This Is How HSBC Celebrates 150 Years of Banking Crime & Corruption: Happy Birthday by Don Quijones • Feb 11, 2015 • 4 Comments And HSBC still operates with full UK-government-sanctioned impunity.
Crunch Time as Greece’s Terrible Deadlines Loom by Don Quijones • Feb 8, 2015 • 7 Comments Will Greece’s new heroes of democracy fold and kowtow to the Troika’s demands, as every government has done since the Eurozone debt crisis began?
Why the Beautiful New Greek Government Is Screwed by Wolf Richter • Feb 6, 2015 • 21 Comments The Greeks have lost their sharpest weapon: the financial markets.
Chaos, Fear, Panic Descend on EU’s Hallowed Halls of Power by Don Quijones • Feb 2, 2015 • 7 Comments “You just killed the Troika.”
Greece’s Hard Choice: Escape or Merely Reset EU Servitude by David Stockman • Jan 26, 2015 • 13 Comments The “Syriza Shock” – beginning of the end of unimpeded rule by elitist apparatchiks who dominate central banks and the economic policy machinery.
Troika Punches Panic Button on Greece and Spain by Don Quijones • Jan 24, 2015 • 32 Comments Overriding dilemma: “Debts that can’t be repaid, won’t be repaid.”
Germany: ‘Got Gold?’ – Draghi: ‘Try Some Bananas’ by Wolf Richter • Jan 23, 2015 • 1 Comment Germany had a self-inflicted bad-hair day, you’d think. With a hilarious cartoon.
Mario Draghi: Charlatan Of The Apparatchiks by David Stockman • Jan 22, 2015 • 3 Comments The ECB’s QE is fraudulent credit – really dangerous, toxic stuff.
Europe Gets Cold Feet on “TTIP,” Americans Should Too, But Obama Needs it for his Legacy by Don Quijones • Jan 19, 2015 • 3 Comments A watertight means for multinational corporations to trump national legislatures.
Fears of Capital Controls, Savings Confiscation Trigger Bank Runs in Greece by MC01 • Jan 18, 2015 • 8 Comments They don’t want to be the next Cyprus.