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Occupy’s Banking Instincts

by WS Editors | Jul 15, 2012 | Economy

Occupy Wall Street is gone from Zuccotti Park and most public spaces, yet the protest movement that came to life last September is still alive, often working in small, focused groups. In May, I contacted Cathy O’Neil, who facilitates one of two OWS Alternative Banking groups that meet weekly in New York. “We just submitted an […]

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Legal Dislikes

by WS Editors | Jun 15, 2012 | Economy, Media

Equities analyst Barry Ritholtz wasn’t buying Facebook or its initial public offering. In a May 22 blog post, he described Mark Zuckerberg as an arrogant, 28-year-old man-child and said that the social network “went public more or less unlawfully over the past two years, allowing 1000s (or more) of outside investors to acquire substantial stakes […]

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Unliking Facebook: Investors Respond to Zuckerberg’s Failed IPO

by WS Editors | Jun 15, 2012 | Economy, Legal Affairs

“Any investor who can get shares of the Facebook IPO should purchase as many shares as possible.” That was Jim Cramer’s tout on his CNBC Mad Money program, which promises viewers “an in-depth look at Wall Street, stock, and the market.” It is Cramer’s good fortune that he is not legally responsible for the bullshit he […]

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Income’s Unnatural Unbalance

by Sasha Abramsky | Jun 1, 2012 | Books, Economy

…of incomes that Americans had long taken for granted as a happy fact of modern life was reversing itself.” Nearly 30 years after this trend began, income inequality in America was as large as at any point since the Great Crash of 1929, with the wealthiest 1 percent controlling nearly a quarter of the country’s […]

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Occupy Occupy?

by WS Editors | May 1, 2012 | Economy, Politics

There has been little media coverage of the tension between the Occupy Wall Street movement and the progressive institutions—such as MoveOn.org, the AFL-CIO, the United Auto Workers, SEIU, and Rebuild the Dream—that are working together as 99% Spring. Adbusters, the Vancouver-based anti-corporate collective that incited the September 2011 Occupy protest, warns that the movement is being […]

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