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…

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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…

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Nvidia Hit a $3 Trillion Market Cap Last Week; Dark Pools Are Making Over 300,000 Trades in the Stock Weekly BanksterCrime: y Pam Martens and Russ Martens: June 10, 2024 ~ The much-hyped artificial intelligence chipmaker, Nvidia (ticker NVDA), reached a market cap of $3 trillion on Thursday, beating out Apple as the second most…

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BanksterCrime: A Former Exec at Citibank Raises Alarm Bells in Federal Court Over Failed Risk Controls Inside the Bank By Pam Martens and Russ Martens, Jane Fraser, Citigroup CEO Kathleen Martin, a former Managing Director at Citigroup’s federally-insured bank, Citibank N.A., has sued the bank and her former boss, Anand Selva, in federal court in…

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Catch and Kill Protection Rackets: Trump, Weinstein, Epstein and Wall Street… BanksterCrime: By Pam Martens and Russ Martens, Editor’s Note: This article has been edited and updated from an earlier version, published in 2020. Donald Trump — Pied Piper to Wall Street (Thumbnail)Trump and Catch and Kill: Yesterday, David Pecker, the former Chairman and CEO…

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BanksterCrime: By Pam Martens and Russ Martens, George Washington University Law Professor, Arthur Wilmarth, has done it again. After authoring the seminal book on the insidious evolution and enormous dangers still posed by the Wall Street megabanks (Taming the Megabanks: Why We Need a New Glass-Steagall Act) Wilmarth is now out with a new, gripping paper. In…

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BanksterCrime: By Nikhilesh De The U.S. House of Representatives voted largely along party lines to preventthe Federal Reserve from issuing a central bank digital currency. The CBDC Anti-Surveillance State Act, introduced by Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.), seeks to block the U.S. central bank from continuing efforts toward the development of a digital dollar. Republicans…

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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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BanksterCrime: By Pam Martens and Russ Martens, Robert Kaplan The swampiest trading house on Wall Street, Goldman Sachs, issued a press release on Tuesday which was revolting – even to Wall Street veterans who are familiar with its scandalous history. (See Related Articles below.) The press release stated that “Rob Kaplan will rejoin the firm as…

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