Resources:
Blueprint for Accountability: The Wall Street-Washington Connection
Part I: The Crash
ARTICLES:
Bradley Keoun ; Phil Kuntz - Wall Street Aristocracy Got $1.2 Trillion in Secret
Loans
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-21/wall-street-aristocracy-got-1-2-trillion-infed-s-secret-loans.html
Provost, Mark - Why the Rich Love Unemployment
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/05/mark-provost-why-the-rich-loveunemployment.html
Baker, Dean - Disaster Not Averted
http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/89460/jobs-may-umemployment-second-greatdepression
Surowiecki, James – How Private Equity Firms Like Bain Capital Earn Profits
http://www.newyorker.com/talk/financial/2012/01/30/120130ta_talk_surowiecki
Morgenson, Gretchen - U.S. Has Binged. Soon It’ll Be Time to Pay the Tab
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/29/business/economy/29gret.html?pagewanted=all
Krugman, Paul - Confronting the Malefactors
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/07/opinion/krugman-confronting-themalefactors.html?smid=fb-nytimes&WT.mc_id=OP-SM-E-FB-SM-LIN-CTM-100711NYT-NA&WT.mc_ev=click
Editorial - The Numbers Are Grim
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/31/opinion/31tue1.html
Krugman, Paul - Against Learned Helplessness <<GOVT INACTION>>
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/30/opinion/30krugman.html?scp=21&sq=economic%2
0recovery&st=cse
Eisinger, Jesse - In HBO’s ‘Too Big to Fail,’ the Heroes Are Really Zeroes
http://www.propublica.org/article/in-hbos-too-big-to-fail-the-heroes-are-really-zeroes
Eisinger, Jesse; Bernstein, Jake - The Wall Street Money Machine
http://www.propublica.org/series/the-wall-street-money-machine
Taibbi, Matt - Looting Main Street
Resources:
Blueprint for Accountability: The Wall Street-Washington Connection
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/looting-main-street-20100331
Taibbi, Matt - The Great American Bubble Machine
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-great-american-bubble-machine20100405
Gandel, Stephen - Number of Problem Banks in America Nears 1,000:
http://curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com/2011/03/29/number-of-problem-banks-in-americanears-1000/
Cohan, William D. - Goldman’s Alpha War
http://www.vanityfair.com/business/features/2011/05/goldman-sachs201105?currentPage=all
Lewis, Michael - The Man Who Crashed the World
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2009/08/aig200908
Indiviglio, Daniel - U.S. Incomes Remain Stagnant as Inflation Rises:
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/05/us-incomes-remain-stagnant-asinflation-rises/239568/
FDIC: List of Failed Banks:
http://www.fdic.gov/bank/individual/failed/banklist.html
BOOKS:
Morris, Charles R. – The Two Trillion Dollar Meltdown
http://www.amazon.com/Two-Trillion-Dollar-MeltdownRollers/dp/B002CMLQVQ/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1326994289&sr=1-1
Taibbi, Matt – Griftopia – Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con
that is Breaking America
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=131106798
Komisar, Lucy - Citigroup: A History and Culture of Tax Evasion
http://www.taxjustice.net/cms/upload/pdf/Citigroup__a_culture_and_history_of_tax_evasion.pdf
Warren, Elizabeth - The Fragile Middle Class
http://www.amazon.com/Fragile-Middle-Class-AmericansDebt/dp/0300091710/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_6
Resources:
Blueprint for Accountability: The Wall Street-Washington Connection
Sachs, Jeffrey - The Price of Civilization: Reawakening American Virtue and
Prosperity
http://www.amazon.com/Price-Civilization-Reawakening-AmericanProsperity/dp/140006841X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1326991781&sr=1-1
Johnson, Simon; Kwak, James – 13 Bankers – The Wallstreet Takeover and the
Next Financial Meltdown
http://www.amazon.com/13-Bankers-Takeover-FinancialMeltdown/dp/030747660X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1326994322&sr=1-1
Suskind, Ron – Confidence Men
http://www.amazon.com/Confidence-Men-Washington-EducationPresident/dp/0061429252/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1326994345&sr=1-1
Lewis, Michael – Panic! The Story of Modern Financial Insanity
http://www.amazon.com/Panic-Story-Modern-FinancialInsanity/dp/B004H8GMG2/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1326994370&sr=1-1
Lewis, Michael – Boomerang – Travels in the New Third World
http://www.amazon.com/Boomerang-Travels-New-ThirdWorld/dp/0393081818/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1326994399&sr=1-1
Bishop, Matthew; Green, Michael – Philanthro-capitalism – How the Rich Can Save
