Thu 2009-07-23 00:00 EDT
``just because a certain amount of liquidity is good, it does not necessarily follow that more is always better''; Richard Kline: ``The first issue when liquidity is provided to markets for any overall regulator, should and must be, "How do we prevent asset overpricing as a consequence? "''
Mon 2009-04-06 00:00 EDT
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.''
Wed 2009-04-01 00:00 EDT
Michael Hudson: The Language of Looting. What "Nationalize the Banks" and the "Free Market" Really Mean in Today's Looking-Glass World
Tue 2008-10-07 00:00 EDT
Bailout plan; naked capitalism; Nouriel Roubini Really; really hate.
Tue 2008-10-07 00:00 EDT
(2006-08-03); How the Greenspan Fed Screwed Up in the Mid-90s and set the stage for the Greatest Financial Bubble in the History of the World
Sun 2008-08-24 00:00 EDT
``GM is not really a manufacturing company at all, but rather a subprime lender that sells cars.''
Ford Seek Taxpayer Bailout; GM; Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis.
Wed 2008-07-09 00:00 EDT
Collateral Damage: What It Really Means When America Goes to War, by Chris Hedges; "The war in Iraq is now primarily about murder."
Wed 2008-06-11 00:00 EDT
Jesse's Café Américain: What is Really Spooking Wall Street - Policy Change is in the Wind; Joseph Stiglitz on rethinking growth; Jesse: we have ringside seats to history...times of change and crisis are times of volatility, fresh trends, and opportunity
Jesse's Café Américain; policy changes; Really Spooking Wall Street; wind.
Wed 2008-06-11 00:00 EDT
total borrowings of depository institutions from Federal reserve at 1% of GDP
1; Financial Ninja; GDP; June; just; Really Scary Fed Charts.
Thu 2008-06-05 00:00 EDT
Collateral Damage: What It Really Means When America Goes to War, by Chris Hedges
Tue 2008-06-03 00:00 EDT
"ed has basically traded in high quality instruments, US treasuries, for low quality instruments that the market doesn't want at all"
Sun 2008-06-01 00:00 EDT
The Great Oil Swindle: How much did the Fed really know? by Mike Whitney; soaring commodity prices "hoax cooked up by the investment banks and hedge funds...trying to dig their way out of the trillion dollar MBS mess", billions of Fed dollars diverted into commodities
Fri 2007-12-14 00:00 EST
by Assemblyman Sean Kean; Corzine's former associates at Goldman Sachs hawking government asset sales
Fri 2007-12-07 00:00 EST
by Elaine Meinel Supkis; "expecting China to begin pressuring Japan into a joint currency rise based on secret protocols which concerns military presence in Asia of the US fleets"
Tue 2007-10-02 00:00 EDT
