This last month has shown America that society will gladly tolerate vigilante violence, provided a vigilante chooses the right target.
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Material Responsibility: What the Banks Did To Baltimore
Bank of America, Barclays, Citibank and Deutsche Bank manipulated “interest rates on hundreds of trillions of dollars’ worth of loans and investments” purportedly used to fund Baltimore and other cities.
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E.U. Imposes Record €1.7 Billion Fines on Major International Banks Over Rate-Rigging
The fines issued by the European Commission mark the latest to be levied on banks and financial institutions for making profits or masking their problems by fraudulently rigging the rates that reflect the cost of lending money to each other.