I see that Lew Rockwell has a podcast today with Russ Baker, the founder of the site, WhoWhatWhy.com, from which this piece is published.

Interesting background here on UBS, the Swiss bank (and leading kleptocrat) involved in the biggest off-shore scandal in recent history (hat-tip to The Daily Bell commenter who posted it):

“It is worth pointing out that one of three Senate co-sponsors of the Stop Tax Haven Abuse Act of 2007, introduced even before the UBS situation was known, was none other than a then-senator named…Barack Obama. The House sponsor was Rahm Emanuel—who would go on to be President Obama’s Chief of Staff. Another, weaker bill was proffered by Sen. Max Baucus of the Finance Committee—parts of which did just quietly become law as part of an employment stimulus bill signed by Obama in March, 2010, with the goal of capturing lost tax income as a way of financing job creation. Continue reading →