Posts Tagged ‘Corruption’
2/24/24 Get Prepared: Trump Says Bitcoin Has Taken on ‘a Life of Its Own,’ Will Probably Need Some Regulation, Trump’s Bad For The Country and Americans
By SRH, Former president stated he was “not a fan” of cryptocurrencies and called the central bank’s digital currency dangerous, vowing to ban them if elected.Trump said, “I can live with it,” about bitcoin before the South Carolina primary.A softening posture may result. The president said he was “not a fan” of cryptocurrencies in 2019.…
2/23/24: These Charts Reveal Why the Fed Is Frightened about Capital Levels at the Wall Street Mega Banks
By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: According to Federal Reserve data dating back to July 3, 1985 – a span of close to 39 years – there has not been a time when the largest 25 banks were bleeding deposits on the scale that has been happening for the past 22 months. There has also never been…
2/21/24:Why “Free” Markets are a Myth: The REAL War on Humanity is Satan vs. Jesus and NOT Right vs. Left
by Brian ShilhavyIn 2003, Jamie Johnson, the son of billionaires and one of the heirs to the Johnson & Johnson fortune, produced a documentary about what it was like to grow up in the United States as a child of billionaires, where one has so much inherited wealth, that you never have to work, and…
2/20/24:JPMorgan Says Its “Trading Venues” Are Under Investigation While It’s Still on Probation for Prior Trading Crimes
By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: Jamie Dimon Sits in Front of Trading Monitor in his Office (Source: 60 Minutes Interview, November 10, 2019) Last Friday, ahead of a three-day weekend when bad news could be expected to evaporate into the ether by the next news cycle, JPMorgan Chase dropped a bombshell in its 10-K (annual report)…
2/19/24: Jamie Dimon Is Desperate to Pin the Jeffrey Epstein Scandal on Jes Staley; Bloomberg News Is Carrying His Water — Again
By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: February 16, 2024 ~ Jeffrey Epstein (left); Jamie Dimon (right). After hurling salacious allegations for months against Jes Staley in a federal lawsuit JPMorgan Chase had brought against its former executive, the bank decided last September to quietly settle the case without disclosing the terms. The bank sued Staley after it…
2/16/24: Banks Are Being Rocked Again as Real Estate Losses Mount
By Anna Cooban, CNN 4 minute read London CNN — Nearly a year on from a banking crisis that led to the collapse of three US regional lenders and the emergency takeover of Credit Suisse in Europe, a fresh chill is running through banks as far apart as New York, Tokyo and Zurich. Common to…
2/15/24: Citigroup Is Having a Very Bad Week; Regulators Are Breathing Down Its Neck
By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: Sanford (Sandy) Weill, the Man Who Walked Away from Citigroup a Billionaire Before Its Collapse At the exact moment that the stock market closed on Monday, Reuters dropped a bombshell in Warren Buffett’s lap with news that federal banking regulators are breathing down Citigroup’s neck. Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway owns 55,244,797 shares…
2/14/24: Five Wall Street Banks Hold $223 Trillion in Derivatives — 83 Percent of All Derivatives at 4,600 Banks
By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: February 13, 2024 ~ According to the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC), derivatives played a major role in the financial crash of 2007 to 2010 in the United States, the worst financial crisis in the U.S. since the Great Depression of the 1930s. The FCIC wrote in its final report: “…the…
2/13/24: Jamie Dimon’s Statement Last Month that Trump “Was Kind of Right About NATO,” Sounds Even More Unhinged Today
By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: Jamie Dimon Being Sworn In at House Financial Services Committee Hearing, May 27, 2021 On January 17 of this year, during a CNBC interview during the World Economic Forum in Davos, the Chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase, Jamie Dimon, made the unhinged remark that Donald Trump “was kind of right…
2/12/24: The U.S. Treasury’s Financial Crisis Warning Bell Didn’t Ring Before the Repo Crisis of 2019 or This Year’s Bank Runs
BanksterCrime: By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: The Office of Financial Research (OFR) is a unit of the U.S. Treasury Department. OFR was created as part of the Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation of 2010 to keep the Financial Stability Oversight Council (F-SOC) informed about emerging threats that have the potential to spread contagion throughout the U.S.…