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

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 768
  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 ...
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• The FDIC Anesthesia Is Wearing Off

  
  GreenLightAdvisor Views — Authority: 438
  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 ...
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• I know what keeps Obama awake at night…

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 451
  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: 131
  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 ...
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• Wells Fargo to Repurchase $1.4 Billion of Securities: WHAT THAT MEANS TO YOU

  
  Livinglies's Weblog — Authority: 131
  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 ...
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• Markit Group

  
  Vie de Malchance — Authority: 502
  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 ...
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• 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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• Gross OTC Notional Picks Up, $605 Trillion (10% Increase) In Gross Notional Derivatives Outstanding

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 768
  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 ...
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• Today’s Ebook – Causes and Effects

  
  Lucrative Investing — Authority: 529
  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, ...
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• Lessons Learned From A Guy Who Made $20 Billion in Two Years

  
  Kevin Hoffberg's Blog — Authority: 115
  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 ...
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• How Credit Raters Fended Off Federal Oversight

  
  Progressive News Daily — Authority: 162
  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 ...
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• Guest Post: Commentary On Neil Barofskys Upcoming TARP Report

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 768
  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 ...
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• Reading Between The Lines Of David Einhorns Attack On CDS

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 768
  The $26.5 trillion (gross notional) CDS market is under siege. Or such is the latest news from the formerly pervasive (ab)user of CDS trading strategies, David Einhorn. In an op-ed in the FT , Einhorn states "I think that trying to make safer credit default swaps is like tryingto make safer asbestos,” he writes in ...
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• FT.com / Markets / On Wall Street - Greenlight Capital founder calls for CDS ban

  
  The Information Paradox — Authority: 491
  FT.com / Markets / On Wall Street - Greenlight Capital founder calls for CDS ban: When one of the...
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• FT.com / Markets / Insight - Insight: The clearing house rules

  
  The Information Paradox — Authority: 491
  FT.com / Markets / Insight - Insight: The clearing house rules: For the past year, as politicians...
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• "Clearinghouses are the wrong remedy for CDS, but that horse has left the barn and is already in the..."

  
  The Information Paradox — Authority: 491
  “Clearinghouses are the wrong remedy for CDS, but that horse has left the barn and is already...
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• November 5 CDS Heatmap

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 768
  Mixed CDS action yesterday, with credit predominantly flat even as equities melted (molted?)-up. Discussions with fixed income traders indicate a predominantly bearish posture yet nobody is willing to stand against the Fed and the Druckmaschinen imports. Where is a man with Soros-size balls when you need him? Alas, ...
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• Senator Kaufman Continues The Good Fight Against HFT, Cephalopod Capture

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 768
  From Senator Ted Kaufmans speech on the Senate floor earlier today. As Kaufman noted, “just over one year since the collapse of Lehman Brothers ... Wall Street is essentially unchanged.” Not only are the same practices that led to the financial debacle 14 months ago still present, but the market is increasingly ...
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• The man who predicted the financial crisis, Part I

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 735
  The weekend edition of the Wall Street Journal profiled John Paulson , whose firm made $15 billion by systematically betting against the value of American homes. Paulson himself took home $4 billion. How’d he do it? Research. Grasping for new ideas, [Paulson researcher Paolo] Pellegrini added a “trend ...
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• McClatchy Reports:

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 451
  Secrets of G0LDMAN’ Success: Contrary Bets, Predatory Lending, Government Connections, Offshore Tax Havens 2006-2007 G0LDMAN peddled $40 Billion Derivatives based on 200,000 risky home mortgages G0LDMAN Misrepresented their High Risk Products to Buyers as LOW RISK “AAA” Products “Misrepresentation” = ...
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