The American people clearly spoke, and the drubbing Democrats received requires looking beyond just issue polls, voting patterns, campaign strategy, or get-out-the-vote tactics.
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Fresh LIBOR Revelations: Is the British State Complicit in World’s Largest Systemic Fraud?
New revelations suggest that not only was the LIBOR rate rigging fraud a systemic practice by big banks – but Bank of England and the government in Westminster were also in on the big fix.
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Why We Need Debtors’ Unions, Part I
Aiming to build collective power in an age of financial absolutism, the Debt Collective is piloting a new kind of organization: the debtors’ union.
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Our Town Dumped the Big Banks, And Yours Should Too
"It is important that we send a message that if you want to do business with local and state governments, you need to play by the rules."
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We Don't Need Your Dirty Business: Santa Cruz Washes Its Hands of Felon Banks
While big banks continue to ruin communities and personal lives with light impunity, in some cases the people are fighting back.
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Deutsche Bank Hit By Record $2.5 Billion Libor-Rigging Fine
The penalties on Germany’s largest bank also involve a guilty plea to the Department of Justice.
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Building an Ark: How to Protect Public Revenues from the Next Meltdown
While the too-big-to-fail banks have collectively grown 37% larger since 2008, we are steamrolling toward the greatest financial disaster in world history, and nobody is doing much of anything to stop it.
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Investor Sues Three Banks Accused Of Rigging Price of Silver
HSBC, Deutsche Bank and the Bank of Nova Scotia have been accused of attempting to rig the daily global price of silver in the latest price fixing scandal to rock the banking industry.
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Wrestling the Vampire Squid: Why Goldman Sachs Still Rules the World
Goldman is part of the political elite, protected by the political system and media.
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Prosecuting Wall Street: It's Time to Bring the Banks Before a California Jury
Sixteen of the world’s largest banks have been caught colluding to rig global interest rates – so why are we doing business with a corrupt global banking cartel, and isn't it time someone prosecuted them?
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The Global Banking Game Is Rigged – And the FDIC Is Suing
Taxpayers are paying billions of dollars for a swindle pulled off by the world’s biggest banks using a form of derivative called interest-rate swaps – which are now a $426 trillion business.