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Protests, occupy, but what should not be off the radar at any point is the idea of whose time has come. the financial transaction tax, call it the robin hood tax, call it tax wall street, heal main street. small tax on currency stock derivatives to provide massive revenues and curb short-term speculation. and everyone from angela merkle, sarkozy of france, bill gates, are for it, as are nurses united in the united states. you can have the coalition to curb short-term speculate. bring in $350 billion in revenue each year and restore wall street to the popper place in economy. >> a quarter of a ...

Embedded with -- i want to bring in bart. how are you? >> good to be with you guys. >> let's sort of ground the facts here in terms of your fellow commissioner going to the omb to sort of throw up this procedural hurdle. what is your reaction to it? walk us through what exactly you're doing on the commission to implement dodd-frank and why scott omalia is -- >> let me give you 15 seconds how we go to here and the story. a huge calamity and no regulations up until 2008 and no regulations and huge, as you said, in your intro earlier swap unregulated and we had to pay out $700 billion, all of us,...

A republican commissioner on the commodity futures trading commission to undermine the new dodd-frank rules. the same market that produced the notorious credit default swaps that did in aig and almost brought down the entire global financial market with it. turns out one of the five commissioners has reached out to the office of management and budget asking them to produce a cost benefit analysis of the new dodd-frank regulations and sandbag the new rules by throwing up procedural hurdles. it is an independent agency for the a reason. the office of management and budget has no jurisdiction ove...

Chamber, same thing with the virginia protests. 2,000 women showed up in a blizzard in virginia. how did that happen? that was old-fashioned -- >> but also eight women, african-american women walking out of the georgia state senate the other night. that is critical. where you see women walking out. if that image canning magnified. talking about donned rumsfeld. is there a system. i think living at a time right now, rebecca has followed this carefully. you have a lot of victories and i'm optimistic about it but you also had 1,100 provisions last year at the state level to overturn that. >> our ...

Mother jones about the warehouse, which is the largest warehouse supplier for online shipping. and it was about what it's like to work at the warehouse. what i loved about the story is that it really connected the dots because the conditions that i talk about that have been documented in shenzhen, there's a temptation with chinese workers around the world are so far than the first world here, the warehouses in the middle of america, they send all the stuff you order and come out of workers working in very brutal conditions. and i felt like the stories of how they get crushed down, how their ho...