Lehman Fraudulently Cooked Its Books, Accounting Giant Ernst & Young Helped, Geithner and Bernanke Winked and Slapped Them on the Back
Washington’s Blog March 12, 2010 As William K. Black said a year ago, the government’s entire strategy now – as in the S&L crisis – is to cover up how bad things are (”the entire strategy is to keep people from getting the facts”). Paul Krugman and others pointed out that Geithner has been trying to artificially prop up asset prices, but that such a strategy cannot succeed
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Lehman Fraudulently Cooked Its Books, Accounting Giant Ernst & Young Helped, Geithner and Bernanke Winked and Slapped Them on the Back
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Are Traders Demanding US Credit Default Swaps Payable in Gold?
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Are Traders Demanding US Credit Default Swaps Payable in Gold?
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Time Magazine Attacks Cherished Swiss Banking Privacy
Switzerland Keeping the Secrets of Alleged Tax Evaders KEN STIER Time Magazine Sunday, March 7, 2010 Comment: Authoritarian rag Time Magazine viciously attacks cherished Swiss banking privacy by smearing it as the domain of ruthless dictators – another helpful dose of propaganda graciously appreciated by the IRS, the collection agency for the private, run for profit, Federal Reserve. Pick a dictator, almost any dictator – Cuba’s Fulgencio Batista, the Philippines’ Ferdinand Marcos, Haiti’s Papa and Baby Doc Duvalier, the Shah of Iran, Central African Republic Emperor Jean-BÉdel Bokassa – and they all have this in common: they allegedly stashed their loot in secret, numbered accounts in Swiss banks, safely guarded by the so-called Gnomes of Zurich. This association – of bank secrecy and crime – has been fed into the public’s imagination by dozens of books and movies
Time Magazine Attacks Cherished Swiss Banking Privacy
Switzerland Keeping the Secrets of Alleged Tax Evaders KEN STIER Time Magazine Sunday, March 7, 2010 Comment: Authoritarian rag Time Magazine viciously attacks cherished Swiss banking privacy by smearing it as the domain of ruthless dictators – another helpful dose of propaganda graciously appreciated by the IRS, the collection agency for the private, run for profit, Federal Reserve. Pick a dictator, almost any dictator – Cuba’s Fulgencio Batista, the Philippines’ Ferdinand Marcos, Haiti’s Papa and Baby Doc Duvalier, the Shah of Iran, Central African Republic Emperor Jean-BÉdel Bokassa – and they all have this in common: they allegedly stashed their loot in secret, numbered accounts in Swiss banks, safely guarded by the so-called Gnomes of Zurich
China Ready to End Dollar Peg
Garry White London Telegraph Sunday, March 7, 2010 The head of China’s central bank has given the strongest signal yet that the country will move away from pegging its currency to the dollar, but he said any changes would be gradual. At the annual session of the legislative National People’s Congress in Beijing, Zhou Xiaochuan, governor of the People’s Bank of China, said that the days of the “special yuan” policy were numbered.
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Truth and Consequences in the Gaza Invasion
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