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Prof Michael Hudson engages in a wide ranging analysis of the advantages to wealth that money printing and poor tax policy produce. From China to NY, Latvia to Greece, Spain to Australia this is the news we should be getting!

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34246.htm



How Deregulation Resurrected American Economic Insecurity

By Paul Craig Roberts

Few people see the disconnect between the propaganda about the goodness of America and the evil that its government practices.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34235.htm



How Many Billions Of Drug-Laundered Money Does It Take To Shut Down A Bank?

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If you are caught with an ounce of cocaine, the chances are good you are going to go to jail. if you launder nearly a billion dollars for drug cartels and violate our international sanctions, your company pays a fine and you go home and sleep in your own bed at night. Senator Elizabeth Warren.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34245.htm



Big banks take advantage of money laundering epidemic in US

The attorney general of the United States says the country s largest banks may be too big to jail, but the former chief economist for the International Monetary Fund isn t exactly convinced.

http://rt.com/usa/banks-big-us-laundering-165/



Sen. Elizabeth Warren takes on the financial industry

By Jim Puzzanghera

Elizabeth Warren, who ranks 97th out of 100 members, refuses to be just seen and not heard. She is already bashing regulators as well as big-bank executives.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34905.htm


From Information Clearing House

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An unrepresentative democracy

In These Times
by David Sirota

03/08/13

Why are ideas widely supported in most of the country so often portrayed as controversial, polarizing and divisive once they are taken up by legislatures? Why does the professional political class seem like a wholly separate society that does not understand the constituents it is supposed to be representing? These are the existential questions at the root of America s political dysfunction, and a new study marshaling reams of data finally provides some concrete answers...

http://tinyurl.com/aq4bakm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Big Bank Immunity: When Do We Crack Down on Wall Street?

Dean Baker, Truthout: Instead of sheltering big banks from prosecution, we should be using anti-trust laws to break up these entities which enjoy astounding impunity from crimes like laundering money for drug dealers.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/15048-big-bank-immunity-when-do-we-crack-down-on-wall-street

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Sen. Warren Continues Campaign Against 'Too Big To Jail' Banks
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/05/14-5



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