Posts Tagged ‘Bank Cover ups’
1/30/24: The Fed Has a Dirty Little Secret: It’s Been Allowing the Wall Street Mega Banks to Calculate their Own Capital Requirements
By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: Michael Barr, Vice Chair for Supervision, Federal Reserve On July 27 of last year, the Vice Chair for Supervision at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, Michael Barr, made the following statement as part of the proposed new capital requirements for mega banks in the U.S. – revealing the stunning news…
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…
1/19/24 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…
Three Branches of U.S. Government Have Kept the Secrets of Jeffrey Epstein’s Money Man, Leslie Wexner, Locked Up Tight, Now the House of Cards Fall!
By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: January 12, 2024 ~ Leslie Wexner (left); Jack Kessler (right). Both men were involved in the New Albany Company with Jeffrey Epstein. Official photo from the New Albany Company Website. The U.S. Senate Finance Committee, part of the legislative branch of the U.S. government, is investigating why Wall Street billionaire Leon…
Bitcoin & Big-Tech Burst Higher Amid Bloodbath In Boeing & Black Gold
by Tyler Durden A quiet macro day (though we did see NYFRB inflation expectations plunge!), but some ‘good’ news from Washington reduced the risk of govt shutdown in 11 days modestly. However, there was plenty of new narrative creation from FedSpeak. Logan and Bostic double-whammy’d with ‘not as dovish as the market thinks’ comments on…
JPMorgan and Jeffrey Epstein Explained: Twisted Banking Taps into Sex Fiend’s Network
By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: Jamie Dimon, Chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase According to the complaint filed by lawyers for Jeffrey Epstein’s victims against the biggest bank in America, JPMorgan Chase, Epstein was running a “sex-themed cult.” According to a deposition of a JPMorgan banker, the only money-generating business that Epstein had was tending to…
Mainstream Media Is Avoiding the Big Story on Jeffrey Epstein and Sealed Court Documents
I Didn’t Have Sex With That Woman Giuffre v. Maxwell (1:15-cv-07433)District Court, S.D. New York https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4355835/giuffre-v-maxwell/ he Jeffrey Epstein files have been unsealed. As expected, former President Bill Clinton is prominently featured – as John Doe #36 (for another good look at this – the first of several Epstein doc dumps to come, check out…
Federal Agency Study Contradicts Fed Chair: Finds Banking System Is Ripe for Another Crisis and Remains “Fragile and Uncertain”
By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: Following the second, third and fourth largest bank failures in U.S. history in the spring of last year, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell gave his semiannual monetary policy report to the House Financial Services Committee and the Senate Banking Committee in June. During both appearances, Powell stated the same thing: “The U.S.…