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• Einhorn: First, Let’s Kill All the Credit Default Swaps

  
  Fuck Bankers — Authority: 166
  David Einhorn, who enjoys his considerable reputation for hard-fought battles against firms with shaky finances and dubious accounting (Alliance Capital and Lehman), has taken aim at a new and equally deserving target: credit default swaps. In an interesting bit of synchronicity, Einhorn’s comments in a letter to ...
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• Einhorn: First, Let’s Kill All the Credit Default Swaps

  
  Gulag Blog — Authority: 167
  David Einhorn, who enjoys his considerable reputation for hard-fought battles against firms with shaky finances and dubious accounting (Alliance Capital and Lehman), has taken aim at a new and equally deserving target: credit default swaps. In an interesting bit of synchronicity, Einhorn’s comments in a letter to ...
  1 day ago

• The Fantasy of the Clearing House Magic Bullet

  
  naked capitalism — Authority: 750
  As Gillian Tett points out in the Financial Times today, clearing derivatives centrally has come to be viewed in policy circles as a magical solution. As a result, it has not gotten the scrutiny it deserves. The reason for the enthusiasm is that, in theory, a clearinghouse would make sure all agreements were ...
  2 days ago

• The Fantasy of the Clearing House Magic Bullet

  
  Fuck Bankers — Authority: 166
  As Gillian Tett points out in the Financial Times today, clearing derivatives centrally has come to be viewed in policy circles as a magical solution. As a result, it has not gotten the scrutiny it deserves. The reason for the enthusiasm is that, in theory, a clearinghouse would make sure all agreements were ...
  2 days ago

• The Fantasy of the Clearing House Magic Bullet

  
  Gulag Blog — Authority: 167
  As Gillian Tett points out in the Financial Times today, clearing derivatives centrally has come to be viewed in policy circles as a magical solution. As a result, it has not gotten the scrutiny it deserves. The reason for the enthusiasm is that, in theory, a clearinghouse would make sure all agreements were ...
  2 days ago

• Guest Post: Was it “Nobody Saw It Coming” or “Everybody Who Saw It Coming Was a Nobody”?

  
  Fuck Bankers — Authority: 166
  By Richard Alford, a former economist at the New York Fed. Since them, he has worked in the financial industry as a trading floor economist and strategist on both the sell side and the buy side. A number of economists, economic policymakers, regulators, and central bankers have attempted to explain away their ...
  2 days ago

• Guest Post: Was it “Nobody Saw It Coming” or “Everybody Who Saw It Coming Was a Nobody”?

  
  naked capitalism — Authority: 750
  By Richard Alford, a former economist at the New York Fed. Since them, he has worked in the financial industry as a trading floor economist and strategist on both the sell side and the buy side. A number of economists, economic policymakers, regulators, and central bankers have attempted to explain away their ...
  2 days ago

• Guest Post: Was it “Nobody Saw It Coming” or “Everybody Who Saw It Coming Was a Nobody”?

  
  Gulag Blog — Authority: 167
  By Richard Alford, a former economist at the New York Fed. Since them, he has worked in the financial industry as a trading floor economist and strategist on both the sell side and the buy side. A number of economists, economic policymakers, regulators, and central bankers have attempted to explain away their ...
  2 days ago

• A Must Watch Frontline: The Warning

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 591
  In The Warning, veteran FRONTLINE producer Michael Kirk unearths the hidden history of the nations worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. At the center of it all he finds Brooksley Born, who speaks for the first time on television about her failed campaign to regulate the secretive, multitrillion-dollar ...
  6 days ago

• Roubini Predicts “Mother of All Carry Trade Unwinds”

  
  Fuck Bankers — Authority: 166
  Nouriel Roubini has officially left the “hedging your bets on the economy” camp. He has declared the markets to be frothy because super low dollar borrowing rates have turned the greenback into the funding currency for the carry trade. Far more important than the peppy rally in the stock market is the resumption ...
  1 week ago

