by magix | Jan 10, 2013 | Featured, Politics
A former AIG CEO, Hank Greenberg, files suit against the people saying the company wasn’t bailed out enough. Matt Taibbi sums up Greenberg’s character in recent Rolling Stones post. Even though a federal judge ruled that Greenberg was a conspirator in that...
by magix | Sep 29, 2011 | Featured, Media, Politics
Part 2 of Al Jazeera’s excellent investigation into the global financial meltdown In the second episode of Meltdown, we look at how the financial tsunami swept the world. We hear about a renegade executive who nearly destroyed the global financial system and the...
by magix | Jul 22, 2011 | Featured, Politics
We have been told by our leaders and representatives that some banks are too big to fail and for that reason the treasury was gutted to rescue some of the largest investment banks from the folly of their investments. This really isn’t true and risk and failure...
by magix | Jan 26, 2011 | Featured, National Security, Politics
Matt Taibbi, writing for Rolling Stone, described Goldman Sachs thusly, “The world’s most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like...