The Perfect Storm Hits Big Banks: Tumbling Deposits, Rising Unrealized Losses, and Higher-for-Longer Interest Rates
BanksterCrime: By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: September 25, 2023 ~ On March 30, 2022, two highly troubling events occurred: (1) Fed data showed that unrealized losses on available-for-sale securities at the 25 largest U.S. banks were approaching the levels they had reached during the financial crisis in 2008; and (2) the Fed simply stopped reporting…
Jamie Dimon to Testify at Senate Banking Hearing; Don’t Expect His Bank’s Financing of Sex Trafficking or 5 Felony Counts to Come Up
BanksterCrime: By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: Jamie Dimon Being Sworn In at House Financial Services Committee Hearing, May 27, 2021 Tomorrow at 9:30 a.m., the CEOs of the eight mega banks on Wall Street will take their seats at a hearing called by the Senate Banking Committee as part of its annual nod to the…
The Number of IPO Listings Has Plunged in the U.S. While Some Investors Are Nursing Losses of 70 to 95 Percent
BanksterCrime: By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: Through last Friday, there have been 148 IPOs (Initial Public Offerings) in the U.S. this year, the lowest number in the past six years. But what is more striking about the U.S. IPO market is how poorly these IPOs have performed for investors. Through December 1, 87 of the…
After Two Years, There’s Still No Law Enforcement Report on Former Dallas Fed President Robert Kaplan’s Trading Like a Hedge Fund Kingpin
BanksterCrime: By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: October 31, 2023 ~ Robert Kaplan, Former President of the Dallas Fed To understand how truly bizarre and alarming the trading scandal case involving former Dallas Fed President Robert Kaplan is, some important background is necessary: Kaplan didn’t just trade in and out of stocks while a voting member of…
JPMorgan Chase Paid $1.085 Billion in Legal Expenses in Last Six Months; It’s Still Battling Hundreds of Charges and Legal Proceedings on Three Continents–Con Job Chase
BanksterCrime: By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: At some point, federal regulators, the Senate Banking Committee and the criminal division of the U.S. Department of Justice are going to reach the same conclusion that Wall Street On Parade reached quite some time ago: JPMorgan Chase is a criminal enterprise in drag as a federally-insured bank. JPMorgan…
Watchman: Mike Johnson, A Rock-Sold Conservative and Devout Evangelical Christian, Is a Beloved Friend of Those Who Cherish Religious Liberty and Religious Liberty. Satan Soldiers Hates This Man and Have Already Started Their Ruthless Attacks
BanksterCrime: The Opposition Is Already Viciously Attacking Speaker of the House Mike Johnson… New House Speaker Kicks Things Off With Crass Remark About His Wife Representative Mike Johnson made a gross gaffe about his wife in his acceptance speech. Usually when a new speaker of the House is elected, they have major plans to unveil,…
The Data Missing from Wall Street Economists: Skyrocketing Disabilities and Injuries in U.S. Workforce After COVID-19 “Vaccines”
BanksterCrime: by Brian Shilhavy Editor, Health Impact News The word “unprecedented” is being used more and more in financial news stories these days to describe the economy, and on financial news sites you can often read articles describing the same thing, but interpreting the data in completely opposite ways. Take the “jobs market” data which…
Federal Reserve, Any System That Is This Inherently Corrupt Will Eventually Collapse Under the Weight of Its Own Corruption
BanksterCrime: By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: FRED is a giant online database at the St. Louis Fed that allows anyone to graph the financial and economic data stored in its repositories. We use the data regularly to bring our readers a crystal-clear snapshot of the increasingly dangerous underpinnings of the U.S. financial system. Let’s start…
Bank of America’s Unrealized Losses on HTM Debt Securities Total $106 Billion; 34 Percent of All Such Unrealized Losses Reported by 4,645 Banks
BanksterCrime: By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: September 26, 2023 ~ According to Bank of America’s federal regulatory filing known as the Call Report, for the quarter ending June 30, 2023, it had $105.79 billion in unrealized losses on its held-to-maturity (HTM) securities. That figure is not only far beyond the realm of what its peer…
JPMorgan Is Controlling Fossil Fuels Empire, Which Just Spilled a Million Gallons of Oil in Gulf of Mexico–This Gang of Chase Lowlifes Need to be Shut-down
BanksterCrime: By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: Tyson Slocum, Energy Program Director, Public Citizen The formidable Washington watchdog, Public Citizen, has trained its sights on JPMorgan Chase, Jamie Dimon’s house of serial frauds and felony counts that is allowed to also operate as the largest federally-insured bank in the United States. Public Citizen’s pursuit of JPMorgan…