The Bill Clinton administration’s repeal in 1999 of the 1933 Banking Act, commonly known as the Glass-Steagall Act, ushered in the greatest kleptocracy America has ever known…
Virgin Island Attorney General Issues 15 Sweeping Subpoenas for Jeffrey Epstein Financial Accounts…
U.S. Virgin Island Attorney General Denise George has expanded her investigation into what she calls the “Epstein Enterprise” by filing 15 sweeping subpoenas to eight financial institutions in which convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein held at least 35 specifically named accounts. Among the banks subpoenaed are: Wells Fargo; Silicon Valley; Northern Trust International Banking Corporation; […]
Small Business Rescue Earned Banks $10 Billion in Fees…
Banks handling the government’s $349 billion loan program for small businesses made more than $10 billion in fees — even as tens of thousands of small businesses were shut out of the program, according to an analysis of financial records by NPR. The banks took in the fees while processing loans that required less vetting […]
Americans Are Paying a Tragic Price for Allowing Five Banks to Control the U.S. Economy…
According to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, as of yesterday there were 5,117 federally-insured banks and savings associations in the United States. But in terms of risk to the U.S. economy and financial system, according to the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Financial Research, only five of those banks matter. And as you can see from […]
Fed’s $400 Billion Plan to Bailout Repo Market…
One of the most vital pieces of plumbing that powers the global financial system usually runs so smoothly that it gets overlooked by market watchers. It’s the “repo market,” comprising the short-term funding that banks and financial counter-parties regularly tap to lend each other trillions. It’s suddenly in the news again, and for all the […]
Fed Injects Cash for Fourth Day as Funding Markets Stabilize…
The Fed’s “Emergency” Actions this Week Were Dated a Full 48 Days Earlier…
The storyline in the business press is that the lending rate on overnight repos had spiked to an unprecedented 10 percent, necessitating an emergency infusion of $53 billion by the New York Fed on Tuesday to ramp up liquidity for overnight loans and bring down the loan rate. (That was followed with $75 billion more […]
Liquidity Scramble: Fed Announces Overnight Repos Every Day Next Week, Introduces Term Repos…
The Fed Intervened in Overnight Lending for First Time Since the Crash. Why It Matters to You…
Yesterday felt a little like that scene from the 1946 movie “It’s a Wonderful Life” starring Jimmy Stewart. There’s a run on Stewart’s bank because his absent-minded Uncle Billy loses the cash he was sent off to deposit on behalf of the bank. The bank examiners discover there’s money missing and rumors spread. The rumors […]