the World
http://www.amazon.com/Philanthrocapitalism-How-Rich-SaveWorld/dp/1408111527/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1326994428&sr=1-2
Stiglitz, Joseph E. – Globalization and its Discontents
http://www.amazon.com/Globalization-Its-Discontents-JosephStiglitz/dp/0393324397/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1326994460&sr=1-1
Thill, Scott - Employment Rockets! In the Unpaid Internship Sector:
http://www.alternet.org/economy/151029/employment_rockets!_in_the_unpaid_internshi
p_sector/
Schechter, Danny - Too Big to Jail:
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/05/24-0
VIDEO/AUDIO:
Charlie Rose - Charles Ferguson interview
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2010/11/charles-ferguson-inside-job-on-charlie-rose/
Resources:
Blueprint for Accountability: The Wall Street-Washington Connection
Ratigan Rants How Banks Reamed You Made Simple Will Make You Rise Up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgopuzlBvJY&feature=related
Dylan Ratigan-Eliot Spitzer on Wall Street Problems
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRRYgZ6XqBA
Wall Street’s History of Fraud & Dishonesty; The Path to Economic Destruction
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5xtpsr40bQ
Shahien Nasiripour On 'Democracy Now!'
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-tv/shahien-nasiripour-democracynow_b_863567.html
Gretchen Morgenson: How 'Reckless' Greed Contributed To Financial Crisis:
http://www.npr.org/2011/05/24/136496032/how-reckless-greed-contributed-to-financialcrisis?sc=fb&cc=fp
How Some Made Millions Betting Against The Market:
http://www.npr.org/2011/05/02/135846486/how-some-made-millions-betting-againstthe-market?ps=rs
PBS - Inside the Meltdown Interviews Index
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/meltdown/interviews/
PBS - Inside the Meltdown Timeline:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/meltdown/cron/
PBS - Terrifying Days, Astonishing Moments
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/meltdown/themes/worstmoment.html
PBS - Roots of the Crisis
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/meltdown/themes/howwegothere.html
PBS Frontline: Greenspan’s Legacy?:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/meltdown/themes/greenspan.html
PBS - The Bear Stearns Rescue
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/meltdown/themes/bear.html
PBS - Letting Lehman Go
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/meltdown/themes/lehman.html
Resources:
Blueprint for Accountability: The Wall Street-Washington Connection
PBS - They Couldn’t Let AIG Fail
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/meltdown/themes/aig.html
PBS - The Fannie and Freddie Takeover
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/meltdown/themes/fannie.html
Bartlett, Donald L.; Steele, James B. - The Betrayal of the American Dream
http://americawhatwentwrong.org/stories/web-chat-barlett-and-steele-about-corporatetax-ra/
Fora.tv - Krugman on Jobs: New Grads Will Bear Scars of Crisis
http://fora.tv/2011/03/29/92Y_Paul_Krugman#Krugman_on_Jobs_New_Grads_Will_Be
ar_Scars_of_Crisis
FILMS/MOVIES:
Tyldum, Morten - Margin Call
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005FITIGO?ie=UTF8&tag=smbeijing20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B005FITIGO
Too Big to Fail
http://www.amazon.com/Too-Big-Fail-PaulGiamatti/dp/B004EPYZDA/ref=sr_1_1?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1339687904&sr=11&keywords=too+big+to+fail
Sington, David - The Flaw
http://www.amazon.com/The-Flaw/dp/B007OV37M6/ref=sr_1_1?s=moviestv&ie=UTF8&qid=1339688092&sr=1-1&keywords=the+flaw
Kirk, Michael - Breaking the Bank
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/breakingthebank/view/
Ferguson, Charles - Inside Job
http://www.amazon.com/Inside-Job-MattDamon/dp/B0041KKYBA/ref=sr_1_1?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1339688332&sr=11&keywords=inside+job
Moore, Michael – Capitalism: A Love Story
http://www.amazon.com/Capitalism-Love-Story-MichaelMoore/dp/B0030Y11XS/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1339692119&sr=82&keywords=capitalism%3A+a+love+story
Resources:
Blueprint for Accountability: The Wall Street-Washington Connection
PART II: MORTGAGE CRISIS
ARTICLES:
Pal, Neeta - Foreclosure Dispatches: Views From Around the Country
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/neeta-pal/foreclosurecrisis_b_1276155.html?ref=business&ir=Business
Beckett, Louis- Homeowners Who Negotiate Debt Relief Could Soon Face Massive
Tax Bill
