Bankster Crime

Exposing Fraud in the Banking System

Latest Blog Post

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,…

Loading

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…

Loading

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,…

Loading

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,…

Loading

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…

Loading

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…

Loading

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…

Loading

Latest post

S&P Futures Hit All Time Highs On Stimulus, Vaccine Hopes; Gold, Silver Tumble

S&P 500 futures hit a record high as investors shrugged off continuing U.S.-China tensions and instead focused on news of an approved, if largely unclear, Russian vaccine, and more stimulus optimism as President Donald Trump said he’s considering a tax…

Nasdaq Tumbles Into Red, Erases Vaccine Spike As ‘Memo Meltdown’ Continues

All major US equity indices spiked in the early hours overnight on the back of optimistic vaccine headlines from Russia. However, while Russell 2000 futures are holding gains up over 1%, Nasdaq has tumbled into the red as the last few…

The Economy Is Mortally Wounded

A fully financialized, totally debt and speculation-dependent economy is terminal once leverage and debt stop expanding exponentially. We all know the movie scene in which the character is wounded but dismisses it as no big deal, and then lurches into…

Morgan Stanley Sounds The Alarm On Record High Bond Duration, Is Starting To Buy Bond Volatility

You Have More Duration than You Think 2020 has seen a pandemic inflict enormous human and economic cost. In 2Q, the global economy contracted by the largest amount on record and, as autumn approaches, major questions around returning to school,…

Another Bank Bailout Under Cover of a Virus

Bulls Charge To All-Time Highs As discussed previously in “Insanely Stupid,” we noted the market remained confined to its consolidation channel, but the bullish bias was to the upside. “While the market has not been able to push above the recent July…

Russia-China “DE dollarization” Reaches “Breakthrough Moment” As Countries Ditch Greenback For Bilateral Trade

Late last year, data released by the PBOC and the Russian Central Bank shone a light on a disturbing – at least, for the US – trend: As the Trump Administration ratcheted up sanctions pressure on Russia and China, both…

“World On Verge Of Spinning Out Of Control”

Financial writer John Rubino says gold is at new all-time highs, silver is vaulting upward and there is no end in sight for the massive money printing around the world.  Rubino say’s if you look deeper, you can see the “real…

It’s Happening Again… Investors Dump Everything ‘China’

Global stock markets plunged Friday as tensions between the US and China spiral out of control.  Stocks in Hong Kong and mainland China tumbled after Beijing ordered Washington to cease all operations at its consulate in the city of Chengdu. This came days after Washington ordered the Chinese consulate…

Blain: Excess Liquidity Is “Blinding Idiots To Dangerous Reality”

Bubbles are far more dangerous when they are fueled by debt” “This time it’s different”, is one of the most dangerous beliefs in financial markets. This time, things are different – but for a reason. Global Central Banks have pumped…

WTI Holds Losses As US Distillates Stocks Reach 38-Year Highs

Oil prices are lower overnight after a surprisingly large crude inventory build reported by API. The energy complex was not helped by comments by President Trump that the COVID-19 outbreak in the U.S. will probably worsen before improving. “Everything seemed to rise in…