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Corporate Corruption - Summed Up in One Dilbert Cartoon

September 25, 2014

Corporate corruption is so rampant it's laughable, and this Dilbert cartoon sums it up nicely....

Bank of America (NYSE: BAC), the Department of Justice, and Subprime Auto Loans

August 12, 2014

Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC) is in tentative talks with the U.S. Department of Justice to pay between $16 billion to $17...

Don't Listen to the GAO - "Too Big to Fail" Is Bigger Than Ever

August 7, 2014

Last week the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report titled "Large Bank Holding Companies: Expectations of Government...

Feds Finally Put Their Scopes on the “Too Big to Jail”

May 6, 2014

Late last month, depending on how you look at it, either something wonderful happened - or the feds continued their cowardly, conniving...

How America's Big Banks Are Begging for the Next Financial Crisis

April 23, 2014

The Volcker Rule is supposed to ban banks from making hazardous and speculative trades.

But the big banks are begging for the chance to...

Three Charts That Show How Dodd-Frank Is Killing Small Banks

March 7, 2014

The Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 was hailed by its advocates as the...

Sorry CNBC, but the $13 Billion JPMorgan Fine Was No Shakedown

October 25, 2013

This week, the financial media has been up in arms about the record $13 billion fine levied on JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:

Bank of America and JPMorgan, Oh How Illegal Activity Pays

August 12, 2013

What a surprise. The big banks are not playing by the rules -- the rule of law, that is.

News last week revealed that Bank of...

Here's Proof a New Glass-Steagall Act Could Rein in the Big Banks

August 5, 2013
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The Too-Big-to-Fail banks have a notorious track record of avoiding, evading or eliminating nearly all of Washington's attempts to bring them to...

DON’T BE SO ARROGANT, MR. PRESIDENT

July 22, 2013
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Editor's Note: Romulus Augustus, the last emperor of Rome, had a lot of time to think about what went wrong to cause the...

Senators Move to Create 21st Century Glass-Steagall Act

July 12, 2013
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Warren, John McCain (R-Ariz.), Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), and Angus Kin (I-Maine) introduced legislation that would again separate bank's...

The Latest Obama Outrage: the Family's $100 Million Vacation

June 21, 2013
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How much do you spend on your summer vacation? American households usually spend about $1,200 per person on summer vacations, according to a...

A Simple, Scary Way to Neuter Goldman Sachs and Friends

April 30, 2013
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TBTF is the acronym for "too big to fail."

It's the crazy notion that certain banks are so large and systematically important (which...

Paul Krugman May Be the World's Last Flat Earth Economist

January 31, 2013
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Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times columnist Dr. Paul...

Why The Fiscal Cliff "Deal" is Spelled P-O-R-K

January 7, 2013
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After narrowly missing the fiscal cliff, the President went out of...

Why Japan's "Lost Decades" Are Headed to America in 2016

December 26, 2012
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It's only been a little more than a week since Shinzo Abe won election as Japan's latest Prime Minister in a landslide-election victory and the...

What the Last Roman Emperor Would Tell President Obama Today

August 15, 2012
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Over the course of 700 years, the ancient Roman Empire grew from a small republic to one that stretched from London to Baghdad at its...

Obamanomics: What You Can Expect if President Obama Wins the Election

May 8, 2012
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Now that we are left with a two-horse race for president, the markets are going to begin to handicap the November results.

However, when...

Iran is Now a Full-Blown Crisis, Stage Set for $200 Oil

February 8, 2012
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Just when it looked like we could take a breather from the Strait of Hormuz, all attention is back on Iran.

There are three reasons for...

What the World Will Look Like if Occupy Wall Street Wins

November 1, 2011
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There are many reasons why the Occupy...

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