#OccupyWallStreet

Was November 17th's Day of Action Occupy Wall Street's Waterloo? Probably not, but it somewhat appeared to be. With stunted executions of protest goals and hundreds of arrests, what is next for the Occupy Wall Street movement? The protests prepared on Nov. 17 appeared to make for a critical day...

This week total US student loan debt exceeds total US credit card debt. Repeat, total STUDENT LOAN DEBT EXCEEDS TOTAL US CREDIT CARD DEBT. Now the savings rate has increased since this crisis began, so household debt has been decreasing. But, the cost of a four year education has continued to rise...

By Todd Gibson As the OWS movement trucks on, many folks are commenting that many of the protesters need to take a shower and get a haircut. I want to talk about haircuts. I don't have hair, or much of it, so haircuts are not a big deal. Get the razor, mirror, ten minutes it's done. However, these...

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...

Amid the discussions on the Internet regarding the Occupy Wall Street protests, it has not been uncommon to read some commenting on current events criticizing the protesters as being part of a so-called "entitlement generation". I think the use of the phrase "entitlement generation" to refer to...

Where the so-called 99% may be protesting across the nation in the Occupy Wall Street movement, who is left to represent the 1%? According to a Washington Post article by Elizabeth Flock, the 1% may have a new voice in the parodical "Occupy Occupy Wall Street" counter-protest. But where the...

Though I follow the national political debate quite closely, I don't normally write about it since, to be perfectly honest, it's thoroughly depressing to think about how difficult it will be for the nation to make sufficient reforms to the political system in order to effect meaningful improvements...

A short list of thoughts on Occupying Together and comments makes for an interesting scan: Mark Engler, Five Things That #OccupyWallStreet Has Done Right Micah Sifry, #OccupyWallStreet: There's Something Happening Here, Mr. Jones. Mike Konczal, Understanding the Theory Behind Occupy Wall Street's...

I am trying to wrap my head around the Occupy Wall Street protests that have been going on lately and popping up in several other cities. The people I follow on Twitter have generally belittled the rallies and the message (whatever it might be) behind them. There are no doubt a million different...

We Are the 99 Percent is fast becoming my favorite source of entertainment. While some the pictures are genuine, thought-out, well-spelled and touching, the majority are of spoiled brats with absolutely no concept of reality. Like this young lady. So, what do we have here? A 20 year old still at...

Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi talks to Keith Olberman about the Occupy Wall Street protest that appears to be gathering national attention at a blistering pace, not yet rising to Tea Party status in the eyes of the mainstream media, but possibly on its way to doing so. In Griftopia, Taibbi lamented...

The hacker group, ‘Anonymous' posted a video message for the corporate owned media today stating that they are planning a DDOS attack on October 10th, 2011 that will ‘erase the NYSE from the internet'.  Anonymous is fully supporting the ‘Occupy Wall Street' protests and believes that the...

 pic credit: Foxtongue via Flickr (Zombiewalk Vancouver, 2005) God, it just gets better, doesn't it? Sick of being branded as distracted dirty hippies with drums, the Occupy Wall Street kids have come up with a genius plan to really get folks to understand they are serious. And it involves fake...

Kids, we have a crisis on our hands. The Occupy Wall Street protesters are starving, and the only thing to feed them is, of course, vegan paninis and taqueria burritos. No joke, the "NY General Assembly" donation page (this is the name they've come up with for themselves, presumably), asks...

There's an interesting collection of pictures from the ever-expanding Occupy Wall Street protest over at The Atlantic (hat tip Patrick.net), one of my favorites shown below. With the mass arrest on Saturday, this story has really gained a lot of traction in just the last few days, a simple Google...