A Short Citizen’s Guide to Reforming Wall Street

A Short Citizen’s Guide to Reforming Wall Street
The real scandal isn’t the Street’s unlawful acts (i.e., Securities and Exchange Commission vs. Goldman Sachs) but legal acts that have reaped the Street a bonanza and nearly sunk the rest of us. It’s good we finally have an SEC…


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The Return of Book Club!
I’m very happy to re-introduce regular book clubs to TPMCafe, one of my favorite features of the site. We’re kicking things off with a discussion on Supreme Power: Franklin Roosevelt vs. The Supreme Court by Jeff Shesol, a former…



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Mitch McConnell Gets it Wrong
CANDY CROWLEY (CNN, Sunday): The president says you are being deceptive in describing this bill. MCCONNELL: Well, Candy … there is a bailout fund in the bill that was reported out of the Banking Committee, the partisan bill that came…



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