
244: Form 990
The foreclosure crisis reaches a breaking point as major lenders like Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase face scrutiny for using robo-signers to process legal affidavits. Former fast-food workers and beauticians, granted executive titles without training, signed hundreds of daily documents without review, exposing a massive lack of paper trails in the unregulated derivatives market. This systemic failure, rooted in 1990s trading systems built on faxes and Lotus Notes, now makes determining true mortgage ownership nearly impossible for the courts. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is applying economic pressure on Pakistan, demanding tax reforms from the nation's elite as a condition for continued US aid. While Clinton warns of Taliban sanctuaries and the rising threat of the Haqqani Network to NATO forces, the federal government simultaneously faces a Tenth Amendment showdown at home. Attorney General Eric Holder has signaled that federal marijuana enforcement will continue in California regardless of Proposition 19, while Sharron Angle claims eleven foreign nations have joined the federal lawsuit against Arizona's immigration laws. In a lighter moment, the rise of the duck face photo trend is condemned as a sign of declining social standards, while solar flares cause geomagnetic interference for Dish Network customers. Executive Producer Janice Kane joins the elite ranks of the No Agenda Roundtable, requesting the head circumferences of the hosts for a mysterious future project. The episode concludes with a look at the counterfeit drug trade, where a distributor named Rekus—sucker spelled backwards—successfully infiltrated major American pharmacy chains with fake pills from China.



















