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Why Goldman Sachs, Other Wall Street Titans Are Not Being Prosecuted – by Peter Schweizer

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Source: The Daily Beast The Justice Department’s decision not to prosecute Goldman Sachs in a financial-fraud probe is another sign of the cronyism that has kept Attorney General Eric Holder from taking action against other big Wall Street firms, says … Continue reading

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Washington’s Blog – Tony Blair: Don’t Hang Bankers

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This kind of makes me wonder whether Tony Blair, like a lot of other current and former politicians around the world, are realizing they better start doing something to tone down the rhetoric. After all, once people get through with … Continue reading

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Matt Taibbi – The The Rolling Stone: Scam Wallstreet Learned From The Mafia

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Someday, it will go down in history as the first trial of the modern American mafia. Of course, you won’t hear the recent financial corruption case, United States of America v. Carollo, Goldberg and Grimm, called anything like that. If … Continue reading

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Jim Hightower ~ The ROBS Act

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Nation Of Change| April 3 2012 Hallelujah, Washington has finally heard the people’s cries for jobs! In an urgent bipartisan push, Democrats and Republicans have joined hands across the aisle to pass the JOBS Act. In this time of “The Great Hurt” … Continue reading

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Ellen Brown ~ Wall Street Confidence Trick: How “Interest Rate Swaps” Are Bankrupting Local Governments

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Global Research| March 22 2012 The “toxic culture of greed” on Wall Street was highlighted again last week, when Greg Smith went public with his resignation from Goldman Sachs in a scathing oped published in the New York Times.  In other recent eyebrow-raisers, … Continue reading

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GOLDMAN HEIR SPEAKS: Greg Smith Was Right, They Ruined My Great-Grandfather’s Company

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Rob Wile | Mar. 15, 2012 BusinessInsider.com  Wikimedia Commons Marcus Goldman Henry Goldman III, the great-grandson of Goldman Sachs founder Marcus Goldman, says he agreed with Greg Smith’s New York Times op-ed criticizing the firm’s predatory culture.”I thought it was spot on,” Goldman told Business … Continue reading

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Grassley Asks DOJ Again if They’ve Taken Action Against Wall Street

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Updated 1:31 p.m. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is pushing the Department of Justice for details on what it has done to pursue criminal charges against the major Wall Street banks and executives who he says are responsible for the nation’s … Continue reading

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Unbelievable Stress of Making “Only” $200,000 After Taxes

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by Mike “Mish” Shedlock http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com People who have nothing to eat, no job, and are about to be tossed out of their homes in foreclosure, really do not know what stress is. To fully appreciate stress, please consider the sorry … Continue reading

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REVEALED Romney’s Top Funders Made Billions on Auto Bail-Out

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by Greg Palast 02/23/2012 www.nationofchange.org/revealed… Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney called the federal government’s 2009 bail-out of the auto industry, “nothing more than crony capitalism, Obama style… a reward for his big donors to his campaign.” In fact, the biggest … Continue reading

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Are any “mass arrests” actually happening? Here are some tidbits to get things started

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There has been a lot of activity lately all over the world with presidents, CEO’s and other high-level officials of all types resigning, being forced out, arrested, etc. I wanted to put together a short list of examples but found … Continue reading

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