New Cyprus Bank Plan Targets Big Depositors
Deposits below 100,000 euros would be safe
Nobody wants to take responsibility for move to tax deposits
Rep. Billy Long (R-Mo.) doesn't like what he sees in Cyprus
When someone suddenly takes money out of your bank account without your permission, what's that called?
Turns out people don't like their money being stolen
Cypriots want their money before the government steals it or the banks collapse
Also wants demand boosted in Germany
Bloomberg News recently valued big banks' cheaper borrowing rates because they're too big to fail at $83 billion a year
Rate has been held at 0.5 percent for years
Banks abandon foreclosure process years after booting owners, and suddenly owners are legally liable again
Meet Uncle Sam, global financial leper
Those that do not effectively separate investment and retail operations at risk
It's actually held by foreign subsidiaries in U.S. banks and exists in a sort of limbo
The best-selling author of The Black Swan talks about his new book and why most public intellectuals aren't worth a damn.
Up to 220,000 borrowers affected
Having created the problem, they will "solve" the problem by treating people like idiots
Eliminates uncertainty about what US wants from them
$10 billion settlement with 14 lenders to settle charges
Been pretty generous so far
After seizing homes, lenders failing to pay dues
May automatically share banking data with other predatory governments
Banks pushed the limits of safety to satisfy the law
Whoa! There's something the feds won't promise to bailout.
Homes raided in investigation of interest rate manipulation
Only nine percent are "very confident"
Europe's biggest bank accused of helping facilitate transactions for Mexican drug lords
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