Month October 2011

Demands for the Occupy movement. My suggestions

Bring back Glass-Steagall. Its repeal, cheerfully ushered in by Bill Clinton, directly led to the current financial crisis because it lifted decades-long prohibitions against banks getting too big. Regulate the vast market in unregulated derivative trading. Better yet, ban it…

Quid pro quo

JP Morgan donates $4.6 million to NYPD NYPD arrests 700 protesting Wall Street How cozy is that?

Why Wall Street as a target?

“Pick a target and freeze it. The rats will crawl out to defend it. Then you’ll know who you’re really dealing with.” – Saul Alinsky The Occupy movement has certainly made class differences and sides abundantly clear, hasn’t it?