Finance
How debt peonage dispossesses the masses

Why, after 200 years of industrialisation, are Westerners generally poor, overworked and swamped ...  
Time to end Tony Abbott's deceitful debt scare campaign

Tony Abbott, aided by an increasingly willing and partisan mainstream media, has been fostering ...  
Facts speak for themselves — Australia still lucky country

Despite the News Ltd media and the Coalition talking down our economy at every turn, Australia ...  
The case of the Bumbling Bureaucrat

Four Corners' exposé this week on the betrayal of our aged by managed investments schemes ignored ...  
Masters of the universe and the efficient markets myth

There is no such thing as an “invisible hand” guiding the market, just a whole lot of real ...  
Sympathy for the NAB

The National Australia Bank suffered a drastic "profit slump" last year, only clearing a meagre ...  
Turning a blind eye to white collar crime

Crimes committed by those at the top corporate level are routinely ignored or brushed under the ...  
The Commonwealth Bank takedown of BankWest customers (Part 4)

Assoc Prof Evan Jones provided a case study, which show the Kafkaesque way the banking industry ...  
The Spanish Revolution

The protests continue in the southern countries of Europe and if nothing changes they will cont ...  
The Commonwealth Bank Takedown of BankWest Customers (Part 3)

The banking regulatory structure is an illusion and the regulators know it's a sham ― but the ...  
Dirty money and the RBA

The grotesquery of corruption within our banking systems seems endless, writes contributing ...  
The National Australia Talibank

On 19 July 2012, the National Australia Bank unleashed the full force of its Black Ops hit squad ...  
The Commonwealth Bank takedown of BankWest customers (Part Two)

From the evidence, the CBA’s and BankWest’s answers to the recent Senate Banking Inquiry ...  
The Commonwealth Bank takedown of BankWest customers — Part 1

BankWest customers tell the Senate shocking stories of fraudulent foreclosures while Australia’s ...  
Why you are a slave

I am afraid that it is my unpleasant duty to inform you that you may be a slave. [caption ...  
The NAB spin machine in overdrive

While mainstream journalists write puff pieces about the "new" NAB under Cameron Clyne, it cont ...  
Banks, Parliamentary Committees and the little person

Senate Committee members have no desire to discover how hundreds of BankWest customers could be ...  
Courting double trouble in the Secret State

It is time for Chief Justice Marilyn Warren to exercise her powers to look into the (Secret) State ...  
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