trickle-down economics Wells Fargo cuts 26,500 jobs, shutters branches, declares "excess capital" and drops $40.6 billion on stock buybacks Cory Doctorow
1mdb Two Goldman Sachs bankers charged in multibillion-dollar Malaysian money-laundering scam Cory Doctorow
bank-state merger Tomorrow is the tenth anniversary of the collapse of 2008 and things are much, much worse Cory Doctorow
mick mulvaney Trump's finance watchdog wants to make the taxpayer-funded database of crooked banks go dark Cory Doctorow
car thieves on an industrial scale Wells Fargo fined $1B for stealing cars and jacking houses Cory Doctorow
compassionate capitalism Goldman Sachs report: "Is curing patients a sustainable business model?" Cory Doctorow
wells fargo will shoot you in the fucking face Wells Fargo: fyeah, we're going to lend money to gun manufacturers, now stfu before we shoot you Cory Doctorow
kubler-rossing plutocrats If this goes on… The 1% will own two thirds of the world by 2030 Cory Doctorow
blood-funnel jamming For Goldman Sachs execs, momentarily working for the government means hundreds of millions in tax savings Cory Doctorow
carried interest tax loophole Gary Cohn served Donald Trump for 14 months, and made billions for his old bosses at Goldman Sachs Cory Doctorow
charlie munger Wells Fargo admits it ripped off its customers, creates low-response-rate opt-in system for its victims to get paid back Cory Doctorow
consent decrees Wells Fargo's punishment for fake account scandal: no more growth until Fed is "satisfied" Cory Doctorow
filling the swamp Trump waives criminal punishments for convicted banks, including Deutsche Bank, to whom he owes $130,000,000-$300,000,000 Cory Doctorow
fresh poops of bel air Zsa Zsa Gabor's husband is pissed that his $50m house was barricaded by a bomb squad, called in to investigate a gift-wrapped box of horseshit that someone sent to Steve Mnuchin Cory Doctorow
trumped-up trickle down Wells Fargo CEO promises to spend not one cent of the GOP tax gift on investment or wages Cory Doctorow
jamie dimon supercriminal JP Morgan-Chase paid its billions in fines for mortgage fraud by committing billions in mortgage fraud Cory Doctorow
corporations are (better than) people Corporations form coalition to ask a court to ban coalitions (of people the corporations have screwed over) Cory Doctorow
mediocre rich guys The Spider Network, a novelistic account of the mediocre rich men who robbed the world with Libor Cory Doctorow
Christine Cole and Bill King Four years later, we learn why Jamie Dimon's JP Morgan Chase settled US fraud allegations for $13B Cory Doctorow