Editor's Note: Owning physical precious metals and safeguarding them in a non-bank depository is best defense. By Brandon Smith As I write this, the news is saturated with stories of a hostage situation possibly involving Islamic militants in Sydney, Australia. Like many, I am concerned about the shockwave such an event will create through our sociopolitical structures. However, while most of[...]
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Why Matt Taibbi Thinks This Woman Is JPMorgan’s “Worst Nightmare”
In reality, there is nothing surprising in Matt Taibbi's latest piece since returning to Rolling Stone from the Intercept, as it tells a story everyone is by now is all too familiar with: a former bank employee (in this case Alayne Fleischmann) who was a worker in a bank's (in this case JPM) mortgage operations group, where she observed and engaged in what she describes as "massive criminal[...]