http://www.propublica.org/article/homeowners-who-negotiate-debt-relief-could-soonface-massive-tax-bill
Christie, Les - Bankruptcy can save your house from foreclosure
http://money.cnn.com/2010/07/21/real_estate/bankruptcy_and_foreclosure/index.htm
Nasiripour, Shahien - Big Banks Save Billions As Homeowners Suffer, Internal
Federal Report By CFPB Finds
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/28/big-banks-save-billions-homeownerssuffer_n_841712.html
Gordon, Greg - How Goldman secretly bet on the U.S. housing crash
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2009/11/01/77791/how-goldman-secretly-bet-on-the.html
Hall, Kevin G. - Mortgage modifications are still messed up, 4 years later
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/09/29/125642/mortgage-modifications-arestill.html#ixzz1ZNAJVB00
Smith, Yves - The Top 12 Reasons Why You Should Hate the Mortgage Settlement
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/yves-smith/mortgage-settlement_b_1264806.html
Levine, D.M. - In DocX Case, Robo-Signing Forgery Charge Hits Top Executive
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/07/robo-signing-docx-missouri_n_1261369.html
Berlin, Loren - National Mortgage Settlement Doesn't Protect Against Future Fraud
Charges, Banks Fear
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/07/national-mortgage-settlementbanks_n_1259677.html
Shapiro, Lila - Latest Home Sale Prices Show Downward Spiral With 'No Relief In
Sight'
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/31/latest-home-sale-prices-s_n_869094.html
Resources:
Blueprint for Accountability: The Wall Street-Washington Connection
Barofsky, Neil [Former Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program
(TARP)] - Foreclosure Crisis Lessons Not Yet Learned
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/neil-barofsky/foreclosures-mortgage-crisis_b_995922.html
Obama names GE chief Jeffrey Immelt to head economic recovery advisory panel
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jan/22/business/la-fi-obama-immelt-20110122
Protess, Ben - Leader of Big Mortgage Lender Guilty of $2.9 Billion Fraud
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/20/business/20fraud.html?_r=1&ref=business
Davidson, Adam - The Banker Who Predicted Mortgage, Credit Crises
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89123972
Stiglitz, Joseph E. - Justice for Some
http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/stiglitz131/English
ProPublica - The CDO Daisy Chain
http://www.propublica.org/special/the-cdo-daisy-chain
Schmidt, Krista; Eisinger, Jesse; Bernstein, Jake - A Bank’s Best Customer: Its Own
CDOs
http://www.propublica.org/special/a-banks-best-customer-its-own-cdos
Eisinger, Jesse; Arnold, Chris - Freddie Mac Bets Against American Homeowners
http://www.propublica.org/article/freddy-mac-mortgage-eisinger-arnold
Eisinger, Jesse - Senators Slam Freddie on Bets Against Homeowners
http://www.propublica.org/article/senators-slam-freddie-on-bets-against-homeowners
Kiel, Paul - Even After Mortgage Modification, Shoddy Bank Practices Hurt
Homeowners
http://www.propublica.org/article/even-after-mortgage-modification-shoddy-bankpractices-continue-to-hurthom?utm_source=socmed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=tweet2&utm_campaign=
loan%2Bmods
Kiel, Paul - Secret Docs Show Foreclosure Watchdog Doesn’t Bark or Bite
http://www.propublica.org/article/secret-docs-on-foreclosure-watchdog
Kiel, Paul - Better Late Than Never? Gov’t Finally Penalizes Major Banks for
Mortgage Mod Failures:
Resources:
Blueprint for Accountability: The Wall Street-Washington Connection
http://www.propublica.org/article/govt-finally-penalizes-major-banks-for-mortgage-modfailures?utm_source=socmed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=tweet1&utm_campai
gn=loan%2Bmods
Kiel, Paul - Government Vows to Curb Banks’ Foreclosure Practices, But
Enforcement Still a Question Mark:
http://www.propublica.org/article/government-vows-to-curb-banks-foreclosure-practicesbut-enforcement-still-a
Eisinger, Jesse - In Proposed Mortgage Fraud Settlement, a Gift to Big Banks
http://www.propublica.org/thetrade/item/in-proposed-mortgage-fraud-settlement-a-giftto-big-banks/
Pierce, Olga; Kiel, Paul - By the Numbers: A Revealing Look at the Mortgage Mod
Meltdown: http://www.propublica.org/article/by-the-numbers-a-revealing-look-at-themortgage-mod-meltdown
Foreclosure Crisis: The Story So Far
http://www.propublica.org/article/foreclosure-crisis-the-story-so-far
Eisinger, Jesse; Arnold, Chris - Freddie Mac Bets Against American Homeowners
http://www.propublica.org/article/freddy-mac-mortgage-eisinger-arnold
Taibbi, Matt - A Victory for the Public on Foreclosures?
