Bankers & Wall St.
An investor filed a lawsuit claiming HSBC and other banks unlawfully manipulated the price of silver and its derivatives to “reap large illegitimate profits”.
President Woodrow Wilson saw a horrible danger to his country, looked it in the eye, and decided that instead of trying to decentralize and dismantle that overarching power, he would hope against hope that greater cooperation among leaders of nations would bring sanity and peace and freedom of the individual. Of course, he was wrong. Wilson knew he was entangled with those very powers that were destroying the best of what American stood for. Nevertheless, no modern President has made more revealing comments on the existence and nature of the shadow government, the real rulers of America.
WikiLeaks published a previously tightly-held and secretive draft of a trade document that, if enacted, would give the world’s financial powers an even more dominant position to control the global economy by avoiding regulations and public accountability. Known as a Trade in Services Agreement (TISA), the draft represents the negotiating positions of the U.S. and E.U. and lays out the deregulatory strategies championed by some of the world’s largest banks and investment firms.
Growing food demand for billions in the developing world combined with bankrupt developed nations and insolvent central banks spells doom for the status quo.
Central bankers manipulate the entire global economy. Anyone participating in this system really needs to understand how it’s rigged and who benefits.
Tracking data for the US Federal Reserve shows an astounding decline in the Fed’s ‘margin of safety’ over the last few years. Does a currency crisis loom?
Housing and consumer activists warn that Wall Street is about to crash the housing market — again. A housing market dominated by all-cash buyers may keep lending standards high, allowing big companies to further tighten their grip, and these companies sometimes prove to be lousy landlords.
In this video, Christopher Greene of AMTV explains the link between 12 banker suicides and JP Morgan Chase.
Three former Barclays bank employees have now been charged with “conspiracy to defraud” in the continuing LIBOR scandal, bringing the total to 13 people charged in America and the U.K. It has been reported that three ex-ICAP brokers are next on the list for helping traders manipulate interest rates.
Did you know that every time the Federal Reserve (Fed) prints money (also known as quantitative easing), they are stealing your wealth without your knowledge. Ever since the Fed started printing fiat money, they have been creating money with little or no value. When this worthless money is circulated into the economy, it devalues the original currency and therefore it causes inflation, which is nothing more than a hidden tax on the public.
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Abby Martin interviews Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Chris Hedges, discussing wealth inequality, the unsustainable nature of the economic system, the military mind in solving world problems, and the antidote to defeatism.
Every decade or so, a group of like-minded people will invent something so revolutionary that it will change our life and how the world operates. The last time something that incredible happened was during the invention of the internet. Fast forward to 2014 and we are living in a time when incredible changes are occurring so fast that they are happening right in front of our eyes. Whether we are aware of these great changes or not, they will alter how we view our financial, religious, educational and political systems. One of them is known as the Bitcoin Revolution
Banks say they are the pillar of the modern society – ruling the streams of money across the globe and keeping a tight grip on the world’s economy. What happens in the offices of top level management is kept secret. Even governments are afraid to get confront the enormous financial giants. But today we talk to a man who single-handedly fought the corrupt banking system, with no one behind his back: whistleblower Everett Stern is today’s guest on Sophie&Co.
