The United States Congress is a rigged swamp In a place where pay-to-play with impunity has become the norm, US Senators protect their own. In fact, the last time a US Senator was expelled was 1862. US Senator Jesse D. Bright, a Democrat from Indiana was expelled. The charge: supporting the Confederate rebellion. So why wouldn’t […]

This year’s presidential election has brought into sharp relief the fact that our justice system—in fact, our whole way of life—is in trouble. Crimes by the political elite, particularly those of Hillary Clinton and her cronies, are not being addressed by the criminal justice system. Instead, they are being swept under the rug and willfully […]

Henry Paulson. “Hank”. Remember him? Lean, balding, the flared nostrils of a man perpetually haunted by the memory of having to clean dog’s mess from the shoes of his neighbour’s children. Of the crisis in 2008, he said, “Where I come from, if someone takes a risk and they’re going to make the profit from […]

Barclays bankers fiddle the LIBOR markets – a multi-trillion market – on a heroic scale. Other banks and bankers are being investigated too. Barclays will not be alone in its wrong-doing, and other banks may even have exceeded Barclays’ brazen contempt for truth and right-dealing. So what happens? So far, we’ve seen all the standard […]