Banking Crisis

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• Will Cantwell-McCain Reinstate Glass-Steagall?

  
  Sense on Cents — Authority: 434
  Might we turn the clock back in an attempt to make our way forward? How so? Pressure is certainly building in America to curtail, if not derail, the excessive risks embedded in our largest banks. How may these risks be unwound? Reinstating the Glass-Steagall Act, which separated commercial and investment banking ...
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• RESPONSIBLE PAYDAY LOAN PROGRAM LAUNCHED IN SAN FRANCISCO - MAYOR GAVIN NEWSOM AND TREASURER JOSE CISNEROS

  
  San Francisco Sentinel — Authority: 151
  Six San Francisco Credit Unions to offer maximum 18% APR payday loans in comparison to 400% APR offered by for-profit payday lenders. Mayor Gavin Newsom and Treasurer José Cisneros today announced the launch of Payday Plus SF, an alternative payday loan offered by six San Francisco Credit Unions that will ...
  1 day ago

• Serious Fraud Office launches investigation into Kaupthing bank

  
  The Iceland Weather Report — Authority: 124
  So, the Serious Fraud Office in the UK has launched a large-scale investigation into the activities of Kaupthing bank in the lead-up to the bank collapse last fall. Rumours to that effect have been circulating for weeks, and were finally confirmed today.Among other things, this concerns what seems like large-scale ...
  2 days ago

• Bankers bonuses

  
  Not a sheep — Authority: 444
  I see that: "LLOYDS Banking Group, which yesterday successfully completed a record-breaking £13.5bn rights issue, is preparing to pay out its bonus pool in full. The move, which follows mounting anger in the City over the government’s super-tax, will see the firm having to hand over an estimated £100m in ...
  3 days ago

• The banking crisis, phase two

  
  Ensaios Imperfeitos — Authority: 149
  The decision by Austria to nationalise Hypo Group Alpe Adria, two thirds owned by the Bavarian Landesbank, Bayern LB, is costing the German taxpayer a cool €3700bn, which was forced the resignation of its chief. This is close to a complete disasters for Bavaria political elites, which are closely intertwined ...
  3 days ago

• Big Banks Move On… With a Little Help from Their Friends?

  
  taxgirl — Authority: 550
  Wells Fargo announced early this week that it will repay $25 billion received under the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). The announcement comes on the heels of a similar announcement from the Bank of America. Citibank rushed to join the ranks of those banks committed to repaying TARP funds over the next few ...
  3 days ago

• Iceland holds online Referendum on Althingi’s agreement with UK on Icesave

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 444
  The reverberations of the UK’s shaming treatment of Icelandic banks continue. In our name, the UK Government used Anti-Terrorism legislation to seize UK assets in a move which Iceland has declared forced a rescuable bank into administration with the  immediate collapse of public confidence.The International ...
  3 days ago

• Billy Elliott: Reflections On A Britain Long Gone

  
  Newsroom Magazine — Authority: 128
  If you wonder if it’s possible for a film to reflect something substantive of a nation consider what Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane revealed of  depression-era America under the influence of a powerful and irresponsible media executive (1930’s William Randolph Hearst). Although very different films, separated by 60 ...
  4 days ago

• The Icelandic nation votes on Icesave

  
  The Iceland Weather Report — Authority: 124
  So, old deCode Genetics, best known for mapping the Icelandic genome and also for the best PR stunt in Icelandic history,* has joined forces with Eyjan and designed a special online voting system allowing the Icelandic public to vote on whether or not they want parliament to accept the sovereign guarantee on Icesave. ...
  4 days ago

• Are we done ‘bargaining’ about the financial crisis? I wish, but I don’t think so.

  
  flowing motion — Authority: 477
  Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, action & the financial crisis This time last year we were definitely in the first of the five stages of grief.  Denial: we couldn’t quite believe that the bankers had blown a hole below our a waterline. A year later, economists at least, have moved on. The Governor of ...
  4 days ago

• Did Drug Money Save the Banks??

  
  InsightAnalytical -- Watching Our World — Authority: 408
  ~~By InsightAnalytical-GRL As if things couldn’t get even MORE bizarre… The Guardian/Observer is reporting that the UN’s Office on Drugs and Crime suspects that “$352bn in criminal proceeds was effectively laundered by financial institutions” during the 2008 banking crisis: Drug money saved banks in ...
  5 days ago

• "Drug money worth billions of dollars kept the financial system afloat at the height of the global..."

  
  poor taste — Authority: 590
  “Drug money worth billions of dollars kept the financial system afloat at the height of the...
  5 days ago

• Sir Sean in bank advert row

  
  Deadline Press & Picture Agency — Authority: 487
  By Paul Thornton SIR Sean Connery has stunned politicians by fronting a lucrative ad campaign for a bank which was bailed out by tax payers’ cash, despite slamming fat cat financiers during the credit crunch. Last year Connery laid into bankers in his latest book, Being a Scot, claiming Fred Goodwin’s ...
  5 days ago

• Observer/Guardian wakes up to Tobin tax story

  
  Peter Kenyon — Authority: 126
  Good to see that the Grauniads Sunday stable-mate, the Observer picked up on the Tobin Tax story in its editorial column today I chided the Economist for missing it on Friday, Im not sure that I share the Observers rather unimaginative conclusion: Thereal obstacle is the endurance of the ideology that ...
  5 days ago

• "How To Make The Worlds Easiest $1 Billion"

  
  Not a sheep — Authority: 444
  A very interesting scheme outlined by Henry Blodget on Business Insider , heres the first six steps but do read the whole article: "STEP 1: Form a bank. STEP 2: Round up a bunch of unemployed friends to be "bankers." STEP 3: Raise $1 billion of equity. (This is the only tricky step. And its not that tricky. See ...
  6 days ago

• Norway’s Oil Fund, Scotland’s oil and Scotland’s banks

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 444
  Norway’s attitude to its oil wealth, from the outset, has shown the sort of fiscal long-sightedness that should be the aim and practice of any nation in respect of its significant resources.In the UK, not only is such a practice of national investment unknown, the notion itself is alien to the way our governments ...
  6 days ago

• Something For The Weekend 16

  
  t5m: Love Personality, Love t5m — Authority: 570
  As the country continues to sink in a sea of debt, doesn’t it just warm the cockles of your heart to learn that certain financial establishments in the City still seem hell-bent on doling out massive bonuses to staff who are already paid small fortunes?And isn’t the generally perceived smokescreen from bank chiefs ...
  1 week ago

• Economist newspaper reveals political bias, misses story

  
  Peter Kenyon — Authority: 126
  The Staggers blog has picked u p the cover of the latest issue of the Economist newspaper and concluded that its running with the the rest of the right-wing press as far as the next British general election is concerned. I think the Economist goes to press late overnight Thursday/Friday, but surely that is no ...
  1 week ago

• Bank Bailouts

  
  Regaining the Center — Authority: 126
  Large groups of protesters continue to express dissatisfaction with the Obama Administration’s policies and actions. The protesters are composed of “just say no” Republicans, Libertarians, and a growing group of simply dissatisfied/no government is good government Americans. For them, there is no reason to ...
  1 week ago

• 6 questions that I ask professional career coaches

  
  flowing motion — Authority: 477
  Where were you the day Lehman’s crashed? I had spent a long day sequestered in an office building in London. Coming out into the dark evening, I was surprised to see a serious story in the free newspapers handed out at the entrances to the Tubes. The 158 year old bank, Lehmans had declared bankruptcy and 10 000 ...
  1 week ago

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