Financial Crisis

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• "How did the shareholders let them get away with this? They were sitting on the gravy train too,..."

  
  Quoting the Crisis — Authority: 139
  “How did the shareholders let them get away with this? They were sitting on the gravy train too, enjoying the views from the observation car. How did the directors let it happen? Innumeracy, and inability to understand accounts that have become misleading to the point of treachery. How depressing the shame and folly ...
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• Prime Mortgage Delinquencies up 20%

  
  Blogs For Victory — Authority: 513
  This isn’t the sub-prime stuff, good people - these are the loans made to well-qualified people : Serious delinquencies among U.S. prime mortgages rose nearly 20 percent in the third quarter from the prior quarter, as the percentage of current and performing mortgages fell for the sixth consecutive quarter, ...
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• Pair held over $4m card skimming scam

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  Police in Sydney have arrested two men over an EFTPOS scam which has so far netted more than $4 million from bank accounts in Western Australia. Thousands of Western Australians have had their card details stolen at several McDonalds restaurants across Perth since October. Police allege the 31-year-old Canadian man ...
  5 hours ago

• "What were the sources of this imaginary wealth? First, spreads on credit that took no account of..."

  
  Quoting the Crisis — Authority: 139
  “What were the sources of this imaginary wealth? First, spreads on credit that took no account of default probabilities (bankers have been doing this for centuries, but not on this scale). Second, unrealised mark-to-market profits on the trading book, especially in illiquid instruments. Third, profits conjured up by ...
  6 hours ago

• Sales? What Sales???

  
  Avalon's Blog — Authority: 129
  It said on the news yesterday (so it must be true) that shops were offering pre-christmas discounts to get us all spending money in a recession. And today – we had to pop briefly into the Westfield Queensgate shopping center in Lower Hutt, to have a look at cameras. You see ours packed up, and [...]
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• Obama And The Bankers

  
  American Blog — Authority: 127
  Submitted by YOUR NEW REALITY By Darryl MasonPresident Obama sat down with 12 cashed-up-from-the-taxpayers-pocket members of the American banking and financial industry. He told them, in short, to shape up, get their money back out there and spread around the wealth :So my main message in today’s meeting was very ...
  11 hours ago

• Sheldon Whitehouse, Rhode Island Senator, Insults Americans, Obama, Health Care Bill, Obama thugs, Attacks Senate GOP, Birthers, Fanatics, Right wing militia, Aryan support groups, Whitehouse idiot, Remove Senator Whitehouse

  
  Citizen Wells — Authority: 559
  Heaven has it’s hierarchy of angels Angels Archangels Principalities Powers Virtues Dominions Thrones Cherubim Seraphim Likewise, on earth we have a hierarchy of stupidity Ignoramus Fool Imbecile Moron Idiot Lying, Ignorant, Foolish, Imbecilic, Moronic Idiots Congressmen From the Washington Times, December ...
  12 hours ago

• Harry Reid defeated, Harry Reid loses 2010 election, Bribes senators, Illegal use of taxpayer dollars, Tea Party Express III, Health Care Bill unconstitutional, Harry Reid lies

  
  Citizen Wells — Authority: 559
  From Tea Party Express III. “Disgusted with Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid?  Well, we at the Tea Party Express sure are, and we’ve dedicated ourselves towards defeating Reid in the upcoming 2010 congressional campaign.  Here’s our brand new TV ad to “Defeat Harry Reid” – please watch it and share ...
  14 hours ago

• >>Conservative Republican Study committee Newsletter Update

  
  And So I Go: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow — Authority: 140
  RSC Update: Monday, December 21, 2009 From the Chairman Early this morning, Senator Reid and his Democrat colleagues advanced their latest health care disaster with a dead-of-night vote on a bill larded up with handouts for certain Senators only to secure their votes. This is an atrocity that we must not ...
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• Google Pays No Taxes on Its £1.6bn Ad Revenues in Britain

