefinitely at Guantanamo Bay.
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