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RBS - The "Dash for Cash"
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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Of course, it's not just Wells Fargo that games the system. It's a general "feature" of the banking system, follow the link below to read about how the Royal Bank of Scotland loan sharked small businesses to bankrupt them and seize their assets. This after a taxpayer bailout.
Time for a new system, folks...
Link: https://www.buzzfeed.com/heidiblake/dash-for-cash?utm_term=.djwJg6vJK#.tmPpbQDpJ
And, on a similar note, Iceland finds all Bankers guilty in Market Manipulation case: http://icelandmonitor.mbl.is/news/politics_and_society/2016/10/06/iceland_finds_all_guilty_in_banker_market_abuse_cas/
Wells Fargo - Podcast
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Audio & Podcasts
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A fine podcast that goes a little deeper on the Wells Fargo scandal, with added commentary by ex employees.
Link: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/10/07/497084491/episode-728-the-wells-fargo-hustle
A nest of Croatians
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: People
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I find them on the patio at Beano, the one, I****, recognizes me and shouts my name, she's with T*****, the chef, the other family I left...
I liked them. Worked there a couple of years ago - maybe less, time, work, sleep, less, it's all a blur. They were cool, and so we sit on the benches and chat, I show I**** the pictures of the trip to Utah, chastise her for the contents of the backseat when finally I got round to cleaning out the car, there were condoms and birth-control pills, all sorts of shit they'd lost when we went on that road-trip to Drumheller, years ago, it seems like a lifetime...
It's good to see them. I missed them, liked them all, they were pleasant enough, but that restaurant, well, the owner, Croatian as well, Alpha dog and he barked a lot, too much, no way to address that without being an asshole, better to leave, on unfriendly terms, but sometimes life is like that. I'm not a dog. Singlehandedly, though, by his example and existence, he explained the whole of the war in Yugoslavia. I understood. And I understood that as Canadians we should be very careful about who we allow to immigrate...but I knew that already.
These people, I**** and T*****, they're the new generation, enlightened, I like them, and we sit an hour and visit before I go in for my coffee and book...
A Trove of Books
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Found
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Found, at Value Village, a small trove of books to read. Penguin editions, possibly a classics major or some such cleaning up his shelf.
Titles include: Orkneyinga Saga, The Mabinogion, NJal's Saga, The History of Alexander, Two Years Before the Mast, and the Communist Manifesto.
...From which you should gather a fair idea of my reading tastes. Well prepared for a long winter without reliable internet (or even necessary, as it wastes more time that it answers questions, for sure, for sure...). Not that I needed more books, I've easily a hundred to read, but I couldn't leave these, with luck by spring I'll have read them all...
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