Occupy Wall Street

Reports indicate that around 75 protesters have been arrested on Thursday as the Occupy Wall Street movement carries out "non-violent direct action" in the streets of Manhattan. Members of the movement marched to the New York Stock Exchange today, and are also planning to "occupy the subways" and "...

By John Galt November 15, 2011 – 17:50 ET The drama in New York City is ignoring the real drama under way at the banksters under the Fed and the conflicts building cause in Europe as well as the Middle East. As I have warned the Islamist movement will push for a new ‘Caliphate' as happened today...

Mayor Bloomberg has evicted the Occupy Wall Street protesters who had been encamped in Zuccotti park for the last two months. Around 70 people were arrested early on Tuesday morning as police swept through the encampment. "The law that created Zuccotti Park required that it be open for the public...

NPR's Morning Edition on Friday featured an interesting segment from Mara Liasson on the widening income gap in America. It appears that the issue of income inequality is coming to the forefront of the contemporary American political discussion. A recent promotional advertisement on CNBC for a...

According to an article over at BusinessInsider, Paul Tudor Jones told an audience at the Memphis Daily's 125th anniversary celebration this week that in 3 or 4 years there could be a once in a generation buying opportunity if the government is forced to clean up its fiscal mess. The Memphis Daily...

We must, indeed, all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately. When I was a young boy, around eight years old, not much older than my son is now, I used to have these amazing day-long toy battles. I would spend my morning building vehicles out of Legos. I would gather up He-Man and...

There have been many egregious acts that have taken place throughout the history of the stock market – price manipulation, insider trading, ponzi schemes, securities fraud, etc., etc. It is hard to believe that in an industry with so much regulation and oversight such devious acts can occur....

“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” — Mahatma Gandhi I guess we're on stage three of the Gandhi plan for social justice. His name is Scott Olsen, but in reality, it could have been any of the thousands of protesters who have taken to public streets...

ATLANTA, Oct. 26, 2011, 3:20 p.m. - Occupy Atlanta's Tim Franzen today said that there have been two injuries to protesters, during last night's raid by Atlanta Police on a downtown park and he had a message for the city's mayor. Franzen, speaking to this reporter, a syndicated talk show host and...

Scott Olsen put his life on the line in Iraq to defend American freedoms. Today, he lies in a hospital bed after cops in Oakland fractured his skull. Olsen, a former Marine who did two tours in Iraq, is a member of Veterans for Peace and a peace activist. He is in serious but stable condition in...

Oakland is lucky that its citizens are more peaceful than its police force. I watched in horror Tuesday night and into Wednesday morning as the peaceful protest movement, Occupy Oakland, was overrun and brutally assaulted by wave after wave of police thugs. By the time the assault was over, dozens...

According to MarketWatch's Brett Arends, the Occupy Wall Street protests are doomed to fail. On the contrary, for a handful of reasons I think the underlying momentum behind the Occupy Wall Street protests suggests that the movement has no other direction than some measure of success. The power...

By EconMattersWall Street big banks, although not entirely responsible for the Great Recession, most experts agree that banks creating and partying in the subprime securitization mess is one of the major contributing events that broke the camel's back.The repeal of provisions in 1999 of the...

The Quest stands upon the edge of a knife. Stray but a little, and it will fail, to the ruin of all. Yet hope remains while the Company is true. -- Galadriel, Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring I was up late last night, thinking about something that Dylan Ratigan said on Benzinga Radio...

By Todd Gibson Occupy Wall Street turned 1 month old recently. What a difference a month makes. The movement went global this past weekend with OWS protests in many cities here in the US as well as abroad. What is the big deal? I'll try to answer that. The movement, recently, is being courted by...