• About / Contact
  • Help Page
  • Archive
    • Daily
  • Blog View
  • Events Calendar
  • Featured Writers
  • Economy
    • Business & Tech
    • Economic Development
    • Pensions
    • State Budget
      • Tom Sgouros State Budget Series
    • Taxes
  • Elections
  • News
    • Rhode Island
    • National News
    • International News
    • State House
  • State Budget
    • Tom Sgouros Budget Series
  • Politics
    • Civil Rights / Liberties
    • Criminal Justice
    • Defense
    • Education
    • Environment
    • Health Care
    • Housing
    • Immigration
    • Labor
    • LGBT
    • Race & Racism
    • Women
    • Youth
  • Events
  • Multimedia
  • Log In
Browse: Home / banks

banks

Jack Reed takes it to the banks and their regulators

Jack Reed takes it to the banks and their regulators

By David Segal on April 15, 2013

There’s been a surprising dearth of coverage in the local press of Jack Reed’s exemplary work last week, as he stuck it to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) alongside Sherrod Brown and Elizabeth Warren.  Here’s a full transcript. Here’s the rub, from Dave Dayen at Salon: The vast majority of borrowers – [...]

Posted in Class Warfare, Economy, Featured, Housing | Tagged Banking, banks, jack reed, Wall Street | 4 Responses

Bank of America Protest: First PVD, Then NC

Bank of America Protest: First PVD, Then NC

By Bob Plain on May 7, 2012

After a protest in front of the downtown Bank of America building this afternoon at 5pm, about 15 Rhode Islanders are heading off to Charlotte North Carolina to join thousands of others from across the United States to protest at the bank’s annual shareholder’s meeting. Today’s action in downtown Providence in front of the Superman [...]

Posted in Economy, National News | Tagged bank of america, banks, charlotte, corporate greed, DARE, environmental justice league, Income Inequality, Rhode Island | 13 Responses

New Comments

  • leftyrite: “…if the payday lending companies in Rhode Island determine that they cannot sustain their...
  • DogDiesel: Lefty, It has to be the RI Future’s website. Several times over the past month I received a...
  • Nancy Green: The Bible is explicit about the sin of usury. There’s a lot the churches can do, now that the...
  • Johnnie: Safari told me recently that I have a parallel panel from RI Future being run in Herndon, Virginia –...
  • leftyrite: “Safari can’t verify the identity of the website “www.rifuture.org.” ;  You might...

Tag Cloud

38 Studios Abel Collins ALEC Angel Taveras Anthony Gemma Brendan Doherty budget CD1 Central Falls chafee christmas cicilline Civil Rights / Liberties Congress David Cicilline Democrats Economy Education Elections General Assembly Gina Raimondo gist Gordon Fox Income Inequality jon brien Labor lgbtq Marriage Equality Mitt Romney necap Netroots Nation Obama Occupy Movement pension projo Providence raimondo Republicans Rhode Island ride Sheldon Whitehouse state house tax equity Taxes Unemployment URI Voting Woonsocket wpri wpro

Most Popular Posts

  • Arming URI Campus Police: Bullet Points (19)
  • ACLU, others highly opposed to high stakes tests (10)
  • Gist surprised teachers don't like her (9)
  • If Superman goes housing, make it mixed income (8)
  • Department of Education responds to Sgouros post (8)

Categories

  • Arts & Culture
  • Business & Tech
  • Civil Rights / Liberties
  • Criminal Justice
  • Democrats
  • Economic Development
  • Economy
  • Education
  • Elections
  • Environment
  • Events
  • Labor
  • Music
  • National News

Categories

  • Opinion
  • Pensions
  • Politics
  • Race & Racism
  • Religion
  • Republicans
  • Rhode Island
  • Sports
  • State Budget
  • State House
  • Taxes
  • Technology
  • Transportation
  • White House

Most Prolific Writers

  • Bob Plain (803)
  • Samuel G. Howard (133)
  • Steve Ahlquist (78)
  • Tom Sgouros (60)
  • Brian Hull (59)
  • Dave Fisher (38)
  • Russ Conway (36)
  • Pat Crowley (31)
  • Aaron Regunberg (29)
  • Bruce Reilly (28)
  • David Segal (26)
  • Thom Cahir (21)
  • Oswald Krell (20)
  • Chris Barnett (19)
  • Frymaster (19)

Some of Our Friends

  • Hard Deadlines
  • New Commons
  • What Grows on in RI
  • WPRI Blog
  • Grow Smart RI
  • East Side Public Education Co.
  • Progressive Charlestown
  • Post Carbon Rhode Island
  • Providence Geeks
  • The Providential Gardner
  • The Providence Fireman
  • Howie Barte's Blog
  • Providence Daily Dose
  • Street Sights

Copyright © 2013 Rhode Island's Future.