Weekend Reading: Banks Worried They Might Be Next

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One of the best week-in-review posts!

BY ERIC OWLES

dimon wallAfter JPMorgan Chase’s $13 billion mortgage settlement emerged this week, Jamie Dimon held a conference call with analysts. “It could’ve been somebody else,” the bank’s chief executive said. Who is next on the list?

In a news analysis in The New York Times, Peter Eavis wrote that “there were plenty of other big subprime players — Countrywide Financial, Merrill Lynch and even foreign institutions like Deutsche Bank and Royal Bank of Scotland among them.” Continue reading

STOP Justice Department officials – Sign Resolution Against Wall Street Immunity

Top Justice Department officials are pushing hard to bring the Wall Street immunity deal back from the dead. Can you sign on as a citizen signer of Baldwin’s resolution against Wall Street immunity? Click here to sign.

Fortunately, Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisconsin) leaped into action with a congressional resolution opposing Wall Street immunity.

Within days, 27 of her colleagues signed on — and the more co-sponsors we get, the more pressure the Justice Department will feel to back off.

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Part I – The Elites will Eat Their Own: Full-Blown Civil War Erupts On Wall Street

Full-Blown Civil War Erupts On Wall Street: As Reality Finally Hits The Financial Elite, They Start Turning On Each Other

By David DeGraw

Full-Blown Civil War Erupts On Wall Street: As Reality Finally Hits The Financial Elite, They Turn On Each OtherFinally, after trillions in fraudulent activity, trillions in bailouts, trillions in printed money, billions in political bribing and billions in bonuses, the criminal cartel members on Wall Street are beginning to get what they deserve. As the Eurozone is coming apart at the seams and as the US economy grinds to a halt, the financial elite are starting to turn on each other. The lawsuits are piling up fast. Here’s an extensive roundup: Continue reading

Hats Off to Bernie and the Gang: First Federal Reserve Audit Reveals Trillions in Secret Bailouts

By Matthew Cardinale, Inter Press Service
29 August 11

he first-ever audit of the US Federal Reserve has revealed $16 trillion dollars in secret bank bailouts and has raised more questions about the quasi-private agency’s opaque operations.  “This is a clear case of socialism for the rich and rugged, you’re-on-your-own individualism for everyone else,” US Senator Bernie Sanders, an Independent from Vermont, said in a statement.

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