Wall Street
Demos' Heather McGhee on TheRealNews: Regulations are full of exemptions and overly complicated; stronger reforms and public banking are needed.
01/06/2012
Video
NEW YORK, NY -- Demos applauds President Obama’s decision to use the Senate’s holiday recess to appoint Richard Cordray as Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). The following is a statement released by Tamara Draut, Vice President of Policy & Programs at Demos....
01/04/2012
Press Release
Thanks to a request by The New York Times, the Census Bureau released data indicating that 1 out of 3 Americans are either officially poor or near it. It turns out that over 51 million people fall in the category of near poor, meaning their income puts them between the official poverty line...
01/01/2012
Blog
Demos Senior Fellow Rich Benjamin sat down with FOX Business' David Asman to defend public outcry over run-away executive compensation.
12/15/2011
Video
Commentator and author Nomi Prins' work focuses on the bank bailouts and the economic crisis. Now she's turned her financial expertise into an historical novel set during the stock market crash of 1929. How do the class and power issues from the Depression relate to our current situation? What...
12/12/2011
Audio
During this event at The Strand bookstore in New York City, Demos Senior Fellow Nomi Prins was joined in discussion by journalist Matt Taibbi. They discussed Prins' new novel "Black Tuesday" and #OccupyWallStreet, among other topics. Demos' Rich Benjamin moderated the event, which was co-...
12/08/2011
Video
Truthout Interviews Whistleblower-Novelist Nomi Prins:
Mark Karlin: Given your expertise in understanding the corruption of Wall Street, what did you find in the practices of the financial world leading up to the 1929 crash that presaged the 2007 crisis?
Nomi Prins: Into the crash of 1929,...
11/17/2011
News/Resource
Demos' Heather McGhee goes on FOX News to defend Move Your Money Campaign and advocate holding the powerful banks accountable.
11/09/2011
Video
Michael Kazin, author of "American Dreamers: How The Left Changed A Nation," was joined by Occupy Wall Street organizer Kelly Heresy and C. Edwin Baker Fellow at Demos Rakim HD Brooks for a conversation on his book and the contemporary left. Demos President Miles Rapoport introduced the event that...
10/27/2011
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