Posts Tagged ‘Mary Bottari’

Trouble for BofA; Cash for Gaza?

(1) More bad news for Bank of America: Earlier this week Bloomberg and other outlets reported on the settlement that has BofA paying Fannie/Freddie $2.8 billion, “after the U.S.-owned firms demanded the company buy back mortgages they said were based on faulty data.”  This kind of news, along with WikiLeaks’ claim (which we’ve reported here ...Read more.

Arizona Injunction; Baker on CBO and SS

(1) Possibly Irrelevant Image for today: (2) Judge Blocks Az. Law S.B. 1070. Breaking news–U.S. District Court Judge Susan Bolton blocked key parts of Arizona’s restrictive and invasive immigration law, which was to go into effect in a couple of days. Here’s what the New York Times has to say: In a ruling on a ...Read more.

#OccupyBoston #OccupyWallStreet Alejandro Reuss Arjun Jayadev Arthur MacEwan ASSA austerity banking regulation Bank of America Boeing climate change David Graeber Dean Baker debt deficit deficits economics profession Egypt financial regulation foreclosures Gar Alperovitz Goldman Sachs Greece Hosni Mubarak inequality interest-rate swaps Jeannette Wicks-Lim John Miller Mark Engler Naked Capitalism Paul Krugman police brutality Polly Cleveland public-sector workers QE2 Rick Wolff Social Security taxes the Fed unemployment unions uprising Wikileaks William K. Black Wisconsin