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Everything Is Rigged: The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever
Posted: Sat Apr 27, 2013 3:42 pm
by baldeagle
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This is big, and it will get your blood boiling. When the fox is guarding the chicken coop eggs will cost you more than you normally would pay.
The Illuminati were amateurs. The second huge financial scandal of the year reveals the real international conspiracy: There's no price the big banks can't fix
And, our government is enabling them!
Two of America's top law-enforcement officials, Attorney General Eric Holder and former Justice Department Criminal Division chief Lanny Breuer, confessed that it's dangerous to prosecute offending banks because they are simply too big. Making arrests, they say, might lead to "collateral consequences" in the economy.
The message that our Justice Department is sending to the banks is, go ahead and screw people. We won't do anything about it!
Re: Everything Is Rigged: The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal E
Posted: Sat Apr 27, 2013 3:52 pm
by Redneck_Buddha
I've got mixed feelings about Matt Taibbi, but I admire his passion in pursuing the LIBOR scandal, global banking entities like Goldman Sachs and their alumni, and the in-your-face crony capitalist credo of "too big to fail". Thanks for the link.
Re: Everything Is Rigged: The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal E
Posted: Sat Apr 27, 2013 7:05 pm
by tbrown
A cynical person might say that prosecuting them would affect any bribes they're paying, but there's no reason for anybody to be that cynical about the current administration. Right?
Re: Everything Is Rigged: The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal E
Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2013 10:56 am
by VMI77
baldeagle wrote:http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/ne ... t-20130425
This is big, and it will get your blood boiling. When the fox is guarding the chicken coop eggs will cost you more than you normally would pay.
The Illuminati were amateurs. The second huge financial scandal of the year reveals the real international conspiracy: There's no price the big banks can't fix
And, our government is enabling them!
Two of America's top law-enforcement officials, Attorney General Eric Holder and former Justice Department Criminal Division chief Lanny Breuer, confessed that it's dangerous to prosecute offending banks because they are simply too big. Making arrests, they say, might lead to "collateral consequences" in the economy.
The message that our Justice Department is sending to the banks is, go ahead and screw people. We won't do anything about it!
Shouldn't be a surprise, this was obvious way back in 2008, when with 90% of the country against the moral hazard of bailing these criminals out, the political class spit in all our faces and did it anyway. The rule of law is dead in this country --we've reverted to rule of men.
Re: Everything Is Rigged: The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal E
Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2013 11:51 am
by gthaustex
It would be nice if instead of "too big to fail" these banks were "too small to cheat".....
Re: Everything Is Rigged: The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal E
Posted: Sun May 12, 2013 10:46 am
by JALLEN
gthaustex wrote:It would be nice if instead of "too big to fail" these banks were "too small to cheat".....
If I had my way, we would be back to no branch banking and Glass Steagall before sundown. In my experience, and that goes back quite a few decades now, a bank that is big enough to have a Regional Vice President is too big.
"Know your customer" would mean that you don't need account numbers. If you don't know who the customer is when you look at his check, you don't know your customer.