Banksters and speculators love our current ultra-low interest rates, as it allows them to borrow inexpensively. It’s party time for them, aided and abetted by the always banker-friendly Fed. The problem is, cheap money is absolutely killing pension funds, which…
A 60-year-old Las Vegas bookkeeper is going to prison for illegally transferring $200,000 between two unrelated companies. It’s unclear if she personally profited from it. Meanwhile, banks like Wells Fargo and HSBC pay continual fines for laundering drug money and…
Nationwide, an appalling 75% of condo developments don’t meet new FHA rules. This makes getting a mortgage on such units more difficult and thus harder to sell. Compounding the problems, banks are reluctant to foreclose on condos., so the condos…
How dare the European Union interfere with Apple parking billions in Ireland and paying practically no tax on it? Why you’d think Ireland was part of the EU and that the EU had a right to say what their member…
Dark Net drugs sales have tripled since 2013 when Silk Road was closed. While still a tiny part of overall drug sales, the anonymous nature of the transactions makes it ideal for using dirty money. The Dark Net is accessible…
The Trans-Pacific Partnership is deceptively billed as a free-trade agreement. It’s real purpose is quite different from that and is genuinely evil. TPPÂ says corporations have rights and powers that are above that of nations. Under TPP, corporations can force countries…
Curse our noxious interfering U.S. government! When will we be done with their intrusive rules and instead, usher in a libertarian paradise where infernal regulations to prevent money laundering are a relic of our commie socialist freedom-hating past? The Treasury…
The Brexit referendum was engineered by and due to a split in the Conservative Party. No one expected it to win. Insanely, neither Conservatives or Labour had contingency plans for what to do if Brexit won. Now Britain is a…
By now it should be clear the Brexit referendum was engineered by and wasdue to a split in the Conservative Party. They never expected Brexit to win and are now backtracking as fast as possible. Brexit was a deeply cynical…
Things probably won’t ever be the same for Britain, even if Brexit doesn’t happens. The well has been poisoned. The EU has no reason to trust England (specifically England) on anything now. Further, Junker et al plan to make things…
