Fri 2008-11-07 00:00 EST
naked capitalism: Confirmation of the Role of Financing Difficulties in Collapsing Trade Volumes
Collapsing Trade Volumes; confirm; financing difficulties; naked capitalism; role.
Collapse Topic in The Credit Debacle Catalog
Fri 2008-11-07 00:00 EST
The Tax Foundation - Transit Agencies in Bind Due to SILO Deals and AIG Collapse
by Joseph Henchman; Federal Officials Encouraged Leasebacks, Then Made Them Worthless for Creditors
AIG Collapse; bindings; SILOs deals; Tax Foundation; transit agency.
Tue 2008-09-02 00:00 EDT
Money Matters: Collapse Will Get Worse, Not Better
Sun 2008-08-24 00:00 EDT
Here comes the downsizing of finance
by Martin Hutchinson (Prudent Bear); auction-rate securities (ARS); credit default swaps (CDS); ``CDS market creates many times as much risk as it hedges or transfers''; GSEs ``leveraged more than would have been possible without the governments quasi-guarantee, lobbied like to crazy to ensure they were not properly regulated and collapsed thankfully into the arms of the taxpayer as soon as ill winds began to blow...by their presence they turned the soundest product in financial markets, the home mortgage, into an obscene speculative casino, causing collateral damage of many times their own losses.'' ``much of the financial services innovation of the last generation was spurious and unsound, and needs to be done away with''
Sun 2008-08-10 00:00 EDT
United States Infrastructure Investigation - Rebuilding America - Minnesota Bridge Collapse - Popular Mechanics
Popular Mechanics: Rebuilding America Special Report: How to Fix U.S. Infrastructure, by Erik Sofge
Minnesota bridge collapse; Popular Mechanics; Rebuilding America; United States Infrastructure Investigation.
Tue 2008-07-22 00:00 EDT
Jesse's Café Américain: The Failure of the American Financial System
Jesse's Café Américain: The Failure of the American Financial System; Nouriel Roubini on ongoing collapse
Fri 2008-07-04 00:00 EDT
Angry Bear: Who's your daddy?
James K. Galbraith, collapse of monetarism
Angry Bear; Daddy; s.
Wed 2008-06-11 00:00 EDT
Winter (Economic & Market) Watch >> Decoys
Winter (Economic & Market) Watch >> Decoys; Fed faking rate increases to quell commodity bubble, dollar collapse?
Fri 2008-05-30 00:00 EDT
Bear Stearns Neared Collapse Twice in Frenzied Last Days - WSJ.com
Bear Stearns Neared Collapse Twice in Frenzied Last Days, by Kate Kelly, WSJ.com
Fri 2008-03-28 00:00 EDT
An inside look at a subprime lender's collapse - International Herald Tribune
An inside look at a subprime lender's collapse, by Vikas Bajaj; auditor KPMG condoned and enabled improper and imprudent practices at busted lender New Century Financial - International Herald Tribune
International Herald Tribune; looking; subprime lender's collapse.
Fri 2008-03-28 00:00 EDT
Capital - WSJ.com
Ten Days That Changed Capitalism, by David Wessel, WSJ.com; "U.S. government discarded a half-century of rules to save American financial capitalism from collapse"
capitalism; com; WSJ.