Posts by StevieRay Hansen
BanksterCrime: By Karen Kwiatkowski My mistake. The Feds don’t fear free speech at all. The federal government fears truthful speech, clear thinking, logical deduction, and asking unapproved questions. Just down the road, a few counties over from me, on the heels of the Scott Ritter raid on dubious pretense and with incomplete warrants, we have…
BanksterCrime As Trump Launches a Crypto Firm, FBI Reports Crypto Fraud Has Exploded to $5.6 Billion; Representing Almost 50 Percent of All Financial Fraud. By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: Last Thursday, the Senate Banking Committee held a hearing on combating financial frauds against consumers. During the hearing, Senator Jon Tester of Montana held up his…
BanksterCrime By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: It is rare for a book to be so comprehensive and insightful that it provides a roadmap for the future – especially when its cast of characters are the lawyered-up megabanks on Wall Street and their legions of lobbyists and public relations flacks. We’re referring to Taming the Megabanks:…
BanksterCrime By Ryan Gorman, principal at PR firm Gorman Strategies Presidential debates cover the issues that polling shows are most important – immigration, healthcare, the economy, climate change. So why was crypto not mentioned even once Thursday night? Neither the American public nor the two presidential candidates care very much about crypto, the debate showed.…
BanksterCrime By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: Both Bloomberg News and the Wall Street Journal have now reported that it’s not just presidential candidate Donald Trump that is proposing a U.S. Sovereign Wealth Fund, but that President Joe Biden’s administration is also exploring the idea. The Wall Street Journal reported as follows on the Biden plan…
Bankster Trump and Paulson’s Proposal: U.S. Sovereign Wealth Fund (or Another Grifter Bailout) By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: John Paulson Last Thursday, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump spoke before the Economic Club of New York. During the speech, Trump revealed that if he wins the election he will create a U.S. Sovereign Wealth Fund. Sovereign…
BanksterCrime A Wall Street Regulator Is Understating Margin Debt by More than $4 Trillion – Because It’s Not Counting Giant Banks Making Margin Loans to Hedge Funds By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: Most market watchers rely on the monthly margin debt figures published by Wall Street’s self-regulator, FINRA, as the reliable gauge in determining how…
BanksterCrime: After JPMorgan Threatens to Sue, the Fed Cuts Its Capital Requirement on the 5-Count Felon from a Planned 25 Percent Hike to Less than 8 Percent… By Pam Martens and Russ Martens, It appears that Senator Elizabeth Warren was spot on in her assessment of the lack of a backbone for Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome…
BanksterCrime: By Pam Martens and Russ Martens, The Office of Financial Research (OFR), the federal agency created after the 2008 financial collapse on Wall Street to defog the lenses of federal regulators to prevent a replay of that disaster, has posted frightening graphs on its website as part of its “Hedge Fund Monitor.” Particularly alarming…
Deep Dive into the Dark Side of Banking and Its Handmaiden, Central Banks, Its All Build On Thin Air
By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: January 9, 2024 ~ Last September, speaking at a conference sponsored by the nonprofit watchdog, Better Markets, to examine if “too big to fail” banks had materially changed in the fifteen years since the 2008 financial collapse, Anat Admati, Professor of Finance and Economics at Stanford Graduate School of Business, offered…