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Archive for the ‘Finance/Economy’ Category

Criminal Ongoing Greek Tragi-Comedy; Spreading Global Crime

22 Feb

Max and Stacy bring the latest on the world criminal banking racket. From Greece to the U.K. banker and spreading trickle down crime…

 

Max and Stacy Take Apart the Mortgage Settlement: Only 5B Comes from Banks – the Rest is From Fannie and Freddie!

14 Feb

Hey! Check it Out! We, the taxpayers are the ones who are ACTUALLY the Ones PAYING THE SETTLEMENT TAB!!  (Well, of COURSE!- This is America, right?)   Once Max and Stacy take the Settlement deal apart, Howard Kunstler comes on to hypothesize over why the American public keeps putting up with this foo-ey. Cognitive dissonance? [...]

 

Freddie Mac Bets Against Homeowners, Holder & Breuer’s Covington Bank Representing Past: Creating M.E.R.S. Corp

30 Jan

In his latest all out seriously spot on rant, Mandelman brings us the most recent and most recently uncovered crimes in the long list of criminal acts as yet going unpunished in the United States mortgage fraud scandal. That scandal which has devastated our economy, destroyed our housing market and left vast numbers of families [...]

 

Yves Smith Takes Apart Obama’s Spin on Banking Crisis Solution

24 Jan

In an excellent piece published over at Common Dreams, Ms. Smith lays it out in plain English for anyone to see. The federal government is aiding and abetting the banks in continued fraud and thievery while preventing and avoiding any way for a direct and honest legal response to their crimes.  Once more, settlement pacts [...]

 

Psychopathic Bankers, The Story Expands: Bloomberg and Washington’s Blog

04 Jan

We were very delighted to see this latest post over at Washington’s Blog on the Psychopathy of bankers and others in our currently run amok global financial disaster – nice to see the word is getting around. As we wrote in November, 2011: Corporate Psychopathy: The Root of the Global Financial Crisis? 21 Nov We’ve [...]

 

Carry Trade Collapse: Bankers Tricks Destroying Eastern Eurpoean Economics

03 Jan

The ECB and IMF warn Hungary not to change rules of how they deal with the devestating impact of the Swiss Frank based mortgages as the carry trade slams mortgages into hyperdrive in Hungary. While most Americans have not had this experience or understanding of it on a personal level, the American banks have, of [...]

 

Economic History – are we Doomed to Repeat it? Michael Hudson on Democracy and Debt

27 Dec

This perspective from economic historian Michael Hudson contains some serious ‘heads up’ moments. Reading it one is forced to contemplate the potential outcomes in the devolving world of bankster controlled public policy now clearly pointed toward the destruction of the public good in favor of corrupt private creditors. And no change seems to be coming, [...]

 

Bill Black’s Response to Obama’s 40,000 Feet Non Speak

26 Dec

While there has been quite a bit of coverage of Bill’s initial post – Dante’s Divine Comedy Bankster Style, this second post is, in our opinion, more concise, and direct in its calling out of the flaws in the Bush/Obama response to the financial crisis and the reality of what the Dodd Frank Bill did [...]

 

Charles Hugh Smith: When Things Fall Apart: Disorientation, Desperation, Chaos

09 Dec

When Things Fall Apart: Disorientation, Desperation, Chaos Submitted by Charles Hugh Smith from Of Two Minds When Things Fall Apart: Disorientation, Desperation, Chaos  The global “shadow” banking system is unraveling, with dire consequences for financial assets and failed policies. We’re not used to things falling apart, and so our first reaction is disorientation. What we’ve [...]

 

ZeroHedge: Why The UK Trail Of The MF Global Collapse May Have “Apocalyptic” Consequences For The Eurozone, Canadian Banks, Jefferies And Everyone Else

08 Dec

If you ever needed to understand what the ‘shadow banking’ system meant, this article should make it very clear. It should also make it clear the entire financial system of the world is now over leveraged to a degree that only one quarter of the liabilities in the system are backed by any collateral.  This [...]