A federal judge in San Francisco has approved a $15-billion court settlement of most claims against Volkswagen for its emissions-cheating scandal…
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Robert Scheer and David Dayen Uncover Untold Stories of the Mortgage Crisis…
Dayen tells Scheer that anger over foreclosures has fueled this year’s bitter and unusual presidential race. The two also discuss why, despite the best efforts of the book’s subjects, little has been done to mitigate homeowners’ losses…
Goldman Sachs Top Lawyer Is Part of a Secret Banking Cabal as CEO Blankfein Denies One Exists…
Faber asked Blankfein: “So am I to take it that you weren’t meeting in secret with international banks and Hillary Clinton to plot the destruction of U.S. sovereignty?”…
Here’s Why Goldman Paid Clinton a Bundle for That Speech…
It may be more illuminating to look at these events from the other side, from the perspective of what Goldman Sachs wanted to get out of them. That reveals something interesting about how large corporations try to…
Never Before Seen Secret Memo On AIG Bailout From Fed’s Tarullo To Obama Revealed In Podesta Emails…
Hank Paulson and Ben Bernanke, in which Tarullo was told on a “confidential basis that, before the markets open tomorrow morning, they will be announcing a significant restructuring of the AIG bailout package…
Inside the Secret Society of Wall Street’s Top In-House Lawyers…
It’s a Wall Street club that’s virtually unknown on Wall Street. It has no name or official membership list, and it meets only once a year, in locations such as Switzerland’s Lake Lucerne…
The Billion Barrel Oil Swindle: 80% Of U.S. Oil Reserves Are Unaccounted-For…
U.S. crude oil storage is filling up with unaccounted-for oil. There is a lot more oil in storage than the amount that can be accounted for by domestic production and imports…
Nearly 7 in 10 Americans Have Less Than $1,000 in Savings…
The U.S. is often referred to as the land of economic opportunity. Apparently, it’s also the land of consumption and “spend everything you’ve got”…
Since 2014, the US Has Added 547,000 Waiters and Bartenders and Lost 32,000 Manufacturing Workers…
As another month passes, the great schism inside the American labor force get wider. We are referring to the unprecedented divergence between the total number of high-paying manufacturing jobs…
Leaked EU Declaration on Canada Trade Deal, CETA…
“Now that TTIP is widely acknowledged to be effectively dead, Brussels is doing all it can to salvage CETA. The declaration has no legal basis, is devoid of substance and only goes to show how desperate”…
SDR World Order by James Corbett…
The IMF is formally adding the Chinese renminbi (aka the yuan) to their “Special Drawing Rights” basket on Saturday, October 1st. The move boosts the yuan to the status of global reserve currency alongside its basketmates, the pound, the euro, the yen and the dollar…
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Apple Is Named the Biggest U.S. Corporate Tax Avoider Booking $218 FRIGGIN BILLION Dollars of Profit in Offshore Accounts…
Apple has been named as the biggest corporate tax avoider in the United States after booking $218.55 billion (£171.6 billion) of profit offshore last year. The tech giant was able to save $65.08 billion (£51.1 billion) that it should have paid in tax thanks to its convoluted arrangements…
Germany’s Deutsche Bank, Again in Trouble, Received a U.S. Bailout Twice as Big as Lehman Brothers…
The gyrations in Deutsche Bank’s shares last week together with a June report from the International Monetary Fund indicating that the bank was “the most important net contributor to systemic risks” has cast a trading pall over all of the global banks.
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Steve Jobs Held Billions of Dollars Offshore. Was He Unpatriotic?
At the end of September 2011, just days before his passing, the company that Steve Jobs founded had a $25 billion cash hoard. Nearly half of this was stashed overseas…
The Biggest Heist in Human History by Mike Whitney…
Is the Fed confused about how the economy works? Is the Fed confused about how the financial system works? Probably not. There’s probably some other explanation altogether, after all, why would someone put gas in their radiator when the gas-tank is empty…
Stocks Soar After French Press “Confirm” Deutsche Bank Near Settlement With DOJ…
Seemingly confirming the rumor, Agence France Press reports that Deutsche Bank is nearing a $5.4 billion settlement with the US Justice Department…
Big Data Exposes How Politically Connected Traders Cashed In During the Financial Crisis by David Sirota…
Big Data — those sprawling algorithms that can track and predict patterns in human behavior — often conjures up fears of a big-brother police state. But those same data-sets could be harnessed to uncover and expose Wall Street excesses…
Strange Deaths of JPMorgan Workers Continue…
Last Thursday, September 22, 2016, the body of Ann Korkki, a Senior Administrative Assistant in the Wealth Management division of JPMorgan Chase in Denver, Colorado was found with the body of her sister, Robin Korkki, inside their luxury vacation villa at the Maia Resort on Seychelles…
The Run Begins: Deutsche Bank Hedge Fund Clients Withdraw Excess Cash…
Deutsche Bank concerns just went to ’11’ as Bloomberg reports a number of funds that clear derivatives trades with Deutsche Bank AG have withdrawn some excess cash and positions held at the lender…
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If Elizabeth Warren Wants to Probe Worker Abuse on Wall Street, Start With the Unprecedented Rash of Deaths and Suicides…
If Senators Warren, Sanders, Merkley and Brown genuinely want to change their party’s jaded image as Wall Street Democrats, they will use this timely opportunity to demand that the OCC turn over its records on the profits flowing to Wall Street from these untimely deaths of young people…
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