The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Michael Parenti is an American political writer, historian, and culture critic who writes on scholarly and popular subjects. A progressive armed with facts instead of ideology, he pays special attention to the enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world, and what common Americans think they are doing — the difference between toxic …
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Global Shadow Banking Monitoring Report 2012 45 pages, PDF The “shadow banking system” can broadly be described as “credit intermediation involving entities and activities outside the regular banking system”. Although intermediating credit through non-bank channels can have advantages, such channels can also become a source of systemic risk, especially when they are structured to perform …
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Beyond Regulators’ Grasp How Shadow Banks Rule the World By Martin Hesse and Anne Seith Spiegel, 11/14/2012 Beyond the banking world, a parallel universe of shadow banks has grown in the form of hedge funds and money market funds. They’re outside the reach of conventional financial regulation, prompting authorities to plan introducing new rules to …
Review: Griftopia–Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America QUOTE (32): What has taken place over the last generation is a highly complicated merger of crime and policy, of stealing and government. Far from taking care of the rest of us, the financial leaders of America and their political servants have …
Ben Bernanke’s Fed Transparency … Transparent Ploy? Monday, September 24, 2012 – by Staff Report Under Ben Bernanke, a more open and forceful Federal Reserve … In what might be his final years as chairman of the Federal Reserve, Ben S. Bernanke is transforming the U.S. central bank, seeking to shed its reclusive habits …
UPDATED 8 August 2012 with comments from Common Cause, others. Buyer Beware – A New York Shill Takes to the Highway The Hon. David M. Walker, former U.S. Comptroller General, today announced a first-of-its-kind national bus tour to engage Americans about our nation’s deteriorating financial condition and show them what they can do to …
Stephen Lendman 5.0 out of 5 stars 6 Star (My Top 10%) Primer for Every Citizen,June 6, 2012 I’ve had this book in my stack of “to be read” books for some time now, and now that I have read it, I deeply regret not getting to it sooner. Although I have read and reviewed …
