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1. MAKE BANKS/CORPORATIONS PAY!

   ReFund Our Communities!

   Exposing Predatory Public Debt to Go on Offense and Rebuild Our Communities
2. Who’s Really In Control Can’t Win If We Fight The Wrong Target Can’t Win If We Hit The Right Target in The Wrong Place
3. THE TRUTH??? Who Does Corporate Elite Want Us to Blame For Economic Crisis? Big government? Overpaid union workers? Social Security and Medicare? What else????
4. As Corporate Taxes Go Down, Government Borrowing Going Up!(Outstanding municipal bonds in billions)
5. Workers Keep Production Going Up: Corporations Stagnate Wages
6. People Earning less, Borrowing MoreConsumer Debt Exploding Since 1970’s(Total Consumer debt in $tr)
7. Wall Street’s Secret Plan21st Century Serfdom Forcing People and Communities Into Debt and Dependency $8 trillion in Housing Debt$1 trillion in Education Debt$1 trillion in Credit Card Debt------------------------$11 trillion in Household debt- Auto, Credit cards, student loans, mortgages, other revolving debt.+$4 trillion Municipal Bond Debt
8. Corporate Profits Have Skyrocketed Since Mid-70’s(Corporate Profits in billions)
9. Wall Street Made a KillingFinancial Sector Profits(in billions)
10. Economic Reality Since the Mid 1970’s They Pay Less, We Borrow More, They Get Rich, We Get Poor!
11. Roaring ‘20s Unprecedented Wealth Inequality The Reagan Revolution “Big Government, Big Labor is the Problem” The People vs The Banksters 2013 ? Militant Organizing Led to New Deal
12. $2 Trillion Dollars in Corporate Reserves Not Including Financial Institutions Chase, Wells, BofA, Citi, Goldman Have Over $8.5 Trillion in Assets Equal to 56% of US Economy Walton Family Wealth equals Combined Wealth of Bottom 42% of the Population 147 Million People Forbes 400 Wealthiest AmericansNet Worth $2 Trillion Dollars Up $300 Billion From 2012
13. Bankruptcy Acts of 1933 and 1934 Frazier-Lemke Farm Bankruptcy Act of 1934 Farm Mortgage Moratorium Act of 1935 Commodity Exchange Act of 1936 Chandler Act of 1938 Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 restrictions on interstate banking State caps on credit card interest rates S&L lending standards Interest rate caps on S&L deposit accounts SEC’s net capital ratio Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 After Great Depression Bank Regulations Were Dramatically Strengthened…
14. Big Banks Re-Take Control Bank Consolidation 1990 - 2010
15. ….And The Banks Got Those Laws Rolled Back… Bankruptcy Acts of 1933 and 1934 Frazier-Lemke Farm Bankruptcy Act of 1934 Farm Mortgage Moratorium Act of 1935 Commodity Exchange Act of 1936 Chandler Act of 1938 Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 restrictions on interstate banking State caps on credit card interest rates S&L lending standards Interest rate caps on S&L deposit accounts SEC’s net capital ratio Glass-Steagall Act of 1933
16. As Unit Pleads Guilty, R.B.S. Pays $612 Million Over Rate Rigging, 2/6/13 San Francisco Lawmaker Demands Inquiry in Bank Fraud Losses, 1/30/13 California Cities Sue Banks Over Libor Rates, Law Firm Says, 1/9/13 As Unit Pleads Guilty, UBS Pays $1.5 Billion Over Rate Rigging, 12/19/12 Libor arrests signal switch to individuals, 12/11/12 HSBC to Pay $1.92 Billion to Settle Charges of Money Laundering, 12/10/12 BofA, U.S, Bancorp Must Face Mortgage Trustee Lawsuit, 12/7/12 2 Banks to Settle Case for $417 Million, 11/16/12 Federal Prosecutors Sue Bank of America Over Mortgage Program, 10/24/12 A.C.L.U. Sues Morgan Stanley Over Mortgage Loans, 10/15/12 Annie Bell Adams, Foreclosure Victim, Sues Big Banks Over Libor Manipulation, 10/15/12 U.S. Sues Wells Fargo, Accusing It of Lying About Mortgages, 10/9/12 JPMorgan Unit Is Sued Over Mortgage Securities Pools, 10/1/12 Bank of America Reaches Settlement I Merrill Lynch Acquisition-Related Class Action Litigation, 9/28/12 Banks Face Suits as States Weigh Libor Losses, 9/4/12 Public Pension Funds Named to Lead ‘London Whale’ Lawsuit, 8/22/12 Bay Area toll agency accepts settlement, 8/22/13 Banks Balk at Request for Details on Litigation Costs, 8/4/12 UBS Execs Allegedly Deceived U.S. Cities, Steered Contracts To Friends, 7/30/12 Berkshire Bank Sues Barclays, Citigroup Over Libor, 7/30/12 Wells Fargo Will Settle Mortgage Bias Charges, 7/12/12 SEPTA union