Exopermaculture   June 21, 2012

As a helicopter unaccountably clanks loud and low over my neighborhood this morning; as we head into the first of seven exact squares (2012-2015) between revolutionary Uranus and plutocratic Pluto on June 24 — three days from now! — my own sense of urgency and volatility flicks my eyes in the direction of news, real news, something that indicates “action” begins.

Matt Taibbi    Rolling Stone Politics  May 10, 2012

It's bad enough that the banks strangled the Dodd-Frank law. Even worse is the way they did it - with a big assist from Congress and the White House.

POSTED: March 29, 12:35 PM ET

Wall Street is buzzing about the annual report just put out by the Dallas Federal Reserve. In the paper, Harvey Rosenblum, the head of the Dallas Fed's research department, bluntly calls for the breakup of Too-Big-To-Fail banks like Bank of

By Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone         20 March 12      This is from the WSJ this morning:

Here's yet another form of hidden bailout the federal government doles out to our big banks, without the public having much of a clue.