Good Day America… By SRH, FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried has been sentenced to 25 years in prison by U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in New York. The judge rejected Bankman-Fried’s argument that FTX customers did not suffer any losses and…
BanksterCrime: By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: Laurence (Larry) Fink, Chairman and CEO, BlackRock Yesterday, billionaire Larry Fink, Chairman and CEO of the giant investment manager BlackRock, released his annual letter to shareholders. In it, Fink revives the same ole trope that…
By SRH, Worldwide, the rollout of Central Bank Digital Currencies is getting closer. China, with its digital Yuan leading the way, is conducting a massive trial involving over 25 million people. New guidelines for tourists using CBDCs for the first…
By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: Ryne Miller, Former Sullivan & Cromwell Partner Who Became General Counsel of FTX.US Since January, the reputation of Wall Street’s go-to law firm, Sullivan & Cromwell, has been repeatedly hammered. It all stems from the law…
“For me, the dollar is over. The Fiat bargain broke down… …Show me what you’ve done with your portfolio with your bonds with your stocks over the last five years and how has it outperformed Bitcoin. Have fun staying poor.”…
By Cheyenne Ligon Current FTX CEO John J. Ray III is pushing back against his disgraced predecessor Sam Bankman-Fried’s claims that customers lost “zero” money in the exchange’s 2022 collapse, calling them “categorically, callously, and demonstrably false.” In a victim…
After a staggering crypto rally, primarily led by Bitcoin, it is fair to say that the approval of spot bitcoin U.S. ETFs in January approval was a game-changer. Since January 10, crypto’s total market cap has surged from $1.5 trillion…
By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: According to data from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and using a graph from the St. Louis Fed above, the liquidity crisis among banks in the spring of last year was far more dramatic than…
By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: March 19 2024 Jamie Dimon Sits in Front of Trading Monitor in his Office (Source: 60 Minutes Interview, November 10, 2019) On Thursday of last week, two of JPMorgan Chase Bank’s federal regulators fined the riskiest…
Cryptocurrency (or “crypto”) is a digital currency that can be used to buy goods and services or traded for a profit. Bitcoin is the most widely used cryptocurrency. By Andy Rosen Why do people invest in cryptocurrencies? People invest in…
