Author: Pam Martens

Stories by Pam Martens

Wall Street's Private Judicial System Exposed as a Fraud

The National Arbitration Forum isn't impartial -- it's financially shackled to debt collection law firms representing major credit card companies.
Posted on Jul 21, 2009, Source: CounterPunch

Our Economy Is Going to Keep Tanking Until We Stop Shoveling Billions to Rich People

There's a cycle going on here: if you don't put money in consumers' hands, you get repetitive cycles of layoffs and growing unemployment.
Posted on Jun 2, 2009, Source: CounterPunch

How the Banksters Made a Complete Killing off the Bailout

It's going to take about 20 years to repair the damage from the huge rip off created under the guise of "free market" capitalism.
Posted on Oct 21, 2008, Source: CounterPunch

How a Shady Citigroup Subsidiary Secretly Makes Billions in the Oil Market

Crude oil has risen 700 percent in seven years; the lack of oversight has allowed companies like Phibro to pull in huge and questionable profits.
Posted on Jun 23, 2008, Source: CounterPunch

Bankers Gone Bonkers: Global Financiers Should Make Insanity Plea

A road map to how the banking industry landed itself in the financial loony bin.
Posted on Feb 4, 2008, Source: CounterPunch

$100 Billion and Counting: How Wall Street Blew Itself up

Big firms are giving the media a stage-managed version of what went wrong, but we better get to the truth fast, or face greater economic pain.
Posted on Jan 27, 2008, Source: CounterPunch