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Keyser Soze

On 1/9/17 1:23 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 9 Jan 2017 12:14:05 -0500, Keyser Soze wrote:

On 1/9/17 11:22 AM, wrote:
On Mon, 9 Jan 2017 05:51:47 -0500, Keyser Soze wrote:

No one would have more expertise on a lifetime of dishonest work than a
bankster like Wayne who spent his career working for a dishonest bank.
As examples of these practices still going on:

On October 19, 2011, Citigroup agreed to $285 million civil fraud penalty.

In 2015, Citigroup Inc.'s consumer bank was ordered to pay $770 million
in relief to borrowers for illegal credit card practices.

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Happened after I retired, and of course we folks who were managing
technology platforms had nothing to do with it. Citi has always been
a leader and innovator in banking technology.

Are you implying your employer wasn't engaging in banksterism prior to
your retirement? Really?

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Define banksterism - can't find it in my OED. Is it worse than union
thuggery, loan fraud, tax cheating or spouse abuse?

Your OED? What a laugh.

Bankster

A portmanteau of the words "banker" and "gangster." These are intergral
to the capitalist system. While the nightly news might have you believe
that young black and latino men with 9mm's are the biggest threat to
your life, banksters are far more dangerous. While a gangster might
steal your posessions with a knife or a gun, a bankster will steal your
possesiions with a pen, paper and "legal" (read "unjust") mumbo-jumbo
snakeoil bull****.

Bankster: Any member of the financial services industry; primarilly
interested with the welfare of the capitalist class and their lackeys.

Execs of banks who lined their own pockets first, when the economy was
starting to crumble, then foreclosed on small town america

A portmanteau of "banker" and "gangster", popularized by (among others)
the economist Murray N. Rothbard, used by him to attack what he held to
be the inherently fraudulent nature of Fractional-Reserve banking (as
opposed to 100% gold reserve banking, which he defended as the only
honest form of banking). Frequently used in reference to The Fed.

In more recent popular usage, often refers in a vague way to the forces
of "Wall Street", or to those persons in the financial services industry
who grow rich despite the continued impoverishment of those who depend
on their services, and despite their apparent inability to succeed in
business without constant government assistance.

"The Fed is an organized cartel of banksters, who are creating
inflation, ripping off the public, destroying the savings of the average
American."

"The banksters crashed the economy, but thanks to generous federal
bailouts, they won't have to sacrifice their fat bonuses."