• Roubini Predicts “Mother of All Carry Trade Unwinds”

  
  naked capitalism — Authority: 750
  Nouriel Roubini has officially left the “hedging your bets on the economy” camp. He has declared the markets to be frothy because super low dollar borrowing rates have turned the greenback into the funding currency for the carry trade. Far more important than the peppy rally in the stock market is the resumption ...
  1 week ago

• Roubini Predicts “Mother of All Carry Trade Unwinds”

  
  Gulag Blog — Authority: 167
  Nouriel Roubini has officially left the “hedging your bets on the economy” camp. He has declared the markets to be frothy because super low dollar borrowing rates have turned the greenback into the funding currency for the carry trade. Far more important than the peppy rally in the stock market is the resumption ...
  1 week ago

• How Goldman Secretly Bet on the U.S. Housing Crash

  
  ::Broadcatching:: — Authority: 129
  McClatchy Washington BureauSun, Nov. 01, 2009Greg Gordon | McClatchy NewspapersNovember 01, 2009 01:17:44 AMWASHINGTON — In 2006 and 2007, Goldman Sachs Group peddled more than $40 billion in securities backed by at least 200,000 risky home mortgages, but never told the buyers it was secretly betting that a sharp ...
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• “How Goldman secretly bet on the U.S. housing crash” (AIG as Bagholder Watch)

  
  Fuck Bankers — Authority: 166
  McClatchy, the only major US news organization to question the Iraq war until is was obvious to all that it was a misguided exercise in neocon hubris, has started a series on Goldman’s famed “short subprime” exercise. While the timing and overall outline are not new (as to when and allegedly why the investment ...
  1 week ago

• “How Goldman secretly bet on the U.S. housing crash” (AIG as Bagholder Watch)

  
  Gulag Blog — Authority: 167
  McClatchy, the only major US news organization to question the Iraq war until is was obvious to all that it was a misguided exercise in neocon hubris, has started a series on Goldman’s famed “short subprime” exercise. While the timing and overall outline are not new (as to when and allegedly why the investment ...
  1 week ago

• “How Goldman secretly bet on the U.S. housing crash” (AIG as Bagholder Watch)

  
  naked capitalism — Authority: 750
  McClatchy, the only major US news organization to question the Iraq war until is was obvious to all that it was a misguided exercise in neocon hubris, has started a series on Goldman’s famed “short subprime” exercise. While the timing and overall outline are not new (as to when and allegedly why the investment ...
  1 week ago

• Really, should it be a surprise to anyone when this market crashes again?

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 449
  Let’s see: 1) 3.5% GDP was garbage all supported by cash for clunkers(over 1.6% of grth for auto’s), housing expenditure as a result of $8,000 first home owner rebate, excessive govt. spending, restocking and implicit price deflator halved eventhough core inflation has not dropped. If the GDP was real there would ...
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• Market Rap 30.October.2009

  
  Trade the Picture — Authority: 132
  Today’s trading was a flight away from risk–risk off. US equities were weak with the S&P 500 (SPX) off 2.82%, the Dow Jones (INDU) Industrial Average down 2.51% and the tech heavy Nasdaq Composite (COMPQ) down 2.5%. The Volatility Index traded higher by 24% at 30.71. On the Nasdaq, there were 4.2 decliners for ...
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• Recession is History, Economy Back in Business

  
  GreenLightAdvisor Views — Authority: 436
  This post is a guest contribution by Asha Bangalore * of The Northern Trust Company . The recession is behind us. Real gross domestic product of the U.S. economy grew at an annual rate of 3.5% in the third quarter after a 0.75 drop in the prior quarter. This is the first increase of real GDP after a string of four ...
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• Recession is History, Economy Back in Business

  
  GreenLightAdvisor Views — Authority: 436
  This post is a guest contribution by Asha Bangalore * of The Northern Trust Company . The recession is behind us. Real gross domestic product of the U.S. economy grew at an annual rate of 3.5% in the third quarter after a 0.75 drop in the prior quarter. This is the first increase of real GDP after a string of four ...
  1 week ago

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