Follow Up: Fighting Bankification
Council member Gale Brewer's Upper West Side district could be called the ground zero of bankification. She joins us to talk about her efforts to devise solutions to the excessive proliferation of...
View ArticleNaughty Banks Create Nice Gift for New York
Call it a Merry Christmas for Governor Cuomo. The state has a more than $5 billion windfall from a slew of bank settlements this year. The money comes from BNP Paribas for violating sanctions with...
View ArticleAm I a good parent? Don’t ask me — or UBS
The bank’s advertisements pose a difficult question — one Lucy Kellway has avoided asking herself for 24 years
View ArticlePope for the Poor in a Rich Man's City
Author Gerald Posner has been investigating the Vatican Bank for years and says every time we get a new pope, we hear more or less the same story: claims of wanting to reform the church's finances.But...
View ArticleMTA Tries Blocking 'Political' Ads, But Some Get Away
If you were to conjure up an image of offensive advertising in the subway, you might think of the anti-Muslim ad campaign that the MTA fought so fiercely to keep off of its train platforms and out of...
View ArticleHoney, Let's Shrink the Banks
Since the financial crisis, the battle cry from many reformers has been "Break up the big banks!" Senator Elizabeth Warren has been at the forefront of the fight to shrink the mega-banks, saying we...
View ArticleSeattle Severs Ties With Wells Fargo Over Dakota Access Pipeline
Protesters in Seattle demonstrating against the Dakota Access Pipeline now have something to celebrate. Earlier this week, the Seattle City Council decided in a unanimous vote to cut ties with Wells...
View ArticleTenants to Banks: Stop Lending to Bad Landlords
After years of fighting landlords for better conditions, some tenants are setting their sights on a new target: the banks that lend to them.Dozens of tenants picketed outside Signature Bank's...
View ArticleComputer Talk, 'The Waldheim Waltz,' Sarah Smarsh's 'Heartland'
Dexter Filkins, a staff writer at The New Yorker joins us to discuss his new article, "Was There a Connection Between a Russian Bank and the Trump Campaign?" The article examines a series of mysterious...
View ArticleTrump-Russia Connection, Sarah Smarsh on US Poverty, Representing Incarceration
Dexter Filkins discusses his new article in The New Yorker, "Was There a Connection Between a Russian Bank and the Trump Campaign?" Ruth Beckermann talks about her new film, “The Waldheim Waltz.” Sarah...
View ArticleThe Politics of Bailing Out Banks
The latest economic news includes proposed government spending in Biden's federal budget proposal, and a run on a Big Tech bank that some argue needs government intervention. On Today's Show:Molly...
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