Tue 2009-04-21 00:00 EDT
naked capitalism: Guest Post: UK Embarks on Quantitative Easing
Guest Post; naked capitalism; Quantitative Easing; UK Embarks.
post Topic in The Credit Debacle Catalog
Tue 2009-04-21 00:00 EDT
naked capitalism: Guest post: A few thoughts about the banking crisis response in the United States
by Edward Harrison; ``any solution for recapitalization must address future writedowns and loan losses of assets already on the books if it is to be successful''
Banking crisis response; Guest Post; naked capitalism; thought; United States.
Tue 2009-04-21 00:00 EDT
naked capitalism: Guest Post: What Do Pensions Have in Common with AIG?
by Leo Kolivakis; ``Both were claiming to run a core business when in reality they were fueling a Ponzi scheme using "sophisticated instruments" or "alternative investments" that threaten the security of the global financial system''
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.
Tue 2009-04-21 00:00 EDT
naked capitalism: AIG Posts List of <strike>Beneficiaries of Government Largesse</strike> Counterparties
naked capitalism: AIG Posts List of Beneficiaries of Government Largesse Counterparties; Goldman Sachs received 13 billion
AIG Posts List; beneficiaries; counterparty; government largesse; naked capitalism; striking.
Tue 2009-02-24 00:00 EST
naked capitalism: Guest Post: "Dear Mr. Volcker: It's the Banks, Stupid"
former Congressional staffer Lune: prevent any one firm from becoming Too Big To Fail
Thu 2009-01-15 00:00 EST
naked capitalism: Guest Post: "If You Can't Tell Who The Sucker Is...."
by Cassandra Does Tokyo; normalcy; ``what we've seen in leverage and credit growth during the past 15 years is NOT normal, nor is it sustainable - neither relative to history or in absolute terms.''
Fri 2008-12-12 00:00 EST
Rubin, Paulson, Geithner a Familiar Trio at Heart of Citigroup Bailout
by David Cho and Neil Irwin, Washington Post
Citigroup Bailout; Familiar Trio; Geithner; heart; Paulson; Rubin.
Sun 2008-11-23 00:00 EST
Michael Hudson: Bankers Shake Down Congress and the G-20
(CounterPunch); ``all markets are planned, and have been ever since calendars were developed...Most market structures throughout history have been organized in a way that provides the vested interests with a free lunch. This remains the essence of post-feudal capitalism or as some have expressed it, corporativism.''
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.
Fri 2008-11-07 00:00 EST
naked capitalism: Citi Posts $2.8 Billion Loss; Merrill, $5.1 Billion
Tue 2008-10-07 00:00 EDT
naked capitalism: China: Less, Not More, Capitalistic?
``post-Tiananmen Square, new Chinese leadership shifted its approach to economic development to one that had more state direction than before''; Yasheng Huang, Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics: Entrepreneurship and the State
Tue 2008-10-07 00:00 EDT
James K. Galbraith - A Bailout We Don't Need
Tue 2008-10-07 00:00 EDT
James Grant - Bad Medicine
(Washington Post); ``Low interest rates, easy money and malleable accounting rules are what plunged Wall Street into crisis. Yet it is low interest rates, easy money and malleable accounting rules that top the list of federal fixes''