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Unlike NSA Leaks, HSBC Leaks Actually Serve Public Interest

Tuesday, February 10, 2015 at 1:27 PM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

I have written many commentaries denouncing Edward Snowden as more traitor than hero for leaking NSA secrets. Here are illustrative excerpts from two of them. From “Judge Ruling on NSA Spying…,” December 18, 2013. __________________ I too would be championing Snowden’s professed cause if he had taken his treasure trove of NSA secrets to a… Read more.

Investment Bankers as Bagmen for Terrorists and Drug Kingpins?!

Thursday, July 19, 2012 at 12:28 PM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

My, how far we’ve come from the 1980s, when Tom Wolfe glorified investment bankers as “masters of the universe” in Bonfire of the Vanities.  For inasmuch as Wolfe parodied the confluence of their sins (most notably, racism and greed), even he did not fully appreciate the utter venality, vacuity, and depravity of the financial transactions… Read more.