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• Its Time To Fire Tim Geithner

  
  Moral Philosophy and Current Events — Authority: 128
  Dylan Ratigan Nov. 2, 2009, 1:37 PM Businessinsider.com A year ago it was revealed to the American people that our banking system is a legalized Ponzi scheme in which bank and insurance CEOs pay themselves billions of dollars in personal compensation to lend and insure assets with money they dont have to customers ...
  3 days ago

• Overdraft fees — consumer banks v. consumers

  
  David Kirkpatrick — Authority: 143
  Consumer banking has largely been about screwing the customer for a long time — at least as far as the large, national, impersonal banks (you know, the ones that advertise on television) go. Long ago, something like 15 years ago, I wrote an article for a business magazine on some of the underhanded techniques ...
  4 days ago

• “Audit the Fed” Gets “Gutted”

  
  The Daily Reckoning — Authority: 643
  “There’s nothing left, it’s been gutted,” Ron Paul laments, offering our last bit today. Unfortunately, he’s referring to HR1207, the “Audit the Fed” bill he’s been championing this year. According to Paul, Mel Watt (chairman of the House Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology) took ...
  5 days ago

• Is the Bailout Over?

  
  tvanderwell on SmartHippo.com — Authority: 438
  Not so fast….. Remember last fall, when our government explained that the reason we needed to give $800 billion to Wall Street was so the banks could lend it back to us and shock the economy back to life again? That was a happy story! And we fell for it. What happened, of course, was that the banks took the ...
  6 days ago

• Is the Bailout Over?

  
  Straight Talk About Mortgages and Real Estate — Authority: 542
  Not so fast….. Remember last fall, when our government explained that the reason we needed to give $800 billion to Wall Street was so the banks could lend it back to us and shock the economy back to life again? That was a happy story! And we fell for it. What happened, of course, was that the banks took the ...
  6 days ago

• Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds to Possibly Be Broken Up

  
  WOK3 — Authority: 439
  Sort of makes you wonder why all the institutions over in the U.S. that were called “too big to fail” were not broken up as well. From Arab-Online : Britain is to force state-rescued banks RBS and Lloyds Banking Group to sell assets in a massive shake-up of the banking sector but will support them with ...
  6 days ago

• Bank bailout: every family shouldering £4350 tax liability

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 975
  Every family in the country is now facing a tax liability of £4350 to prop up Britains banking system.
  1 week ago

• RBS and Lloyds agree to bonus clampdown as taxpayer injects billions more

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 975
  Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Banking Group have agreed to a clamp down on bonuses as the UK taxpayer injects more money into the banks and the European Union forces them to slim down.
  1 week ago

• Legislating Wall Street

  
  The Daily Reckoning — Authority: 643
  We were sifting through the proposed “too big to fail” legislation that’s floating around the House and found this nugget: Under Barney Frank’s plan, the legislation would establish a “Financial Services Oversight Council.” Essentially, it would be a group of bureaucrats who decide what companies are too ...
  1 week ago

• Broken Banks and UKFI

  
  hackcartoonsdiary.com — Authority: 121
  The Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Prime Minister are due to announce a second ‘bail-out’ of the part-nationalised banks this week. The Daily Telegraph has the story here . The following quote is lifted from the Telegraph’s story. The Chancellor has agreed to spend about £25 billion buying more ...
  1 week ago

• How Goldman Secretly Bet on the U.S. Housing Crash

  
  ::Broadcatching:: — Authority: 129
  McClatchy Washington BureauSun, Nov. 01, 2009Greg Gordon | McClatchy NewspapersNovember 01, 2009 01:17:44 AMWASHINGTON — In 2006 and 2007, Goldman Sachs Group peddled more than $40 billion in securities backed by at least 200,000 risky home mortgages, but never told the buyers it was secretly betting that a sharp ...
  1 week ago

• High street banks to be broken up

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 975
  Exclusive: three new banks are to appear on Britains high streets as part of a major breakup of the sector.
  1 week ago

• WHO WAS HELPED MOST BY RECENT BAILOUTS? AMERICANS GIVE THEIR OPINION

  
  THE COMMON PROGRESSIVE — Authority: 129
  It is interesting to see exactly how AmericanS feel about the recent federal bailouts and to whom they feel the money was given. This chart is an interesting look into the lopsided view that Americans have of the bailouts. From the looks of these results, the current administration will find deaf ears should they ...
  1 week ago

• GMAC is Too Big to Fail? I don’t get why we’re bailing them out….

  
  tvanderwell on SmartHippo.com — Authority: 438
  Okay, I don’t see the logic behind this.   Let me lay it out: GMAC does a lot of car loans. They are in big financial trouble.   We’ve already given them $13.4 Billion and now they want another $3 to $6 Billion (when you are talking that big of numbers, why not just round them?) The supposed argument is ...
  1 week ago

• Zombie Love: Barack Obama, GMAC Initiated at Negative, and an F for Ally Bank

  
  Wall St. Cheat Sheet — Authority: 625
  This is a guest post by the Institutional Risk Analyst . Give me Your dirty love Like you might surrender To some dragon in your dreams Give me Your dirty love Like a pink donation To the dragon in your dreams I don’t need your sweet devotion I don’t want your cheap emotion Just whip me up some dragon lotion ...
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• Holman Jenkins: The real problem is Washington’s riverboat gamble on saving the economy with free $

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 589
  Yet the urgent problem now isnt TBTF [too big to fail], or even banker bonuses. These are distractions. The urgent problem is the giant riverboat gamble that Washington can save the economy by doing what comes naturally—spending money carelessly, creating massive new entitlements without funding them, dishing out ...
  1 week ago

• GMAC is Too Big to Fail? I don’t get why we’re bailing them out….

  
  Straight Talk About Mortgages and Real Estate — Authority: 542
  Okay, I don’t see the logic behind this.   Let me lay it out: GMAC does a lot of car loans. They are in big financial trouble.   We’ve already given them $13.4 Billion and now they want another $3 to $6 Billion (when you are talking that big of numbers, why not just round them?) The supposed argument is ...
  1 week ago

• Banks ponzi scheme exposed -

  
  Life on Sleepy Creek in Words and Images — Authority: 453
  http://covertress.blogspot.com/2009/10/banks-ponzi-scheme-exposed.html
  2 weeks ago

• Has the US financial system been nationalized?

  
  Fabius Maximus — Authority: 557
  No, but we’ve taken big steps in that direction.  For example, the government owns a large insurance company (AIG).  More importantly, it has nationalized 95% of the single largest component in the financial sector:  home mortgages.From “Recent Developments in Mortgage Finance“, John Krainer, Federal Reserve ...
  2 weeks ago

• A Fein Mess

  
  Chickaboomer — Authority: 552
  Whos minding the store? Obama "pay czar" Kenneth Feinberg has some financial issues in his own house.  Web of Deceptions Joseph Culligan finds Feinbergs Homestead Exemption that was forbidden by the Countrywide mortgage terms ; the Citibank credit line for 86% of the value of the home with Feinberg dealing with ...
  2 weeks ago

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