If you want to open an investment account with any of the major Wall Street firms, you have to sign away your right to the nation’s courts and agree to accept mandatory arbitration with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (FINRA).
What is FINRA? FINRA is a private corporation that acts as a self-regulatory organization for member brokerage firms and exchange markets. So you, the small investor, doesn't have access to public courts, or have the right of appeal.

Four events happened during the last two weeks that displayed levels of criminality that you rarely see outside of the mafia.

Do you want to see a headline that'll really piss you off?
I'm not talking about a Trump tweet, but something that actually matters.

The problem for Stumpf is that his thievery was too easy to understand.

I originally published this essay on TOP in December 2015; it received 352 recs back then.

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, …”

Please rec this over at the Orange Satan: The Establishment Plan to Give Away Billions to Multinational Tax Dodgers

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