"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Bernanke: Regulators must avoid rules that are ‘burdensome’ to banks. Such policies of course include letting the TBTF banks mark-to-fantasy rather than following GAAP and mark-to-market like everyone else, plus not filing criminal charges against them because the Fed guarantees…
Corporate corruption is out of control for two main reasons. First, big companies are now multinational, while governments remain national. Big companies are so financially powerful that governments are afraid to take them on. Second, companies are the major funders…
The vice chairman of SunFirst Bank, a small bank with four branches in southern Utah, was released from jail Monday after surrendering his passport. He will stand trial on federal money laundering charges for using the bank to process money…
Because both parties keep throwing money at endless wars, endless bailouts and a Ponzi financial system. The problem is not one party or the other. The problem is the capture and co-optation of the federal government by the military-industrial complex,…
The TBTF banks seem immune from criminal prosecution because the Fed has so many “investments” with them (AKA toxic garbage being kept on the books at phony prices) while major corporations pay zero income tax which means the rest of…