files suit against Bank of America, 6/28/12 Barclays Pays $450M to Settle Interest Rate Rigging Probe, 6/27/12 Citizens Bank Profited Off Customer Math Errors, Class Action Lawsuit Alleges, 5/9/12 SEC Accuses Wells of Ignoring Subpoenas in MBS Probe, 3/23/12 OCC Probing JPMorgan Chase Credit Card Collections, 3/12/12 New York Reaches $25M Settlement Over MERS Actions, 3/14/12 Settlement reached in veterans mortgage fraud suit, 3/12/12 Gregory Mackler, Whistleblower, Says Bank of America Defrauded HAMP, 3/7/12 US Conducting Criminal Libor Probe: Source, 2/29/12 Consumer watchdog launches overdraft inquiry, 2/22/12 States Negotiate $26 Billion Agreement for Homeowners, 2/8/12 Schneiderman sues BofA, JPMorgan, Wells Fargo and MERS for foreclosure fraud through MERS, 2/3/12 Big Banks Face Inquiry Over Home Insurance, 1/10/12 GE Will Pay $70.4 Million to Settle U.S. Probe Into Muni-Bond Bid Rigging, 12/23/11 BofA to pay $335m over discrimination claims, 12/21/11 Goldman faces lawsuits over $158 bln in mortgages, 11/9/11 Wells Fargo, Municipalities Settle Bid-Rigging Suit, 11/8/11 Court Hits Wells Over Mortgages, 11/3/11 Delaware AG Sues MERS, 10/27/11 FHFA Lawsuits: Price Tag Could Reach as High as $60 Billion, 9/7/11 Federal Reserve Board announces a formal enforcement action against the Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. and Goldman Sachs Bank USA, 9/1/11 BofA Sued By Homeowners To Block $8.5 Billion Mortgage Settlement, 8/30/11 AIG Files Suit Against BofA While Opposition to Settlement Continues, 8/8/11 Wells Fargo To Settle Class-Action Investor Lawsuit For $590 Million, 8/5/11 B of A Signs HUD Pact Over Mortgage Abuse, 8/4/11 Massachusetts Attorney General Launches Probe of MERS, 7/25/11 California may join probe of Wall Street's role in mortgage meltdown, 7/15/11 J.P. Morgan Settles Muni-Bid Case, 7/8/11 J.P. Morgan Chase to Pay $92 Million for Bid-Rigging Municipal Investment Contracts, 7/7/11 Wells Fargo Target Of Justice Department Probe; Agency Alleges Discriminatory Lending, 7/6/11 Register of Deeds John O’Brien Releases Forensic Study, Finds Mass Fraud in Foreclosure Docs, 6/30/11 J.P. Morgan to pay $153.6M in fraud case, 6/21/11 Bank Of America Faces New Probe; New York Attorney General Launches Investigation Into Mortgage Securitization, 6/13/11 Foreclosure Fraud Price Tag: $20 Billion, 6/6/11 Mortgage Companies Settle Suits on Military Foreclosures, 5/26/11 BofA to Pay $410 Million to Settle Overdraft Suit, 5/23/11 Goldman Braces for Federal Subpoenas, 5/20/11 Conspiracy of Banks Rigging States Came With Crash, 5/18/11 New York Investigates Banks’ Role in Financial Crisis, 5/17/11 Confidential Federal Audits Accuse Five Biggest Mortgage Firms Of Defrauding Taxpayers, 5/16/11 SEC Subpoenas JPMorgan Over Failed Mortgages, 5/6/11 Goldman, JPMorgan Among Banks Targeted in Swaps Probe, 4/29/11 Wells Fargo in settlement with SEC, 4/6/11 Wachovia Targeted Over Sale Of CDOs, 4/4/11 Five banks in Libor probe: source, 3/17/11 Big Banks Face Fines on Role of Servicers, 2/17/11 BofA's Countrywide Accused of ‘Massive’ Mortgage Fraud by TIAA, N.Y. Life, 1/25/11 Two States Sue Bank of America Over Mortgages, 12/17/10 Trustee Sues J.P. Morgan for $6 Billion, 12/3/10 But They’ve Still Been Breaking The Laws That Remain
17. Wall St LootingMain St
18. Predatory Public Finance Illegal Practices Bid-rigging Interest rate manipulation Securitization fraud UNETHICAL PRACTICES Interest rate arbitrage Exorbitant fees & interest rates Discriminatory pricing Prepayment penalties Accelerated payment clauses Misrepresentation of risk Churning (unnecessary refis) Requiring unnecessary add-ons Negotiated bond sales Examples of predatory deals Interest rate swaps Most credit enhancements Capital appreciation bonds Continuous refinancing bonds Pension obligation bonds
19. Toxic Swaps Banks Gouging Taxpayers For Hundreds of Millions of Dollars
20. Swapping Detroit’s Future Detroit paid $547 million in penalties in FY 2012 to terminate swaps with several banks, including BofA, Chase, Morgan Stanley, and Goldman. The city had to take out new bonds to pay these penalties, and paid an additional $9 million in fees to banks like Chase and Morgan Stanley. BofA and UBS are now demanding that the city pay an additional $255 million in penalties to terminate the remaining swaps.
