The banksters are borrowing at .5 to 1.5 percent, and putting the money in
foreign banks, like those in Brazil, where it can earn up to 7 percent interest. Bad
for us, but good for Brazil. It’s not cheap to clear-cut rain forest for cattle
ranches.

The fact that this article gets so little comment surprises. Does it mean that we are
suffering from scandal fatigue in the economic sector?

A fiat currency, propped up by military might and inertia, dubbed the base currency for the world because the only other currency that is big enough is the Euro and that does not have the safety of military might behind it.
In this Kabuki theatre, the shadow money is real. Don’t wake me, I’m dreaming that I am rich…

What the cornerstone of capitalism being dishonest, you must be jesting?
These are the same organization that were hoodwinked by all the crafty bourgeois Americans a few years back regarding home loans these people did not qualify for and could not afford to pay back, so these good hearted chaps kindly took their homes and then gently forced them into bankruptcy (I wonder why there is a bank in bankruptcy). Then the American taxpayers gladly baled these benevolent good-doers out to the tune of 6 trillion dollars and counting.
Next the same poor banks that somehow got caught up in the credit-default swaps scam which is so complicated no one understands but because they are such a loving caring organization they went ahead and gambled I mean invested 100’s of trillions just to help out the poor wall street billionaires (I believe you needed investments of at least 10 million to purchase these instruments).

Now you are claiming these kind jovial souls are making risky investments, surprise surprise surprise!