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Chase Bank Jamie Dimon

Jamie Dimon’s House of Frauds Is the Target of More Than 200 Investigations…\ BanksterCrime By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: November 4, 2024 ~ Jamie Dimon, Chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase The largest bank in the United States, JPMorgan Chase, has a…

explosives in pagers

BanksterCrime By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: U.S. Secretary of Commerce, Gina Raimondo Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced it was proposing to ban certain technologies from China and Russia in U.S. automobiles. The U.S. Secretary of Commerce, Gina Raimondo,…

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Telegram

By BanksterCrime Telegram Will Share User Data with Governments Following CEO’s ArrestThese adjustments follow the arrest of the app’s CEO, Pavel Durov, in France last month. Changes to Telegram’s privacy restrictions were substantial on Monday. In a Monday post, Telegram…

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Fed Corruption federal deposit insurance

BanksterCrime Wall Street Has Moved Vast Sums of Its Trading to Its Federally-Insured Banks By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: September 23, 2024 ~ President Bill Clinton Laughs It Up as He Signs the Repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act, November 12,…

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Goldman Banker Goldman Sachs Banker

Goldman Sachs’ Bank Derivatives Have Grown from $40 Trillion to $54 Trillion in Five Years; So How Did Its Credit Exposure Improve by 200 Percent? By BanksterCrime: Source: Pam Martens and Russ Martens, Last Friday, Goldman Sachs Bank USA, the federally-insured,…

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Fed Corruption Federal Reserve

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…

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Crypto Fraud

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…

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3/13/24: A New York Times Financial Writer Acknowledges That He Has Been Fabricating Bank Capital Figures for the Past 14 Years

By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: Andrew Ross Sorkin Yesterday, in an emailed newsletter to readers of the New York Times, financial writer Andrew Ross Sorkin effectively admitted that he has had no clue what bank capital actually is for the past…

3/12/24: Bitcoin Surges Past Silver As World’s 8th Largest Asset After UK Greenlights Crypto-Backed Notes

by Tyler Durden Bitcoin soared above $72,000 for the first time in history this morning, far surpassing its historical (inflation-adjusted highs)… Source: Bloomberg “This rally comes following a weak Asian trading session in which shorts tested the conviction of longs…

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…

3/11/24: Bitcoin Halving,Analyzing The Key Event In Bitcoin’s History

by Tyler Durden Authored by Brian Nibley via Finance Magnates.com, With spot Bitcoin ETFs having been approved the same year that the halving is set to take place, many newcomers to the space may be wondering: what is the Bitcoin…

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…

3/5/24: 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…

3/4/24: Bank Failures Since 2009–The New Norm Banks Collapse

Earlier in the year Silicon Valley Bank failed March 10 and then Signature Bank failed two days later, ending the unusual streak of more than 800 days without a bank failure. Before Citizens Bank failed Friday, Heartland Tri-State Bank failed…

2/3/24: Which Banks Are In Trouble In 2024?

BanksterCrime: The worst banks in America of 2024 It’s important to keep in mind that even if a bank is featured here, that doesn’t mean it should be avoided at all costs — these are still major businesses with large…