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Bill Felice
INTRODUCTION In June 1975, the municipal government of New York City faced an unprecedented fiscal crisis, and over the following six months came perilously close to defaulting on its bank debt. In December the federal government approved a $2.
Jon Fappier
"However far we go, I don't think we can ever give up our principal activity of lending money to our principal customers, but I certainly don't think we have exhausted the possibilities of what we can do. It seems clear to me that the entire structure of our society is being chal- lenged.
Janis Lewin
A job in a bank was once considered a job with a future, each teller a potential bank executive. Today the promise of a career in banking is nonexistent for most bank workers, who labor under conditions not unlike those of factory workers.
Fred Goff
INTRODUCTION Through a focus on Chase's Latin American operations, this article will explore several aspects of the contradictions between private banking capital and the Third World. We will begin by tracing the bank's initial strategy for gaining an overseas operating base in the 1960's.
NACLA
Puerto Rico was, until recently, Chase's leading profit center in the world.' Now it is threatening to become the bank's leading loss center.
After securing a virtual monopoly of the oil industry in the 1870s, John D. Rockefeller Sr.
Bill Felice
Through a focus on Chase's pension management opera- tions, this article will explore the conflict between labor and capital inherent in today's pension system. First it will examine the widespread poverty of the elderly and how the evolution of the pension system has failed to provide adequate security for this country's working people.