Wed 2009-04-01 00:00 EDT

Outfoxing a Bear? - WSJ.com

Outfoxing a Bear? Hussman fund has profited from stock-market gains over time, while limiting recent losses, by Janet Paskin, WSJ.com

Bear; com; outfoxed; WSJ.

Tue 2009-03-03 00:00 EST

Jesse's Café Américain: JP Morgan Made $5 Billion in Profit on $88 Trillion in Unregulated Derivatives Speculation

Jesse's Café Américain: JP Morgan Made $5 Billion in Profit on $88 Trillion in Unregulated Derivatives Speculation

5; 88 Trillion; Jesse's Café Américain; JP Morgan Made; profits; Unregulated Derivatives Speculation.

Tue 2009-02-24 00:00 EST

Jesse's Café Américain: Are We Ready to Try Market Capitalism?

Jesse's Café Américain: Are We Ready to Try Market Capitalism? ``The pay structure on Wall Street looks less like a profit based enterprise and more like organized crime''

Jesse's Café Américain; ready; Try Market Capitalism.

Thu 2009-01-15 00:00 EST

Jesse's Café Américain: Goldman Sachs Offshores Its Profits and Reduces Its Taxes to 1%

Jesse's Café Américain: Goldman Sachs Offshores Its Profits and Reduces Its Taxes to 1%; ``globalization has become just another enabler, wherein multinational financial corporations can play a larger set of jurisdictions and peoples against one another for the benefit of an elite minority.''

1; Goldman Sachs Offshores; Jesse's Café Américain; profits; reduce; tax.

Thu 2009-01-15 00:00 EST

SSRN-Looting: The Economic Underworld of Bankruptcy for Profit by George Akerlof, Paul Romer

Looting: The Economic Underworld of Bankruptcy for Profit, by George A. Akerlog and Paul M. Rojer (1994)

bankruptcy; Economic Underworld; George Akerlof; Paul Romer; profits; SSRN-Looting.

Thu 2009-01-15 00:00 EST

Jesse's Café Américain: Too Big to Fail, Too Well-Connected to Jail: The Economic Underworld of Bankruptcy for Profit

Jesse's Café Américain: Too Big to Fail, Too Well-Connected to Jail: The Economic Underworld of Bankruptcy for Profit; ``Bankruptcy for profit will occur if poor accounting, lax regulation, or low penalties for abuse give owners an incentive to pay themselves more than their firms are worth and then default on their debt obligations.'' Akerlof and Romer; Yves Smith

bankruptcy; big; Economic Underworld; fail; jailed; Jesse's Café Américain; profits; well connections.

Sun 2008-11-23 00:00 EST

naked capitalism: Cheery Chart: No Corporate Profits for Two Years During Depression

Cheery Chart; corporate Profiting; Depression; naked capitalism; years.

Fri 2008-11-07 00:00 EST

SSRN-Looting: The Economic Underworld of Bankruptcy for Profit by George Akerlof, Paul Romer

(1994); ``Bankruptcy for profit will occur if poor accounting, lax regulation, or low penalties for abuse give owners an incentive to pay themselves more than their firms are worth and then default on their debt obligations.''

bankruptcy; Economic Underworld; George Akerlof; Paul Romer; profits; SSRN-Looting.

Fri 2008-06-13 00:00 EDT

naked capitalism: Lehman Stock Buybacks Equalled Profits

Lehman Stock Buybacks Equalled Profits; naked capitalism.

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

big traders; Extract Excessive Profits; naked capitalism.

Sun 2008-01-27 00:00 EST

Electric Politics | Bubbles, Bailouts, and Free Money

by Werther; "Fascism is a business strategy whose simple, consistent, bludgeoning rationale is, privatize the profits and socialize the losses."

Bailout; bubble; Electric Politics; free Money.

Fri 2007-11-16 00:00 EST

naked capitalism: Rating Agencies Created Incentives to Issue Paper More Profitable for Them to Rate

Einhorn on credit; rating agencies compromised; securitization flawed; charging too little for risk-bearing; rating agencies have privileged access to deal data; artificial securitization bias

issues papers; naked capitalism; profits; rate; Rating Agencies Created Incentives.

Sat 2007-09-01 00:00 EDT

The Great Iraq Swindle: : Rolling Stone

The Great Iraq Swindle: How Bush Allowed an Army of For-Profit Contractors to Invade the U.S. Treasury, by Matt Taibbi (Rolling Stone); Iraq a "paradise of perverted capitalism"

Great Iraq Swindle; Rolling Stone.

Sat 2007-08-25 00:00 EDT

Articles : Dual-purpose cattle give small acreage graziers access to two high profit markets

by Allan Nation, Stockman Grass Farmer; Vermont organic farmer Doug Flack

article; Dual-purpose cattle give small acreage graziers access; high profit markets.

Fri 2007-07-13 00:00 EDT

Poison for Profit

by David Goldstein; The Nation; food safety system collapse

poisons; profits.

Wed 2007-05-09 00:00 EDT

The Foundation For Taxpayer & Consumer Rights (FTCR)

The Foundation For Taxpayer & Consumer Rights (FTCR): New Gasoline Study Shows Profits, Not Crude Oil Prices Or Ethanol, Are Driving Pump Price Spike

consumer rights; Foundation; FTCR; Taxpayers.