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News ReleasesAuthorities ramp up pressure on media over banking disclosures 2015-01-21 Reporters without Borders Bulgarian Financial Supervision Commission has imposed fines of up to 80,000 euros each on several newspapers for disclosing information about the banking sector. Reporters Without Borders deplores th... News website harassed for investigating banking sector 2012-11-02 Reporters without Borders Reporters Without Borders strongly condemns the proceedings that four banks have initiated through the Bulgarian National Bank against the news website Bivol.bg over an article about alleged bad pract... Sources Select ResourcesAuthorities ramp up pressure on media over banking disclosures Sources News Release Article 2015 Reporters without Borders Bulgarian Financial Supervision Commission has imposed fines of up to 80,000 euros each on several newspapers for disclosing information about the banking sector. Reporters Without Borders deplores th... Banks Are "Where the Money Is" In The Drug War Big Lenders Face Few Hard Consequences for Violating Anti-Money Laundering Laws Conroy, Bill Article 2012 NarcoNews Man of the largest banks in the world have been accused of failing to comply with anti-money laundering laws — thereby enabling, collectively, hundreds of billions of dollars worth of suspicious trans... Behind the Money Curtain: A Left Take on Taxes, Spending and Modern Monetary TheoryKavanagh, Jim Article 2018 CounterPunch Taxes do not fund government spending.That's a core insight of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) whose radical implications have not been understood very well by the left. Indeed, it's not well understood ... 'But the banks are made of marble' -- how banks screw the worldRainford, John Article 2015 Green Left Across Africa, western Asia and Latin America in the 1980s, the growth of per capita GDP was brought to a halt. This was not a recession, it was a severe depression. And its cause was reckless lending... 'A Conspiracy Of Silence' - HSBC, The Guardian And The Defrauded British PublicArticle 2015 MediaLens Journalist Nafeez Ahmed has delved deeper into the HSBC scandal, reporting the testimony of a whistleblower that reveals a 'conspiracy of silence' encompassing the media, regulators and law-enforcemen... 'A Conspiracy Of Silence' -- HSBC, The Guardian and the Defrauded British PublicArticle 2015 MediaLens An investigator and anonymous whistleblower talk about the suspicious lack of coverage and attention to the HSBC tax evasion scandal. This article talks about the scandal itself and criticizes the Bri... Deutsche Bank Pays $2.5 Billion Fine For Interest Rate RiggingChatterjee,Pratap Article 2015 CorpWatch Deutsche Bank has agreed to pay out $2.5 billion fine to settle U.K. and U.S. government investigations into allegations of fixing global interest rates, months after 6 other banks paid out $4.3 billi... EuroZone Profiteers: How German and French Banks Helped Bankrupt GreeceChatterjee, Pratap Article 2015 CorpWatch We should be clear: almost none of the huge amount of money loaned to Greece has actually gone there, says Joseph Stiglitz, former chief economist of the World Bank and a Nobel Prize winner in economi... The Great Ponzi Scheme of the Global EconomyHudson, Michael; Hedges, Chris Article 2016 CounterPunch Chris Hedges has a discussion with the economist Michael Hudson (author of Killing the Host: How Financial Parasites and Debt Destroy the Global Economy) on a great Ponzi scheme that not only defines ... Hang Onto Your Wallets: Negative Interest, the War on Cash and the $10 Trillion Bail-inBrown, Ellen Article 2015 CounterPunch If you’re an ordinary saver with your money in the bank, you may soon be paying the bank to hold your funds rather than the reverse. Iceland Jail Top Bankers For 46 Years, Europe 'Outraged'Dmitry, Baxter Article 2016 Your News Wire Iceland has differed from the rest of Europe and the US by allowing bankers to be prosecuted as criminals, rather than treating them as a protected species. A Marxist History of the World part 105: The 2008 Crash: from bubble to black holeFaulkner, Neil Article 2012 Counterfire The financial crisis represents the end of an era in which greed and casino-madness had been given free rein by market deregulation and rising debt. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - June 18, 2015Corruption Diemer, Ulli (editor); Richwood, Darien Yawching (production) Serial Publication (Periodical) 2015 Connexions Corruption - or at least some types of corruption - are much in the news, with the ongoing scandals in the Canadian Senate and the recent U.S. targeting of the Swiss-based football federation FIFA for... Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 7, 2016Tax Evasion Diemer, Ulli (ed.) Serial Publication (Periodical) 2016 Connexions Employing a network of accountants, tax lawyers, corporate shells, tax havens, secret bank accounts, and other methods, the 1% have become extremely adept at evading even the low rates of taxation the... Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 18, 2017Public Transit Diemer, Ulli (ed.) Serial Publication (Periodical) 2017 Connexions Public transit - good affordable public transit - is key to a liveable city. Around the world, there are movements of transit riders fighting for better public transit. A key perspective guiding many... Parasites in the Body Economic: the Disasters of NeoliberalismHudson, Michael Article 2015 CounterPunch Michael Hudson discusses his new book, "Killing the Host: How Financial Parasites and Debt Bondage Destroy the Global Economy." Saving the Whale, AgainThe catastrophic incompetence of Citigroup Cockburn, Andrew Article 2015 Harper's Magazine Cockburn discusses the financial recklessness of Citigroup bank and the repercussions. Secrecy for Sale: Inside the Global Offshore Money MazeArticle 2013 ICIJ Big players are taking unprecedented steps to stop offshore abuses, but financial crime fighters worry reforms don’t go far enough. Six Banks Pay $5.6 Billion in Fines for Foreign Exchange ManipulationSmallteacher, Richard Article 2015 CorpWatch Six major international banks – Bank of America, Barclays, Citibank, JPMorgan Chase, Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and Union Bank of Switerland (UBS) – have agreed to pay $5.6 billion in fines for rigg... Tax EvasionIntroduction to the May 21, 2016 issue of Other Voices Diemer, Ulli Article 2016 Connexions The essence of the capitalist economic system is the drive to accumulate as much as possible, by any means possible. It is almost inevitable, therefore, that those – individuals or corporations – whos... TPP Trade Pact Would Give Wall Street a Trump Card to Block RegulationsDayen, David Article 2015 The Intercept Banks and other financial institutions would be able to use provisions in the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership to block new regulations that cut into their profits, according to the text of the trad... Why Do Banks Really Want Our Deposits?Hint: It's Not to Finance Loans Brown, Ellen Article 2014 Counter Punch Many authorities have said it: banks do not lend their deposits. They create the money they lend on their books. Sources BookshelfBeyond BankstersResisting the New Feudalism Nelson, Joyce Book 2016 Beyond Banksters explores how the powers of the Bank of Canada were appropriated in the 1970s, resulting in billions of dollars in public debt. From Milton Friedman to Justin Trudeau's Canada Infrastr... Bubbles Always Burst: the Education of an EconomistHudson, Michael Article 2015 Spouting ostensible free market ideology, the pro-creditor mainstream rejects what the classical economic reformers actually wrote. One is left to choose between central planning by a public bureaucra... Government Ministries & AgenciesOffice of the Superintendent of Financial InstitutionsCreated to contribute to public confidence in the Canadian financial system. |
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