Saturday, February 13, 2010
The bits and pieces are being assembled into a mosaic which is revealing the true enablers of the global credit crisis…
And it’s the trading houses like Goldman Sachs who created financial products, sold them off and then bet against the products they originally created… and often these bits of wizardry were designed to live off [...]
Friday, February 12, 2010
From PBS’s Lehrer show… ” As part of his continuing series of reports making sense of business and the economy, Paul Solman examines the inner workings of investment powerhouse Goldman Sachs and how it makes money.”
Thursday, January 21, 2010
It’s “Volcker lite“…
I’m very interested in any proposal that has the banks whinging like this Bloomberg video of Rob Nichols, the president of the Financial Services Forum… (an excellent rebuttal to Mr. Nichols arguments from the Epicurean Dealmaker)
Here is the German CEO of Deutsche Bank commenting on regulations proposed for US financial markets. He doesn’t like them either.
Although [...]
“Moral hazard doesn’t exist anymore…”… so sayeth the Euro crowd…
President Obama… you’re smart enough to understand “banker code”… call up Adair Turner if you need a decoding kit…
This video from Bloomberg shows Karsten Schroeder, chief executive officer of Amplitude Capital LLP, talking about risk-taking by banks and the condition of credit markets.¶
¶ Central bankers will hold talks [...]
Filed in Liquidity, Open engines, Regulatory, Restructuring, Trading, Transparency
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Also tagged Bernanke, Bloomberg, Geithner, JP Morgan, Obama, Summers
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Thursday, January 7, 2010
Tax the speculators and create a public bank
from therealnews.com
Several mintues into the interview Robert Pollin, Professor of Economics and founding Co-Director of the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst says the following …
~~~ “… POLLIN: Well, I think the simplest idea, the simplest principle, is the financial system and the regulations [...]
Saturday, November 21, 2009
I first published this post on November 21, 2009… I believe it is even more the case now. Timothy Geithner serves Wall Street. Our economy and nation will not be repaired until the control of Wall Street over the government, the Federal Reserve and the nation is broken.
US Treasury Secretary Geithner should resign from office.
He represents [...]
Sunday, November 15, 2009
From down under we have an incredible story of a US private equity firm dodging taxes made in profit on a recent Australian IPO…and hightailing that cash out of the country before the authorities could judicially claw it back… reporting from The Australian…
~~~”The ATO [Australian Tax Office] says the TPG [Texas Pacific Group] entities owe the commonwealth $452,236,874.70 in [...]
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
A lot of threads related to our financial crisis come together in the form of Larry Summers and derivatives.
Actions taken out of a fear of global instability and ignorance of the potency of leveraged bets using derivatives weave through this story. It’s a long list of damage caused by Wall Street banks and derivatives and [...]
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
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We still don’t know why the Federal Reserve paid 100 cents on the dollar to the counterparties of AIG… the mystery is another mark against the “too big to fail” banks and their closely woven interconnection with the Federal Reserve …
Bloomberg reminds us of a comparable closeout of a swaps transaction around the same time that [...]
Thursday, October 22, 2009
~~ OMG… Bird and Fortune prove Trillian’s thesis… and a few commonly held beliefs… (HT ZeroHedge)
Link to Bird and Fortune video at the Financial Times…