Probing Golden West

"NEW YORK (AP) - The Department of Justice is investigating the mortgage lending practices of Golden West Financial Corp., the savings and loan bought by Wachovia Corp. for $24 billion at the height of the housing boom in 2006.U.S. Attorney Joseph Russoniello told The...

Banks are the new Hunts: highly bullish short position for silver! « Peter J...

"Silver investors owe a serious debt of gratitude to Theodore Butler for alerting the US regulators to the manipulation of the silver market in August by two major banks in one of the most blatant actions since the days of the Hunt Brothers in the 1970s. "

Lou Dobbs: The War On The Middle Class

"Lou Dobbs: The War On The Middle Class By: Nicole Belle on Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008 at 10:33 AM - PST    Download | Play  Download | Play (h/t Heather) Lou Dobbs looks at how the...

U.S. regulators seize two more banks, engineer sale

While these two banks are small players, the fact that their are 90 institutions on the list that the FDIC examiners monitor. It would be great to have some good news one of these days. " U.S. regulators took over two banks on Friday and sold them to Mutual of Omaha Bank,...

An Imminent Victory for ‘Net Neutrality’ Advocates

"An Imminent Victory for ‘Net Neutrality’ Advocates By Vindu Goel When Comcast admitted last fall that it was blocking — or slowing down, as the company preferred to call it — certain file transfers by customers, a lot of people complained that the company...