December 19, 2012

Interest Rate Rigging By Big Banks May Have Cost U.S. Taxpayers Billions Of Dollars

Interest Rate Rigging By Big Banks May Have Cost U.S. Taxpayers Billions Of Dollars: UBS and Barclays have both been fined more than $1 billion by regulators for manipulating the LIBOR interest rate, a key global benchmark. UBS bankers were caught in emails bragging about the “fu*king humongous deals” they were arranging by gaming LIBOR. LIBOR rigging could have affected Americans of all stripes, sucking funds from the cities [...]/p