BanksterCrime: Citigroup Gets Fined $79 Million Two Years After It Caused a $300 Billion Flash Crash in European Stock Markets By Pam Martens and Russ Martens, Two U.K. regulators, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA), announced this morning that they have leveled fines totaling $78.5 million against Citigroup’s European trading arm,…

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BanksterCrime: Delinquencies on Office Property Loans at Banks Are at 8 Percent While Office Loans the Banks Sold to Investors Show 31 Percent in Trouble By Pam Martens and Russ Martens, On Friday, the Federal Reserve released its semiannual Supervision and Regulation Report on banks. Commercial real estate loans at banks – particularly on office properties…

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Cleary Gottlieb – Outside Counsel to Wall Street’s Serially Bailed Out Megabanks – Tarnishes the FDIC Chair in its So-Called “Independent” Report BanksterCrime: By Pam Martens and Russ Martens, Martin Gruenberg, Chair, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) Yesterday, the Big Law firm Cleary Gottlieb released its so-called “independent review” of charges of sexual harassment at the…

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Banks In Trouble

Why Analysts Are Apprehensive About a Potential Us Banking Disaster… The month of March 2024 is unsettling investors. One significant plan to support the US banking system is coming to an end, and another might be coming to an end. Some economic analysts are concerned about another banking catastrophe. How concerned should we then be?…

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Billionaire-Owned Media Has Gone Full Throttle to Save Fellow Billionaire, Jamie Dimon BanksterCrime: By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: The Washington Post Editorial Board appears to have sipped the same kool aid as Bloomberg News. As we’ve frequently reported in the past, Bloomberg News has spent the better part of the last decade attempting to brainwash the…

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By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: Yesterday, the U.S. Senate Banking Committee held a hearing under the title: “Examining Scams and Fraud in the Banking System and Their Impact on Consumers.” Let that title sink in for a moment – “Scams and Fraud,” “Banking System.” That’s the federally-insured banking system of the United States of America in…

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HNewsWire: By MICHAEL R. SISAK, JAKE OFFENHARTZ and JENNIFER PELTZ NEW YORK (AP) — A New York judge ordered Donald Trump on Friday to pay $355 million in penalties, finding that the former president lied about his wealth for years in a sweeping civil fraud verdict that pierces his billionaire image but stops short of putting…

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BanksterCrime: For the First Time in History, the Fed Is Reporting Billions in Losses Weekly; It’s Still Paying High Interest Income to the Mega Banks on Wall Street By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: April 8, 2024 ~ Jerome Powell, Chairman of the Federal Reserve As of April 3 of this year, the Federal Reserve (Fed) has…

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BanksterCrime: By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: April 4, 2024 ~ On Wednesday, April 3, Cathie Wood, CEO and Chief Investment Officer of ARK Investment Management, reiterated her price target of $2,000 on Tesla, the electric vehicle manufacturer. Tesla’s stock opened Wednesday at $164.02 and was trading at $168 by early afternoon. The average analyst price target…

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BanksterCrime: By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: April 3, 2024 ~ Finance Professors John Griffin (left) and Alex Priest Last August, the Journal of Finance published a study by two finance professors that should have made bold headlines in every major business newspaper in America. It didn’t – suggesting that Americans will eventually learn about Wall…

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