Until the Glass-Steagall Act is restored, barring the Wall Street trading casino from owning federally-insured commercial banks, the U.S. banking system will lurch from one crisis to the next, until its reputation as a first-class financial system is relegated to the dustbin of history.

  Lobbyists Grab Control at House Financial Services Hearings, Backing Jamie Dimon’s Push to Gut Higher Capital Proposals We’re very sorry to have to tell you this, but if you’re not watching Senate Banking or House Financial Services Committee hearings …

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Two tiered justice system….

Did any BLM protesters get 22 years in prison for burning down our country for months on end or is that only for Trump supporters? pic.twitter.com/wsWkn25ONJ — Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) September 6, 2023 pic.twitter.com/lLLlLOfvhe — Paul Hookem (@PaulHook_em) September …

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WSJ – Europe’s biggest economy is sliding into stagnation, and a weakening political system is struggling to find an answer.

https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/germany-is-losing-its-mojo-finding-it-again-wont-be-easy-c4b46761 Germany Is Losing Its Mojo. Finding It Again Won’t Be Easy. BERLIN—Two decades ago, Germany revived its moribund economy and became a manufacturing powerhouse of an era of globalization. Times changed. Germany didn’t keep up. Now Europe’s biggest economy …

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Here we go again…the Fed must need a new pretext for pumping trillions of created-out-of-thin-air “stimulus” into our failing banking system

Lockdowns are coming. Be mentally prepared to own nothing, have nothing and be happy. https://t.co/qR9gSAHaPu pic.twitter.com/wKUzV0ZCU6 — Financelot (@FinanceLancelot) August 25, 2023 YAHOO: “Biden’s plot to send America back into lockdown must be stopped” Funny to see this on Yahoo …

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Xbox Social credit system starts today

Xbox introduces new strike system to curtail bad behavior Xbox will issue strikes for behaviors it deems “bad”, with suspensions and one years bans depending on what one did and how many strikes. As per The verge article “In the …

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UK: If a second financial crisis broke today, we could not put the public balance sheet behind our banking system without expecting a run on the pound.

We cannot live with a decade of more of the same. Britain is extremely vulnerable to any mishap – a crack in the housing market, a crisis in the financial markets, another energy crisis. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/13/uk-stop-kidding-ourselves-rich-nation-gone-bust