naked capitalism Wed 2009-08-26 16:18 EDT

Guest Post: A Plunge in Foreign Net Capital Inflows Preceded the Break in US Financial Markets

Jesse

Served by Jesse of Le Café Américain The peak of foreign capital inflows into the US was clearly seen in the second quarter of 2007, just before the crisis in the US that has rocked its banking system and driven it deeply into recession. Are the two events connected? Had the US become a Ponzi scheme that began to collapse when new investment began to wane, and the growth of returns could not be maintained? Watch the dollar and the Treasury and Agency Debt auctions for any further signs of capital flight, which is when those net inflows of foreign capital turn negative. And if for some reason the unlikely happens and it gains momentum, the dollar and bonds and stocks can all go lower in unison, and there...

break; financial market; Foreign Net Capital Inflows Preceded; Guest Post; naked capitalism; plunge.

Tue 2009-06-16 00:00 EDT

naked capitalism: Guest Post: The Imminent Disinformation Schism

``naive, easily-manipulated, small-time mom and pop investors, who only care about looking at their daily yahoo finance screens and 401(k) statements...and the forward looking taxpayers, who see the upcoming budget deficit fiasco, the social security ponzi scheme, the Medicare/Medicaid debacle, the ridiculous underfunding in public and corporate pension funds, the rising city and state taxes, the shuttering factories, the rising unemployment, the plummeting American production base, the "seasonally" upward-adjusted economic data coupled with consistently downward revised prior economic releases, the increasing savings rate and the multi trillion discrepancy in consumer purchasing power.'' Time contributing author Douglas McIntyre declares end to 2008 banking crisis

Guest Post; Imminent Disinformation Schism; naked capitalism.

Tue 2009-06-16 00:00 EDT

Jesse's Café Américain: The Credit Bubble Was a Ponzi Scheme Enabled by the US Dollar

Jesse's Café Américain: The Credit Bubble Was a Ponzi Scheme Enabled by the US Dollar

credit bubble; Dollar; Jesse's Café Américain; Ponzi scheme enabler.

Tue 2009-04-21 00:00 EDT

Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Is Debt the Lifeblood of the Economy?

``Rather it is savings that is the lifeblood of the economy, because without adequate savings, extending credit is nothing but a pyramid scheme that eventually implodes, which is of course what happened.''

debt; economy; lifeblood; Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis.

Tue 2009-04-21 00:00 EDT

RGE - The Incredibly Shrinking Market Liquidity, Or The Upcoming Black Swan Of Black Swans

by Tyler Durden; ``quants close out a majority of their intraday positions at the end of each trading day, meaning that the vanilla money is stuck as a hot potato bagholder to what can only be classified as an unprecedented ponzi scheme''

Black Swan; Incredibly shrinking Market liquidity; RGE; Upcoming Black Swan.

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''

AIG; common; Guest Post; naked capitalism; pension.

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.

Tue 2009-02-24 00:00 EST

Jesse's Café Américain: Markopolos Delivers Multiple Bombshells in Congressional Testimony

Jesse's Café Américain: Markopolos Delivers Multiple Bombshells in Congressional Testimony; Madoff Ponzi scheme whistleblower Henry Markopolos

Congressional testimony; Jesse's Café Américain; Markopolos Delivers Multiple Bombshells.

Fri 2009-01-16 00:00 EST

Jesse's Café Américain: The CFTC Is Failing to Regulate Commodity Market Ponzi Schemes

Jesse's Café Américain: The CFTC Is Failing to Regulate Commodity Market Ponzi Schemes

CFTC; fail; Jesse's Café Américain; Regulate Commodity Market Ponzi Schemes.

Fri 2009-01-16 00:00 EST

The Wall Street Ponzi Scheme called Fractional Reserve Banking

The Wall Street Ponzi Scheme called Fractional Reserve Banking, by Ellen Brown

Wall Street Ponzi Scheme Called Fractional Reserve Banking.

Fri 2009-01-16 00:00 EST

Jesse's Café Américain: Dancing on a Precipice: The Tenuous Balance in Global Finance

Jesse's Café Américain: Dancing on a Precipice: The Tenuous Balance in Global Finance; ``The dollar is a Ponzi scheme, the waters of debt are overflowing the dam of artificial support, and only a few countries, two of them somewhat unstable, are holding back the deluge.''

dance; Global Finance; Jesse's Café Américain; precipice; Tenuous Balance.

Thu 2009-01-15 00:00 EST

Jesse's Café Américain: Former NASDAQ Chairman Charged in $50 Billion Ponzi Scheme

Jesse's Café Américain: Former NASDAQ Chairman Charged in $50 Billion Ponzi Scheme; Bernard L. Madoff

50; Jesse's Café Américain; NASDAQ Chairman Charged; Ponzi Scheme.

Mon 2008-12-15 00:00 EST

Cassandra Does Tokyo: Bernie Comes Out of the Closet

Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme reviewed; ``emblematic of America since Reagan and the Great Leveraging. Something for nothing. Thank you Mr Laffer. But as a philosophy and modus operandi it is quite literally, bankrupt and without merit.''

Bernie Comes; Cassandra; closet; Tokyo.

Mon 2008-10-27 00:00 EDT

naked capitalism: Goldman Sought to Merge with Citi

from comments, Goldman ``mostly running an enormous, albeit very successful, Ponzi scheme where they relied on new customers to pay off the old''

Citi; Goldman Sought; merged; naked capitalism.

Thu 2007-10-18 00:00 EDT

Conglomerate Blog: Business, Law, Economics & Society

A Fiendishly Ingenious Confidence Scheme, by Lawrence Cunningham; MLEC critique; SIV crisis

business; Conglomerate Blog; economic; Law; Society.

Sun 2007-09-16 00:00 EDT

Winter (Economic & Market) Watch >> Stock Buyback Smoke and Mirrors

Winter (Economic & Market) Watch >> Stock Buyback Smoke and Mirrors; "a tawdry manipulation scheme of unprecedented proportions"

economic; Market; mirror; stock Buyback smoke; watch; winter.