Author Archives: eggsistense
BANKS GET FREE MONEY, YOU GET JACK-OLA
“Quantitative easing” (QE) is a fancy, bullshit banker term for “We’re going to give free money to banks and it’s going to come out of your pocket.” Of course, as we all know by now, the money that was and … Continue reading
BANK OF AMERICA’S $4 BILLION “ACCOUNTING ERROR”
Saw the story of Bank of America’s “accounting error” a few days ago and muttered something to myself about how they’ll just get away with this accounting fraud just like they’re getting away with the foreclosure fraud. After all, it’s … Continue reading
NOT NEGATIVE, JUST TRUE: “EXPENSES SOAR, WAGES STALL”
A few days ago, the website of The Washington Post ran a story with this headline–“Happy Days No More: Middle-class families squeezed as expenses soar, wages stall.” No shit, Sherlock. The article tells us the following: “Wages for millions of … Continue reading
MAY DAY 2014: WORKING MEN SHOULD BE PISSED
So it’s International Worker’s Day…to paraphrase D. Boon from the video above, I’ll put it in simple words why working men (and women) are (or should be) pissed… 1. Banks got bailed out by workers while banks continue to prey … Continue reading
FREE MARY MCCULLEY–MORE DETAILS EMERGE
Edited press release received by LRM: For the millions who have lost their homes to foreclosure, or are still losing their homes to the “too big to fail” banks, Mary McCulley is a hero. In February she stood up to … Continue reading
BANKS ARE A THREAT TO SOCIETY, NOT MARY MCCULLEY
This is unbelievable. Absurd. Kafkaesque. Mary McCulley was sent to jail yesterday because supposedly she is a “public risk” and doesn’t “respect the law”: “BUTTE – A federal judge chose to give a Kentucky woman a longer prison sentence than … Continue reading
FORGET HEARINGS, JAIL BANKERS
Indeed, these will be hearings (if and when they happen) on financial faux pas, not financial terrorism–and the second kind is the kind we need… Having new hearings on the Independent Foreclosure Review–which was abruptly ended by a settlement in … Continue reading
WHO OWNS WHAT: BANKS AND THE NEW FEUDALISM
In a new Salon article, David Dayen eloquently sums up root cause of the new feudalism, which is being helped along by the federal government and federal courts: “Many focus on how the failure to prosecute financial crimes, by Attorney … Continue reading