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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 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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Mega banks

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…

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2/16/24: Banks Are Being Rocked Again as Real Estate Losses Mount

By Anna Cooban, CNN 4 minute read London CNN  —  Nearly a year on from a banking crisis that led to the collapse of three US regional lenders and the emergency takeover of Credit Suisse in Europe, a fresh chill…

2/15/24: Citigroup Is Having a Very Bad Week; Regulators Are Breathing Down Its Neck

By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: Sanford (Sandy) Weill, the Man Who Walked Away from Citigroup a Billionaire Before Its Collapse At the exact moment that the stock market closed on Monday, Reuters dropped a bombshell in Warren Buffett’s lap with news…

2/14/24: Five Wall Street Banks Hold $223 Trillion in Derivatives — 83 Percent of All Derivatives at 4,600 Banks

By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: February 13, 2024 ~ According to the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC), derivatives played a major role in the financial crash of 2007 to 2010 in the United States, the worst financial crisis in the U.S….

2/13/24: Jamie Dimon’s Statement Last Month that Trump “Was Kind of Right About NATO,” Sounds Even More Unhinged Today

By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: Jamie Dimon Being Sworn In at House Financial Services Committee Hearing, May 27, 2021 On January 17 of this year, during a CNBC interview during the World Economic Forum in Davos, the Chairman and CEO of…

2/12/24: The U.S. Treasury’s Financial Crisis Warning Bell Didn’t Ring Before the Repo Crisis of 2019 or This Year’s Bank Runs

BanksterCrime: By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: The Office of Financial Research (OFR) is a unit of the U.S. Treasury Department. OFR was created as part of the Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation of 2010 to keep the Financial Stability Oversight Council…

2/9/24: The Bank Crash Is Near, NYCB Downgraded to Junk; Shocking Charts for Citigroup, Barclays and Deutsche Bank

By SRH, Soon after the three bank failures, Joe Biden said “Americans can have confidence that the banking system is safe” and “your deposits will be there when you need them.” Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says the U.S. financial sector…

2/7/24, SRH: Reporters Who Ask Tough Questions at Fed Press Conferences Often Disappear. Don’t Mess With the Feds or You’ll Vanish!

BY SRH: He Federal Reserve Recently Disclosed Its Preliminary Income and Expenses for 2023, Revealing an Unprecedented $114.3 Billion in Operational Losses. The Federal Reserve is a privately held corporation. Congress shall have the authority to mint money and set…

2/6/24: Jamie Dimon Has Spent $117 Billion Propping Up JPMorgan’s Share Price with Buybacks in 10 Years; He’s Counting on Trump’s MAGA Crowd to Rescue Him

By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: February 5, 2024 ~ Jamie Dimon, Chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase On January 19, Jamie Dimon stunned CNBC viewers when he launched into what sounded like a TV commercial for Republican Presidential candidate and 91-count…

2/2/24: Regional Bank Stocks Are Crashing Again…

by Tyler Durden Yesterday it was NYCB that grabbed the headlines and spoiled Powell’s day. As we detailed here (and here), the banking crisis never went away and it now appears the rest of the market realizes that too as…

2/1/24: Senator Sherrod Brown Takes on the Fed’s Support of Wealth Stripping the Middle Class

By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: Senator Sherrod Brown Smart Americans have found two ways to outwit the wealth extraction machinery on Wall Street. They buy a home and build its value over time with sweat equity; and/or they start their own…