Tue 2009-06-16 00:00 EDT
US watchdog calls for bank executives to be sacked |
US watchdog calls for bank executives to be sacked | Business | The Observer; Elizabeth Warren seeks removal of top Citigroup, AIG executives
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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''
Satyajit Das's Blog - Fear & Loathing in Financial Products Tue 2009-04-21 00:00 EDT
Satyajit Das's Blog - Fear & Loathing in Financial Products: Credit Default Swaps -- Exercises in Surrealism
Satyajit Das's Blog - Fear & Loathing in Financial Products: Credit Default Swaps - Exercises in Surrealism; CDS payouts are placing a material pressure on the price of underlying bonds and loans exacerbating broader credit problems ``The CDS market is also complicating restructuring of distressed loans as all lenders do not have the same interest in ensuring the survival of the firm. A lender with purchased protection may seek to use the restructuring to trigger its CDS contracts''
Credit Default Swap; exercised; fears; financial products; loath; Satyajit Das's Blog; surreal.
Tue 2009-01-06 00:00 EST
Jesse's Café Américain: US Treasuries and our Horribly Distorted International Currency Exchange Mechanism
Jesse's Café Américain: US Treasuries and our Horribly Distorted International Currency Exchange Mechanism; ``The key to recovery is the median real hourly wage, not the further expansion of credit and the perpetuation of an economic system based on an inefficient drag on economic growth by percentage-taking banks and rent-seeking elites who add little or no productive value.''; James Grant: Insight: Return-free risk
Horribly Distorted International Currency Exchange Mechanism; Jesse's Café Américain; Treasury.
Fri 2008-11-07 00:00 EST
Brad Setser: Follow the Money >> Blog Archive >> Foreign central banks seek safety; the Fed, by contrast ...
Brad Setser: Follow the Money >> Blog Archive >> Foreign central banks seek safety; the Fed, by contrast ... ; foreign central banks added Treasuries, dumped Agencies; 2008-10-16
blogs Archive; Brad Setser; contrast; Fed; follows; Foreign central banks seek safety; money.
Fri 2008-11-07 00:00 EST
Jesse's Café Américain: Europe and Asia Seek a Consensus Ahead of Washington Meeting
Jesse's Café Américain: Europe and Asia Seek a Consensus Ahead of Washington Meeting; 2008-10-24; dollar losing reserve status
Asia Seek; consensus; Europe; Jesse's Café Américain; Washington Meeting.
Fri 2008-11-07 00:00 EST
naked capitalism: Cuomo Seeks to Claw Back AIG Bonuses
Tue 2008-09-23 00:00 EDT
The Wall Street Examiner >> Dear Senator, Save Our Beloved Republic!
by Lee Adler; ``By assuming most of the bad debt from the financial system (if thats even possible), the government will be infecting itself with the disease it has been seeking to treat''
Tue 2008-09-23 00:00 EDT
Jesse's Café Américain: China Seeks to Reduce Its Exposure to Dollar Assets
Jesse's Café Américain: China Seeks to Reduce Its Exposure to Dollar Assets
China seeks; dollar assets; exposure; Jesse's Café Américain; reduce.
Sun 2008-08-24 00:00 EDT
Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: GM, Ford Seek Taxpayer Bailout
``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.
Mon 2008-08-04 00:00 EDT
Is the U.S. Banking System Safe? - Seeking Alpha
Is the U.S. Banking System Safe? by James Quinn - Seeking Alpha; "The U.S. banking system is essentially insolvent. The Treasury, Federal Reserve, FASB, and Congress are colluding to keep the American public in the dark for as long as possible...When you see a bank CEO or a top government official tell you that everything is alright, run for the hills. They are lying."