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/a-big-change-on-the-foreclosurefront-20120128
Pajer-Rogers, Ian - Sweetheart Deal: White House poised to let big banks off easy
for foreclosure crimes
http://www.newbottomline.com/sweetheart_deal_white_house_poised_to_let_big_banks
_off_easy_for_foreclosure_crimes
Hall, Kevin - How Moody's sold its ratings - and sold out investors
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2009/10/18/77244/how-moodys-sold-its-ratings-and.html
Smith, Yves – Top 12 Things Wrong With the Mortgage Settlement
http://www.alternet.org/story/154090/top_12_things_wrong_with_the_mortgage_settlem
ent/
Protess, Ben - Leader of Big Mortgage Lender Guilty of $2.9 Billion Fraud
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/20/business/20fraud.html?_r=1&ref=business
Resources:
Blueprint for Accountability: The Wall Street-Washington Connection
Ratigan, Dylan and Spitzer, Eliot – On The Mortgage Settlement: There is No
Political Solution to a Math Problem
http://www.dylanratigan.com/2012/02/10/on-the-mortgage-settlement-there-is-nopolitical-solution-to-a-math-problem/
Gongloff, Mark – Seven and a Half Things to Know: Income Gap, Whining Wall
Street, Charlie Bit the Interwebs
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/10/seven-and-a-half-things-you-need-toknow_n_1267736.html?ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false - h
Lewis, Michael - Betting on the Blind Side
http://www.vanityfair.com/business/features/2010/04/wall-street-excerpt-201004
O’Keeffe Suzanne - The Great Swindle: How to Stomach Knowing the Banks Are
Stealing a Nation's Worth of Homes, One Home at a Time
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/suzanne-okeeffe/bertha-herreraforeclosure_b_1309170.html?view=print&comm_ref=false
Goodman, Peter S. - Mortgage Settlement Deal Confronts Legacy of Obama
Foreclosure Failure
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-s-goodman/foreclosure-settlement_b_1325356.html
Bradford, Harry - America's Foreclosure Ghost Towns:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/13/americas-foreclosure-ghosttowns_n_848715.html
VIDEO:
The Brennan Center - Fighting Foreclosure: Louise Golden
http://vimeo.com/30686178
Rachel Maddow Interview with NY AG Eric Schneiderman
http://stopforeclosurefraud.com/2012/01/28/rachel-maddow-interview-with-ny-ag-ericschneiderman/
2nd Rachel Maddow Interview with NY AG Eric Schneiderman
http://video.msnbc.msn.com/the-rachel-maddow-show/46335427#null
Kiel, Paul – Will Mortgage Settlement Avoid Repeating Obama’s Foreclosure
Failures
Resources:
Blueprint for Accountability: The Wall Street-Washington Connection
http://www.propublica.org/article/will-mortgage-settlement-learn-from-obamasforeclosure-failures
Bet Against the American Dream: http://www.propublica.org/article/video-bet-againstthe-american-dream
50 State, $25 Billion Mortgage Settlement: Relief for Struggling Homeowners or
Bailout for Big Banks?
