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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Muckraker Danny Schechter reminds us that 9/17 is the anniversary of OWS<br>and provides some fun facts from Public Citizen:<br><br><ul><li>Amount the crash cost the U.S. economy: $22 trillion</li><li>How much everyone would get if that $22 trillion were divided equally among the U.S. populace: $69,478.88</li><li>Assets of the four biggest banks in America — JPMorgan Chase, Bank
of America, Citigroup and Wachovia/Wells Fargo — when they were “too big
to fail” in 2008: $6.4 trillion</li><li>Assets of those four banks today: $7.8 trillion</li><li>Of the 63 former Lehman Brothers employees identified by a
bankruptcy examiner as being aware of an accounting scheme Lehman used
to mask its true finances, number who are employed in senior financial
services positions today: 47</li></ul><a href="https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/09/16-4" target="_blank">https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/09/16-4</a><br><br>Brad Friedman, also citing Public Citizen, lists a few more:<br><br><br><ul><li>Number of the 25 banks responsible for the bulk of risky subprime
loans leading up to the crash that are back in the mortgage business: <b>25</b></li><li>Chances that an American voter thinks that regulating financial products and services is "important" or "very important": <b>9 in 10</b></li><li>Amount spent in 2012 by Wall Street and other finance industry
behemoths on lobbying to roll back, water down and weasel out of the
Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act: <b>$487 million</b></li><li>Number of registered financial industry lobbyists in 2012: <b>2,429</b></li><li>Number of lawsuits filed as of April of this year by Eugene Scalia,
son of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, to hold up
implementation of Dodd-Frank rules on legal technicalities: <b>7</b></li><li>Rank of finance industry among all corporate election spending by sector in 2011 and 2012: <b>1</b></li></ul>http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10253#more-10253<br> </div></body>
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