Nine Stories The Press Is Underreporting -- Fraud, Fraud And More Fraud

by Dan Froomkin from Nieman Watchdog. 

What we are seeing all around us are the continued effects of a vast criminal enterprise that has never been brought to account, employing a process that, as University of Texas economist James Galbraith explains, involved the equivalent of counterfeiting, laundering and fencing.

The bank and financial elites, people who constitute most of the ruling class, are above the laws which are only designed to keep working people in line.