Apr 5, 2010 · The world’s most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like …

Does Goldman’s hiring of Fed veteran Kaplan presage a Vampire Squid sequel? Kaplan, as head of the Dallas Fed and an FOMC member, was revealed to have been active in the stock …

May 10, 2024 · Or: The Vampire Squid is back. That sort of thing. It is surely just a coincidence that the Kaplan news was announced just after a federal judge at last put the long-running, …

Bear Stearns and Merrill Lynch were taken over by large commercial banks in March and September 2008, respectively, in deals pushed by the U.S. Treasury and the Federal Reserve …

evocative vampire squid metaphor to characterize it. The paper makes five innovations. First, it focuses on the mechanics of the “vampire squid” process whereby financialization rotates …

Apr 2, 2021 · First, it focuses on the mechanics of the ‘vampire squid’ process whereby financialization rotates through the economy, loading sector balance sheets with debt. Second, …

Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America is a 2010 book by American political journalist Matt Taibbi about the events that led to the …

Apr 2, 2021 · First, it focuses on the mechanics of the ‘vampire squid’ process whereby financialization rotates through the economy, loading sector balance sheets with debt. Second, …

Sep 29, 2011 · "This [Federal Reserve] Act establishes the most gigantic trust on earth. When the President [Wilson] signs this bill, the invisible government by the Monetary Power will be …

Jan 17, 2017 · From December 2007 through July 2010, the Federal Reserve secretly funneled $16.1 trillion in emergency revolving loans to the megabanks on Wall Street and their foreign …