Banksters

Bankers Shouldn't Worry About Drum Circles - But Some of 'Em Should Worry About Subpoenas

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Fraud, JPMorgan Chase, Jamie Dimon, Scandal, U.S. Economy, Wall Street Bailout, Bailout, Wall Street, Economy, Great Recession, Occupy Wall Street, Banking, Banks, Financial Crisis, Bankers, Bank Bailout, Banksters, Recession, Politics News
Richard (RJ) Eskow

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon recently said that he felt safer in Lebanon than when Occupy marched past his house. If nothing else, it proves Wall Street bankers haven't gotten any better at risk management than when their bad bets crashed the economy and caused the Great Recession.

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Let's Make a Deal: The Bail-Out of Wall Street in Unusual and Exigent Circumstances

L. Randall Wray | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Treasury Department, Wall Street Bailout, Bailout, Federal Reserve, Fed, Banking, Financial Crisis, Banks, Global Financial Crisis, Timothy Geithner, Bank Bailout, Banksters, Business News
L. Randall Wray

There is little doubt that the global financial crisis posed "unusual and exigent" circumstances that had to be met with a huge response by the Fed (and Treasury). It is not clear, however, that the response actually mounted was legal. It was certainly not transparent.

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Crash Tax: Wall Street Reparations

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 01.14.2012

Read More: 1 Percent, James Tobin, Social Security, European Commission, George Soros, Financial Transactions Tax, Tom Harkin, Main Street, Bill Gates, Occupy Wall Street, Medicaid, Robin Hood Tax, Paul Volcker, Banksters, Rowan Williams, Nicolas Sarkozy, 99 Percent, Bank of America, Freddie Mac, Joseph Stiglitz, Wall Street, Peter DeFazio, Angela Merkel, Paul Krugman, Medicare, Fanny Mae, Crash Tax, Tobin Tax, Peter G. Peterson, Business News
Leo W. Gerard

It's time for Wall Street to pay reparations for the financial collapse it caused. It's time for a crash tax, a tiny sales tax on Wall Street transactions, the revenues from which would pay for Main Street restoration.

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The 99% Seek a Just Economy, Not Just an Economy

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 12.24.2011

Read More: The 99 Percent, Jobs Through Growth Act, John McCain, President Obama, Rob Portman, Moody?S Analytics, Dodd-Frank, Jensen Farms, Banksters, Barack Obama, Wall Street Reform, Wall Street, Health Care Reform, The 1 Percent, American Jobs Act, Listeria, Food and Drug Administration, Gus Faucher, Politics News
Leo W. Gerard

It is another GOP ruse to firmly establish in America an economy designed for, dedicated to and directed by corporations rather than a just economy controlled by and beneficial to the 99 percent.

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It's Occupied!

Carolita Johnson | Posted 12.02.2011

Read More: Cartoons, Oscarina, Humor, Banksters, Carolita Johnson, Occupy Wall Street, Comedy News
Carolita Johnson

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Credit Rating Ruined for Seven Years? Serial Bankrupters Know Better

Nicholas Carroll | Posted 08.09.2011

Read More: Credit Ratings, FICO Score, Credit Reports, Bank Propaganda, Rebuilding Credit, Serial Bankrupters, Banksters, Ruined Credit, Bankruptcy, Credit Score, Business News
Nicholas Carroll

Credit being "ruined" doesn't really mean anything anyway, because having "good credit" simply means having good enough credit to achieve a particular goal.

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Sounds of Resistance Are Growing Join Americans Fed Up With Big Finance

Kevin Zeese | Posted 05.31.2011

Read More: Taxes, Foreclosure, Big Banks, Banksters, Wall Street, Too Big to Fail Banks, Wealth Disparity, Politics News
Kevin Zeese

Are you tired of big banks making record profits, paying giant executive salaries and bonuses and then cooking the books so they avoid paying taxes? We are.

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The War on Workers: L.A. Is On!

