Tag: Citigroup

US Senate Greasing Skids for Next Bank Crash

After the severe bank crash of 2008, in order to guard against future such crashes, Congress passed the Dodd-Frank law, which enacted regulations that the Senate would now weaken. The CBO says the “Bank Lobbyist Act” raises the risk of a banking system crash.

Welcome to the Plutonomy Backlash

Occupy Cleveland – circa 2011-10-21 “Welcome to the Plutonomy Machine,” began a 2005 report by three Citigroup analysts to their investor clients.1 The report called the United States a “plutonomy” — an “economy powered by the wealthy,” where “there is…