Fri 2008-12-12 00:00 EST
naked capitalism: Harvard, Other Big Endowments Selling Private Equity Stakes at Big Losses
big losses; Big Endowments Selling Private Equity Stakes; Harvard; naked capitalism.
big Topic in The Credit Debacle Catalog
Tue 2008-10-07 00:00 EDT
The Big Picture | An Alternative Plan for Fixing Credit & Housing
The Big Picture | An Alternative Plan for Fixing Credit & Housing; Bill King bailout plan
Tue 2008-10-07 00:00 EDT
naked capitalism: Credit Card Debt: Next Big Hit to Banks?
Tue 2008-09-09 00:00 EDT
Joe Bageant: Why Rednecks May Rule the World
``We all understand that there is a political class which dominates in America, and that Sarah Palin for damned sure is not one of them. And the more she is attacked by liberal Democratic elements (translation: elite highly-educated big city people) the more America's working mooks will come to her defence.''
Sun 2008-08-24 00:00 EDT
Winter (Economic & Market) Watch >> Here They Go Again
Winter (Economic & Market) Watch >> Here They Go Again; many early subprime modifications failing; banks which ``moved early and aggressively to deal with this in terms of raising new capital, foreclosing instead of restructuring, and tightening down early on lax credit, may be the last people standing''; loss severity increasing; ``third quarter is going to be an unmitigated disaster for the financial sector'', ``foreign money will move in a big way to gobble up American assets''
Fri 2008-08-08 00:00 EDT
Pro Libertate: The Big Bailout: America as a Full-Spectrum Kleptocracy
nationalizing Fannie and Freddie, plundering the population
America; Big Bailout; full-spectrum kleptocracy; Pro Libertate.
Mon 2008-08-04 00:00 EDT
Hussman Funds - Weekly Market Comment
Bagehot's Rule and the Cost of Being "Technically Insolvent"; "Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were given open-ended government guarantees through January 2009. This open-endedness is a big mistake, because the potential costs are being as vastly understated as the pre-war estimates of the Iraq invasion."
Tue 2008-06-24 00:00 EDT
The Big Picture | Did Bank of America Write the Housing Bailout Bill?
Fri 2008-06-20 00:00 EDT
The Big Picture | Bloomberg: Can the Fed Cook Bear's Books?
Thu 2008-06-12 00:00 EDT
naked capitalism: How Big Traders Can Extract Excessive Profits
index roll congestion "date rape" by Goldman Sachs in the commodities market via GSCI (Goldman Sachs Commodities Index); 2007-02-07
Tue 2008-06-03 00:00 EDT
naked capitalism: Financial Worries on Front Burner: S&P Downgrades Big Brokers, Says Outlook "Predominantly Negative"
naked capitalism: Financial Worries on Front Burner: S&P Downgrades Big Brokers, Says Outlook "Predominantly Negative"
Financial worried; Front Burner; naked capitalism; P Downgrades Big Brokers; Predominantly Negative; s; Says Outlook.