It would end corporate welfare for Wall Street megabanks, Senator Brown proclaims.
ONE by one, European leaders have lined up to hail the triumph of welfare over Wall Street.
But a combination of welfare for Wall Street and rapidly rising unemployment suggests a tough environment for those who insist that the world must not turn its back on free trade.
The stock and bond markets have been obsessed with Bernanke's statements for some time, worried that he will pull away the Fed's stimulus, which acts as welfare for Wall Street.
This pool would be a negative number were it not for trillions of dollars of taxpayer welfare for Wall Street.
Although Barack Obama would prove progressive on some issues, he would also embrace Clintonesque positions on trade, social welfare, and Wall Street.
While Democrats at the time savored his electoral strength, the major elements of his governing legacy -- welfare reform, Wall Street deregulation and tough-on-crime criminal justice policies -- were Republican priorities.
On many issues in the 1990s (from welfare to Wall Street regulation to trade issues), the new boss -- Clinton -- was the same as the old boss, and the results of being fooled still scar our economy today.
Before voting to confirm Bernanke, Whitehouse told HuffPost he wants to hear "[t]hat they're willing to take their eyes off an exclusive gaze on the welfare of Wall Street and start giving a red hot damn about the American public".
I cheered when he cut the pay and cancelled the bonuses of our new corporate welfare queens on Wall Street.
