Occupy Wall Street

The snow is gone, the first day of spring arrived weeks ago, the baseball season has begun, and one question has come to my mind: Where is the highly-anticipated American Spring that we had been hearing about for months? In January 2012, I discussed various "prologue protests" that appeared to...

One year after the Egyptian Revolution, in light of the revolutionary wave in the Middle East known as the "Arab Spring", might there be an "American Spring" around the corner in 2012? Given recent developments, struggling economic conditions, and recurring political rhetoric in the news, an...

Tonight, President Barack Obama will give his State of the Union Speech in front of a deeply divided, and unprecedentedly unpopular, Congress. In what many observers are characterizing as a kick-off to the President's 2012 re-election bid, the event is likely to be an opportunity for more political...

JPMorgan Chase (NYSE: JPM) reported lower earnings amidst slower trading activity and a difficult investment period. Investment banking operations saw a 56% drop in profits to $726 million, down from $1.6 billion in the previous quarter and $1.5 billion in Q4 2010. The bank net income totaled $3.7...

Sometimes bread tastes better than freedom. One has to wonder how much freedom a starving individual would be willing to give up in order to survive. This is something to keep in mind going into the next year as we make our way through the global financial crisis. And as we approach the beginning...

On Wednesday, Marketplace's Kai Ryssdal interviewed Stephanie Elsenpeter, an unemployed mother living in New Hope, Minn. Elsenpeter discussed how her emergency-extended unemployment benefits are going to run out the week of Jan. 8. On the topic of her unemployment benefits running out, Ryssdal...

In the context of the Occupy Wall Street protests, is Batman in the 1 percent? The most recent trailer for "The Dark Knight Rises" suggests that he is. Reuters reported Tuesday that reactions among fans to the upcoming Batman flick directed by Christopher Nolan "ranged from euphoric to...

Marketwatch's Paul B. Farrell wrote a very interesting story Tuesday entitled "Super Rich vs. 99%: Class war will explode" regarding Occupy Wall Street, the evolution of class warfare, and the conservative response to the Occupy Wall Street movement. Farrell: "Forget politics. The 99%, the Occupy...

The number of people working in the New York City financial services industry is shrinking. As of August 2011, data shows that some 166,000 people are employed by financial services industries, and that number will contract into the end of the year and January. Many markets have experienced...

Speaking at the Iowa family forum on Saturday evening, surging Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich had some harsh words for the Occupy Wall Street movement. Despite a recent drop in Americans' support for the widespread movement, it is still viewed positively by one in three U.S. citizens....

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...

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 "...

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...