James P. Hoffa | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Demonstrations, Environmental, Workers, Scott Walker, Advocates, Protests, Teamsters, Labor Unions, Banksters, Religious, Wisconsin Protests, Workers Rights, Los Angeles News
James P. Hoffa

It's not just about red states and blue states, it's not about public sector versus private sector workers, and it's not about any of the other propaganda that gets thrown around to divide Americans. It's about all of us.

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Rescue Choppers or Corporate Jets?

Dylan Ratigan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Budget, Financial Crisis, Mega-Banks, Wall Street Bailout, Simon Johnson, Taxpayers, Banksters, Japan Rescue, Dylan Ratigan Japan Earthquake, Japan Earthquake 2011, Japan Tsunami 2011, Dylan Ratigan Japan, Politics News
Dylan Ratigan

In all the footage of people being saved, I haven't seen one mega-bank rescue anyone. I saw help from a lot of volunteers, firemen, rescue workers, doctors, nurses, etc. But not one bank.

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Making the Case Against Mortgage Banksters, Part Two: Financing Prosecution

Nicholas Carroll | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mortgage Fraud, Crime, Banksters, Prosecutors, Mortgage Crisis, Angelo Mozilo, State Attorneys General, Business News
Nicholas Carroll

The Federal government has now let former Countrywide CEO Angelo Mozilo go scot-free, paying less than 10% of his assets in fines, with no admission o...

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The 10 Reasons the Banksters Get Away With It

Danny Schechter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama Administration, Banksters, Financial Crimes, Matt-Taibi, Business News
Danny Schechter

Hats off to writer Matt Taibbi for staying on the Wall Street crime beat, asking in his most recent report in Rolling Stone: "Why Isn't Wall Street in...

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The F Word: Harry Potter and the Bailed-Out Banks

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: UK, Britain, Banks, England, Education, Bailouts, Rbs, Bankers, US, Grit Tv, Banksters, London, Laura Flanders, Tax Cuts, Grittv, Harry Potter, Business News
Laura Flanders

While students in London spend hours in the cold protesting tuition fees, RBS, a bank that took a huge government bailout, throws a party commemorating Harry Potter. It'd be funny except it's exactly what just happened.

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The F Word: WikiLeaks' Economic Warfare

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: F Word, Class War, Stocks, Economy, Julian Assange, Grit Tv, Business, Wikileaks, Banksters, Barry Ritholtz, The F Word, Bank of America, Wall Street, Laura Flanders, Protest, Grittv, Politics News
Laura Flanders

If Assange's cyber invasion is to Bankster Street what the civil rights marchers were to segregation, what are Wall Street's water cannons? I can hardly wait to find out.

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Obama's Pick For Summers' Replacement Will Signal His Direction

Rob Kall | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Robert Rubin, Council on Foreign Relations, Banksters, Tim Geithner, Lawrence Summers, Elizabeth Warren, Politics News
Rob Kall

The good news could be that Summers and his approach will soon be gone. The bad news is that he will probably be replaced by someone worse.

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On Labor Day, Work to Save the Middle Class

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Social Security, The Hamilton Project, Unemployment, Wall Street, Labor Day, Renewable Energy, Manufacturing, Jobless, Medicare, Glenn Beck, Wind Turbines, Banksters, Solar Cells, Recession, Center for American Progress, Great Depression, Business News
Leo W. Gerard

Together we can organize and mobilize and create a grassroots groundswell that gives government no choice but to respond to our needs, the needs of working people.

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Jobless Organize to Remove Republican Royalists From Their Jobs

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bite Back Campaign, Bankruptcy, Marie Antoinette, Sharron Angle, Main Street, Afl-Cio, Tom Corbett, Joblessness, Jon Kyl, Union of the Unemployed, Banksters, Andre Bauer, Help Wanted Campaign, Unemployment, 99ers, Wall Street, Working America, Fox News, Orrin Hatch, Glenn Beck, Foreclosure, Politics News
Leo W. Gerard

Beck leads a pack of royalist Republicans who have spent the summer mocking, vilifying and denigrating the nation's 14.5 million unemployed workers. The unemployed are fighting back, however.