http://www.democracynow.org/2012/2/10/50_state_25b_mortgage_settlement_relief
PART III: WASHINGTON
ARTICLES:
Moyers, Bill; Winship, Michael - The Washington-Wall Street Revolving Door Keeps
Spinning
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-moyers/the-washington-wall-stree_b_1228432.html
Nasiripour, Shahien - New York Attorney General Kicked Off Government Group
Leading Foreclosure Probe
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/23/new-york-attorney-general-ericschneiderman_n_934517.html
Sanders, Bernie End Tax Breaks for Profitable Corporations
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rep-bernie-sanders/end-tax-breaks-forprofit_b_841173.html
White, Jane - Mad About the Deficit? Blame Corporate Welfare
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/janewhite/post_1933_b_848605.html#s264002&title=Mad_About_the
Igan, Deniz; Mishra, Prachi - Making Friends:
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2011/06/Igan.htm
Greco, Emily Schwartz - When IPS and the Heritage Foundation Agree that
Something's a Bad Idea, It Probably Does Stink:
http://www.ips-dc.org/blog/ips_heritage_agree_tax_holiday_idea_stinks#nc
Weidner, David - Banks got ‘direct corporate welfare,’ study says
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/banks-got-direct-corporate-welfare-study-says-201104-26?reflink=MW_news_stmp
Resources:
Blueprint for Accountability: The Wall Street-Washington Connection
Gilson, Dave - Only Little People Pay Taxes
http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/04/taxes-richest-americans-charts-graph
Judis, John B. - Tim Geithner: Why He’s Hurting the Economy and Obama
http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/89627/tim-geithner-debt-deficit
Lizza, Ryan – The Obama Memos
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/01/30/120130fa_fact_lizza?currentPage=all
Leonhardt, David - The Economy Is Wavering. Does Washington Notice?
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/27/business/economy/27leonhardt.html
Story, Louise - Still Writing, Regulators Delay Rules
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/16/business/16derivatives.html?hp
Confessore, Nicholas - Obama Seeks to Win Back Wall St. Cash
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/13/us/politics/13donor.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all
Pressler, Jessica - New York Magazine: 94 Minutes With Neil Barofsky
http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/encounter/63395/
Gerstein, Josh - Obama: Economic recovery must 'accelerate'
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0611/56416.html#ixzz1Oboz5w3v
Associated Press - Obama Ignored on Banks, Book Says
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0911/63657.html
Eisinger, Jesse - At a Time of Needed Financial Overhaul, a Leadership Vacuum:
http://www.propublica.org/thetrade/item/at-a-time-of-needed-financial-overhaul-aleadership-vacuum/
Eisinger, Jesse; Bernstein, Jake - From Dodd-Frank to Dud: How Financial Reform
May Be Going Wrong
http://www.propublica.org/article/from-dodd-frank-to-dud
Lois Beckett - SEC Proposes Ban on Magnetar-Like Deals:
http://www.propublica.org/blog/item/sec-proposes-ban-on-magnetar-like-deals
Eisinger, Jesse - More Power Over Wall Street, but Little Chance to Discuss It
http://www.propublica.org/thetrade/item/more-power-over-wall-street-but-little-chanceto-discuss-it/
Resources:
Blueprint for Accountability: The Wall Street-Washington Connection
Krugman, Paul - Shoulda Coulda Woulda
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/30/shoulda-coulda-woulda/
Mason, Jeff - Obama urges companies to hire, studies housing moves:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/12/us-obama-economyidUSTRE74B2KZ20110512
Drawbaugh, Kevin - Senate panel slams Goldman in scathing crisis report:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/13/us-financial-regulation-reportidUSTRE73C8JR20110413
Taibbi, Matt - Is the SEC Covering Up Wall Street Crimes?
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/is-the-sec-covering-up-wall-street-crimes20110817?print=true
Taibbi, Matt - Is Obama's 'Economic Populism' for Real?
