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Big Banks have abandoned small businesses
Bank of America and company ... funding "small businesses" that make $20 million per year. The numbers are just staggering. Bank of America and Citibank, who collectively control about 20% of all...
View ArticleLetting the 1% Make Our Arguments For Us
Frankly speaking, the 1% can make our argument for us better than anyone else. So here's what I'm doing. I'm taking CitiGroup's 2005 Plutonomy Report and posting excerpts from it on the doors of my...
View ArticleOccupy Wall Street: First Federal Civil Rights Lawsuit Filed Against NYPD
Two Occupy Wall Street protesters filed the first federal civil rights lawsuit brought against the NYPD in connection with the OWS movement on Monday, claiming they were falsely arrested and subjected...
View ArticleDistrict Judge says No More Business as Usual, Non-Disclosure Settlements
I seriously hope, that this is a start of a serious new trend ... a trend in actual accountability ... Citi Ruling Could Chill SEC, Street Legal Pacts by Jean Eaglesham and Chad Bray, wsj.com -- Nov...
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A Declaration of War on the Big Banks.
Martha Coakley, the Attorney General of Massachusetts, is already waging war. As David Dayen at FiredogLake puts it, writing about the lawsuit Coakley has filed on behalf of Massachusetts' citizens:...
View Article5 Ways You Can Occupy Wall Street
Thousands of people across the world are actively maintaining the front line of the Occupy movement; this article is not for those people. Those protestors are currently engrossed in alchemizing...
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SEC=Selective Enforcement Bailouts/ Bargains/ Cover UPs - Sachs/ Citibank
In New York, the 2nd Circuit has hired "RWing" to handle Judge Rakoff's case. is this just satire, snark or something greater Hidden. There's very little debate on the fact of, whether or not,...
View ArticleWhich Golden Rule?
It was very big of Richard Parsons to admit that the repeal of Glass-Steagall (the law that had kept traditional commercial banking walled off from Wall Street speculators for more than 60 years) was...
View ArticleUPDATED: SHOW ME THE PAPERWORK: Are Many Student Loans Uncollectible? DKos...
Will the DKos lawyers please take a look. How do we get itemized statements from the Student Loan Lenders? Copies of original Promissory Notes? All financial records? Without which, how can we know...
View ArticleBanksters & Gangsters: HSBC Will Testify On Money Laundering Tuesday
Ah, it seems like only yesterday Bank of America was caught laundering money for the Mexican Drug Cartels. Though to be fair Citigroup also got caught money laundering to Mexico. But don't worry other...
View ArticleLibor, Sandy Weill, and Endless Corruption
Note: This post was written by donnyg1941 and JeffreeB By now you've probably heard of Libor, the London Interbank Offered Rate, and the scandal surrounding it. And unless you have an advanced degree...
View ArticleIs Bernanke just bailing out banks again?
I'm an idiot, completely unqualified. But last I remember, mortgage backed securities were what were at the center of the economic meltodown of 2008, at the center of bank/mortgage company meltdowns,...
View ArticleWho Is More Valuable?
So, Chicago teachers agreed to end their strike, and go back to teaching for an average of $77,000 per year. Which made me think: which is a better bargain? A short rumination.
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Additional Ideas For Justifying U.S. Government Assassination of American...
The movie J. Edgar [Hoover] starring Leonardo DiCaprio opens with a scene of a bombing at the house of then Attorney General Mitchell Palmer. Historically, this bombing was part of a terror (some...
View ArticleHUNTING THE BIG UMBER BIRD
I have to tell you a very dull story. It relates no shootouts, no hangings, no burnings at the stake. This story would make a really bad comic book, er, sorry, graphic novel. Heck, it would make an...
View ArticleCitigroup in Violation of Money Laundering Laws - No Problemma
Get the anti-nausea drugs out. Citi found in violation of money laundering laws by two different Federal bank regulators. Now the Federal Reserve has also cited them and have given them 60 days to...
View ArticleNY-18: When Democrats go bad
The NY-18 congressional district is one of the swingiest in New York state. Redrawn in 2010, it was held by a tea partier and was high on the DCCC's "red-to-blue" list in 2012. It's now rep'd by...
View ArticleWeekly Mulch: Nuclear Plants will go up in Georgia
By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium BloggerIf 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 Article@Citibank Running Major New Ad Campaign on Rush Limbaugh Show
The past few days have seen a flurry of new ads for the CitiBank Thank You Preferred card on the controversial Rush Limbaugh Show.After not being heard since two ads in May, 2012, Citi ads have aired...
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Major Bank Renounces Rush Limbaugh After Twitter Bomb
Sunday night, memes such as above were spreading throughout Twitter and Facebook, asking people to tweet and post messages to Citibank to request the mega bank pull its ads from the Rush Limbaugh...
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