The IRA Analyst Thu 2009-06-11 00:00 EDT

The Institutional Risk Analyst: Credit Default Swaps and Too Big to Fail or Unwind: Interview With Ed Kane

Credit Default Swaps and Too Big to Fail or Unwind: Interview With Ed Kane; ``The whole basis of policy making in Washington today is that the taxpayer is a sucker who does not know how to defend him or her self against this kind of regulatory gambling.''

big; Credit Default Swap; Ed Kane; fail; Institutional Risk Analyst; interview; IRA Analyst; unwinds.

Tue 2009-04-21 00:00 EDT

Jesse's Café Américain: FASB to Make Dramatically Favorable Changes in Mark to Market Rules

Jesse's Café Américain: FASB to Make Dramatically Favorable Changes in Mark to Market Rules

FASB; Jesse's Café Américain; Make Dramatically Favorable Changes; marked; markets rules.

Tue 2009-04-21 00:00 EDT

naked capitalism: On Traders Behaving Badly and Cognitive Bias

``traders will cheat to maximize their bottom line, which makes sense, since they are screened and incentivized to be the sort that will seek aggressively to extract as much as they can''

cognitive biases; naked capitalism; Traders Behaving Badly.

Tue 2009-04-21 00:00 EDT

naked capitalism: Guest Post: Bailoutspotting (or The Search For The Great Financial Methadone Clinic)

``Using pretexts, subterfuge and lies, the administration's charade triage will only end once there are no more gullible taxpayers to provide their cash, no more demagogue senators and congressmen who will bend reality to make it seem that their actions benefiting a select few are for the benefit of all, and no more naive investors who buy into the promises that U.S. debt is the "safest investment."''

Bailoutspotting; Great Financial Methadone Clinic; Guest Post; naked capitalism; search.

Mon 2009-04-06 00:00 EDT

Bill Moyers Journal . Transcripts | PBS

ex-banking regulator William K. Black calls fraud: ``make really bad loans, because they pay better. Then you grow extremely rapidly, in other words, you're a Ponzi-like scheme. And the third thing you do is we call it leverage. That just means borrowing a lot of money, and the combination creates a situation where you have guaranteed record profits in the early years. That makes you rich, through the bonuses that modern executive compensation has produced. It also makes it inevitable that there's going to be a disaster down the road.''

Bill Moyers Journal; PBS; Transcript.

Wed 2009-04-01 00:00 EDT

Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Who Bears the Burden for a $3 Trillion Mistake?

``government is avoiding an outright nationalization of Citigroup hoping to avoid pressure by foreign governments for the US to make good on a full repayment of bank bonds''

3 Trillion Mistake; Bear; burden; Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis.

Wed 2009-04-01 00:00 EDT

AlterNet: Mortgage Brokers Who Got Us Into This Mess Are Making a Killing with the Obama Bailout

by Alyssa Katz

AlterNet; killed; makes; Mess; Mortgage Brokers; Obama bailout.

Wed 2009-04-01 00:00 EDT

naked capitalism: Does Creeping Nationalization Make Reprivatization Harder?

Creeping Nationalization Make Reprivatization Harder; naked capitalism.

Tue 2009-02-24 00:00 EST

Michael Hudson: Obama's New Bank Giveaway

It Won't Save the Economy; It May Make the Crisis Worse

Michael Hudson; Obama's New Bank Giveaway.

Fri 2009-01-16 00:00 EST

AlterNet: The Right Wing's Latest Argument Against Public Health Care -- We'd Like It Too Much

by Lindsay Beyerstein; Cato Institute, wherein Michael F. Cannon argues that blocking Obama's health plan is the key to GOP survival...once people start getting good health care from the government at a price they can afford, they want to keep re-electing the politicians who make that possible.''

AlterNet; public health care; Right Wing's Latest Argument.

Fri 2009-01-16 00:00 EST

Jesse's Café Américain: Willem Buiter Warns of a US Dollar Collapse While China Makes a Move

Jesse's Café Américain: Willem Buiter Warns of a US Dollar Collapse While China Makes a Move

China make; dollar collapses; Jesse's Café Américain; move; Willem Buiter Warns.

Thu 2009-01-15 00:00 EST

naked capitalism: Quelle Surprise! Banks Increase "Mark to Make-Believe" Assets to $610 Billion

610; assets; banks Increasingly; Make-Believe; marked; naked capitalism; Quelle Surprise.

Thu 2009-01-15 00:00 EST

naked capitalism: "There is no playbook"

Paulson makes a virtue of his failings

naked capitalism; playbook.

Fri 2008-12-12 00:00 EST

AlterNet: Chomsky: Is There Truth in Obama's Advertising?

AlterNet: Noam Chomsky: Is There Truth in Obama's Advertising? ``what's happened to the country...is that there was extensive and very constructive activism in the 1960s...And the activism did civilize the country''; Tom Ferguson's investment theory of politics; Brand Obama; ``The goal of advertising is to create uninformed consumers who will make irrational choices...And when they turn to selling a candidate they do the same thing...So you undermine democracy pretty much the same way you undermine markets.''

AlterNet; Chomsky; Obama's Advertising; truth.

Sun 2008-11-23 00:00 EST

Joe Bageant: Sarah Palin is the Future of Conservatism

by Anonymous Political Consultant John Brown; ``In a system, which is entering a period of semi-permanent crisis, to plant oneself or one's party in its political center is to make yourself responsible for a political system which is forever failing, losing legitimacy and eventually its right to rule. In the long run, the future will belong to whichever political force flies the boldest flags, stands credibly far enough from those who will be held accountable for our troubles, and curses the loudest at the coming darkness.''

Conservatism; future; Joe Bageant; Sarah Palin.

Sun 2008-11-23 00:00 EST

Bronte Capital: Citigroup, Whachovia, Sheila Bair and a post I didn't make...

Bronte Capital; Citigroup; makes; post; Sheila Bair; Whachovia.