Wall Street
The protesters seeking to “occupy” the financial district in New York and other cities have been widely depicted in the media as having no coherent rationale for their protests. In fact, though, these protesters have chosen the right target: a set of institutions and actors who not only played a...
10/11/2011
Publication
Over the past few weeks, President Obama has at last "pivoted," in the widely used term, from emphasizing deficit reduction to focusing on jobs and taxation of millionaires. Spontaneous protest has done what the organized left failed to do; it has made Wall Street the appropriate target of diffuse...
10/10/2011
News/Resource
Pop quiz: What’s so bad about the financialization of the U.S. economy over recent decades?
If you’re like most people who are uneasy with the outsized power of finance, chances are you can’t boil down your concerns to a pithy sound bite. So why is there such ridicule of the protesters “occupying”...
10/05/2011
News/Resource
Comments to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Regarding
Defining Larger Participants in Certain Markets for Consumer Financial Products and Services Markets [Docket N. CFPB-HQ-2011-2]
From Demos
Demos welcomes the opportunity to respond to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's Notice...
09/14/2011
Publication
Before tomorrow's 2012 pre-election speech in which President Obama's vocal elocution will be earnest, and results - to put it mildly - tepid, about about how he could create jobs dammit, if only the Republicans would behave, it's interesting to note who's supporting Obama keep his job.
A cursory...
09/07/2011
News/Resource
Here's some positive news out of Europe for a change: German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy called yesterday for a tax on financial trades. This isn't a new idea -- European leaders have pushed it before -- but a financial transaction tax (FTT) is a good idea that...
08/16/2011
Blog
Obama put[s] the U.S. government solidly back on the side of the middle class
Washington, DC — Today, President Obama signed the landmark Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010. The Director of Demos' Washington, DC Office, Heather C. McGhee, and Demos' Federal...
08/10/2011
Press Release
