Huffington Post logo Huffington Post 3 weeks ago

Ellen Brown: Goldman's Profits Come From Our Pockets: Why We Need a Tobin Tax

"The homeless in America have Goldman Sachs to thank for their homelessness and starvation right now. They took the money from their pockets, they put it in their bonuses for this year. . . . That's a financial terrorist crime." Full Article at Huffington Post

Related Topics:

Related Articles

  1. Friends, what have we learned this past week? Plenty. Pundits will tell you that Chris Christie won New Jersey's gubernatorial race and Jon Corzine lost it because there's a backlash against President Obama's agenda. Wrong. Full Article at Philadelphia Inquirer

  2. By Lynn Cowan The year's most widely anticipated new U.S. stock is scheduled to make its debut this week, with discount retailer Dollar General Corp. trading on the New York Stock Exchange Friday under the symbol DG.The company, which began in 1955 as... Full Article at Wall Street Journal

  3. NEW YORK - Dollar General is set to go public next week, but the discount retailer could see mixed results in its closely watched initial public offering as its private equity backers have valued the company richly. Full Article at International Business Times

  4. … one of Wall Street’s proudest and most prestigious firms helped create a market for junk mortgages, contributing to the economic morass that’s cost millions of Americans their jobs and their homes. Full Article at Columbia Journalism Review

Related Quotes

(What's this?)
  1. Are you a Publisher?

    We built Daylife.com using our SmartMedia Services platform, which can give you thousands of content-rich, advertiser-friendly pages (like this one) on any topic and with full editorial control. Learn More »

    Our Customers
  2. Our Products
    Daylife Select

    A point & click tool to create dynamic content portals. Learn More »

  3. Daylife API

    Unlimited smart, customizable content to suit any publisher. Learn More »

  4. Enterprise API

    Use the Daylife Platform to distribute content across your sites. Learn More »

  5. SmartContext

    Weave the web's best content into your own. Learn More »

Browse More Photos

Daylife is the web's largest archive of news photos

  1. File picture shows Galleon hedge fund partner Raj Rajaratnam (L) is escorted by FBI Special Agent B.J. Kang (R) after being taken into custody in New York October 16, 2009. B.J. Kang may be the most feared man on Wall Street.
  2. NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 30:  Photos are displayed during the FOEDUS USA Foundation's A Journey to La Dolce Vita at The Setai Wall Street on November 30, 2009 in New York City.
  3. NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 30:  Directors Donal Mosher and Michael Palmieri attend IFP's 19th Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards at Cipriani, Wall Street on November 30, 2009 in New York City.
  4. NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 30:  Actors Stanley Tucci and Natalie Portman attend IFP's 19th Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards at Cipriani, Wall Street on November 30, 2009 in New York City.
  5. NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 30: Director Jim Sheridan speaks onstage at IFP's 19th Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards at Cipriani, Wall Street on November 30, 2009 in New York City.
  6. NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 30:  Director Ry Russo-Young poses backstage at IFP's 19th Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards at Cipriani, Wall Street on November 30, 2009 in New York City.
  7. NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 18:  (L-R) Wall Street financier Steven Rattner and managing editor of Fortune Magazine Andy Serwer attend the FORTUNE Breakfast and Conversation with Steven Rattner at Time & Life Building on November 18, 2009 in New York City.
  8. A volunteer who would not give her name, serves Thanksgiving dinner at Salvation Army in New York Thursday Nov. 26, 2009.
  9. WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 16:  Activists protest in front of the DC office of Goldman Sachs November 16, 2009 in Washington, DC.

Cast of Characters