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/is-obamas-economic-populism-forreal-20120126
National People’s Action - The $41 Million Question
http://showdowninamerica.org/files/WallStreet-SuperCommittee_Sept2011.pdf
Spitzer, Eliot - Stop Apologizing for the Stimulus
http://www.slate.com/id/2296359/?from=rss
Greenwald, Glenn - Eric Schneiderman vs. Wall Street and its political servants:
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/05/20/schneiderman/index.h
tml
Taibbi, Matt - The People vs Goldman Sachs
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-people-vs-goldman-sachs20110511?print=true&
Gandel, Stephen - Former TARP Official on TARP: A Big Fat Failure, Mostly:
http://curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com/2011/03/30/former-tarp-official-on-tarp-a-big-fatfailure-mostly/
Lowrey, Annie - Can I Get a Receipt for That? <<On how tax $ spent>>
http://www.slate.com/id/2291406/
Drutman, Lee - The Political One Percent of the One Percent
http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2011/12/13/the-political-one-percent-of-the-onepercent/
Resources:
Blueprint for Accountability: The Wall Street-Washington Connection
Garofalo, Pat - Banks Successfully Lobbied for Weaker Bailout Repayment Rules
so They Could Pay Bonuses
http://www.truth-out.org/banks-successfully-lobbied-weaker-bailout-repayment-rules-sothey-could-pay-bonuses/1317402018
Ludwig, Mike - Wall Street Donated $41 Million to Supercommittee Members:
http://www.truth-out.org/wall-street-donated-41-million-supercommitteemembers/1317066056
Maltby, Emily; Loten, Angus - Tale of Two Loan Programs: U.S. Funds Targeted for
Small Business Instead Used by Banks to Repay TARP
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204138204576603100469929700.html
Ohlemacher, Stephen - For richest, federal taxes have gone down; for some in
U.S., they’re nonexistent:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/for-richest-federal-taxes-have-gone-down-forsome-in-us-theyre-nonexistent/2011/04/17/AFx6LCwD_story.html?wpisrc=xs_sl_0001
Brady, Dennis - Neil Barofsky, TARP's outspoken overseer, will resign:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wpdyn/content/article/2011/02/14/AR2011021406089.html
McDermid, Brendan - Goldman Sachs misled Congress after duping clients,
Senate panel chairman says:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/goldman-sachs-misled-clientslawmakers-on-cdos-senate-panelsays/2011/04/13/AFhEv8ZD_story.html?fb_ref=NetworkNews
Bartlett, Donald L.; Steele, James B. - How Banks, Government Fail Americans:
http://americawhatwentwrong.org/story/How-banks-government-fail/
Taibbi, Matt - US Politics is a Reality show run by the Wall Street:
http://www.thelibertyunderground.net/2011/05/us-politics-is-reality-show-run-bywall.html?utm_source=BP_recent
Sanders, Bernie - We To Have To Pass A Constitutional Amendment To End
Citizens United Ruling
http://www.thelibertyunderground.net/2011/05/bernie-sanders-we-to-have-to-pass.html
Spitzer to Eric Holder: Prosecute Goldman or Quit
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/04/spitzer-to-eric-holder-prosecute-goldman-orquit.html
Resources:
Blueprint for Accountability: The Wall Street-Washington Connection
Baram, Marcus - Government Sachs:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/02/government-sachsgoldmans_n_210561.html
Johnson, Dave - At The Deficit Table: Wingnuts, Wall Street & Wealthy But Not
Women & Working People:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dave-johnson/at-the-deficit-tablewing_b_866542.html?utm_source=web&utm_medium=twitter
Ferguson, Charles - The Financial Crisis and America's Political Duopoly (Charles
Ferguson):
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/charles-ferguson/the-financial-crisis-and_1_b_782927.html
Ivry, Bob - Fed Gave Banks Crisis Gains on $80 Billion Secretive Loans as Low as
0.01%:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-26/fed-gave-banks-crisis-gains-on-secretiveloans-as-low-as-0-01-.html
BOOKS:
Alternet.org – How The Occupy Movement is Changing America
https://www.alternet.org/alternetbooks/24/the_99%3A_how_the_occupy_wall_street_mo
vement_is_changing_america/
Suskind, Ron – Confidence Men
http://www.amazon.com/Confidence-Men-Washington-EducationPresident/dp/0061429252/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1326994345&sr=1-1
Lessig, Lawrence – Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress – and a Plan to
Stop It
http://www.amazon.com/Republic-Lost-Money-Corrupts-Congress-/dp/0446576433/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1328296793&sr=8-1
NBER: A Fistfull of Dollars: Lobbying and the Financial Crisis:
http://www.nber.org/papers/w17076
Perkins, John - Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oARBdBtGenM
Resources:
Blueprint for Accountability: The Wall Street-Washington Connection
Perkins, John – The Secret History of the American Empire – Economic Hitmen,
Jackals, and the Truth about Global Corruption
http://www.amazon.com/Secret-History-American-EmpireEconomic/dp/0452289572/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1327005774&sr=8-1
Winship, Michael - Banks and Congress Grapple With Stubborn, Stupid Facts
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-winship/banks-and-congressgrappl_b_1326288.html?ref=business&ir=Business
Currier, Cora - 13 Reasons Goldman’s Quitting Exec May Have a Point
http://www.propublica.org/article/13-reasons-goldmans-quitting-exec-may-have-a-point
VIDEO:
Greenspan’s Legacy?