  
  Disinformation — Authority: 521
  Robert Watts writes in the Times : Google, the internet giant whose informal corporate motto is “don’t be evil”, did not pay any tax on its £1.6 billion advertising revenues in Britain last year. The firm, which has a substantial presence in London, diverted all its advertising earnings from customers in ...
  15 hours ago

• California Activists Propose Legalizing (And Taxing) Marijuana To Bail Out State

  
  Disinformation — Authority: 143
  Dan Whitcomb and Steve Gorman write on Reuters : With California teetering perpetually on the edge of financial ruin, marijuana activists have seized the moment, claiming that legalizing and taxing pot could help bail out the cash-strapped Golden State. But critics are slamming the proposal, saying the social ...
  16 hours ago

• Financial transactions tax: what it would raise in the USA

  
  ToUChstone blog: A public policy blog from the TUC — Authority: 570
  Two key US think tanks have produced a report setting out what a financial transactions tax would raise in the US. The Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) and the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of Massachusetts have calculated that where there is no change in trading ...
  17 hours ago

• Game startups raised $600.5 million in 2009, down 36 percent (via postie)

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 158
  Game startups continued to score big investments in 2009, but the amount of money raised in the year fell considerably compared to 2008.Our analysis shows that 97 game startups raised $600.5 million in 2009, down 36 percent from a year ago. Last year,we tallied 112 companies which raised more than $936.8 million, not ...
  17 hours ago

• Rewarding failure at the Fed | Dean Baker

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  While millions of Americans have lost their jobs, Washington allows Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke to keep his The Senate finance committee overwhelmingly voted to approve Ben Bernanke for another four-year term as Federal Reserve board chairman. This is a remarkable event since it is hard to imagine how ...
  17 hours ago

• You Shall Know the Truth

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 663
  “You shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.” Those are the words of Jesus, and they couldn’t be more relevant that they are today on Wall Street. Some very large financial giants triggered a massive economic…
  17 hours ago

• DR Exclusive: The Obama Memos (1 of 3) (LOOK THEY WANT TO SELL AMERICA!!!)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  Editors note: In a series of three memos to President Barack Obama, Sioan Bethel recommends that real US assets be used to amortize or repurchase the US national debt.] MEMORANDUM #1 To: President Barack Obama From: Sioan Stephen Bethel Subject: Financial Crisis Utilize real asset on America’s balance sheet to ...
  18 hours ago

• Spyker offer for Saab said to have very slim chance of success

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  • Swedish minister warns that Dutch carmakers offer is unlikely to succeed • GM said to be wary of sharing Saab technology with Spyker shareholders The Swedish government warned that there was only a "very, very slim" hope of saving the countrys famous Saab carmaker as a deadline approached for General Motors to ...
  19 hours ago

• 2010 Key Sovereign Themes From Moodys

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 742
  With sovereign CDS (and risk) finally becoming a heated topic of debate, Moodys has compiled its 2009 Review and 2010 Theme Review for sovereigns. The report opens with some rather stark and reasonable observations: "2010 may prove to be a tumultuous year for sovereign debt issuers given the uncertainties surrounding ...
  19 hours ago

• "The Washington Post is reporting that the federal government has quietly decided to exempt Citigroup..."

  
  Quoting the Crisis — Authority: 139
  “The Washington Post is reporting that the federal government has quietly decided to exempt Citigroup from a large future tax bill in allowing it to exit the TARP program. This is a backdoor bailout worth billions and is an outrage that demonstrates the lengths to which government will go to gift these organizations ...
  20 hours ago

• Reinsurers to Take it on the Chin: Rates Likely to Fall 9% in January

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 762
  The Jan. 1, 2010, reinsurance renewal is approaching fast, but a quiet year for catastrophe losses is causing the annual ritual to proceed slowly. Insurers and reinsurers are still dancing around an agreement on next years rates, and an insider at a major reinsurance intermediary tells me that the process could extend ...
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