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By Mike Whitney

Financial system instability is no accident. It's Central Bank policy. As financial institutions discover they can no longer count on organic growth in the real economy to increase profits, (because consumers are too strapped to spend freely) they will rely more heavily on dodgy accounting, bogus ratings, opaque debt-instruments, high-frequency trading and lax lending standards.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25999.htm



Federal Report Faults Banks on Huge Bonuses

By ERIC DASH

With the financial system on the verge of collapse in late 2008, a group of troubled banks doled out more than $2 billion in bonuses and other payments to their highest earners. Now, the federal authority on banker pay says that nearly 80 percent of that sum was unmerited.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26005.htm



Feinberg: Unfair to Ask Firms to Return Payouts

U.S. "pay czar" Kenneth Feinberg on Friday declined to request 17 financial firms that doled out $1.6 billion in "ill advised" executive compensation to return the excessive payouts, saying to do so would be unfair to the companies and could trigger private lawsuits and additional Congressional investigation.

http://bit.ly/cd7jLi


From Information Clearing House

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http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig5/johnsson6.1.1.html

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http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl2/economic-horror.html



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