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By: adamdschneider

Man, that is just a terrible, terrible idea. No one has the time or resources to investigate every company they might possibly invest in through an index fund or something, especially if the companies...

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By: T.D. Strange

That's the type of analysis I'm talking about. Whose talking about this from the prosecutorial side right now regarding this specific deal? He's a joke. He doesn't understand the law, or finance....

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By: kengraham

(Anyone with a bank account does it, but it's irresponsible to invest in something one hasn't researched, or that one doesn't know explicitly that one is investing in it (because it could be a criminal...

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By: dirigibleman

The level of disgust may require raising the disgust ceiling. Can anyone imagine how many billions they passed under the table? Passed? What makes you think they stopped?

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By: homunculus

Taibbi was on Democracy Now today: After Laundering $800 Million in Drug Money, How Did HSBC Executives Avoid Jail?Matt Taibbi on the Unfolding Libor Scandal and What Sen. DeMint's Departure Means for...

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By: Shit Parade

Clearly, the government has bought into the notion that too big to fail is too big to jail.

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By: kengraham

It is true though, that they were not acting under the direction of granny in Duluth, or any of the other people who own part of the company through a 401k. Surely if it's a crime to fund terrorists...

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By: notyou

When approached by the Justice Department for their thoughts, the regulators cautioned about the effect on the broader economy. So that makes you and me and all of us either complicit in the crime or...

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By: dubusadus

Laundering money to dictators and drug barons is an ethical issue, not a moral one. Whether or not people have died as a result of drug wars and terrorists is outside of HSBC's domain. They offer a...

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By: Drinky Die

I'm all for throwing some people in jail, but who? You headhunt for the bosses. First arrest the low level criminals and try and get them to flip in exchange for lighter treatment. Then, you prosecute...

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By: Johann Georg Faust

Therein lies the problem. Calling it the Department of Justice is just doublespeak at this point, much like the Department of Defense or Homeland Security. These officials are so woefully inept at...

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By: bashos_frog

You could start with the people writing the emails that argued the benefits of doing business with organisations supporting terrorism. Plenty of smaller fish have been jailed for less.

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By: Shit Parade

A money-laundering indictment, or a guilty plea over such charges, would essentially be a death sentence for the bank. Such actions could cut off the bank from certain investors like pension funds and...

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By: rough ashlar

He's a joke. He doesn't understand the law, or finance. That's the point. Not only is there a claim of understaning of Economics their is a claim of law? Oh do show how you are actually qualified? (the...

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By: Ad hominem

That is what I am left wondering. Seems like some laws must have been broken, but which ones? Who goes to jail, the tellers that took the money? The managers who turned a blind eye? The execs in the US...

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By: rough ashlar

He's a joke. He doesn't understand the law, or finance. That's the point. Nut up - show that you are better.

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By: rough ashlar

plenty of legal ways to shaft people Smedlyman - can you just repeat that so it can be favoured?

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By: Shit Parade

kinda tells you what kind of person he is indeed ironmouth, indeed

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By: rough ashlar

It's particularly embarrassing since the main points of these articles are so very clear, but are simply ignored. The first point is that that the HSBC money laundering was a massive, gross, huge,...

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By: crushedhope

The level of disgust may require raising the disgust ceiling. Can anyone imagine how many billions they passed under the table? It seems we have reached the point where we take the shit into our...

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