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Who is Shah Gilani?

Shah Gilani is a contributing editor to both Money Morning and The Money Map Report. He is considered one of the world’s foremost experts on the credit crisis. His published open letters to the White House, Congress and U.S. Treasury secretaries have outlined detailed alternative policy options that have been lauded by academics and legislators.

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  • Too Big to Jail and Why It’s Good to Be a Bank
    Here are two items to make your blood boil... First, back in February, Attorney General Eric Holder christened the unofficial official doctrine of "Too Big to Jail." He told Congress, "The size of some of these institutions [TBTF banks] becomes so large that it does become difficult for us to prosecute them when we are hit with indications tha […]
  • Teaching You How to Fish the Markets, Part VIII
    It all starts with the Arab oil embargo of 1973-74. The Arab members of OPEC proclaimed an oil embargo to punish the U.S. for aiding Israel. This action quadrupled the price of oil, roiling commodity markets, equities, bonds, and foreign exchange markets. Energy prices soared. Speculation in oil exploration and production became feverish. There was money eve […]
  • Teaching You How to Fish the Markets, Part VII
    By the start of the 1960s, banking in America was in a state of flux. Boundaries were being blurred - especially those separating "commercial banks" and "investment banks" under Depression-era Glass-Steagall parameters. The banking landscape was shifting. In fact, it was about to go volcanic. The Truman Administration had championed the b […]
  • Teaching You How to Fish the Markets, Part VI
    Our last chapter was about how the U.S. Federal Reserve was created and why. But it ended with an extreme example of how the universal central banking model works today. Cyprus. As another domino threatened the house of cards holding up European banks, more money had to be pumped into Cypriot banks so their doors didn't close and rapid contagion wouldn […]
  • Q&A: May 2013
    The month of April brought in more than 1,000 comments, questions, posts, shares, "likes," and emails from you and your fellow readers. That's an Insights & Indictments record. It shows that you're thinking, that you're mad as hell about what you see, and you want to do something about it. You can. First, please keep helping me g […]
  • The TBTF Act Just Revived the Spirit of Glass-Steagall
    TBTF is the acronym for "too big to fail." It's the crazy notion that certain banks are so large and systematically important (which really means so threatening to financial systems) that they must be kept alive by the government, because their failure would wreak havoc on the economy. How will they be saved from their own greed? And how will […]

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