Is Homeland Security Preparing for the Next Wall Street Collapse?

The Department of Homeland Security recently purchased 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition and is acquiring heavily armored tanks which have been seen roaming the U.S. streets. It's clear this is meant for unrest at home, and not abroad.

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Launching A Postal Savings Bank: Infrastructure that Doesn’t Cost Taxpayers a Dime

A postal bank in the U.S. could appeal to savers generally who are concerned about the safety of their deposits.

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Armageddon On Wall Street: The Looming Mass Destruction from Derivatives

The shadow banking system is propped up by a hidden government guarantee known as safe harbor status, pushed through by Wall Street, which has created perverse incentives for the financial system to self-destruct.

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Making the World Safe for Banksters: Syria in the Cross-Hairs

Syria provides free education, free medical care and subsidized housing for everyone. But even more threateningly to Wall Street-style finance, it has state-owned central banks that issue national currency and are under government control.

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Ellen Brown: The Leveraged Buyout of America

Giant banks are buying up our country’s infrastructure, the power and supply chains that are vital to the economy. Aren’t there rules against that?

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Not Too Big To Jail: Why Eliot Spitzer Is Wall Street's Worst Nightmare

The former New York Governor, now running for New York City comptroller, has the sort of creative thinking needed if we the people are to take back our power from Wall Street and the corporatocracy.

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The Detroit Bail-In Template: Fleecing Pensioners to Save the Banks

The Detroit bankruptcy is looking suspiciously like the bail-in template originated by the G20’s Financial Stability Board in 2011.

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Green Light for City-Owned San Francisco Bank

Do taxpayers want to have their public money in a bank that has been proven to be defrauding them? San Francisco may be leading the way toward creating a municipal bank that is in the public's interest.

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Collateral Damage: QE3 and the Shadow Banking System

Rather than expanding the money supply, quantitative easing has actually caused it to shrink by sucking up the collateral needed by the shadow banking system to create credit.

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Depositors Beware: Bail-In Is Now Official E.U. Policy

E.U. ministers recently agreed on a plan that shifts the responsibility for bank losses from governments to bank investors, creditors and uninsured depositors. What might this mean if it happened in America as well?

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