“Bottom line: Mitt Romney has not paid all the taxes required under law.” ~Victor Fleischer — Professor of Law at the University of Colorado  There is a slow drip, drip, drip of information that is coming out of the leak of 950 documents from various offshore tax shelters that Gawker exposed; you can find all [...]

“These were adopted because they are things that Republicans agree on.  The House recently passed a bill on this, and this is something that we think needs to be done.” ~Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN)  I’ve written before about what I think should happen to the FED HERE.  The Federal Reserve is in need of major [...]

It is PRECISELY this reason that Romney will not show you his tax returns.  Somehow – Gawker obtained all of these confidential financial documents that Romney has investments in via Bain Capital.  Romney has a real problem here.  Romney will not disclose his financial records because he his hiding things that he doesn’t want the [...]

Just ten months ago Jon Corzine – the former New Jersey Senator and Governor and prior to that a former Goldman Sachs CEO – was forced to testify in front of a Congressional committee to explain how $1.6 billion in assets were missing from his firm when he was CEO at the now bankrupt MF [...]

This is 6 minutes of your time well spent.  It’s very simple to understand and I find this to be not only true but something that libertarians, conservatives and liberals can all get behind. Get rid of the money changers i.e. the bankers.  Most people actually do not understand that the Federal Reserve is a [...]

“Firstly, we believe [the Iranian business] needs urgent reviewing at the Group level to evaluate if its returns and strategic benefits are … still commensurate with the potential to cause very serious or even catastrophic reputational damage to the Group.  Secondly, there is equally importantly potential of risk of subjecting management in US and London [...]

“There is no information-sharing among banks unlike the past 15 years of federal investigations.” ~Lawyer representing one of the banks  The LIBOR scandal is the largest banking scandal in history.  And now that they’ve been caught red handed …banks are scrambling for cover.  Unlike in the past where banks would rally together to defend their [...]

“It will not be a big bang, but an erosion as amnesty programs are put together and as clients declare themselves and come clean.  Those banks which don’t adapt will die a slow death.” ~Francois Reyl, chief executive officer of Geneva-based Reyl Group Since 2009 – the United States and more recently – the European [...]

This video above comes from The Real News and it leads one to ask the question … why isn’t Congress doing anything to prosecute those individuals and banks who are helping hide trillions in offshore tax havens like the Cayman Islands and Switzerland? THESE BANKERS NEED TO GO TO JAIL.  All of these banks were [...]

When the banks defaulted and became insolvent in Iceland – the international banking community pressured Iceland to take on the debt and pass austerity programs by raising taxes on and cutting services for the Icelandic people for the bank’s ills.  The Icelandic government said no … declared bankruptcy, cut debt burdens for anyone with mortgage [...]