Tag Archives: Wall Street

For Real Change, Build Relationships: Resilience Circles & Occupy Wall Street

“We take care of each other, and try to truly hear each other,” Travis Bonpietro says of Occupy DC. “In a way, it’s like a giant Resilience Circle!”

Video: We’re Not Broke, Just Twisted

Extreme Wealth Inequality in America Via inequality.org

Thoughts on Debt, by David Graeber

For thousands of years, the struggle between rich and poor has largely taken the form of conflicts between creditors and debtors

Session 2: Gambling With the Economy by Roger Lowenstein

April 20, 2010 WHILE the Securities and Exchange Commission’s allegations that Goldman Sachs defrauded clients is certainly big news, the case also raises a far broader issue that goes to the heart of how Wall Street has strayed from its intended mission. Wall Street’s purpose, you will recall, is to raise money for industry: to […]

On The Real Economy by Joe Beageant

Defenders of capitalism claim that there can be no real economy, no real material value created by the real people on Main Street, without the financing of Wall Street’s virtual economy.  Allegedly, they are so intertwined as to be the same thing, which they are, and that no other way of doings things is possible, […]