How the SEC Enabled the Gross Under-Reporing of CEO Pay
Why CEOs are even more grotesquely paid than you thought.
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DoJ Opens Investigation Into Wells Fargo Fake Accounts; Why Top Execs Are Responsible
Sanctimonious Wells Fargo may finally be getting its comeuppance.
Read more...Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf Blames Nasty, Scheming Employees for Fake Accounts Scandal
If Stumpf were captain of the Titanic, not only would the crash be the iceberg’s fault, but he’d also get the first seat on the lifeboat
Read more...John Helmer: Did Hillary Clinton Take Money From Russia Oligarch Oleg Deripaska for a Favor in the General Motors-Opel Deal?
The curious tale of a Russian’s oligarch’s donation to the Clinton Foundation and his failed attempt to make an acquisition from General Motors.
Read more...Wells Fargo Exec Who Oversaw Fake Accounts Received $125 Million Upon Recent Retirement, Praise from CEO; Senate Hearings Next Week
The Wells Fargo “fake accounts” scandal gets uglier.
Read more...Don Quijones: Barcelona Just Declared War on AirBnB (and Its Hosts)
Why Barcelona is taking a tough stand on AirBnB, and has strong support of its citizens.
Read more...Hoisted From Comments: First Cut at Perps in Massive Wells Fargo Consumer Fraud
More evidence that regulators had no excuse for not naming, shaming, and at least fining key Wells Fargo execs in its massive consumer fraud.
Read more...Gig Economy Disaster: ‘Uber For Laundry’ Hung Workers Out to Dry and Now It’s Out of Business
Another innovative gig economy startup bites the dust.
Read more...Deutsche Bank and a $10Bn Money Laundering Nightmare: More Context Than You Can Shake a Stick at
Deutsche Bank’s $10Bn: the shell company back story
Read more...Liberty Reserve, Bitcoin, and the US Bank Regulatory Dog That Didn’t Bark
How a toothless US watchdog, FinCEN, has largely ignored money laundering via Bitcoin and other digital currencies.
Read more...The Real Scandal of Clinton’s Emails: Conducting Foreign Policy In Secret
A revealing effort to acknowledge that the Clintons are corrupt but contend that it doesn’t matter much because the system is rotten.
Read more...Revealed: ECB Secretly Hands Cash to Select Corporations
Is the ECB’s latest bond-buying program creating corporate winners and losers?
Read more...What Can We Do to End the Isolation of Whistleblowers?
It would be sad if the answer turned out to be “nothing”!
Read more...Tom Miller Pens Love Letter to Settlements with Financial Fraudsters
You could spread around a lot of blame for the current state of our two-tiered system of justice and lack of accountability, particularly as it relates to the financial sector. But if you wanted to find the most pathetic figure involved in that whole rigamarole, all roads lead to Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller.
Read more...Big Wall Street Firms Make Lame Excuse for Volcker Rule Non-Compliance, Ask for Additional Five Year Extension
Big Wall Street firms like Goldman and Morgan Stanley offer “dog ate my homework” excuses for failure to comply with the Volcker Rule.
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