Tue 2009-04-21 00:00 EDT
The Big Takeover : Rolling Stone
The Big Takeover, by Matt Taibbi : Rolling Stone; ``The global economic crisis isn't about money - it's about power. How Wall Street insiders are using the bailout to stage a revolution''
use Topic in The Credit Debacle Catalog
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 2009-04-21 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.
Wed 2009-04-01 00:00 EDT
Electric Politics | Show Me the Money!
How to Shake Down the Wall Street Gangsters, by Werther; ``RICO would seem ideally suited to obtain restitution from criminals who use computerized trading models and complex transactions rather than a .45 to fleece the public.''
Tue 2009-02-24 00:00 EST
Financial Coup d'Etat at The Catherine Austin Fitts Blog
Financial Coup d'Etat at The Catherine Austin Fitts Blog; Washington-Wall Street partnership engineered fraudulent housing and debt bubble, illegally shifted vast amounts of capital out of the U.S., and used privitization as a form of piracy
Tue 2009-02-24 00:00 EST
naked capitalism: Quote of the Week
from Jesse: ``Adding liquidity to the banks is as useful as filling the tank of a car wrapped around a telephone pole''
Fri 2009-01-16 00:00 EST
Asia Times Online :: China News, China Business News, Taiwan and Hong Kong
China's inflation-free route from crisis, by Henry C. K. Liu; ``China produces from plants financed by foreign investment that operate with low domestic wages for foreign markets that pay with dollars that cannot be used in the domestic economy...China must finance plants with sovereign credit to produce for the domestic market where consumer purchasing power will come from high wages, with sovereign credit repaid from increased tax revenue from a vibrant domestic economy.''
Asia Times Online; China Business News; China News; Hong Kong; TAIWAN.
Tue 2008-10-07 00:00 EDT
Hussman Funds - Weekly Market Comment: The Beginning of Wisdom - October 6, 2008
``the present sentiment of panic is typically one that presents useful opportunities for gradually scaling into market exposure, as uncomfortable as it might feel over the short term''
2008; Begins; Hussman Funds; October 6; weekly market comments; wisdom.
Tue 2008-10-07 00:00 EDT
naked capitalism: A Better Way to Use That $700 Billion
Tue 2008-08-19 00:00 EDT
Winter (Economic & Market) Watch >> Houston We Have a Problem
Winter (Economic & Market) Watch >> Houston We Have a Problem; "key data point to watch in terms of a bottom in housing prices is the vacancy rate. Once this reaches about 1.75% [currently almost 3%] it indicates that housing is being used for its actual purpose, namely as occupied shelter."
Wed 2008-07-23 00:00 EDT
The use of phrases and structured queries in information retrieval
by W. Bruce Croft, Howard R. Turtle, and David D. Lewis (1991)
Sat 2008-07-19 00:00 EDT
naked capitalism: Blackstone Uses Own Hedge Fund As Stuffee for Its LBO Debt
Blackstone Uses; Hedge funds; LBO debt; naked capitalism; Stuffee.
Fri 2008-07-04 00:00 EDT
Secret report: biofuel caused food crisis | Environment | The Guardian
Secret report: biofuel caused food crisis, by Aditya Chakrabortty | Environment | The Guardian; Biofuels have forced global food prices up by 75% says confidential World Bank report; report suppressed to avoid embarassing President George Bush; over a third of US corn now used to produce ethanol and about half of vegetable oils in the EU going towards the production of biodiesel.
biofuel caused food crisis; environment; Guardian; Secret Report.