Many banks promised to work toward net-zero emissions – but their targets explicitly exempt liquefied natural gas projects
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Big banks bagged a fortune in fees from distributing cash in the US government's aid program for small businesses stricken by the coronavirus, according to fresh data. 
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Romania is set to soften a controversial ‘greed tax’ on banks next week, shortly before the first payment would kick in, according to the country’s finance minister.
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Banks set up accounts in Jersey and Cayman to avoid tax and disburse bonuses.
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LONDON (Reuters) – Banks have provided $1.7 trillion of finance to 40 companies in the plastics supply chain without imposing any requirements to tackle plastic pollution pouring into the world’s rivers and oceans, according to a report published on Thursday.
With European and U.S. banks increasingly spurning the most polluting fossil fuel projects to help slow climate change, campaigners want lenders to take a similar approach to plastics by making loans conditional on measures to boost recycling.
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As the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Americans got protection from evictions, foreclosures and student debt. But debt collectors have continued to siphon off their share of paychecks from those who still have jobs.
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President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans marketed their bill, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, as a gigantic boon for the middle class — even promising the average family would receive a $4,000 pay raise. In spite of the economic boom in the corporate and banking sectors, the American middle class has been largely unaffected by the measure, which passed in December of 2017. Meanwhile, corporations and big banks are rolling in cash..
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All across America, Wall Street is grabbing money meant for public workers
The Swarm's insight:
There's a special place in Hell for the parasites of finance.
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