Breaking Inequality is a documentary film about the corruption between Washington and Wall Street that has resulted in the largest inequality gap in the history of America

That's right folks - TRILLIONS!

Nearly one-fourth of financial services professionals feel it’s at least sometimes necessary to do illegal or unethical things to be successful, and many are motivated to do so by fat bonuses and other compensation.

The attempts to rig LIBOR (the London inter-bank offered rate), a benchmark interest rate, not only betray a culture of casual dishonesty; they set the stage for lawsuits and more regulation right the way round the globe. This could well be global finance’s “tobacco moment”.

This story stretches far beyond Britain. Barclays is the first bank in the spotlight because it offered to co-operate fully with regulators. It will not be the last. Investigations into the fixing of LIBOR and other rates are also under way in America, Canada and the EU. Between them, these probes cover many of the biggest names in finance: the likes of Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, UBS, Deutsche Bank and HSBC. Employees, from New York to Tokyo, are implicated.

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It's freakin' amazing what passes for food in America - pink slime!

The "Food and Drug Administration" should be renamed the "Fools and Drug Dealers Administration"!

Did George Zimmerman have help from his father, a retired judge, in clearing his name in three separate arrests?

That’s the question that’s being asked now that more information on Trayvon Martin’s 28-year-old killer is being revealed.

Robert Zimmerman, a former Orange County magistrate judge, recently wrote a letter to The Orlando Sentinel defending his son, who’s been dragged through the mud for shooting the unarmed 17-year-old last month.

Once again, the 1% rule!

The New Black Liberation Militia (NBLM) intends to march straight into Florida and perform a ”citizen’s arrest” on Trayvon Martin’s shooter, George Zimmerman as a substitute for the arrest they believe should have happened.

From the Associated Press story on this new development....

Instead of getting a bonus it seems these MF Global folks should be getting a new address - near Bernie Madoff!

Italian anti-mafia prosecutors said they seized a record $6 trillion of allegedly fake U.S. Treasury bonds, an amount that’s almost half of the U.S.’s public debt.

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The new book Retirement Heist is an alarming look at how—in the span of a generation—the 1% has looted the futures of the 99%.