Two days after democratic senators Elizabeth Warren and Tammy Baldwin sent a letter to Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein, asking if Goldman effectively runs the country through its extensive alumni links at the Trump administration, and requesting details on “lobbying” activities in the bank related to review of the Dodd-Frank Act and the Obama-era fiduciary rule Read More…
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Cost Of War Against ISIS Reaches $11 Billion
Since the air war against the so-called Islamic State kicked off in August 2014, the United States has spent just under $11 billion financing it. According to the most recent Pentagon figures, Statista’a Niall McCarthy reports that the bill for the campaign hit $10.99 billion as of December 31, 2016. On a daily basis, the cost of operations Read More…
Almost a Million People Have Now Joined a Campaign to Impeach Trump, And You’ll Never Guess Why
Meanwhile, as of 10:11 am EST today, 818,172 people have joined in on a campaign to impeach Donald Trump… an unprecedented campaign which began right away on the day Trump was inaugurated. While Trump supporters are bashing the movement as merely coming from a group of people who are doing it because they don’t like Read More…
The Biometric ID Grid: A Country-by-Country Guide
In last week’s report on India’s demonetization disaster I began to connect the dots between demonetization, the push for a cashless society, and the biometric identification schemes that will eventually tie everyone’s fingerprints, iris scans, and other identifying details to every transaction they ever make. Well, that game of “connect the dots” just became even Read More…
Trump Signs Executive Orders Rolling Back Dodd-Frank, Fiduciary Rule
As previewed earlier today, moments ago President Trump signed two executive orders aimed at starting the process of rolling back the regulatory system put in place after the financial crisis. Among the targets are rules that protect against predatory lenders, force brokers to lower fees for retirees and ban proprietary trading. Specifically, Trump took executive Read More…
How Government $Ach$ Won The (S)Election
After appointing Goldman bankers to head the Treasury and the SEC and key economic advisory positions, it looks like the Trump era will be business as usual for Government Sachs. Today Carey Wedler of TheAntiMedia.org joins us to discuss her recent article, “Actually, Goldman Sachs ‘Hacked’ the Election.” Source: www.corbettreport.com






