Coverage Roundup:

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50,000 of our petition signatures presented by Harry Reid via WSJ

Baseline Scenario

RortyBomb and here

News-Leader

Aspen Times

Democracy Now!

Fresh Air

Hickory Record

New York Times

Wall Street Journal

Bill Moyers w/ William Greider

AlterNet Editorial and this

The Real News

Naked Capitalism

The Nation

FireDogLake

Vermelho

Grit Tv on Firedog Lake

Buzz Flash

The Nation and this and this

Joe Trippi

Huffington Post

Huffington Post

Seeking Alpha

Yes Magazine

Tech President

Rural Votes

Matt Yglesias

Show Me Progress

Hullabaloo

D-Day

WireTap

The
Stranger

Progress Illinois

Open Left

BoingBoing

Lancaster Online

Jarrett House North

Institute of Southern Studies

After Downing Street

Instapundit

Common Dreams

Pacifica WPFK: What’s at Stake?

Knox Views

MetaFilter

Blue NC

The Common Progressive

Overclocked Drama

The Back Forty

Progressves Looking for Leadership on Public Affairs 2.0

Right Democrat

Left in The West

Baseline Scenario

Slog

Common Sense Forecaster Economics Blog

Left in the West

Beth’s Blog

David Isenberg

My DD

Tech President

Chekov’s Cherry Orchard

Racewire

Deal Magazine

Op-ed News

Rants and Raves

10 Upcoming Worst Decisions

No New Powers for the Fed, the Nation

More:

Rural Votes

HuffPo

SFGate

Alternet: Break Up with Your Bank and this

Daily Kos

Dollars and Sense

Consumerist

Huffington Post on Break up with your Bank

Move Your Money

Motley Fool

Break Up The Banks Family and ANWF Supporters

Please email tyc@anewwayforward.org to add your group.


We invite your group to join a committee to steer the course for breaking up the banks, all of whom believe that the major financial industry players have had far too much control over the response to the economic crisis that is destroying our communities.

We need to put people in the seat of power over the bankers. If we don’t address the way companies are allowed to grow so big that they can take down the country, we will lose the very battle that can also deliver us to a safer, stabler economy.

While each group has a different specific piece of legislative focus, we all share a belief that Wall Street power over government policy is far too great, and that we need to assert control over the large, insolvent companies that are currently being funded by taxpayer dollars.

Sponsors and Advisors

-Mike Lux, Open Left

-Jane Hamsher, FireDogLake

-David Sirota, Syndicated Columnist, Author

-Joe Trippi, Change Congress, co-founder

-Zephyr Teachout, Visiting Assistant Professor of Duke University, Dean Campaign

-Joe Costello, Energy, Communications, and Political Economy

-William Greider, “Come Home, America”, National Correspondent, The Nation

-Yves Smith, Economist, Naked Capitalism

-Clean Air, Fresh Politic’s Prosperity Agenda.Us

-Danny Schechter, Media Channel, News Dissector, The Crime of Our Time

Supporting Groups

-ANWF is a part of Americans for Financial Reform

-The Working Group on Extreme Inequality
-Institute for Policy Studies, Program on Inequality and Common Good
-Jerome Armstrong, MyDD
-Alternet
-AFSCME – Pittsburgh
-Rural Votes
-California Reinvestment Coalition
-New Paltz Women in Black
-Economic Justice Committee of New Paltz and Vicinity for Obama
-Portland Jobs with Justice
-David Dayen, D-Day, founder and Hullabaloo*, blogger
-David Swanson, After Downing Street
-Northeast Ohio American Friends Service Committee
-Cleveland Committee on Corporations, Law & Democracy
-Progressive Democrats of America
-Democrats.com
-Grassroots Change
-Public Accountability Initiative
-Liberty Tree
-The Voters
-Wake County Young Democrats
-New Haven Peace Council
-Consumers for Peace
-Billionaires for Bush
-BuzzFlash
-CODEPINK
-San Francisco Workers Emergency Recovery Campaign
-Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice
-FedUpUSA.org
-Common Security Club

-United for a Fair Economy
-David Donnelly, Public Campaign Action Fund*: “New Way Forward is visionary, simple, and important.”

From around the web:

Consumers Union and ANWF Letter on Regulation

Alternet spearheads an ANWF petition to be delivered to Congress

Matt Yglesias: Rallies are being planned… the moment of crisis seems like the only time when the political power of the financial sector can feasibly be overcome. If we say we’re going to deal with this later, after we’ve fixed the immediate problems, then attention is going to wander on to other things’

*Groups listed for identification purposes only

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LEARN MORE: Our Money and Economy 

BOOKS

1)Barry Lynn’s “Cornered: The New Monopoly Capitalism and the Economics of Destruction, the most important book on the hidden monopolies in our country and how they impact our democracy.

2)Neil Barofsky’s “Bailout: How Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street, the story of the mishandling of the $700 billion TARP bailout fund.

3)Lawrence Goodwyn’s “The Populist Moment: A Short History of the Agrarian Revolt in America,” one of the truly great works of American history and how to build a foundation for 20th century American political economy.

MELTDOWN CAUSES: Articles and Interviews

1. Finger of blame points to shadow banking’s implosion -Financial Times
2. Musings on Structural Challenges to the Financial System -Yves Smith
3. Hedge fund Manager Goodbye -Andrew Lahde
4. The End -Michael Lewis
5. Alan Greenspan and the Fed -William Greider
6. Bill Moyers and Kevin Phillips -video
7. Destructive Rise of Big Finance -Kevin Phillips
8. The Quiet Coup -Simon Johnson


"FINANCIAL INNOVATIONS"

1. Genesis of the Debt Disaster -Financial Times
2. Reforming Credit Default Swaps -Institutional Risk Analyst
3. AIG Bailout -Yves Smith
4. Mark to Model -Yves Smith


WHAT TO DO ABOUT THE BIG BANKS THAT FAIL?

1. Willem Buiter -FT
2. Thomas Hoening -Kansas City Federal Reserve
3. Joseph Stiglitz -Nobel Laureate
4. Nassim Taleb -FT
5. Dan Tarullo -Federal Reserve


ANTITRUST

1. Breaking up the Banks -Zephyr Teachout
2. Too Big to Fail is Too Big -Willem Buiter
3. Vigourous Antitrust -Christine Varney, Asst Atty General of DOJ, AT

REGULATION

1. Regulatory Capture -Thomas Frank
2. Making Regulation Work -Zephyr Taachout, Shawn Bayern

WHAT'S IT MEAN FOR THE ECONOMY?

1. Evolution or Revolution -Bill Gross
2. The Future of the American Dream -William Greider
3. Tom Geoghegan and William Greider on the Economy - audio
4. Andrew Bacevich Interview With Bill Moyers - video

 

 

 

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