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• Reading Between The Lines Of David Einhorns Attack On CDS

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 761
  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: 516
  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: 516
  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: 516
  “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: 761
  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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• McClatchy Reports:

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 449
  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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• Guest Post: Systemic Risk is All About Innovation and Incentives: Ed Kane

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 761
  Guest post by Chris Whalen of Institutional Risk Analytics   "My dear sir, the Treasury order is popular with the people everywhere I have passed. But all the speculators, and those largely indebted, want more paper. The more it depreciates the easier they can pay their debts… Check the paper mania and the ...
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• Scary as HELL: ‘It is Japan we should be worrying about, not America’

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 449
  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/6480289/It-is-Japan-we-should-be-worrying-about-not-America.html Japan is drifting helplessly towards a dramatic fiscal crisis. For 20 years the world’s second-largest economy has been able to borrow cheaply from a captive bond market, feeding its ...
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• Corruption as far as the eye can see, and as of yet, not a single arrest.

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 449
  However, as I pointed out in “Who OWNS Foreclosed U.S. Properties, Part II: the role of MERS”, there is a second reason for U.S. banks to hide all these millions of foreclosed properties: credit default swaps. This $50+ trillion market represents the phony “insurance” on the entire Wall Street Ponzi-scheme – ...
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• The world changed this week…and most people have no idea.

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 449
  Last week this was my call: “I continue to believe that next week will be the week that shakes the financial world at its foundation.” I believed it happened on Sunday evening. Although it may not seem like it on the surface.. yet… I believe that the “temporary structural I-beam” that has supported our ...
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• The Warning: The Incredible Story of Brooksley Born. How the Financial Crisis Might Have Been Averted.

  
  slabbed — Authority: 480
  One week ago Tuesday I sat in front of my Television spellbound watching PBS Frontline’s profile of Brooksley Born , a former Clinton Administration agency head who has since been termed the “Credit Crisis Cassandra” by the media. As the show ended all of my questions regarding the ineptitude of Obama’s ...
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• Guest Post: Busting Out The Joint

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 761
  Submitted by Gonzalo Lira Around 1990, I saw “Goodfellas” when it first came out. Scorcese’s quasi-nostalgic take on the Italo-American gangster culture of the 1960’s and ’70’s was like a tricked out Cadillac convertible: Eye-catching and glittery, and very very memorable.     One of the scenes ...
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• Liquor before Beer - In the Clear

  
  John Mauldin's Outside the Box — Authority: 513
  I am in Argentina today, but still have found time to read a rather provocative speech by David Einhorn, who is President of Greenlight Capital , a "long-short value-oriented hedge fund", which he began in 1996. Einhorn has long been a critic of the current investment banking business, and today he discusses the ...
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• AIG scandal continues: Three execs get to keep $16 million in bonuses

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 790
  Filed under: American International Group, INC. Of all the outrages to the American taxpayer in the last year, there is not one that can top the bailout of American International Group ( AIG ). After former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson decided to let Lehman Brothers collapse 13 months ago in historys biggest ...
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• Largest Transfer of Wealth to Financial/Political Elite in Global History

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 551
  Largest Transfer of Wealth to Financial/Political Elite in Global History By Carl Herman October 21, 2009 “ LA County Nonpartisan Examiner ” –  P olitical “leadership” of the two oligarchy parties spin their economic policy as being for the public benefit. Professional economists ...
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• David Einhorn trash talks the Fed, the dollar, the banks

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 790
  Filed under: Economy , People , Investing , Goldman Sachs In a speech at Whitney Tilsons Value Investing Conference on Monday, hedge-fund icon David Einhorn of Greenlight Capital, perhaps best known for his massive bet against Lehman Bros., offered some wisdom on the economic outlook and how investors can ...
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• The Warning

  
  Vie de Malchance — Authority: 504
  I watched most of last night’s PBS Frontline presentation of The Warning . It tells the story of stalwart former CFTC chairwoman, Brooksley Born , her attempt to regulate OTC derivatives and how Rubin , Summers and Greenspan worked in concert to bring her down. This program coincided with a potentially ...
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• Dramatic Improvements In Global Country Default Risks (CDS)

  
  prudent investor newsletters — Authority: 132
  The following is an updated table of country default risk courtesy of Bespoke Invest According to Bespoke Invest , (all bold highlights mine) ``The CDS prices represent the cost per year to insure $10,000 of debt for 5 years . The US CDS price is quoted in Euros. The list is sorted by year-to-date ...
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• Obama’s failure

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 449
  Presidents Obama’s failure to effectively restructure the out of control finance sector will come back to bite his administration in the @#$%&!. It is one of the few industry’s that can cause total chaos for everyone else. Finance is a tool that is supposed to be used effectively by supplying capital ...
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