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...connections and favoritism such as tax breaks, subsidies and other preferential treatment.For many people, the way big banks escaped the financial crisis with their profits intact (and often enhanced) epitomized American-style crony capitalism...
...Department has not aggressively pursued fraud cases stemming from the 2008 market collapse. Cases are tough to make. Big banks are lawyered up to the eyeballs. They give a lot of money to politicians. Financial regulatory budgets have been cut...
...It was as if the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill never had been written. It was as if JPMorgan, the nation's biggest bank, had realized that as a "Systemically Important Financial Institution" it is officially too big to fail and will...
...or three. In recent weeks, on a number of fronts, big banks have been held accountable for mortgage-related misdeeds...The No. 1 reason: they have insufficient income. Many big banks have launched separate programs to modify mortgages for...
...amendment limited the amount of money big banks could charge retailers for "swipe...amendment took effect on Saturday, big banks were charging about 44 cents per...process such transactions.Now, big banks are limited to making in the range...
...and Greenback political parties were formed out of a determination to break the stranglehold on credit exercised by the big banks back East.Later in the 19th century, Populists decried the overweening power of the Wall Street "devil fish." The...
...similar rally in Los Angeles, Occupier Patricia McAllister told Reason TV, "The Zionist Jews who are running these big banks and our Federal Reserve need to be run out of this country."And the New York Post reports that the American Nazi Party...
...opened a new line of inquiry, aimed at the controversial Mortgage Electronic Registry System. MERS was created by the big banks in league with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which, as government-backed companies, guaranteed millions of America's...
...belongs: on the heads of the leaders on Wall Street and the big banks. This is not good for America.We all paid dearly to...implement it as soon as possible to avoid paying for the next big bank failure. It's time to put Main Street first.? Troll...
...county registers of deeds have also hindered a settlement between the 50 state's attorneys general who are investigating big banks and other mortgage lenders over controversial mortgage practices.The problem of shoddy mortgage paperwork, which comprises...