Lawrence Di Rita (born in Detroit, Michigan) was a close aide to United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and is currently a spokesmen for Bank of America Corp.
“Our decision to contribute will be driven more by the fact that many members of both parties understand the important role we play in driving the real economy and serving customers across the country,” said a spokesman, Larry Di Rita.
‘God’s Bankers,’ by Gerald Posner
Christ also promised Peter that “the gates of hell shall not prevail” against the church — meaning that no matter how corrupt the institution might appear at any given moment of history, it will never be so consumed by evil that it ceases to be capable of fulfilling its God-appointed tasks.
.. Popes of this period — Pius IX, Leo XIII, Pius X, Benedict XV, Pius XI — publicly denounced lending money at interest (usury) while at the same time accepting massive loans from the Rothschilds and making their own interest-bearing loans to Italian Catholics.
‘Heaven’s Bankers,’ by Harris Irfan
Islam does not allow money to be made from money — it must be made from a tangible asset that one owns and thus has the right to sell — and in financial transactions it demands that risk be shared. So in an Islamic mortgage, rather than lending someone money at interest to buy a house, the bank will buy the house outright and agree to sell it for a “cost plus amount,” which the person living in the house can pay in fixed monthly rental installments.
U.S. Allies, Lured by China’s Bank
By rushing to partner with China, which has one of the most opaque, most state-driven and least regulated economies, Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain may hope to resist an American push for controls on speculative trading and preserve London’s freewheeling ways despite the risk to global financial stability. He faces re-election on May 7 and is making economic growth the centerpiece of the campaign.