The Bankster Welfare State: Where Crime Pays

In a newly published paper, “Wall Street’s Six Biggest Bailed-Out Banks: Their RAP Sheets & Their Ongoing Crime Spree,” the non-profit group Better Markets reports $29 trillion spent in total bailout money.

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Crimes Were Committed—Before, during and after the crisis, Financial Felonies abounded

Here's Why No One Went to Jail After the 2008 Financial Crisis. To many people, this is the single most frustrating post-crisis question.

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Central Banks Have Gone Rogue, Putting Us All at Risk

"Central banks buying stocks are effectively nationalizing U.S. corporations just to maintain the illusion that their 'recovery' plan is working."

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Rebel Cities 9: Iceland's Slow-Burning Digital Democratic Revolution

Icelanders to their credit have twice peacefully ousted governments, they are world leaders in transparency laws and digital freedom, and they decided not to bail out its failed banks.

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Why the Only Answer is to Break Up the Biggest Wall Street Banks

If the Fed's latest proposal to water down the Volcker Rule goes through, we’ll be nearly back to where we were before the crash of 2008.

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Paving Way for Next Taxpayer-Funded Wall Street Bailout, Trump Fed Unveils Plan to Gut Volcker Rule

Ripping apart the central piece of Dodd-Frank will unleash a torrent of gambling by big banks and dramatically heighten the risk of another financial meltdown.

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Stopping Europe's Authoritarian Slide Has As Much to Do With Spain As Poland

The Nazis marching on the streets of Poland look similar to the Nazis marching on the Spanish streets calling for "unity." The difference is this: In Spain there is no breakthrough for any anti-European party. Authoritarianism, rather, is coming from the ruling Partido Popular.

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Wells Fargo's Playbook: How To Rob The Average Joe and Still Retain Your Stock Options

The housing crisis, the outsourcing of American jobs, the decline in U.S. manufacturing, the politics of circus-like tricks, illusions and freakish sideshow distractions make for hungry lower classes and angry mobs at gated parking lots.

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Banking On Wells Fargo: Financial Russian Roulette for Suckers

If there is no respect for justice, fairness or integrity in our financial system or governance, there will be a reaction of civil unrest, more violence, civil disobedience and utter chaos.

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Fresh LIBOR Revelations: Is the British State Complicit in World’s Largest Systemic Fraud?

New revelations suggest that not only was the LIBOR rate rigging fraud a systemic practice by big banks – but Bank of England and the government in Westminster were also in on the big fix.

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