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• 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 ...
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• Who is the US?

  
  Skeptical CPA — Authority: 479
  "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 ...
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• Economic Outrage du Jour: Bailout Myth Croaks

  
  Daily Kos — Authority: 806
  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 ...
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• Is The SEC Intercepting Your Instant Messages?

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 765
  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 ...
  2 days ago

• Fuld and Cayne didn’t do so badly after all

  
  Muckety.com - Exploring the paths of power and influence — Authority: 129
  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.
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• Fiddling While Rome Burns

  
  The Economic Populist - Speak Your Mind 2 Cents at a Time — Authority: 589
  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 ...
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• Bear Stearns and Lehman Execs took out $1.4 billion and $1 billion CASH between 2000-2009

  
  Schizo America — Authority: 118
  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 ...
  3 days ago

• Execs Kept Wealth as Banks Failed, Study Says

  
  DealBook — Authority: 772
  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.
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• 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 ...
  3 days ago

• Executives Kept Wealth as Firms Failed, Study Says

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 908
  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.
  4 days ago

• MMO Weakly #17: Legal in some states

  
  Lagwar.com — Authority: 425
  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 ...
  4 days ago

• A Pro-Free-Market Program for Economic Recovery

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 174
  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 ...
  5 days ago

• Two Opposing Amendments Emerge That Seek To Either Perpetuate The Feds Secrecy, Or Overturn It

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 765
  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: 411
  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 ...
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• Wall Street job losses are surprisingly low, and firms eye record profits

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 805
  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

• The wrong arm of the law | Dan Kennedy

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 163
  A new book reveals how US federal prosecutors twist the law to criminalise legal activities, with connivence from the media Sharp-elbowed business executives and grasping politicians may not be especially popular figures within the American iconography. But membership in any of those classes is not a federal crime. ...
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• Page Perrys Market Monitor - November 13, 2009

  
  Investment Fraud Lawyer Blog — Authority: 123
  There have been various developments over the past several weeks which investors may consider relevant in allocating their resources or evaluating alternatives that are available to them. Some of the more significant developments include, but are not limited to, the following: • The Dow Jones Industrial Average ...
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• Circuit City HQ returned to lender

  
  Richmond BizSense — Authority: 512
  Two commercial properties – including the former headquarters of Circuit City – have gone back to lenders.
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• IRON MAIDENS & OUR MEDIEVAL-LIKE FINANCIAL RESCUE

  
  THE MARK MARTINEZ SHOW: Talk Radio for Liberals and Real Conservatives — Authority: 130
  Of all the "fun" things humanity has figured out the prolonged and brutal torture of each other seems to be among the most creative of our efforts. Among the many tools that weve concocted include the Iron Maiden. While there were many variants, one iron cast model, like the one shown here, was built to follow the ...
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• Best of the Web 11/16: Faber Rips Cramer, SEC Probing COMS Optio...

  
  Business Finance & Economy - business.marc8.com — Authority: 166
  StreetInsider.com Best of the Web: CNBCs David Faber... read more
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