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Embracing innovations, Fed cleared way for banking crisis
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Foreclosures already pocked Chicagos poorer neighborhoods but the downtown still was booming as the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago convened its annual conference in May 2007.1 day ago -
Uncle Jay Explains: Year in Review!
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It’s Uncle Jay’s famous Singing Year in Review! Last year’s went viral (in a GOOD way,not like H1N1). Re-live the year’s news and sing along with Uncle Jay! Oh wait, you can’t … he changed all the words. See you in January!2 days ago -
Morgan Stanleys CEO skips bonus -- again
BloggingStocks —
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Filed under: Bank of America (BAC) , Goldman Sachs Group (GS) , Morgan Stanley (MS) Nobody expected bonus season to be comfortable, even with the financial crisis more than a year in the rear-view mirror. Yet, Goldman Sachs ( GS ) is getting sued over its compensation package, under which key executives are only ...3 days ago -
Video Blog: Organisational Change Lessons learnt from the Banking Crisis
Change & Stuff —
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I recently wrote an article on an allied subject, and was recently interviewed about this. As ever, I’d be interested to hear what you feel about this… PS>> This style of shooting was a bit of an experiment and we’d be very interesting to know how you feel about it Technorati Tags: Video blog , ...3 days ago -
Will Cantwell-McCain Reinstate Glass-Steagall?
Sense on Cents —
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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 ...4 days ago -
RESPONSIBLE PAYDAY LOAN PROGRAM LAUNCHED IN SAN FRANCISCO - MAYOR GAVIN NEWSOM AND TREASURER JOSE CISNEROS
San Francisco Sentinel —
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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 ...5 days ago -
Serious Fraud Office launches investigation into Kaupthing bank
The Iceland Weather Report —
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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 ...6 days ago -
Bankers bonuses
Not a sheep —
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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 ...1 week ago -
The banking crisis, phase two
Ensaios Imperfeitos —
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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 ...1 week ago -
Big Banks Move On… With a Little Help from Their Friends?
taxgirl —
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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 ...1 week ago -
Iceland holds online Referendum on Althingi’s agreement with UK on Icesave
For Argyll —
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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 ...1 week ago -
Billy Elliott: Reflections On A Britain Long Gone
Newsroom Magazine —
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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 ...1 week ago -
The Icelandic nation votes on Icesave
The Iceland Weather Report —
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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. ...1 week ago -
Are we done ‘bargaining’ about the financial crisis? I wish, but I don’t think so.
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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 ...1 week ago -
Did Drug Money Save the Banks??
InsightAnalytical -- Watching Our World —
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~~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 ...1 week ago -
"Drug money worth billions of dollars kept the financial system afloat at the height of the global..."
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“Drug money worth billions of dollars kept the financial system afloat at the height of the...1 week ago -
Sir Sean in bank advert row
Deadline Press & Picture Agency —
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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 ...1 week ago -
Observer/Guardian wakes up to Tobin tax story
Peter Kenyon —
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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 ...1 week ago -
"How To Make The Worlds Easiest $1 Billion"
Not a sheep —
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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 ...1 week ago -
Norway’s Oil Fund, Scotland’s oil and Scotland’s banks
For Argyll —
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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 ...1 week ago
