Hypocrisy Alert: Investigation Reveals AFL-CIO, SEIU in Bed with JP Morgan Chase

Peter Schweizer & Wynton Hall Breitbart.com Big Government 6/4/2012

If union members are upset that the millions union bosses have dumped into defeating Gov. Walker in tomorrow’s recall election appear not to be working, they may be furious when they learn the details of a new investigation by the Government Accountability Institute.

Here are a […]

J.P. Morgan’s $2 Billion Blunder

Bank Admits Losses on Massive Trading Bet Gone Wrong; Dimon’s Mea Culpa

Dan Fitzpatrick, Gregory Zuckerman and Liz Rappaport The Wall Street Journal 5/10/2012

A massive trading bet boomeranged on J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., leaving the bank with at least $2 billion in trading losses and its chief executive, James Dimon, with a rare […]

Internal email shows Corzine ordered funds transfer as MF Global collapsed

Barry Zubrow, JPMorgan’s chief risk officer, called Corzine to seek assurances that the funds belonged to MF Global and not customers. JPMorgan drafted a letter to be signed by O’Brien to ensure that MF Global was complying with rules requiring customers’ collateral to be segregated. The letter was not returned to JPMorgan…

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Italy, MF Global and the economy

Glenn Beck 1/16/2012

On Monday’s episode of The Glenn Beck Program on GBTV, Glenn promised that he would deliver some of the most important information on the economy he had every given. On the show, he explained what has been happening in Italy with the installation of a technocrat, as well as how the policies […]

Obama defies base, hires Wall Street lobbyist for re-election campaign

Matthew Boyle The Daily Caller 10/25/2011

President Barack Obama’s new senior campaign adviser is a longtime Wall Street lobbyist, and has the potential to damage the president’s aspirations to appeal to the protesters currently “occupying” New York City’s Zuccotti Park.

Obama’s new adviser, Broderick Johnson, has an extensive history of lobbying for big banks and […]

Banks turn to demolition of foreclosed properties to ease housing-market pressures

Demolition: Four years into this city’s housing crisis, it has often become cheaper for banks to give away a home and pay to demolish it than continue to hold on. And places across the country are watching. Click on the image to enlarge.

Brady Dennis The Washington Post 10/12/2011

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