Mark Pittman was the Bloomberg News reporter responsible for the Bloomberg lawsuit against the Federal Reserve seeking the names of the banks and their share of the trillions of dollars that the Fed was secretly funneling to them during the financial crisis. Pittman had already shared in a Gerald Loeb award for Bloomberg’s five-part series, […]
Turns Out That Trillion-Dollar Bailout Was, in Fact, Real by Matt Taibbi…
Last summer, Washington Post “Fact-checker” columnist Glenn Kessler wrote that the Medicare for All plan favored by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) would cause “providers” to face an “immediate cut of 40 percent in their payments.” The piece was quickly amended to reflect that the cuts only referred to private insurance payments, leaving Medicare recipients untouched. […]
A Look Back at How Reforming Wall Street Failed So Miserably Under Obama…
Progressives have every right to harbor a seething contempt toward the Wall Street wing of the Democratic Party. Democrats controlled both houses of Congress in the last two years of George W. Bush’s presidency as Wall Street blew itself up and Congress passed the massive taxpayer bailout of the Wall Street mega banks. (Democrats held […]
Kamala Harris Tells Big Lie: That 2012 Mortgage Settlement Was a Good Deal for Homeowners…
The Big Whopper season is already upon us, in the form of presidential aspirants telling egregious lies about their track records. The Wall Street Journal tonight covers a section from Kamala Harris’ new book, in which she touts what a great deal she got for California homeowners in the so-called Federal-49 state National Mortgage Settlement […]
Ten Years After the Crash, We’ve Learned Nothing by Matt Taibbi…
Ten years ago, on Saturday, September 13th, 2008, the world was about to end. The New York Federal Reserve was a zoo. Imagine NASA headquarters on the day a giant asteroid careens into the atmosphere. That was the New York Fed: all hands on deck, peak human panic. The crowd included future Treasury Secretary Timothy […]
Bernanke, Geithner, Paulson: The Fed Should Be Able to Make Secret Trillion Dollar Loans Again…
There seems to be a growing amount of concern these days about another epic financial crash on Wall Street. That, in itself, is a concern. After all, we’ve had only two great crashes in the past 89 years: one from 1929 to 1933 and one from 2008 to 2009. Why is another crash on the […]
A Decade After the Financial Meltdown, the SEC Still Hasn’t Passed Executive Compensation Rules…
Almost everyone got on board the reform train after the 2008 financial crisis. However, big business, and in particular the biggest banks, slammed the brakes on reforms that threatened to separate senior executives from their money that critics said incentivized excessive risk taking before the crisis. Almost all of the mandatory provisions of the law […]
DOJ Releases Emails of RBS Bankers Joking About Crashing Housing Market Before 2008…
Employees at the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) joked about crippling the U.S. housing market before the 2008 financial crisis, according to transcripts released by the Department of Justice (DOJ) last week. According to DOJ transcripts, senior staff described loans they were trading as “total f–king garbage.” DOJ also found that the Sottish bank’s chief […]
Fannie Mae (FNMA) & Freddie Mac (FMCC) – Where Did The Money Go?…
After reading the news stories about Obama’s FISA memo, and intrusion into the American way of life, you would think things couldn’t get any worse. Now, information is coming out that President Barack Obama stole the entire profits of two privately owned, and publicly traded companies. The theft left the shareholders of Fannie Mae (FNMA) […]
Many Older Americans Are Living a Desperate, Nomadic Life…
The “workamper” jobs range from helping harvest sugar beets to flipping burgers at baseball spring training games to Amazon’s AMZN, +0.94% “CamperForce,” seasonal employees who can walk the equivalent of 15 miles a day during Christmas season pulling items off warehouse shelves and then returning to frigid campgrounds at night. Living on less than $1,000 […]