By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: On Sunday, February 4, the CBS program 60 Minutes aired a taped interview with Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. The actual interview had occurred three days earlier and was conducted by 60 Minutes interviewer Scott Pelley….
3/22/24: FTX Was Down to Last 105 Bitcoins When Bankruptcy Rescue Crew Arrived: John Ray,Ray Said Bankman-Fried’s Victims “Will Never Be Returned to the Same Economic Position They Would Have Been in Today Absent His Colossal Fraud
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…
3/20/24:During Spring Bank Panic of 2023, Liquidity Advances from FHLBs Topped Those of Q4 2008, when Wall Street Was in Collapse
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…
3/14/24: Brace Yourself for the Unraveling of the Stock Market, Banking Sector and the Rise of Bitcoin’s Financial Powerhouse!
By SRH, One of today’s biggest stories was the record net inflow into BTC ETFs yesterday – above $1BN for the first time since inception… Source: Bloomberg These bars are formulated for special skin needs. Our soaps are gentle and…
3/11/24: Jerome Powell Openly Admits That Banks Will Collapse This Year
By SRH, Earlier this week, in a Senate Banking Committee, the esteemed Fed Chair Jerome Powell reluctantly acknowledged that the United States is bound to confront a series of unavoidable banking collapses this year. However, he audaciously asserts that this…
3/10/24: Crude Oil, Gold, and Other Commodities’ Closing Prices
By SRH, In the stock market today, benchmark U.S. crude oil for April delivery experienced a decline of 92 cents, settling at $78.01 per barrel on Friday. Similarly, Brent crude for May delivery also fell by 88 cents, reaching $82.08…
3/8/24: Steve Mnuchin, the Treasury Secretary Under Trump and Known for His Involvement in Foreclosures, Teams up With Hedge Fund Individuals To Acquire a Struggling Bank Backed by Federal Insurance for Just $2 per Share.
By SRH, Steve Mnuchin, the former Treasury Secretary under Trump, has joined forces with his associates from his time as a foreclosure mogul at OneWest and various hedge funds and private equity firms to orchestrate a takeover at the struggling…
3/7/24: Wall Street Mega Banks Have Created a Circular Firing Squad with Credit Derivatives and Capital Relief Trades – with the Fed’s Blessing
By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: On June 11, 2015, the Office of Financial Research (OFR) released a sobering report on how banks were reducing their requirements to hold adequate capital against potential losses by engaging in non-transparent “capital relief trades” with…
3/6/24: New York Community Bancorp Was JPMorgan’s Top Regional Bank Pick for 2024; It’s Lost 73 Percent Y-T-D and Had Its Deposit Rating Downgraded to Junk
By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: New York Community Bancorp’s tumultuous share price descent began on January 31 when the bank filed an 8K form with the SEC indicating a $260 million net income loss in the fourth quarter; a dividend cut from…
3/5/24: Watchdog, Better Markets, Investigates the Bank that Has Lost 65 Percent of Its Market Value in Two Months and Was Downgraded to Junk by Moody’s
By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: The widely respected banking and Wall Street watchdog, Better Markets, has a new report out on the latest teetering bank holding company, New York Community Bancorp (ticker NYCB). The title of the well-researched report pretty much…