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Banksters Revealed Again!

Dylan Ratigan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tarp, Unemployment, Bailout, Economy, Republican Votes, Jobs, Clawbacks, Capitalism, 145-Billion-in-Bailout-Dollars, Banksters, Corporate Communism, Politics News
Dylan Ratigan

Bankster Politicians, when faced with giving support to many of the same people tossed from employment by their cronyism, have all of a sudden found ideology.

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WATCH: Wall Street Poker After Dark

Matthew Filipowicz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lloyd Blankfein, Vikram Pandit, JP Morgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Goldman Sachs Fraud, Wall Street, Citigroup Bailout, Satire, Poker, Jamie Dimon, Banksters, Wall Street Bonuses, Comedy, Comedy News
Matthew Filipowicz

Watch as the most corrupt "Too Big To Fail" bank CEOs play a spirited game of "Taxpayer Hold 'Em"! Not with their money, but with yours!

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Finally, The Right Democrat Is Taking on John Boehner

Howie Klein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Boehner, Banksters, Blue America, Ohio, Justin Coussoule, Politics News
Howie Klein

If Friday's filing of a lawsuit for fraud by the SEC against Goldman Sachs left the Wall Street banks feeling a little uneasy, they can always take comfort knowing that they have a rock solid champion and protector in John Boehner.

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Disappointing Finance Bill Still Has Issues Worth Fighting For

Kevin Zeese | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Congress, Wall Street, Big Banks, Banksters, Barack Obama, Finance Reform, Politics News
Kevin Zeese

There is no question that the concentrated corporate power of Wall Street is working to weaken the already disappointing financial reform bill. There is only one antidote to their power and that is our power.

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Covert Operations Are Now Targeting Our Minds

Danny Schechter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israel, TV Propaganda, Financial Crisis, Banksters, Covert Actions, Incumbents, Business News
Danny Schechter

The sad truth is that the banksters who have gotten away with the massive theft of our economy are still getting away with it and profiting while so many of us continue to sink.

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Mamas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Banksters

Terrance Heath | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Child Development, Wall Street Bailout, Lying, Madoff Fraud, Children, Financial Reform, Derivatives, Bank of America, Toddlers, Aig, Banksters, Financial Fraud, Fraud, Politics, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs Fraud, Wall Street, Bailout, Lehman Brothers, Mortgage Fraud, Bear Stearns, Wall Street Bonuses, Financial Regulation, Politics News
Terrance Heath

It turns out, toddlers who tell lies do better as adults. Whether this is surprising news about child development, or a sad statement about the kind of society we live in depends on how you define "better."

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"The Vicious Circle of Debt and Depression: It Is a Class war

Ismael Hossein-zadeh | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Herbert Hoover, Sovereign Debt, Class Warfare, Banksters, Debt Repudiation, Home News
Ismael Hossein-zadeh

Never before has so much debt been imposed on so many people by so few financial operatives--operatives who work from Wall Street, the largest casino ...

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Actions Speak Louder Than Words, Senator Bennet

Wade Norris | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Andrew Romanoff, 2010, Vitter Amendment, Colorado, Michael Bennet, Banking Reform, Primary, Banksters, Conservadems, Senate, Denver News
Wade Norris

It would seem the readers from Colorado did not take comfort in Senator Bennet's words on the "revolving door" in light of his recent votes.

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Is Your Senator a Bankster?

Dylan Ratigan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dylan Ratigan, Wall Street, Banksters, Politics News
Dylan Ratigan

There is no more real "left" or "right", or Democrats and Republicans. What we have now is the rise of the Bankster Party -- a group of politicians with shifting alliances that follow the special interests who fund them.

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