Category Archives: Crap-italism
COUNTRYWIDE FALLOUT: MOZILO AGAIN FACING FEDERAL CHARGES?
By now, we’ve all learned not to get our hopes up when the government sues the banks, but still, it’s nice to see it happen, especially when it happens twice, as is happening to Countrywide’s founder and California raisin poster … Continue reading
43 YEARS OF FAKE MONEY: MUST-WATCH VIDEO
Finally broke down and watched one of the videos I had been hearing about on the Peak Prosperity website. This video was the 9th in a series of 27 and was appropriately posted last Friday, August 15, the 43rd anniversary of … Continue reading
TURNING “MISERY INTO MONEY”: THE INJUSTICE INDUSTRY OF THE BANKS
Joel Sucher covers the waterfront of foreclosure fraud today, even giving a shoutout to us here at LRM. Sucher performs the badly-needed service of humanizing and un-demonizing those damaged by the ongoing foreclosure maelstrom: “The largely nameless victims in this … Continue reading
HOW FAKE MONEY BECAME LEGAL MONEY: THE AFFIRMATION OF THE NIXON SHOCK
Forty-three years ago today in what is now not-so-commonly known as the “Nixon Shock”, Richard Nixon ended the Bretton Woods system by ending the convertibility of Federal Reserve Notes to gold, thereby putting the United States—and the world—on the road … Continue reading
TAKING DOWN THE BANKS, $10 AT A TIME
If ten bucks could help take down the bank you despise the most, would you pay it? In order to do just that, a family in Washington state has started a crowdfunding campaign over at Kickstarter called “Beating Bank of … Continue reading
UPDATE: HOMEOWNER VICTORY IN MICHIGAN
A couple days late with this update, but it’s such great news, I gotta share anyway! If you read the story “All Hands On Deck: Fighter Served Eviction Papers” from Tuesday, you know that Michigan homeowner KathyJo Torrenga faced eviction … Continue reading