21. Swapping Detroit’s Future Prior to 2012, Detroit was losing $54 million each year on these swaps. Unless the city gets a better deal from BofA and UBS, Detroit taxpayers will have lost more than $1 billion since 2008 as a result of these toxic deals!
22. Toxic Swap Deals – The Tip of The Iceberg Swaps Letters of Credit LIBOR Fraud Capital Appreciation Bonds Bond Bid Rigging Derivative Bid Rigging Dual Credit Rating Fee Gouging Securitization Fraud
23. The LIBOR Fraud Scandal
24. Why Should We Care About LIBOR Cities, Counties, Pension Funds, School Districts, States, Transit Districts, Utility Districts, Universities … … basically all taxpayer funded public entities Have Huge Investments Linked to LIBOR As a result of big banks manipulating LIBOR nearly every public entity was illegally cheated out of revenue.
25. LIBOR Scandal Illegal Rate Manipulation 16 Banks Illegally manipulated LIBOR Rates to Enrich Themselves by Reducing What They Had To Pay Our Communities
26. LIBOR Fraud Cost Detroit Millions The City of Detroit and its pension funds had billions of dollars invested instruments that may have been tied to LIBOR. Ten of the city’s toxic swap were also tied to LIBOR. The city may have lost as much as $34 million as a result of LIBOR fraud.
27. The Bottom Line Our Economy is Broken Because of Out of Control Wealth Inequality Driven by Greed and Recklessness of the 1% To Fix the Economy We Must Re-Balance Wealth
28. The Bottom Line To Rebalance Wealth We Must Create a Crisis that Forces the 1% to: Agree to Quality Jobs with Real Living Wages and Full Benefits through Organizing Pay The Taxes They Should to Fully Fund Public Services , Education, Health Care Etc Fix the Housing/Mortgage Crisis by Resetting Mortgages to Market Value
29. What the Corporate Elite Wants Us To Believe Government Public Sector Workers Teachers, City/County Workers, Transit Workers, Health Care Workers, Etc The Public Parents, Students, Seniors, Public Health Recipients, Commuters, Public Assistance Recipients VS
30. The Reality Wall Street, Big Corporations and the .01% Government Public Workers Teachers, City/County Workers, Transit Workers, Health Care Workers, Fire Fighters, Police Officers etc The Public Parents, Students, Seniors, Public Health Recipients, Commuters, Public Assistance Recipients United With
31. Going On Offense Home Owners Investors Public Relations Pension Funds Regulatory Enforcement Consumers Public Treasuries Wall Street and The 1% Elected Officials. Government Entities Our Families and Our Communities With Us Us Alone
32. Who Is Going to Pay? Students, Seniors, Workers and The Disabled The Current Debate: Cut Workers or Cut Services to People? The Debate We Need … Or The Banksters & the Corporate Elite
33. Making The Plan To Go On Offense Inside Actions Steps we can take to move this with our public agencies ? Outside Actions Public actions that bring the fight to our targets. ? Build a coalition of stakeholders: Who are they? Build Power in our workplace and community – How? Change the debate on how we view community debt – How? Find sympathetic or moveable elected official – Who are they? Introduce resolution or action to investigate predatory deals with Wall Street Actions at banks to get out of high cost deals that are draining taxpayer funds!