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/meltdown/themes/greenspan.html
Taibbi, Olbermann on the Banks' Power Over Washington and Rogue Trading
Scandals:
http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/667102/taibbi,_olbermann_on_the_banks
%27_power_over_washington_and_rogue_trading_scandals/
The Colbert Report - Eliot Spitzer:
http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/263255/february-02-2010/eliotspitzer?xrs=synd_facebook
Countdown with Keith Olberman - Statement Released By The Wall Street
Protesters
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8o3peQq79Q&feature=player_embedded
C-SPAN - Dennis Kucinich
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaF_MZVWM3E&feature=player_embedded
Dennis Kucinich: The Founders Did Not Intend For America to Be Run By Big
Banks and Wall Street:
http://current.com/news/93265505_dennis-kucinich-the-founders-did-not-intend-foramerica-to-be-run-by-big-banks-and-wall-street.htm
Resources:
Blueprint for Accountability: The Wall Street-Washington Connection
PART IV: ACCOUNTABILITY
ARTICLES:
Shishkin, Philip - FDIC Lawsuits Yielded Big Penalties, But Bankers Haven't Paid
Up
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/23/bankers-escape-penalties-fdiccases_n_1297183.html
Riley, Theresa - Bill Black on Financial Fraud Investigations
http://billmoyers.com/2012/02/06/bill-black-on-financial-fraud-investigations/
Krugman, Paul - Reagan Did It
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/01/opinion/01krugman.html
Matrens, Pam - Foreclosure Settlement: Just Another Link In a Long Chain of
Corruption
http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/02/10/foreclosure-settlement-just-another-link-in-along-chain-of-corruption/
Carbone, June - Why Do Dangerous Financial Criminals Roam Free?
http://www.alternet.org/economy/153997/why_do_dangerous_financial_criminals_roam
_free
TIME - 25 People to Blame for the Financial Crisis
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist/0,29569,1877351,00.html
Spitzer, Eliot - Eliot Spitzer: 5 Ways to Make Banks Pay for Their Secret $7 Trillion
Free Ride
http://www.alternet.org/economy/153291/eliot_spitzer:_5_ways_to_make_banks_pay_fo
r_their_secret_$7_trillion_free_ride/?page=entire
Lusardi, Schneider and Tufan - Nearly Half of Americans Are ‘Financially Fragile’
(PDF)
http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Files/Programs/ES/BPEA/2011_spring_bpea_papers
/2011_spring_bpea_conference_lusardi.pdf
Lofgren, Mike - Have the Super-Rich Seceded from the United States?
http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/01/05/have-the-super-rich-seceded-from-the-unitedstates/print
Reuters - Wall Street CEOS May Be Held Liable If Their Bank Breaks Volcker Rule
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/08/volcker-rule-wall-street-ceo_n_1001380.html
Resources:
Blueprint for Accountability: The Wall Street-Washington Connection
Nasiripour, Shahien - Judd Gregg Hired By Goldman Sachs As International
Advisor
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/27/judd-gregg-hired-by-goldm_n_868282.html
Spitzer, Eliot - Don't Let Goldman off the Hook
http://www.slate.com/id/2292070/
Lattman, Peter; Ahmed, Azam - Galleon’s Rajaratnam Found Guilty
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/05/11/rajaratnam-found-guilty/?hp
Story, Louise; Morgenson, Gretchen - As Wall St. Polices Itself, Prosecutors Use
Softer Approach:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/08/business/in-shift-federal-prosecutors-are-lenientas-companies-break-the-law.html?pagewanted=all
Lattman, Peter - A Star Panel Debates Financial Crisis Prosecutions
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/02/08/a-star-panel-debates-financial-crisisprosecutions/?src=recg
Davidson, Adam - The Banker Who Predicted Mortgage, Credit Crises
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89123972
Baram, Marcus - Volcker Rule Needs To Be Tougher, Former Citi Chair John Reed
Says
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/14/volcker-rule-citi-johnreed_n_1277168.html?ref=business
Levine, D.M. - Financial Regulation Of Derivatives Could Be Handled Like Drug
Approvals, Experts Say
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/14/financialregulation_n_1277326.html?ref=business
Eisinger, Jesse - For One Whistle-Blower, No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
http://www.propublica.org/thetrade/item/for-one-whistle-blower-no-good-deed-goesunpunished/?utm_source=socmed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=tweet6&utm_ca
mpaign=jesse
Sorkin, Andrew; Craig, Susanne - Goldman Receives Subpoena Over Financial
Crisis http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/06/02/goldman-receives-subpoena-overfinancial-crisis/?smid=tw-nytimes&seid=auto
Resources:
Blueprint for Accountability: The Wall Street-Washington Connection
Story, Louise; Morgenson, Gretchen - S.E.C. Case Stands Out Because It Stands
Alone http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/01/business/01prosecute.html?pagewanted=all
Morgenson, Gretchen - New York Investigates Banks’ Role in Financial Crisis
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/17/business/17bank.html?_r=1
Taibbi, Matt - Why Isn't Wall Street in Jail?
