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• Why I am an optimist by John Mauldin

  
  Irish Mortgage Brokers Blog — Authority: 131
  John Mauldin sends out a weekly investment letter which has a readership of over a million people, the genius of his letters are that he doesn’t purport to know everything, luckily for him though he knows enough experts in enough fields who do, he draws on his knowledge and theirs to provide poignant and relevant ...
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• Bernankes Done Deal Reconfirmation May Not Be A Done Deal After All

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 756
  With everyone expecting the Chairmans reconfirmation process on Thursday to be merely a formality, Senator Bob Corker throws this wrench after he "said he wasnt sure yet whether the chairman had the votes on the Banking committee or in the Senate as a whole." The Hill reports , "I dont know where that sits," Corker ...
  3 days ago

• US also has it’s own vast overbuilding of commercial real estate that is sitting VACANT.

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 157
  Dubai World owners were caught up in the same heady debt-fueled commercial construction-binge that swept across the United States. The problem can be traced back to lax lending standards and low interest rates. Now demand has fallen off a cliff and credit is getting tighter. Dubai World can’t roll over its debt or ...
  4 days ago

• Senator Sanders: "Ben Bernanke Is Part Of The Problem"

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 756
  Ben Bernankes low-road approach of taking the Feds "noble mission" of bailing out Wall Street at any and all costs directly to the people seems to have come at curiously opportune time, a mere week ahead of his December 3 Senate Banking Committee hearing for his second 4 year term nomination. It also seems to have ...
  4 days ago

• Dubai Blues As Seen In CDS, Its All About Perception!

  
  prudent investor newsletters — Authority: 135
  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 ...
  6 days ago

• Financial reform warrior Brooksley Born warns of more crises to come

  
  New Deal 2.0 — Authority: 142
  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 week ago

• Dubai has moved into 6th place on the list of basket cases based on the cost of Credit Default Swaps

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 157
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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 — Authority: 454
  “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 ...
  1 week ago

• Here we go again with the credit default swaps - the derivative time bomb.

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 157
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Could Dubai be the trigger?

  
  Bearwatch — Authority: 128
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Government Admits AIG Folly

  
  The Daily Reckoning — Authority: 603
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Betting Against the House, A Sector to Short, Retail’s Role in the Recovery and More!

  
  The 5 Min. Forecast — Authority: 124
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Janet Tavakoli Retracts Her Apology To Goldman Sachs, Calls For More Regulation Of The Government Backstopped Hedge Fund

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 756
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• The FDIC Anesthesia Is Wearing Off

  
  GreenLightAdvisor Views — Authority: 142
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• I know what keeps Obama awake at night…

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 157
  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 ...
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• The Emperor’s New Clothes: THOSE FORECLOSURES ARE NOT REAL FOLKS, GET IT?

  
  Livinglies's Weblog — Authority: 430
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Wells Fargo to Repurchase $1.4 Billion of Securities: WHAT THAT MEANS TO YOU

  
  Livinglies's Weblog — Authority: 430
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Markit Group

  
  Vie de Malchance — Authority: 473
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Markit Group: A Black-Box Company that Devastated Markets

  
  Deep Capture: exposing the crime of naked short selling — Authority: 409
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Gross OTC Notional Picks Up, $605 Trillion (10% Increase) In Gross Notional Derivatives Outstanding

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 756
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

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