LIBOR: Viewing the Biggest Financial Crime in History

    It’s been five years since a few academics and journalists began to dig up evidence that something was wrong with the London Inter-Bank Offered Rate, or LIBOR (pronounced appropriately as “lie-bore.”) The data that curious researchers were…

How Wall Street is killing Local Governments

WALL STREET CONFIDENCE TRICK: How “Interest Rate Swaps” Are Bankrupting Local Governments  “Far from reducing risk, derivatives increase risk, often with catastrophic results” – Derivatives expert Satyajit Das, Extreme Money (2011)    The “toxic culture…