Solo cien personas ganaron en 2012 más de 240.000 millones de dólares. Tanto dinero como España dedicó ese mismo año a prestaciones sociales, desempleo, sanidad y pensiones. Cien en la cima de las 1.426 personas que poseen mil millones de dólares o más y que suman entre todos 5,4 billones de dólares de riqueza. Súper-ricos [...]

by Matthew Jaffe October 5, 2009 WASHINGTON – The Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve lied to the American public last fall when they said that the first nine banks to receive government bailout funds were healthy, a government watchdog states in a new report released today. Neil Barofsky, the special inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief [...]

por Greg Gordon (“Truthout”), Lindsay Renick Mayer (“Capitol Eye”) y Matt Taibbi (“Rolling Stone”) 30 de septiembre, 2009 Senadores y diputados responsables de supervisar la economía de EEUU han recibido millones de dólares de las empresas de Wall Street. Desde 2001, ocho de las empresas más cuestionadas han donado 64,2 millones de dólares a los candidatos del [...]

With a blank cheque from taxpayers and no real reform the perverse incentives for risk-taking are bigger than ever by Joseph E. Stiglitz September 14, 2009 What went wrong? Have the right lessons been learned? Could it happen again? The anniversary of the Lehman Brothers’ bankruptcy and the freezing of the credit markets that followed is an occasion [...]

An insider’s view of Wall Street’s rebound. by Nomi Prins July 28, 2009 This is perhaps the most important thing I learned over my years working on Wall Street, including as a managing director at Goldman Sachs: Numbers lie. In a normal time, the fact that the numbers generated by the nation’s biggest banks can’t be trusted might [...]

por S. McCoy 1 de julio, 2009 Nos hacíamos eco ayer de la repercusión que está teniendo, en el mundo financiero estadounidense, el artículo que Matt Taibbi firma en la edición de Rolling Stone del mes de julio bajo el aparatoso titular de The Great American Bubble Machine o La Gran Fábrica Americana de Burbujas, que es [...]

by Robert Scheer July 14, 2009 Connect the dots: Goldman Sachs made $3.44 billion in profit this past quarter, while the U.S deficit topped $1 trillion for the first time in the nation’s history and appeared to be headed toward doubling that figure before the budget year is out. Since most of the increase in the federal [...]