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  • Series: Governments submit to “Too Big to Fail” banks (Part 1)

    Central Banks lend massively to the banking sector

    8 September 2014, by Éric Toussaint

    Since the banking bubble burst in 2007, the major Central Banks of the most industrialised countries lend massively to private banks at very low interest rates in order to avoid their failure, thus permitting the big banks that take the most advantage to save considerable amounts in interest payments.

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  • Last part of the series: The Banks and the “Too Big to Jail” Doctrine (Part 9)

    The Impunity Enjoyed by the Banks must Stop

    1 September 2014, by Éric Toussaint

    We all know the saying “Too big to fail.” In managing the crisis the banks have caused, the governments of the industrialised countries have adopted a new doctrine that might be summed up as “Too big to jail.”

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  • Series: Banks and the “Too big to jail” doctrine (Part 8)

    Complicity of Dexia in very serious Human Rights violations in the Israeli occupied territories

    1 September 2014, by Éric Toussaint

    In 2001, the Dexia Group (Dexia SA) took over the Israeli bank Otzar Hashilton Hamekomi. It has been disclosed that this subsidiary – now called Dexia Israel – finances Israeli colonies in the Palestinian territories [1]which means Dexia is involved in the occupation of Palestine. As the platform “Palestine occupée – Dexia impliquée( Occupied Palestine - Dexia Involved)” says, “financing these colonies contravenes international law, in particular article 49 of the fourth Geneva Convention, which states, ’The occupying power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own population into the territory it occupies.’” [2]

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  • Series: The banks and the “Too Big to Jail” doctrine (Part 7)

    The Big Banks Organise Massive Tax Evasion on an International Scale

    31 August 2014, by Éric Toussaint

    Another example of the “Too Big to Jail” doctrine: International tax evasion and fraud organised by UBS, Switzerland’s biggest bank.
    UBS, which had to be saved from failure in October 2008 by massive injections of Swiss public money, was involved in the LIBOR manipulation scandal, the currency markets manipulation scandal (UBS is the subject of several inquiries by controlling authorities in Hong Kong, US, the UK, and in Switzerland) and the abusive sale of structured Mortgage-Backed (…)

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