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There is no criminal enterprise more organized than the modern banking industry. Wait, that may be unfair. It’s not really criminal if the government legalizes it once you start doing it. Still, if anyone else was doing it… This is somewhat old news, but worth passing on, as reported by Pam Martens at Wall Street […]

Much has been written about the fact, as reported by the Times, that the banks, not being satisfied with using our money to gamble, are now using it to corner the market in metals, enabled as always by a compliant Fed and Congress. Read the Times article for the details, if you haven’t already. It’s […]

Life is good for bankers, in good times and bad. When you commit massive fraud you get a slap on the wrist that barely eats into the profits realized from that fraud, and you get to decide who you’ve ripped off too. But, the icing on the cake is that you’ll never get caught for […]

Periodically issues crop up that give an accurate, and usually depressing, indication of the extent to which our alleged democracy is or is not the captive of the elites. Here’s one that’s been flying under my radar, at least, and probably almost everyone else’s. It seems the banks have discovered that special tax breaks are […]

David Atkins asserts that someday it will be a crime for Wal-mart to pay its employees so little that most of them end up getting food stamps or some other form of government aid. I’m not sure about that, but it occurs to me that a sufficiently creative state legislature could do something about this. […]