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Central Banks/Banking

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https://www.zerohedge.com

The general belief among average citizens is that the purpose of central banks is to help the economy by fighting inflation and mitigating financial crisis. It's a fairy tale that politicians like to encourage. If there were any truth to it, howeve

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Around 2009, I learned about the business practices of people working for mortgage "lenders" following their receipt of closing documents. The process of securitization took many years for me to grasp and quite frankly, is still difficult to fully comprehend by myself and most people.

Letters to the Editor • Global
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https://www.miamiherald.com, By Rob Wile

Josh Collins and his wife Jessica Salazar Collins of were notified by Bank of America that Josh, who was born in Wichita, had to prove his citizenship. They thought it was a scam until the bank cut off access to their assets.

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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden

Banking is a notoriously slow-moving industry, and even in this technology age things have tended to remain more or less the same with no radical shift in the products and services offered by financial institutions.

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https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durdan

After a period of surprisingly strong growth following the near contraction in early 2017, commercial bank C&I lending tumbled during the period July 11th to August 8th by $15bn, or 0.68% - the biggest 4-week decline since March 2017 and before that

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https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durdan

For years, Russian oligarchs and robber barons seeking to park their "unsourced" capital offshore and away from the sticky fingers of the Kremlin, treated Swiss bank accounts (preferably anonymous) with their "no questions asked" customer policies as

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https://www.zerohedge.com by Tyler Durdan

While the market is distracted by record stock highs, a week-long vacation in Turkey, and a mysterious pre-talks bid in the offshore yuan, the truth is that this Emerging Market crisis has been a long time in the making, and based on the Brazilian Re

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