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Wells Fargo: Your Neighborhood Mega-Money Laundering, Drug War Profiteering, Prison-Industry Enlarging Bank

Posted on August 7, 2013 by The Soul Brother

By Andrew Gavin Marshall Just recently, in late July, Wells Fargo surpassed the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) as the world’s largest bank by market capitalization. This followed Wells Fargo reporting a 19% increase in profits over the … Continue reading →

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No recovery for the middle class

Posted on August 6, 2013 by The Soul Brother

By Anthony Mirhaydari The recovery is now officially in its fifth year. Sure, the stock market is back. And housing is getting off the floor. But for middle class Americans, the pressure is still on. This has been an uneven … Continue reading →

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The Payday Playbook: How High Cost Lenders Fight to Stay Legal

Posted on August 5, 2013 by The Soul Brother

By Paul Kiel As the Rev. Susan McCann stood outside a public library in Springfield, Mo., last year, she did her best to persuade passers-by to sign an initiative to ban high-cost payday loans. But it was difficult to keep … Continue reading →

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Our Economy Needs More Action, Fewer Words From Obama

Posted on July 25, 2013 by The Soul Brother

By Imara Jones Today in his home state of Illinois, President Obama returned to the topic that is Americans’ number one priority but where he’s struggled to make progress: the economy. With Black and Latino joblessness in double-digits and wealth … Continue reading →

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8 Stark Realities of America’s Dysfunctional New Economy

Posted on July 23, 2013 by The Soul Brother

By Steven Rosenfeld There’s a new normal in the American economy for vast slices of society and it’s discouragingly tough, despite all the cheerleading from the White House and economists that the country is in a slow but steady recovery. … Continue reading →

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SPENT

Posted on July 20, 2013 by The Soul Brother

Understand how being unemployed can endanger not just yourself but those you love. Understand how we need to raise the minimum wage. Living on a $9.00 the minimum wage  would still be extremely hard for families to survive but it … Continue reading →

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CNET Top 5 : reasons to go prepaid

Posted on July 20, 2013 by The Soul Brother
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Charles Koch on the Poor: Let Them Eat Economic Freedom

Posted on July 19, 2013 by The Soul Brother

By Leslie Savan Quit whining, American poor people and refugees from the middle class. You’re actually part of the 1 percent. That’s the laughably misleading claim in a new ad from right-wing multibillionaire Charles Koch. The $200,000 ad campaign, now … Continue reading →

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Is it possible to have morality in a free market?

Posted on July 18, 2013 by The Soul Brother

By Ali Velshi This speech was delivered yesterday at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, NY. Are the markets moral? Should we expect them to be? Moral according to whom? And if they’re not moral, are they immoral? Amoral? Or value-neutral? … Continue reading →

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Ivy Levan – Money

Posted on July 17, 2013 by The Soul Brother

Recently signed to Interscope Records, Ivy Levan is known for pushing the envelope. I dig her.

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