BanksterCrime: New Study Says the Fed Is Captured by Congress and White House — Not the Megabanks that Own the Fed Banks and Get Trillions in Bailouts By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: August 15, 2024 ~ A fascinating new academic paper has been released. Its title is “The Myth of Fed Political Independence.” Its premise…
BanksterCrime: As we approach 2024, the United States banking system faces enormous issues, with figures estimating a staggering $517 billion in unrealized losses threatening the solvency of 63 institutions. This issue has thrown the entire system’s health into sharp focus, raising fears about probable insolvency and the larger economic ramifications. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation…
BanksterCrime: These FDIC-Insured Banks Have Lost 69 to 40 Percent of their Market Value Year-to-Date By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: August 13, 2024 ~ Here’s a look at three FDIC-insured banks that have lost 69 percent, 57 percent and 40 percent, respectively, of their share price year-to-date. The decline represents the change from their share…
BanksterCrime: Exposure at Hedge Funds Has Skyrocketed to Over $28 Trillion; Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan Are at Risk By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: According to a report at the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Financial Research (OFR), the Gross Notional Exposure at hedge funds has skyrocketed by 24.5 percent in the span of one…
Exposure at Hedge Funds Has Skyrocketed to Over $28 Trillion; Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan Are at Risk BanksterCrime: By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: According to a report at the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Financial Research (OFR), the Gross Notional Exposure at hedge funds has skyrocketed by 24.5 percent in the span of one…
We Charted the Plunge and Rebound in the Nikkei Versus Nomura and Citigroup; the Correlation Is Frightening
BanksterCrime: By Pam Martens and Russ Martens, Remember the Repo Crisis in the fall of 2019 when the Federal Reserve had to jump in with both feet and make billions of dollars in revolving emergency loans each weekday to the megabanks on Wall Street? And remember when Wall Street On Parade was the only media outlet…
The Debate Disaster and the Supreme Court’s “Chevron” Repeal Have a Money Trail Leading to Charles Koch
BanksterCrime: By Pam Martens and Russ Martens, Charles Koch, Chairman and CEO of Koch Industries It took the New York Times Editorial Board less than 24 hours to assess the political landscape after the disastrous presidential debate last Thursday evening and call for President Joe Biden “to announce that he will not continue to run for…
Bitcoin’s price recovery stalls above $61,000 as DXY tops 106.00. Latest Prices CoinDesk 20 Index 2,092 +3.5 ▲ 0.2% Bitcoin (BTC) $61,076 −290.9 ▼ 0.5% Ethereum (ETH) $3,393 +14.9 ▲ 0.4% S&P 500 5,477.90 +8.6 ▲ 0.2% Gold $2,325 +26.1 ▲ 1.1% Nikkei 225 $2,325 +26.1 ▲ 1.1% BTC/ETH prices per CoinDesk Indices, as of…
The Senate Race in Ohio Is the Sickest in U.S. History in Terms of Billionaire Money from Outside the State By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: Senator Sherrod Brown Senator Sherrod Brown, a Democrat and life-long Ohioan, is running for his fourth term in the U.S. Senate, after more than 17 years of proving consistently with…
Crypto Tries to Recreate the Koch Money Machine to Pack Congress with Shills BanksterCrime: Editor’s Note: For watchdog Better Markets’ detailed analysis of crypto’s “track record of lawlessness, deception, fraud, and investor losses,” see here. By Pam Martens and Russ Martens, As meticulously chronicled by Jane Mayer and numerous others, the billionaire owners of fossil fuels…