WASHINGTON — Bank regulators got a sense Thursday of how their lives will be slightly different now that Elizabeth Warren sits on a Senate committee overseeing their agencies.
At her first Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee hearing, Warren questioned top regulators from the alphabet soup that is the nation’s financial regulatory structure: the FDIC, SEC, OCC, CFPB, CFTC, Fed and Treasury. Read more on Huffington Post. Continue reading
TruthDig posted the latest Ellen Brown, Web of Debt examination of the financial market.
The Armageddon Looting Machine: The Looming Mass Destruction from Derivatives
Five years after the financial collapse precipitated by the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy on September 15, 2008, the risk of another full-blown financial panic is still looming large, despite the Dodd Frank legislation designed to contain it. As noted in a recent Reuters article, the risk has just moved into the shadows: Continue reading
“The Leveraged Buyout of America” by Ellen Brown, Author, Web of Debt, Public Bank Solution; President, Public Banking InstituteGiant bank holding companies now own airports, toll roads, and ports; control power plants; and store and hoard vast quantities of commodities of all sorts.
They are systematically buying up or gaining control of the essential lifelines of the economy. How have they pulled this off, and where have they gotten the money? Continue reading
“This [Federal Reserve Act] establishes the most gigantic trust on earth. When President Wilson signs this bill, the invisible government of the monetary power will be legalized….the worst legislative crime of the ages is perpetrated by this banking and currency bill.” -Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr. , 1913
Charles A.Lindbergh Sr. was the father of Hana’s beloved “Lucky Lindy” – aviator Charles Lindbergh, who is buried just outside of Hana town in Kipahulu, Hawaii. It made sense to dedicate this post to his father, a Minnesota Congressman from 1907-1917.
One hundred years later, the Congressman’s courageous statements carry the truth of the corruption in Wall Street and government and strike at the very core of our nation, as well as the world’s, economic nightmare.
In 1913, he wrote Banking And Currency And The Money Trust By Charles A. Lindbergh, and in 1917 he wrote “Why is Your Country at War?”, attributing high finance as Continue reading
By John-Michael Haines
For many Americans, saving money involves depositing part of our paycheck into a bank savings account. Sure, some people stash their cash under the mattress, but most of us are members of a large national bank that we trust to keep our money safe. Continue reading 
Deadly Clear 