Tag: big banks

From Senator Elizabeth Warren: a new Glass-Steagall Act

This just in for your immediate consideration:

About a year ago, on the campaign trail, I asked PCCC members to join with me in pushing for a new Glass-Steagall bill.

This law stopped investment banks from gambling away people’s life savings for decades — until Wall Street successfully lobbied the regulators to chip away at the rules in the 1980s and Congress to repeal it entirely in 1999.

Will Congress levy taxes on US Credit Unions and Community Banks?

Another Front Opens in the Plutocrats’ Middle Class Warfare

by Jude Cowell

As powerful Pluto plods through Saturn-ruled Capricorn, sign of business, law, and government, the oppressive, disenfranchising Pluto-Chiron pair of Plutocracy keeps steamrolling along…

With only 6% of US financial assets held by Credit Unions and by banks that are actually banks (which along with non-profit credit

Jon Stewart on the Libor Rate-Rigging Scandal (video)

Interesting that this scandal has broken open just prior to Saturn entering the Corporate/Big-Business/Occult sign of Scorpio where squirmy things tend to hide along with criminals and other plutonians…

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Astro-Notes on Sun Scorpio-Moon Scorpio and November 13, 2012

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Nov 5, 2011 Bank Transfer Day! G-20 in Cannes w Mars opposing Neptune

Remember The Fifth of November? And a G20 Summit in Cannesby Jude CowellThrough all the economic hoopla in the news you’ve heard by now of Bank Transfer Day which crescendos this Saturday, November 5, 2011.Any day is a good day to leave a Big Bank and open a Credit Union Bank account which is what this blogger did about three years ago. Have I looked back? You know I haven’t! It gave me a great

Oops! 1912 cartoon warned against creating the Fed

Here’s a blast from the past, a 1912 cartoon warning against the banker-supported Aldrich Plan which opened the gate for the creation of the Federal Reserve Bank of the United States, a central bank such as President Andrew Jackson was so determined to root out of the American system for he recognized them for the illuminized government take-over artists they were.As you know, the Bankers’ Panic

Rally in DC! Freedom Square Oct 6, 2011

America Ours or Theirs? We-the-People v Corporate Interests

by Jude Cowell

Beginning on October 6, 2011 in Freedom Square, Washington DC, the majority of the American people have an opportunity to show our strength in numbers and turn up for non-violent resistance against the corporate direction America has taken which is now displayed by presidential hopefuls who are not speaking to the true

Keith Olbermann: "The Four Great Hypocrisies of the Debt Deal" (video link)

It’s times like these that I wish Current TV would allow embedding of their videos but if there’s a way to embed them, I haven’t discovered it yet.Instead, here’s a link to Keith Olbermann’s Four Hypocrisies of the Debt Deal commentary. The page includes, I believe, a link to the transcript, if you prefer.Plus, here’s a standing question for you from an author whose novels exposed the horrid

Pluto loves Drug Money Laundering on Wall Street

An article Wall Street is laundering drug money and getting away with it places emphasis on Wachovia, the bank this blogger deserted earlier this year and began doing business at a credit union bank.Well! If that’s the sort of thing Wachovia has been up to, what might WikiLeaks’ threatened release of Bank of America’s private documents hold in store?The term ‘money laundering’ always reminds me