A Huge Break in the LIBOR Banking Investigation | Matt Taibbi

Oli Scarff/Getty Images June 28, 2012 (Rolling Stone) -- This is a huge story: On Wednesday, Barclays won the race to reach a deal with U.S. and British regulators, beating UBS, which was reportedly ...

Is Your Mortgage Payment Based on Lies? | Mark Whitehouse

Jun. 27, 2012 (Bloomberg) -- Anyone who thinks it's a good idea to trust a group of banks in London to set a benchmark borrowing rate that affects the value of some $360 trillion in mortgage loans, d ...

Banker to the Bankers Knows the Numbers Are Lying | Jonathan Weil

June 28, 2012 (Bloomberg) -- The Bank for International Settlements, which acts as a bank for the world’s central banks, should know fudged numbers when it sees them. What may come as a surprise is h ...

Everything You Need to Know About Wall Street, in One Brief Tale (Matt Taibbi)

2 The Hotel Jerome in Aspen. Walter Bibikow/Getty Images/AWL Images RM Jan. 13, 2012 (Rolling Stone) -- If there was ever a news story that crystalized the moral dementia of modern Wall Street in one ...

Global Systemic Crisis -- USA 2012/2016: A Country Ungovernable And Insolvent (LEAP/E2020)

Dec. 16, 2011 (LEAP/E2020) -- Public announcement GEAB N°60 -- As announced in previous GEABs, in this issue our team presents its anticipations on the changes in the United States for the period 201 ...

MF Global And The Great Wall St Re-Hypothecation Scandal (Christopher Elias)

Image from Business Insider Dec. 7, 2011 (Business Law Currents) -- A legal loophole in international brokerage regulations means that few, if any, clients of MF Global are likely to get their money ...

17 Quotes About The Coming Global Financial Collapse That Will Make Your Hair Stand Up (Michael Snyder)

Nov. 22, 2011 (BlacklistedNews.com) -- Here are 17 quotes about the coming global financial collapse that will make your hair stand up: #1 Credit Suisse’s Fixed Income Research unit: “We seem to have ...

UC Davis Pepper-Spray Incident Reveals Weakness Up Top (Matt Taibbi)

Nov. 22, 2011 (Rolling Stone) -- Was absolutely mesmerized last night watching the viral video of the UC-Davis pepper-spraying. It was totally amazing, simultaneously one of most depressing and inspi ...

FLATWIRE:How Wall Street Occupied America (Bill Moyers)

Bill Moyers This article is adapted from a speech Bill Moyers gave in October at Public Citizen’s fortieth-anniversary gala. Nov. 2, 2011 (The Nation) -- During the prairie revolt that swept the Grea ...

Occupiers Have to Convince the Other 99 Percent (Chris Hedges)

Chris Hedges Oct. 24, 2011 (Truthdig) -- The occupation movement’s greatest challenge will be overcoming the deep distrust of white liberals by the poor and the working class, especially people of co ...

Wall Street Isn't Winning -- It's Cheating (Matt Taibbi)

A protestor's sign expresses the sentiment of the Occupy Wall Street movement at a Occupy Wall Street protest in London. BEN STANSALL/AFP/Getty Images Oct. 25, 2011 (Rolling Stone) -- I was at an eve ...