Royal Bank of Canada isn't the only financial institution where employees are busy training their foreign replacements. Sources close to HSBC Bank...

Another sordid example of banksterism -- money laundering -- surfaced this week accompanied, not surprisingly, by a blistering global poll that shows faith in capitalism is shrinking. The HSBC (Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank Corporation), the largest financial institution in Europe, revealed "major internal-control problems" and plans to apologize for its lapses next week to members of a U.S. Senate subcommittee into terrorist and trafficking money laundering.

SHANGHAI - Signs that the powerhouse Chinese economy is slowing have spooked global markets and sharpened fears that the world economy will not escape...