Could This Lawsuit Be the Straw That Breaks the TPP’s Back?
TransCanada has filed a $15 billion lawsuit against the US under NAFTA or scuttling its cross-border pipeline. The TPP gives foreign investors even stronger rights.
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Wall Street Journal Analysis of Mortgage Settlements Shows Very Little Went to Wronged Borrowers
A review of where the mortgage settlement money went is a reminder of how wronged borrowers were giving cheap and largely empty promises rather than meaningful help.
Read more...Flint’s Water Crisis: A Chronicle of Disenfranchisement, Denial, and Buck-Passing
A must-see documentary on Flint’s water crisis.
Read more...Bill Black: The Whistleblowers’ Third Lemon Award is to Fannie and FHFA
Fannie and the FHFA are fighting whistleblowers, even though Fannie is in conservatorship and cleaning up Fannie is in the public’s interest.
Read more...Why the Oregon Refuge Occupiers Had a Legitimate Grievance…..Just Not the One They Went After
Small ranchers are being squeezed and the Oregon refuge occupiers had real grievances, but the wrong target.
Read more...Wolf Richter: Bavarian Banks Hoard Cash in Revolt Against ECB Negative Interest Rates
Little Bavarian banks take a bit shot at the ECB.
Read more...Life after Brexit: The UK’s Options Outside the EU
What are UK’s options if a majority votes in favour of Brexit this June?
Read more...Bill Black: The Clintons Have Not Changed – The Clintonian War on the IG Watchdogs
Hillary Clinton refused to appoint even the weak watchdog of an Inspector General (IG) at the State Department.
Read more...Hoisted From Comments: Banks Supporting the War on Cash
Banner Bank in the state of Washington closed a reader’s account because he made too many cash withdrawals. An overly conservative implementation of “Know Your Customer” rules or a sign of things to come?
Read more...Social Security Privatizer Larry Fink of Giant Asset Manager BlackRock is a Clinton Treasury Secretary in Waiting
Social Security enemy Larry Fink appears to have troublingly high odds of becoming the Clinton Treasury Secretary nominee.
Read more...A Proposed Natural Gas Pipeline is Next to a Nuclear Power Plant. What Could Go Wrong?
Someone needs to remind the overseers of old nuclear power plants that tail risks are greater than they think.
Read more...CFTC Commissioner Giancarlo Admits to Hijacking Advisory Committee to Boost Commodity Speculators
Last week, an advisory committee to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission produced a highly dubious report recommending that the agency abandon the Dodd-Frank mandate of setting position limits in futures markets to eliminate excessive speculation. The report was just an enhanced form of lobbying; eight of the nine members of the Energy and Environmental Markets Advisory Committee (EEMAC) have ties to industries that would personally benefit from killing the rule.
The big question was how an official advisory committee of a federal agency could turn into a purely distilled conduit for corporate talking points? And the answer is Christopher Giancarlo, the lone Republican commissioner on CFTC at the moment, who took advantage of the committee, twisted it to his own ends, and produced a work product destined to be used in future litigation to overturn the position limits rule.
Read more...Donald Trump’s Truly Absurd, Word Salad, Gibberish Health Care Policy
Trump’s health care plan, to the extent it can even be called a plan, makes no sense.
Read more...Germany Lays the Foundations for a New Eurozone Debt/Banking Crisis
It’s astonishing to see Germany take active steps to wreck the Eurozone.
Read more...Please Attend or Listen to Bank Whistleblowers United Event This Thursday in DC
Please support Bank Whistleblowers United by participating in their first public event.
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