Category Banksters

It will be difficult, quite possibly impossible, for VW to fix their diesels. Other diesel manufacturers spray urea onto exhaust fumes to cut down on pollution. Volkswagen doesn’t, because they said their engines were hyper-efficient. They lied. Instead, Volkswagen was…

After seven years of Obama Administration policy forbidding criminal prosecution of individual banksters, the Department of Justice just promised, by golly, we’ll start enforcing the laws after all. I so totally believe them, how about you? In a move that…

While investigating the Silk Road anonymous marketplace, Secret Service Special Agent Shaun Bridges stole $820,000 in bitcoins. He has pleaded guilty to money laundering and obstruction and now presumably will be going to prison. Bridges clearly didn’t know he should…

The Shanghai Composite got demolished today, dropping 8.5% in one day, triggering selloffs in European markets and here too. (US futures are down 4% before the open.) Chinese officials are calling it Black Monday. Government intervention in their market to…

Students: forget about those pricey student loans! Now you can pay for college by pledging shares of future income. Wow, what could possibly go wrong with that? Former Indiana governor and Purdue President Mitch Daniels thinks Income Share Agreements are…