1/26/24: The Battle Over Capital at the Mega Banks Must Expand to Breaking Them Up
By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: Last Thursday, 12 Democrats in the U.S. Senate sent a deeply insightful letter on a subject most Americans have never discussed around their kitchen table: adequate capital levels at the Wall Street mega banks that came close to bringing down the U.S. financial system in 2008. Before that financial crisis was…
1/25/24: Robert Kaplan Was Heavily Trading on May 1, 2020; One Day After a Fed Blackout Period and the Same Day He Made a Shocking Prediction on TV
By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: Robert Kaplan, Former President of the Dallas Fed To read main stream media headlines, one would think that the Federal Reserve Inspector General’s Office has exonerated former Dallas Fed President Robert Kaplan of any legal action for trading like a hedge fund kingpin while he was privy to insider information at…
1/24/24: Naming Names, Professor Exposes the Banking Cartel that Has Hijacked U.S. Democracy
By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: Gerald Epstein is Professor of Economics and a Founding Co-Director of the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. A book he has spent the past decade researching and writing comes out today from the University of California Press: Busting the Bankers’ Club: Finance for the Rest…
1/23/23: A Fed Whistleblower Reveals Efforts to Silence Him 30 Years Ago
By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: Walker F. Todd, Former New York Fed and Cleveland Fed Insider The U.S. Department of Justice needs to immediately appoint an independent Special Counsel to investigate how long and in how many ways the U.S. Central Bank (the Federal Reserve or simply “the Fed”) has been functioning as a protection racket…
1/22/24 How the Government Constructs Positive Economic Data, Its All Made-Up
by Tyler Durden Via SchiffGold.com, A startling disconnect as we edge closer to the 2024 general election: On one hand, so-called “experts” parade optimistic economic reports, but for the average American, the story is starkly different. In heated debates, economists squabble over whether the public is hoodwinking pollsters or if mysterious forces are at play. Our guest columnist explains…
1/20/24 The DOJ’s Incestuous Relationship with Jamie Dimon is Captured in a Graphic from an Historic Lawsuit
By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: January 18, 2024 ~ On February 10, 2014, the non-profit watchdog, Better Markets, took a bold and historic action. It filed a federal lawsuit against the highest law enforcement agency and officer in the United States – the U.S. Department of Justice and the man who sat at its helm, Attorney General…
1/19/24 The DOJ’s Incestuous Relationship with Jamie Dimon Is Captured in a Graphic from an Historic Lawsuit
Jamie Dimon Calls Bitcoin “Shit” Because He Confuses It With Fiat Money by Tyler Durden A lot has changed since 2017. Back then, in what was the first recorded comments by Jamie Dimon on the topic of bitcoin and crypto, the JPM head was not shy to let the world know how he felt: back…
China’s Stock Market Is in Free Fall 1/18/24
After a challenging couple of years for the Chinese economy, the country’s stock market appears to be in free fall, with officials urging institutional investors not to sell assets in an effort to keep share prices stable as foreigners withdraw. Chinese equities slumped on Monday as the central bank decided to hold its medium-term policy…
Citigroup Will Shed 20,000 Positions by 2026 Following a $1.8 Billion a Shortfall 1/17/24
2026 job cuts by Citigroup following a $1.8 billion lossOver the next two years, Citigroup anticipates cutting 20,000 positions, or roughly 10% of its staff, the bank, with its headquarters in New York, stated on Friday. The third-largest bank in the country made the announcement after a “very disappointing” fourth quarter, according to CEO Jane…
Jamie Dimon Hires Dodd-Frank Hatchet Man to Weigh Suing the Fed Over Proposed Capital Rules 1/16/24
y Pam Martens and Russ Martens: January 16, 2024 ~ Gibson Dunn Law Partner, Eugene Scalia Jamie Dimon is the Chairman and CEO of the largest federally-insured, taxpayer-backstopped bank in the United States, JPMorgan Chase. Through much of Dimon’s tenure, JPMorgan Chase has also been designated as the riskiest bank in the United States by its regulators.…