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He says that he predicted the 2008 crisis, and tried to testify at Congress about why it had happened, but that they didn't want him there and they only wanted people who had been blindsided by the crisis and who blamed a lack of regulation for it. Too much greed on Wall Street. Whereas he blamed the government, getting money from the Fed, from Fed policy, which inflated that bubble, insuring mortgages that would never have been written but for government guaranteeing them. Instead of houses being bought by Americans because they're cheap, the government wants the mortgage to be cheap, so they have to borrow a lot to buy them. Banks don't have to compete for customers based on the credit quality of the institution, but since the government guarantees the deposits the banks can take any risk that pleases them. They've never been stress-tested for stagflation, and will be bailed out again probably, he said. Because in 2008, not all the banks got drunk off the Fed's liquor (and they would have survived), but some did (a lot of the big banks), and they never had to pay for it. ‘They should have failed, they weren't too big to fail. Because they were big they needed to fail. And we needed sounder bankers to come in and pick up the pieces.' But instead they were rewarded, and they are way bigger now.
Fraud with government is so much easier than with individuals or private companies, because they're so vast, you can steal from them and they don't care, or they don't even know, but an individual if you steal from him he's going to know. Peter Schiff.
HP sent an update out to printers that bricked them from using HP cartridges, reportedly. Never buy HP. Buy an old Brother (the ones that take the same TN-620 cartridge for the past 10 years, manufactured by them and a dozen other companies) or an Epson ecotank. The way HP is even still in business must be the research how much price undercut they have to do, and what features they have to print on the label, to be customer preferred. Everything they make is garbage. Also, buy old or security-reviewed printers (which do exactly the same thing as the new ones, despite any claims), which plug in with a USB2, and can be drivered just using regular CUPS (don't install a 300mb driver they provide, filled with bloat/malware), don't use the bluetooth ones unless you have to on a non-important computer or phone, because they are not secure.