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Blackstone Topic in The Credit Debacle Catalog

Blackstone CEO Steve Schwarzman blames rating agencies (1); Blackstone Group (1); Blackstone Uses (1).

Tue 2010-08-24 20:34 EDT

Is Bank of America Hiding an Insolvency Problem From The Public? | MFI-Miami

...My contact told me that Bank of America is selling off their servicing rights on loans they serviced for other investment houses and they are selling off their trustee rights they hold in their name, Countrywide's name and LaSalle Bank's name to Deutsche Bank. What they can't sell to other banks they are selling to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac...On the surface this looks like Bank of America is having a liquidity problem but then buried deep in the Asian edition of the Wall Street Journal last week was an article that the Blackstone Group was taking over Bank of America's Asian Real Estate Fund. This would indicate this much more than Bank of America having a liquidity problem. This would indicate that Bank of America has turned into the SS Titanic...My source was even bold enough to say that executives are planning on Bank of America being out of business by the end of the year. They are waiting for someone to buy their branch network before making the news of their pending demise public...while the mainstream media was distracted by the Gulf oil spill, Bank of America could go about liquidating their assets and no one would be the wiser.

America Hiding; bank; insolvency problem; MFI-Miami; public.

Tue 2009-04-21 00:00 EDT

Jesse's Café Américain: Mr. Pot Calling Mr. Kettle. Mr. Pot Calling Mr. Kettle.

Jesse's Café Américain: Mr. Pot Calling Mr. Kettle. Mr. Pot Calling Mr. Kettle.; Blackstone CEO Steve Schwarzman blames rating agencies; ``The destruction of the real wealth was in the bubble when the middle class was systematically destroyed. This is just the settling of accounts. What we are seeing now is the paint peeling off the rotten economy which the financiers created for their personal benefit.''

Jesse's Café Américain; Mr. Pot Calling Mr. Kettle.

Sat 2008-07-19 00:00 EDT

naked capitalism: Blackstone Uses Own Hedge Fund As Stuffee for Its LBO Debt

Blackstone Uses; Hedge funds; LBO debt; naked capitalism; Stuffee.

Thu 2008-07-03 00:00 EDT

Information Arbitrage: Straight-talk on FAS 157: Blackstone and their Banker Buddies Have it Wrong

gap management; "Trading risk becomes liquidity risk when you can't trade...Do real stress-testing of liquidity scenarios and construct a capital structure that address much of the liquidity risk posed by non-standard assets...So why do risk managers and bank managements' so consistently make bad decisions? Probably because there is an over-reliance on measures that are seemingly quantifiable."

Banker Buddies; Blackstone; FAS 157; Information Arbitrage; straight-talking; wrong.