Tag Archives: Wall Street

Good for Wall Street, Bad for You

Bank and investor control of candidates is not unheard of, it isn’t even unexpected anymore. Corruption and finances are a natural, if not ethical, partnership, and unchecked business lobbyists are allowed to run rampant in congress with zero consequence. When organizations like Goldman-Sachs are allowed to pay candidates millions of dollars to speak, or make […]

Uninsured America

The above image comes from a New York Times article analyzing the number of people in each county in the United States who lack health insurance. Before the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) was rolled out in 2013, nearly the entire map was dark blue because nearly 20% of all Americans lacked any kind of health […]

Wall Street vs Sanders

There is only one politician running for the nomination of either of the two main political parties who has any character at all. Independent Vermont senator Bernie Sanders, despite the fact that he is running as a “democratic socialist” in a country where “socialist” is a dirty word, is running for the Democratic nomination and […]

Too Little, Too Late

It seems like the Republican and Democratic candidates have caught the smell of change in the air. Suddenly, everyone from Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders to Jeb Bush and Donald Trump are talking about tax reform. They have clued in, maybe too late, that Americans are more than fed up with the state of our […]

Wall Street Loves Illegals

Thanks to Donald Trump, immigration has become a hot button issue in this election. Immigration is always a contentious problem in the United States, with legalities, economics, compassion, and, yes, some racism all coming together to make for very heated arguments. However, the debate has been ratcheted up to a new level of tension this […]

Martin Shkreli is not the problem

One of the biggest items in the news this week is the story of Martin Shkreli, the former hedge fund manager who started a pharmaceutical company, purchased the US marketing rights to a 62 year old life-saving drug called Daraprim, and then promptly raised the price from $13.50/pill to $750/pill. While Mr. Shkreli has been […]

Health Care Compromises

It is no secret that most people throughout our country are dissatisfied with the state of health care in America. Our health care system has been a mess for decades. We pay more for our health care system than any other country in the world, but Americans have worse health outcomes than nearly any other […]

Clinton Won’t Commit

Things have not been going well for Hillary Clinton’s campaign. New polls are showing that Americans do not have favorable opinions about Clinton, and her numbers seem to be dropping more and more with every passing week. In a development that must be particularly distressing for her campaign staffers, voters are overwhelmingly declaring that they […]

We Don’t Want a Dynasty

The national conventions for the Democratic and Republican parties may still be more than a year away, but the news media would have us believe that the nominees have already been selected. Pundit after pundit and columnist after columnist have declared that the 2016 Presidential election will be a titanic battle between two of America’s […]

Clinton cannot be trusted

Since she launched her presidential campaign a few weeks ago, Hillary Clinton has been trying to depict herself as a populist, fighting for the little guy. She has described herself as a “champion,” saying that she is going to fight for the rights of everyday Americans against the corporate interests of Wall Street. However, Hillary […]

What is outsourcing?

It has been decades now that Americans have been worried about outsourcing. Starting in the 1960s, American corporations began closing factories and plants in the United States and moving them elsewhere, costing untold millions of Americans their jobs. As a result of this practice, the American middle class has been collapsing in on itself – […]

Cutting Social Security

Last week, in a speech delivered on the campaign trail in New Hampshire, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie declared his intention to cut Social Security benefits across the board. He has received praise and accolades from wealthy conservatives who believe that Social Security is a waste of money and that this program, which millions of […]

Populist or Crony?

This past Sunday, Hillary Clinton officially launched her presidential campaign with a video claiming that she wants to be America’s “champion.” She has spent the week since then in Iowa, where she has been talking to liberal and Democratic groups. She has been making headlines with her so-called “populist” positions and policy statements – this […]

Political Dynasties

There is a very good chance that the 2016 Presidential Election ballot will look identical to the 1992 Presidential ballot. While right now, more than a year from the election, it is too early to say for certain who the nominees of the two mainstream parties will be, it seems likely that voters on November […]

Obama’s Budget

This week, President Obama introduced his budget plan for the next ten years. In this budget, the president created a wish list of government policies that sound too good to be true. The unfortunate fact is that these policies are too good to be true. They are simply another deception in the false Demo-Republican rivalry, […]

Un-American Activities

Following the financial crisis in 2008, the crisis that some called the second Great Depression, many pundits predicted that there would be new restrictions placed on the financial industry to prevent Wall Street from running our economy into the ground again. After all, with Congress’s repeal of the Glass-Steagal Act in 1999 under President Clinton, […]

Fiscal Priorities

Charity begins at home! It seems that the attorneys and career politicians in Washington have forgotten this simple truth. America gives away tens of billions of dollars in foreign aid every single year, with most of this money being invested in countries where the citizens hate America and would treasure the opportunity to kill Americans […]

Costs of Outsourcing

Judging by how rarely we hear about it these days, worrying about outsourcing seems to have gone out of fashion. Of course, there is a new crisis every week in America these days, and with massive riots, ISIS, and Ebola constantly dominating the headlines, it can be easy to forget the fundamental issues that have […]

Dysfunctional Government

On November 20, 2014, President Obama issued an historic executive order intended to provide relief to thousands of families who are struggling with our broken immigration system. Many Republican critics are declaring that the president’s executive order is unconstitutional and that they are going to do everything they can to counter this action when the […]

War on the Middle Class

Earlier this year, the New York Times broke some news that was difficult for many of us to swallow. For the first time since we began tracking such things, the American middle class lost its status as the world’s wealthiest and most well off. Many measures of our economy, such as growth in Gross Domestic […]

Voter Turnout

This week’s midterm elections were significant for several reasons. Voters throughout the country passed a large number of important ballot initiatives and the Republican party has firmly taken charge of Congress. However, by far the most significant (and the most distressing) news story to come out of this election is that the voter turnout across […]

Nonprofit Insurance

More and more, average Americans are struggling in their day to day lives. With the loss of good manufacturing jobs and Wall Street’s attack on working people, it is becoming increasingly difficult for many Americans to get by. In this environment, the insurance industry’s continued nickel and diming of the American people is becoming intolerable. […]

Over-Priced Utilities

Energy prices have never been higher in America than they are today. Energy costs for the average consumer have surged, nationwide. Most states are experiencing double digit price increases, even when inflation is taken into account. The only time in American history when energy costs have been nearly as high as they are now was […]