Stories by Pam Martens

Pam Martens worked on Wall Street for 21 years. She is the Editor of Wall Street On Parade.

NYU’s Gilded Age: Students Struggle With Debt While Vacation Homes Are Lavished on the University’s Elite

Posted on: Jun 17, 2013, Source: AlterNet

The problems at NYU are emblematic of an insular institution whose Board is heavily dominated by the same Wall Street people who heaped disgrace upon their own institutions.

Bombshell: Senator Sherrod Brown Questions Obama Nominee on Too-Big-to-Jail Banks

Posted on: Mar 15, 2013, Source: Wall Street on Parade

When it comes to big banks, shareholders are protected; taxpayers screwed.

The NRA Turns 300 Tax-Funded Wildlife Refuges Into Killing Fields

Posted on: Feb 11, 2013, Source: AlterNet

What an alligator named George reveals about wildlife killings in refuges across the country.

The Federal Reserve, a Privately Owned Banking Cartel, Has Been Given Police Powers, with Glock 22s and Patrol Cars

Posted on: Sep 17, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Shocking signs of business control of government

How the Big Banks Are Trying to Destroy Our Justice System

Posted on: Sep 6, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Meet the lawyer who keeps getting Citigroup off the hook for fraud.

Did Citigroup Defraud Billions from U.S. Ally Abu Dhabi?

Posted on: Sep 5, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Abu Dhabi has likely learned an important lesson about how Wall Street does business. An investigative report reveals the company's nasty dealings.

Wall Street's Biggest Heist Yet? How the High Wizards of Finance Gutted Our Schools and Cities

Posted on: Jul 17, 2012, Source: AlterNet

The complex machinations that pitted county treasurers against the deceptive wizards of Wall Street.

Revealed: JPMorgan Paid $190,000 Annually to Spouse of Bank's Top Regulator

Posted on: Jul 11, 2012, Source: AlterNet

When will we stand up to Wall Street and their sycophants in Congress and say: “ENOUGH!”

How the New York Times Hides the Truth About Wall Street's Catastrophic Misdeeds

Posted on: Jul 1, 2012, Source: AlterNet

The paper of record is in serious need of a fact checker when it comes to whether the Glass-Steagall Act could have prevented the financial crisis.

How Jamie Dimon's New Business Model From Hell Could Take Down Wall Street – Again

Posted on: Jun 13, 2012, Source: AlterNet

An "Investment" office sans licensed investment brokers is the latest deregulatory mutation on Wall Street.

JPMorgan: If This Is a Financial Fortress, Run For the Bunkers

Posted on: Jun 6, 2012, Source: Wall Street on Parade

The U.S. Senate Banking Committee has proven to the American people that any shred of confidence they might still have in our financial markets is misplaced.

MF Global: The Untold Story of the Biggest Wall Street Collapse Since Lehman

Posted on: Apr 20, 2012, Source: AlterNet

There are plenty of lessons to be learned from MF Global, all of which we can count on Congress to ignore at the behest of Wall Street money until the next financial crisis.

The Cato Institute's Amazing Hypocrisy as It Battles the Kochtopus

Posted on: Mar 12, 2012, Source: CounterPunch

Is the think tank a citadel of libertarian advocacy or whore for the Republican Party?

Resurrecting Ayn Rand: How Corporate Money Pushes Economic Poison on Campus

Posted on: Feb 28, 2012, Source: CounterPunch

Hedge Fund money teams up with Koch and BB&T to buy the minds of America's students and professors.

Wall Street Firms Spy on Protesters in Tax-Funded Center

Posted on: Oct 26, 2011, Source: CounterPunch

In a secretive government facility Wall Street firms get to sit alongside the New York Police Department and spy on law-abiding citizens.

10 Things You Can Do to Starve the Wall St. Beast and Grab Yourself a Piece of the Pie

Posted on: Nov 24, 2010, Source: CounterPunch

We must put the wealth back into the hands from which it was taken in a rigged wealth transfer scheme.

Koch Footprints Lead to Political Powder Keg: Exposing the Far Right's Secret Slush Fund to Keep Fear Alive

Posted on: Oct 27, 2010, Source: CounterPunch

A secretive libertarian nonprofit bankrolled a fear-mongering effort to get McCain into the White House. Until now, where the money came from has been a hotly debated mystery.

Wall Street's Private Judicial System Exposed as a Fraud

Posted on: Jul 21, 2009, Source: CounterPunch

The National Arbitration Forum isn't impartial -- it's financially shackled to debt collection law firms representing major credit card companies.

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

Posted on: Jun 1, 2009, Source: CounterPunch

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.

How the Banksters Made a Complete Killing off the Bailout

Posted on: Oct 20, 2008, Source: CounterPunch

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.

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

Posted on: Jun 22, 2008, Source: CounterPunch

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.

Bankers Gone Bonkers: Global Financiers Should Make Insanity Plea

Posted on: Feb 3, 2008, Source: CounterPunch

A road map to how the banking industry landed itself in the financial loony bin.

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

Posted on: Jan 27, 2008, Source: CounterPunch

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.

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