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Dubai Blues As Seen In CDS, Its All About Perception!
prudent investor newsletters —
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A cliche goes, what you see depends on where you stand. For many, this could be rephrased as what you see depends on what you are looking for. In the behavioral aspects, this means looking to confirm a bias or selective perception. For the bears, the Dubai incident has served as a rallying cry for their much awaited ...21 hours ago -
Financial reform warrior Brooksley Born warns of more crises to come
New Deal 2.0 —
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Henry C.K Liu is one of the great chroniclers of finance and economics in our times. His writings, which I have followed for years at Asia Times Online and on his website , go beyond the mechanical propensities of most economists and financiers. He writes with a deep understanding of finance, Asia, and as you can ...1 day ago -
Dubai has moved into 6th place on the list of basket cases based on the cost of Credit Default Swaps
InvestmentWatch —
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RBI plans to set up working group to revisit the draft guidelines on credit default swaps (CDS)
LEGAL & FINANCIAL UPDATES FROM TAX GURU —
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“We are setting up a group in the RBI and they will interact with market participants,” Gopinath said at a banking seminar here. A credit default swap is a swap contract in which the buyer of the CDS makes a series of payments to the seller and, in... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website ...2 days ago -
Here we go again with the credit default swaps - the derivative time bomb.
InvestmentWatch —
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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 ...2 days ago -
Could Dubai be the trigger?
Bearwatch —
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Warren Pollock points out that the real danger lies, not in Dubai possibly deciding to default on its sovereign debt, but in the credit default swaps surrounding the debt, which may magnify the problem by 10 - 100+ times. If some of these huge side bets are wild ones not adequately backed by the gamesters capital, off ...2 days ago -
Government Admits AIG Folly
The Daily Reckoning —
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Brace yourselves for a shocking report from the U.S government: After months of research and we don’t even want to know how much money, an independent investigator has concluded that the government wasted a ton of money bailing out AIG. You don’t say! Special Inspector General Neil Barofsky, the man tasked with ...4 days ago -
Betting Against the House, A Sector to Short, Retail’s Role in the Recovery and More!
The 5 Min. Forecast —
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by Addison Wiggin & Ian Mathias Dollar disaster: National debt, 60 Minutes, NY Times and credit default swaps all team up against the greenback Chris Mayer & Germany’s Finance Minister lay out more reasons to own some gold Dan Amoss’ short target for the next leg of the faux recovery ...5 days ago -
Janet Tavakoli Retracts Her Apology To Goldman Sachs, Calls For More Regulation Of The Government Backstopped Hedge Fund
zero hedge —
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Submitted by Janet Tavakoli of Tavakoli Structured Finance I Retract My Apology and Call for More Regulation of Goldman Sachs TSF – Opinion Commentary – November 22, 2009 (see also Apology ) According to SIGTARP 1 , both the Federal Reserve and Treasury agreed that an AIG failure posed ...6 days ago -
The FDIC Anesthesia Is Wearing Off
GreenLightAdvisor Views —
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By Robert Prechter, November 20, 2009 The following article is an excerpt from Robert Prechter’s Elliott Wave Theorist . For more information from Robert Prechter on bank safety, download his free report, Discover the Top 100 Safest U.S. Banks . Perhaps the single greatest reason for the unbridled ...6 days ago -
I know what keeps Obama awake at night…
InvestmentWatch —
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Let’s say we spend our $2 trillion in stimulus and get a couple of quarters of weak growth. Then once the effects of the stimulus wear off, we slip back into a deep recession, setting up a classic “W.” Unemployment never does stop climbing. This happened to Roosevelt in the thirties. So congress passes another ...1 week ago -
The Emperor’s New Clothes: THOSE FORECLOSURES ARE NOT REAL FOLKS, GET IT?
Livinglies's Weblog —
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NOW AVAILABLE on KINDLE/AMAZON The Emperor\’s New Clothes: THOSE FORECLOSURES ARE NOT REAL FOLKS, GET IT? 1-in-10-u-s-mortgage-delinquencies-reach-a-record-high-going-up The Emperor is still strutting around as though he was fully clothed in the best silk, color and design. Wall Street is still the ...1 week ago -
Wells Fargo to Repurchase $1.4 Billion of Securities: WHAT THAT MEANS TO YOU
Livinglies's Weblog —
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AVAILABLE ON KINDLE/AMAZON You can use this information by establishing “probable cause” in the mind of the Judge or jury right off the bat — we know they lied to investors, are we now supposed to believe they told the truth to the homeowners? This is the kind of news article buried deep into a ...1 week ago -
Markit Group
Vie de Malchance —
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From Mark Mitchell at Deep Capture : If short sellers can manipulate the price of credit default swaps, they can disrupt those companies whose debt is insured by the credit default swaps whose prices are manipulated. The game plan runs as follows: find a company that relies on a layer of debt that is both ...1 week ago -
The Markit Group: A Black-Box Company that Devastated Markets
Deep Capture: exposing the crime of naked short selling —
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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 ...1 week ago -
Gross OTC Notional Picks Up, $605 Trillion (10% Increase) In Gross Notional Derivatives Outstanding
zero hedge —
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When we dissected the BIS OTC derivatives numbers two weeks ago, we were expecting the release of the updated semiannual report to be released shortly. Luckily the BIS did not make us wait too long: the latest data indicate that the progression toward wanton expansion of risk continues unabated. Total gross notional ...1 week ago -
Today’s Ebook – Causes and Effects
Lucrative Investing —
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Today’s featured ebook download is Causes and Effects of the Lehman Brothers Bankruptcy (123 KB, 26 pg) – I argue that the demise of Lehman Brothers is the result of its very aggressive leverage policy in the context of a major financial crisis. The roots of this crisis have to be found in bad regulation, ...1 week ago -
Lessons Learned From A Guy Who Made $20 Billion in Two Years
Kevin Hoffberg's Blog —
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Here’s a story lead from the WSJ that should get your attention: Even as the financial system collapsed last year, and millions of investors lost billions of dollars, one unlikely investor was racking up historic profits: John Paulson, a hedge-fund manager in New York. His firm made $20 billion between 2007 and ...1 week ago -
How Credit Raters Fended Off Federal Oversight
Progressive News Daily —
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The Huffington Post Investigative Fund When the nation’s top credit rating companies came under attack in Washington in recent years, Charles E. Schumer often emerged as their strongest ally. As recently as 2006, the senior senator from New York questioned whether new oversight legislation was necessary given ...2 weeks ago -
Guest Post: Commentary On Neil Barofskys Upcoming TARP Report
zero hedge —
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Submitted by Janet Tavakoli from Tavakoli Structure Finance My comments on the upcoming TARP report will echo my February 4, 2009 comments . TARP’s inspector general Neil Barofsky already anticipates losses . Unfortunately, the losses are right on schedule. Let’s hope that Barofsky did not rely upon ...2 weeks ago
