A trend to shift responsibility for bank losses onto blameless depositors lets banks gamble away your money. The “bail in” of depositor funds is now being made official EU policy.
Financial Crisis
Excess Reserves at the Federal Reserve
Banks’ excess reserves at FED is one of the biggest scam by the FED and there is a conspiracy of silence as to its actual implications. Economists and financial analysts spewing nonsense to mislead and divert attention to non-issues so that the public is kept in the dark.
The issue of banks’ reserves at the FED and other central banks in the world is a complex subject with much technical jargons that confuses a lot of people. Besides, don’t be surprised that your bank branch manager on Main Street as well as lecturers in finance and economics are also ignorant on this issue. In the case of the latter, this subject is hardly taught in universities. And this is the reason why the scam has not been exposed till today.
Irish Wanking Bankers – An Irishman Abroad
In case you missed this Irish Wanking Bankers – An Irishman Abroad. Uploaded with the kind permission of The Irishman Abroad.
‘You F–ked Up, You Trusted Us’: Talking Ratings Agencies With Chris Hayes
That was among the responses of a spokesperson for the ratings agency Standard & Poor’s when I contacted him a few weeks ago in advance of a new Rolling Stone feature, “The Last Mystery of the Financial Crisis,” which describes the role the ratings agencies played in causing the 2008 crash. The company was genuinely miffed that anyone would impugn its honesty. In one relatively brief e-mail, the spokesperson used variables of terms like “independent,” “integrity” and “transparent,” upwards of nine times
Surprise “Economic Coup”
Greek Government Shuts Public Broadcast Station by Christoph Dreier On Tuesday night at 11:11 p.m. Greek police forces stopped the transmission of the public broadcasting service ERT, cutting the power supply to its antennas. Workers responded by occupying the station’s main building in Athens suburb of Agia and broadcasting a protest program via satellite and internet. Thousands of sympathizers gathered […]
The Imminent Dollar Collapse, Explained To An 8-Year-Old
It’s the elephant in the room. The United States is utterly bankrupt and has been living off of borrowed money since 1971, when it defaulted on its loans — though of course, it wasn’t worded like that. Not even an income tax of 100% is enough to cover the expenses, and the US is about to go the way of […]
Washington Signals Dollar Deep Concerns
Over the past month there has been a statistically improbable concurrence of events that can only be explained as a conspiracy to protect the dollar from the Federal Reserve’s policy of Quantitative Easing (QE) by Paul Craig Roberts Quantitative Easing is the term given to the Federal Reserve’s policy of printing 1,000 billion new dollars annually in order to finance […]
More Americans Committing Suicide than During the Great Depression
Higher Numbers of Americans Take Their Lives than During the Depths of the Great Depression Suicide rates are tied to the economy by Washington’s Blog The Boston Globe reported in 2011: A new report issued today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention finds that the overall suicide rate rises and falls with the state of the economy — […]
Fearlessness Grows From the Grass Roots
US Protest Movement against the Banksters by Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers As more people see that the government represents Wall Street and concentrated wealth, instead of them; that the government continues to give the banksters who crashed the economy a break while cutting access to basic necessities, that the government continues to put big energy profits ahead of protecting the planet – more people are […]
Recovery?: One-In-Five Britons Borrow Money To Afford To Eat
While GBP jumped and the world celebrated the UK’s recent avoidance (for now) of a triple-dip recession (defined on GDP as opposed to reality), the situation in the island nation appears to be going from bad to worse. As Carney takes over the reigns of this once mighty nation he faces a country deeply divided by Tyler Durden As the […]
20 Signs That The Next Great Economic Depression Has Already Started In Europe
The next Great Depression is already happening – it just hasn’t reached the United States yet by The Economic Collapse Blog Things in Europe just continue to get worse and worse, and yet most people in the United States still don’t get it. All the time I have people ask me when the “economic collapse” is going to happen. Well, […]
Spain Is Beyond Doomed
The 2 Scariest Unemployment Charts Ever This is what a permanent underclass looks like by Matthew O’Brien Spain is in a great depression, and it is one of the most terrifying things I have ever seen. Five years after its housing boom turned to bust, Spanish unemployment hit a record high of 27.2 percent in the first quarter of 2013. It’s […]








