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Dubai Debt Story More Like Bear Stearns Less Like Lehman Brothers
The Daily Reckoning Australia —
Authority: 538
The task of todays Daily Reckoning is to show that the Dubai debt story is more like Bear Stearns and less like Lehman Brothers. A second task is to show that the news from Dubai could be the catalyst for fund managers and traders to take profits on all of their 2009 winners. This could lead to steep falls in emerging ...3 hours ago -
Liberal turmoil clouds debate on climate bills
Ohaiyo Business Magazine —
Authority: 136
The Federal Opposition looks set to change leaders, as the emissions trading legislation that sparked the Liberal row comes back before the Senate. The Upper House failed to meet the Governments deadline of passing the scheme by last week, prompting the Governments Senate leader, Chris Evans, to accuse the Opposition ...17 hours ago -
Rudd plays careful hand at CHOGM
Ohaiyo Business Magazine —
Authority: 136
Prime Minister Kevin Rudds appearance at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) is an exercise in double-purpose diplomacy. First, he wants to keep a high profile among his Commonwealth colleagues, meeting all the big players of this 53-nation group: Britains Gordon Brown, Indias Manmohan Singh, South ...1 day ago -
Dubai World & Bear Stearns: Coal Mine Canaries?
The Reformed Broker —
Authority: 636
Click Image to Embiggen! http://thereformedbroker.com The meme going around now is that the Dubai debt thing is only the start of a wave of sovereign defaults, including Latvia and Greece, coming soon. While this could be the case, I actually see a lot more of similarities between what the Bear Stearns blow ...2 days ago -
NYSE Invokes Rule 48 In Anticipation Of Extreme Volatility
zero hedge —
Authority: 756
The NYSE hedged its bets earlier by invoking the rarely used Rule 48, which "provides the exchange with the ability to suspend the requirement to disseminate price indications and obtain floor-official approval prior to the opening when extremely high market-wide volatility could cause delay opening securities on the ...2 days ago -
Here we go again with the credit default swaps - the derivative time bomb.
InvestmentWatch —
Authority: 156
Dubai prospects as investment magnet get murkier as emirate requests ’standstill’ on $60B debt Sounds similar to what happened when Bear Stearns and Lehmann crashed. Are credit default swaps our global keystone? Well, here it comes apart! If you thought US banks were unsafe, well here comes all the rest, and ...3 days ago -
Who is the US?
Skeptical CPA —
Authority: 477
"The US government lost the first major criminal trial spawned by the financial crisis as two former Bear Stearns hedge-fund managers were acquitted of securities fraud. Some prosecutors had viewed the case as a blueprint for future charges against Wall Street executives. ... The acquittals are a setback for the US ...4 days ago -
Economic Outrage du Jour: Bailout Myth Croaks
Daily Kos —
Authority: 805
Remember how weve been told that it wasnt twisted incentives that caused Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers executives to take excessive risks? Those executives, the conventional narrative has it, were paid largely in stock that plunged in value when their companies collapsed. The crash, were led to believe, took them ...5 days ago -
Is The SEC Intercepting Your Instant Messages?
zero hedge —
Authority: 756
In the aftermath of Galleon, the SEC is aggressively ramping up its enforcement techniques, and while we all know that the regulators, in "joint venture" with the Justice Department, are likely eavesdropping on every single telephonic conversation originating or terminating in a financial firm, it is likely that Mary ...5 days ago -
Fuld and Cayne didn’t do so badly after all
Muckety.com - Exploring the paths of power and influence —
Authority: 128
Because they were major shareholders when their firms collapsed, James E. Cayne of Bear Stearns and Richard S. Fuld Jr. of Lehman Brothers have been seen as two of the biggest losers of the recession.5 days ago -
Fiddling While Rome Burns
The Economic Populist - Speak Your Mind 2 Cents at a Time —
Authority: 587
Think when companies go bankrupt their executives arent still getting millions? Think Again . A new study from Harvard Professors Bebchuk, Cohen and Spamann, The Wages of Failure tells us that regardless of running a company into the ground, executives make sure they get theirs . The study focuses on Bear ...5 days ago -
Bear Stearns and Lehman Execs took out $1.4 billion and $1 billion CASH between 2000-2009
Schizo America —
Authority: 117
Don’t you just hate being HAD ? Their focus was on short term gains, kind of like a Craps table at Vegas… They say they deserved their pay because they took great risks. Yet they destroyed the world economy and are still billionaires… Where is the Gitmo for Wall Street Terrorists? Post from: Schizo ...6 days ago -
Execs Kept Wealth as Banks Failed, Study Says
DealBook —
Authority: 755
It is an urban myth that executives at Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers were wiped out along with their companies, a new study says, suggesting that the prevalent reasoning about pay incentives may be flawed.6 days ago -
We are in an Economic Depression equal to that of the 30s.
InvestmentWatch —
Authority: 156
Anyone making the above statement is laughed at, because you can even find elderly who lived through it and they will tell you this is nothing like what they experienced. You have the Central Bank and the Treasury to thank and blame. Why aren’t companies going bankrupt and liquidating at distressed prices? We are ...1 week ago -
Executives Kept Wealth as Firms Failed, Study Says
NYT > Theater —
Authority: 905
Three Harvard professors say the top five executives at Bear Stearns and at Lehman sold a great deal of their stock while prices were still high.1 week ago -
MMO Weakly #17: Legal in some states
Lagwar.com —
Authority: 423
Welcome to another episode of PC gamings best in top notch podcasting, MMO Weakly. Tune in to hear Sarc and Raim as they dissect MMOs, discuss proper beverages to consume while gaming, and a whole hell of a lot more. Use our built in player, MMO Weakly on iTunes, or you can simply right click on the download link ...1 week ago -
A Pro-Free-Market Program for Economic Recovery
Stupidica —
Authority: 175
As you all know, we are in a severe economic downturn. The official unemployment rate now exceeds 10 percent and according to many observers is actually substantially higher. Within the last year or so, our financial system has been rocked to its foundations. The collapse of the housing bubble and the numerous ...1 week ago -
Two Opposing Amendments Emerge That Seek To Either Perpetuate The Feds Secrecy, Or Overturn It
zero hedge —
Authority: 756
As the time to make or break the Fiat Money Overlords (no, not Chrysler), aka the Successor to the Second Bank of The United States which President Andrew Jackson managed to disassemble in 1832, yet which came back with a vengeance in 1913 under the guise of the Federal Reserve, approaches, two independent ...1 week ago -
The Markit Group: A Black-Box Company that Devastated Markets
Deep Capture: exposing the crime of naked short selling —
Authority: 408
Although much attention has been directed at the contribution made by credit default swaps to the financial crisis, most discussion has focused on the companies, such as American International Group, that posted big losses because they sold these instruments without sufficient due diligence. Another line of inquiry ...1 week ago -
Wall Street job losses are surprisingly low, and firms eye record profits
DailyFinance —
Authority: 795
Main Street is reeling from mounting job losses and a grim outlook by Federal Reserve officials. Wall Street, on the other hand, may be enjoying a sharp rebound. On Tuesday, a report by New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli forecast that the number of vanishing finance jobs may be far lower than ...1 week ago

