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IT might seem remarkable that there’s more to say about our late Bailout Age. But there is more — a lot more. Nearly four years after Washington began its huge rescues of banks with taxpayer dollars, an important player in this, one of the great financial dramas of all time, is offering a damning account of how the Bush and Obama administrations handled the whole episode. He is Neil Barofsky. Remember him — the man whose job it was to police the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program? And his new account, a book titled “Bailout” (Free Press), to be...

Like I said the boo-hoo'ing white American animals are now complaining about banks taking their fake and fiat money from their MF Global accounts? Well, isn't this rich? First these whites go on talk radio to rant and rave about bankers and fiat currency, even as they purchase homes, boats and cars with fake fiat credit cards, which whites got preferential treatment for 30 years and while ranting about not having money backed by gold, these same whites and ethnic central/eastern Euro, last century, migrating trailer trash animals, were dealing in fiat fake gold money accounts aka "futures" that have...

U.S. banking giant Citigroup Inc. said this week it would charge $15 per month for checking account holders who kept a balance below $6,000. The firm's move comes on the heels of Bank of America's announcement this week that it would charge $5 for most debit card holders and sparked at least one desertion, the Los Angeles Times reported Saturday. Cheryl Holt of Burbank, Calif., said she was "on my way out the door right now … off to start a new account at my nearest credit union." "Should have done it years before," she added. Holt said she received...