Democracy Now! May 29, 2012

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Protests erupt in Egypt as Mubarak's ex-PM secures a spot in presidential run-off election. Sharif Abdel Kouddous talks to Jimmy Carter about monitoring the Egyptian elections. Charles Ferguson, director of the Academy Award-winning documentary, "Inside Job," speaks about his new book, which argues Wall Street has turned the US into a "predatory nation." Plus headlines, and more.

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Charles Ferguson

Charles Henry Ferguson is the founder and president of Representational Pictures, Inc., and director and producer of No End In Sight: The American Occupation of Iraq and Inside Job, which won the Academy Award for Best Documentary. Ferguson is also a successful software entrep... Explore this topic

JPMorgan Chase

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an American multinational banking and financial services holding company. It is the largest bank in the United States by assets, and as of 2012, it ranks as the second largest bank in the world by assets. It is a major provider of financial services, wi... Explore this topic

Morgan Stanley

Morgan Stanley is an American multinational financial services corporation headquartered in the Morgan Stanley Building, Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Morgan Stanley operates in 42 countries, and has more than 1300 offices and 60,000 employees. The company reports US$304 b... Explore this topic

Wall Street

Wall Street is the financial district of New York City, named after and centered on the eight-block-long, 0.7 miles long street running from Broadway to South Street on the East River in Lower Manhattan. Over time, the term has become a metonym for the financial markets of the... Explore this topic

Financial regulation

Financial regulation is a form of regulation or supervision, which subjects financial institutions to certain requirements, restrictions and guidelines, aiming to maintain the integrity of the financial system. This may be handled by either a government or non-government organ... Explore this topic

Global Financial Crisis

The financial crisis of 2007–2008, also known as the Global Financial Crisis and 2008 financial crisis, is considered by many economists to be the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. It resulted in the threat of total collapse of large financial ins... Explore this topic

US economy

Throughout this article, the unqualified term "dollar" and the $ symbol refer to the US dollar. The economy of the United States is the world's largest national economy. Its nominal GDP was estimated to be over $15 trillion in 2011, approximately a quarter of nominal global GD... Explore this topic

Facebook

Founded in February 2004, Facebook is a social utility that helps people communicate more efficiently with their friends, family and coworkers. The company develops technologies that facilitate the sharing of information through the social graph, the digital mapping of people'... Explore this topic

Initial public offering

An initial public offering or stock market launch is a type of public offering where shares of stock in a company are sold to the general public, on a securities exchange, for the first time. Through this process, a private company transforms into a public company. Initial pub... Explore this topic

United States

The United States of America, commonly called the United States, or America, is a federal republic consisting of fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capi... Explore this topic

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