Financial Crisis

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• Two Bear Stearns hedge fund managers are off the hook for the financial crisis

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 790
  Filed under: Company News , People , Investing It looks like any Americans eager to pin the blame for the financial crisis on particular Wall Street bankers have just missed a chance. How so? Two financial-crisis scapegoat candidates wriggled out of that role on Tuesday, thanks to the decision of a jury in ...
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• Rude awakening for former communist countries as financial crisis made in the west hits hardest in the east

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  New democracies that embraced the free market are facing their deepest crisis after years of rapid growth The large inflatable columns toppled one after the other in Berlin on Monday night in a play on democracys chain reaction in 1989. Twenty years on in Budapest, Daniel Bebesy has a gloomier domino theory. ...
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• Is the recession still alive?

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 665
  Filed under: Products and services , Consumer experience , Money and Finance Today , Economic data , Personal finance , Oil , DJIA , Recession , Financial Crisis Monday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average set a new 2009 high, trading above 10,225 . GDP growth came in at 3.5% for the third quarter . ...
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• Why is Timothy Geithner Rejecting Legislative Policy?

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 768
  Treasury Secretary Geithner has the presidents ear (photo from Downing Street) Over the weekend, the G-20 held a summit on the financial crisis, and several nations put forward the idea of a “Tobin tax,” a fractional tax on international financial transactions, to help pay for economic recovery and future bank ...
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• Ex-Bear Stearns Hedge Fund Execs Acquitted Today on All Charges

  
  ABA Journal Top Stories — Authority: 675
  When concerns are expressed that authorities are targeting the small fry rather than the big fish in mortgage-related fraud cases, a criminal prosecution of two former Bear Stearns hedge fund managers has repeatedly been cited as a rare exception. But today the case ended with the acquittal of both defendants, reports ...
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• Sen. Dodd Releases Financial Reform Draft

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 768
  Sem Chris Dodd (D-CT) (photo by kthread) Chris Dodd (D-CT), the chair of the Senate Banking Committee, has released a summary for his financial regulatory reform package. You can view the summary here . The 11-page draft, written in plain English, highlights a number of specific reforms, some of which differ from ...
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• UK more at risk than other major economies of losing top credit rating

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 975
  Britain is at greater risk of losing its toptier credit rating than any other major economy according to leading agency Fitch.
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• The Big Shift

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  In recent months, Ive repeatedly made the point that the financial crisis was a symptom, not a cause. Innovation was weaker than expected, private sector job growth outside of healthcare was virtually nonexistent, while real wages and real stock values showed little gains from the late 1990s to the end of 2007, when ...
  9 hours ago

• Financial Crisis: Laugh or cry

  
  Against Monopoly — Authority: 129
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• American International Group rallies on Moodys report

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 665
  Filed under: Analyst reports , Amer Intl Group (AIG) , Options , Technical Analysis , Financial Crisis Notorious insurance titan American International Group ( AIG ) is on the upswing today, after Moodys Investors Service reported late Monday that it expects AIG will be able to repay its government debt . The ...
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• Change Wall Street can believe in (Holly Sklar)

  
  Dollars & Sense blog — Authority: 492
  Hat-tip to Mike P. By Holly Sklar Distributed by McClatchy Tribune News Service, 11/6/09 Copyright 2009 Holly Sklar Wall Street is doing to America what private equity firms did to Simmons Bedding and many other productive companies. Taking control with borrowed money, stripping assets, slashing jobs and cashing ...
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• How Did Paul Krugman Get It So Wrong? (Nobel Laureate Missed the Fannie and Freddie Debacle)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 163
  In July 2008 Nobel laureate Paul Krugman wrote that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the GSEs) "didnt do any subprime lending, because they cant: the definition of a subprime loan is precisely a loan that doesnt meet the requirement, imposed by law, that Fannie and Freddie buy only mortgages issued to borrowers who made ...
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• Dodds Reform Package Summary: Not Even A Good Start

  
  The Agonist - thoughtful, global, timely — Authority: 577
  Im going to print this out later this afternoon and see what it is all about. Ive already read enough to know this doesnt come close to preventing what Numerian discusses here. Heres a summary of Dodds proposed financial reforms. Highlights followed by my commentary: Consumer Financial Protection Agency: ...
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• Fed Says Fewer Banks Tightened Standards Last Quarter

  
  Quoting the Crisis — Authority: 441
  Fed Says Fewer Banks Tightened Standards Last Quarter : crazynutjob : I thought we were starting to move beyond the “less bad is good news” phase. Guess not.
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• Regulation of the banks is not enough | Stephen Beer

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Gordon Browns G20 speech was bold – but we need to go further and separate risky banking activities from retail The backlash against the banking sector continues, but Gordon Browns speech to the G20 provided some hope that bold and necessary reforms might actually get on to the international agenda. The prime ...
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• Accounting Rules Mess Up Lending Market

  
  Accounting Principles — Authority: 106
  New accounting rules on securitizations have messed up the market for bonds backed by credit-card debt. No new credit card securities have been issued since the beginning of October. Such securities are created when card loans are packaged into bonds and sold to investors. The new rules (FAS 166 and 167) require ...
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• Dr. Doom Nouriel Roubini believes the bubble is about to burst

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 665
  Filed under: Market matters , Recession , Financial Crisis Dr. Doom is back. Last week, New York University economist Nouriel Roubini decided to speak out about the current economic recovery, warning that it cannot last . Im not quite sure how this blog missed my radar screen, so I must thank Robert J. ...
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• The refugees of boom-and-bust

  
  The Online Citizen — Authority: 580
  At TEDGlobal U, Cameron Sinclair shows the unreported cost of real estate megaprojects gone bust: thousands of migrant construction laborers left stranded and penniless. To his fellow architects, he says there is only one ethical response.Related Posts Singapore’s economic boom widens income gap Related Posts ...
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• A Plug for Financial Fiasco

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 740
  The distinguished Harvard economist Richard N. Cooper, former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, praises Johan Norberg’s Financial Fiasco: How America’s Infatuation With Homeownership and Easy Money Created the Economic Crisis in Foreign Affairs : The economic crisis of 2008-9 will no doubt ...
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• Petition to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner

  
  Quoting the Crisis — Authority: 441
  Petition to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner : azspot : Too Big to Fail is Too Big to Exist Financial institutions that are “too big to fail” played a major role in undermining the American economy and driving our country into a severe recession. Financial institutions that are “too big to fail” ...
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