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/why-isnt-wall-street-in-jail-20110216
Taibbi, Matt - A Victory for the Public on Foreclosures?
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/a-big-change-on-the-foreclosurefront-20120128
Pajer-Rogers, Ian - Sweetheart Deal: White House poised to let big banks off easy
for foreclosure crimes
http://www.newbottomline.com/sweetheart_deal_white_house_poised_to_let_big_banks
_off_easy_for_foreclosure_crimes
Taibbi, Matt - Bank of America: Too Crooked to Fail
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/bank-of-america-too-crooked-to-fail20120314?print=true
Blackden, Richard - Goldman Sachs, Bank of America and Morgan Stanley face
New York investigation:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/8519650/GoldmanSachs-Bank-of-America-and-Morgan-Stanley-face-New-York-investigation.html
Currier, Cora - Ponying Up: How Much Have Big Banks Been Docked for the
Financial Crisis?
http://projects.propublica.org/tables/financial_settlements
Zeese, Kevin; Flowers, Margaret - Infiltration of Political Movements Is the Norm,
Not the Exception in the United States
http://www.truth-out.org/infiltration-political-movements-norm-not-exception-unitedstates/1331833946
Claessens, Stijn and Pazarbasioglu, Ceyla - Root Causes of Financial Crisis Remain
Unaddressed:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stijn-claessens/root-causes-of-financial-_b_833732.html
Wilmott, Paul - Bankers Can’t Avoid Risk by Hiding It:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-24/bankers-can-t-avoid-risk-by-hiding-it.html
Resources:
Blueprint for Accountability: The Wall Street-Washington Connection
Morgenson, Gretchen - In Financial Crisis, No Prosecutions of Top Figures:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/14/business/14prosecute.html
Angel, Amanda - New York women's panel looks at financial crisis from a female
perspective:
http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Oct08/WomenMoney.html
VIDEO:
Peabody Says Goldman Sachs Is Too Big to Prosecute:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/peabody-says-goldman-sachs-is-too-big-toprosecute/2011/06/02/AGFcuJHH_video.html
Ratigan Rants How Banks Reamed You Made Simple Will You Rise Up (With Eliot
Spitzer)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgopuzlBvJY&feature=related
Democracy Now! - Occupy the SEC: Former Wall Street Workers Defend Volcker
Rule Against Banks’ Anti-Regulatory Push
http://www.democracynow.org/2012/2/24/occupy_the_sec_former_wall_street
Leahy Comments On The Citizen's United Supreme Court Decision
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEzK2ekVFHk&feature=related
BarackObama.com: President Obama’s Message on the Debt Agreement
http://my.barackobama.com/page/m/55c11a7e/6c34d951/113447c77/1189c0cd/265775
2456/VEsE/
PART V: ON OCCUPY WALL STREET
ARTICLES:
Lessig, Lawrence - #OccupyWallSt, Then #OccupyKSt, Then #OccupyMainSt
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lawrence-lessig/occupywallst-thenoccupyk_b_995547.html
Amy Goodman - 99 Percenters Occupy Wall Street
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/99_percenters_occupy_wall_street_20110920/?ln
TJ Winnick - Occupy Wall Street Protesters: What Do They Want?
http://abcnews.go.com/US/occupy-wall-street-protesters-americans/story?id=14655263
Resources:
Blueprint for Accountability: The Wall Street-Washington Connection
Morgenson, Gretchen - Audit Uncovers Extensive Flaws in Foreclosures
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/16/business/california-audit-finds-broad-irregularitiesin-foreclosures.html?_r=1
VIDEO/AUDIO:
Interview: Professor Mark Naison about Occupy Wall Street:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrRj83BunNE&feature=share
Dale Mahridge’s Chronicles of Widely Ignored U.S. Working Poor Inspire Music of
Bruce Springsteen:
http://www.democracynow.org/2011/6/10/dale_mahridges_chronicles_of_widely_ignore
d
Naomi Klein: Protesters Are Seeking Change in the Streets Because It Won’t
Come From the Ballot Box:
http://www.democracynow.org/2011/10/6/naomi_klein_protesters_are_seeking_change