What does Wall Street have to do with rising food prices? Amanda Starbuck, Research Director for Food and Water Watch, says that “swaps”, that is, bets on whether the price […]
Meet the Big Banks Funding the Climate Crisis
For today’s special Earth Day preview show, Thursday host Allen Ruff speaks with local activists Emily Park and Seth Jensen from 350 Wisconsin about the recent “Banking on Climate Chaos” […]
NYSE/IEC works to financialize the Ecosystem for $1000 Trillion
Wall Street, and the newly formed Intrinsic Exchange Group (IEC), is working hard to financialize the ecosystem. Randy Wray, Professor of Economics at Bard College and Co-editor of the Journal […]
Wall street contributed $2.9B to 2020 elections
Wall Street spent at least $2.9 billion on the 2020 elections, equating to $4 million a day, and a billion dollars more than the 2016 elections. Carter Dougherty, Communications Director […]
GameStop and speculative trading on Wall Street — a solution?
Speculative trading has taken over Wall Street, with 85% of trades in investments with no basis in a company’s worth or potential — case in point with the recent rise […]
Hanwood on the proposed “Financial Transition Tax”
Jan interviews Doug Henwood, journalist, economist, and author of the book “Wall Street”, about proposal by some of the Democratic presidential contenders for a financial transaction tax, aimed to curb […]