Get mad at the right people (poll)
So I see many diaries in which progressives attack progressives of a different stripe. And then other diaries attacking progressives for attacking fellow progressives, which seems a tad...
View ArticleGrayson on: Secret Bailouts, Fed Audit, & Rewarding Failure
If you DON'T Study, DON'T play by the Rules, and DON'T CARE who is hurt by your careless actions -- would you expect an "all expenses paid" Scholarship? ... or record Bonuses? ... or more free Mad...
View ArticleHow Citibank TARP funds wound up in Dubai
Most are familiar with the Chinese Curse "May you live in interesting times". Some of the stories from the financial world over the last few years make me yearn for times that are only "interesting....
View ArticleKuwait sells off Citibank Stake for $1.1bn PROFIT
CALLING ALL ECONOMIC GENIUSES HERE. A few quick questions, K? Apparently, in January, 2008 Kuwait bought $3 Billion dollars of Citibank's preferred shares to help City out. Eight months before "we...
View ArticleDid Team Rubins...HiJack the Nation and Obama Administration
The Players.. Geithner Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner in this up to his eye balls. A Rubinite since the Clinton Administration SUMMERS As director of the NEC, meanwhile, Obama installed economic...
View ArticleCiti's ex-CEO wallows in self-pity
Citigroup, the global financial giant in which you, the taxpayer, own a quarter of the shares due to that company's catastrophic bets with other people's money, was started by one man, Sanford "Sandy"...
View ArticleWeekly Mulch: Nuclear Plants will go up in Georgia
By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger If you were to look out to the horizon of the clean energy field right now, you would see the hazy outlines of nuclear reactors. President Barack Obama...
View ArticleIf you live in Texas and use CITIBANK, watch out!
CITIBANK has sent out a notice on its statements sent out nationwide that effective in April, they will reserve to themselves the right to spring a 7-day-wait-before-withdrawal rule on checking...
View ArticleIs Citi expecting a bank run?
I got a message from a friend on Facebook today... On the latest CitiBank statement: "Effective April 1, 2010, we reserve the right to require (7) days advance notice before permitting a withdrawal...
View ArticleNYT: NY Fed, Ernst & Young Enabled Lehman; Others Involved
In the most incisive reporting yet by a major news outlet concerning the NY Fed's stealthy enabling of Lehman Brothers and other Wall Street firms to cook their books prior to the September '08...
View ArticleGrad Students At Columbia Tell Their School A Wall St CEO Is Unacceptable
(From TWD) It already is bad enough when your college announces as your commencement speaker a person who really doesn't meet your expectations. But it's even more unbearable when your school selects a...
View ArticleCitibank fails to prove Mortgage Ownership, in Foreclosure Suit
Thank goodness. It couldn't have happen a day too soon. NBC Nightly News (03-09-09) Tent Cities of Homeless Springing Up In Bad Times http://www.youtube.com/... Tent City, USA http://www.youtube.com/...
View ArticleDems Come Alive! ...a follow-up
Friends, Ok! We're halfway through the week and we're off to a great start. Last week I gave the spineless Dems five friendly suggestions for things they could do on the off chance they were interested...
View ArticleMaxine Waters On Fire At Fraudclosure Hearing
Clearly, no one suspected this would make such good TV. C-Span cut away to Rangel, and it's taken some searching to find live video. No cps, but I'm sure some key exchanges will go viral.
View Article"J.R. Ewing" Shoots from the Hip
Those Kossacks of a certain age will remember the TV drama Dallas and the arch-capitalist JR Ewing, whom everyone loved to hate. The actor who played JR, Larry Hagman, now 79, is traveling in Austria...
View ArticleUS Snubs Possible Al Qaeda 'Olive Branch'
In recent weeks, officials from the FBI/NYPD Joint Terrorism Task Force have briefed security officials of top Wall Street firms about the existence of a Yemen-based Al Qaeda plot to attack major banks...
View ArticleFriday's Kaufman Hearing Transcript: The Must-Read Mother Of All Corporate...
This is one of those posts where--due to the profound nature of the words of others--anything I would have to add to the story is a waste of time. So, it's ironic that I think this may just be the...
View ArticleOh man... that felt GOOD!
Just got off the phone with Citibank. I've called them several times asking for a better interest rate on my credit card to no avail and have been diligently working to pay off the card. Today was the...
View ArticleAllegation: Citibank Thugs Using Violence in Indonesia
Citibank in Indonesia is under fire on a couple of fronts this week in Indonesia.
View Article60 Minutes Exposes Massive Foreclosure Fraud
Leading mortgage servicers such as HSBC, Wells Fargo, and Deutsche Bank have been using forged documents to foreclose on homeowners, reports 60 Minutes: Wall Street cut corners when it created those...
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