by Nancy Spannaus Sept. 27, 2017—In an approximately 50 minute webinar, held at AFL-CIO headquarters in Washington, D.C. Sept. 26, representatives of several citizen and labor groups launched a renewed mobilization for reinstituting Glass-Steagall banking separation. The webinar was jointly sponsored by Public Citizen, Americans for Financial Reform, and […]
This Fight Is Our Fight: The Battle to Save America’s Middle Class By Senator Elizabeth Warren, Henry Holt and Co., 2017, 321 pp. By Angela Vullo Aug. 29–In her newest book, This Fight is Our Fight, released in April of this year, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren tells her story of […]
“Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by an organized mob.”—Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1935 or 1936 Aug. 8, 2017—Wall Street speculators have taken two verbal hits this week. That’s all fine and good, but what’s lacking is effective action to protect the U.S. banking system from an […]
By Angela Vullo July 17, 2017–With federal and state budgets spiraling out of control, ever more desperate elected officials are totally befuddled as to how to pay for repairing and rebuilding the infrastructure which is collapsing all around them. The Trump administration has proposed privatization as the answer for fixing […]
June 16, 2017—Eighty-four years ago today, President Franklin Roosevelt capped off a marathon 100-day session of Congress with the signing of the Glass-Steagall Banking Bill. That bill, which was actively promoted by some powerful Wall Street bankers as well as the general public, was specifically aimed at providing for “the […]
June 12–Efforts to revive the American System today are being led by the campaign to reinstate FDR’s Glass-Steagall law. The LaRouche Political Action Committee began to agitate for this measure in the fall of 2008, and by 2010 the drive had become an active issue in the U.S. Congress, at […]
Dear President Trump: Breaking Up (Banks) Isn’t So Hard to Do: Glass-Steagall or Another Economic Meltdown? By Nomi Prins (The following open letter was issued June 8, 2017.) Donald, listen, whatever you’ve done so far, whatever you’ve messed up, there’s one thing you could do that would make up for a […]
By Nancy Spannaus May 10, 2021—On May 4, Nevada became the second state in 2021 to pass a resolution urging Congress to establish a National Infrastructure Bank (NIB) based on the time-tested principles used by America’s most successful presidents. As outlined in HR 6422 (116th Congress), Congress would create a […]
New Video Documentary Completes the Story By Nancy Spannaus May 2, 2021—The second part[1] of Hamilton advocate Marianne Als’s video documentary on the life of Alexander Hamilton (The “HamilStory”) is now available. Entitled “The Pragmatic Visionary: Foundations for the New Nation,” the hour-long video provides an in-depth picture of the […]
