Riddle me this: As we all know by now, China is bleeding capital, with a record $725 billion in outflows last year alone. Accordingly, the ChiComs have been flipping their lid, imposing new capital controls left and right to try and stop the bleeding. One of the most straightforward of these capital controls limits each Read More…
Finance
After US Refused to Charge Them for Laundering Terrorist Money, Megabanks Busted AGAIN
An investigative reporting coalition recently released a report alleging a multi-billion dollar money laundering operation that has affected hundreds of banks and companies in 96 countries including the repeat offender, HSBC. In 2012, HSBC, one of the world’s largest banks, settled with the U.S. Government, avoiding criminal prosecution of its executives, for helping to launder money Read More…
Pentagon Denies Trying To Shelve Study That Found $125 Billion In Waste
The Defense Department on Tuesday denied it tried to quash a 2015 study that found it could save $125 billion in noncombat administrative programs but admitted it has so far only found a small fraction of those savings. As Stars and Stripes’ Travis Tritten reports (via Military.com), the department hopes to save $7.9 billion during Read More…
Buy The Terrorist Attack Dip?
Seriously? Bloomberg’s Paul Dobson reminds readers that if you’re wondering about the sanguine response to the breaking news from London, it’s worth reminding yourself that terrorist incidents including the one in Paris in 2015 and London bombings in 2005 spurred equity selloffs that were erased in the following days and weeks. Remember Paris Source: www.zerohedge.com
It’s Time To Get Painfully Honest: Banks Are Evil
I don’t talk to my classmates from business school anymore, many of whom went to work in the financial industry. Why? Because, through the lens we use here at PeakProsperity.com to look at the world, I’ve increasingly come to see the financial industry — with the big banks at its core — as the root Read More…
The Federal Reserve Just Declared the American Dream Is Officially Dead For Most Of America
We all know what comedian George Carlin said about the American Dream: that you have to be asleep to believe it. Well, now the Federal Reserve is agreeing with him. In a new study published by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, they admit the so-called American Dream is now largely an impossible goal Read More…