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• Tax the Traders! Make Wall Street Pay its Share With a "Tobin Tax" -Ellen Hodgson Brown

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 550
  "Wall Street owns the country. It is no longer a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, but a government of Wall Street, by Wall Street, and for Wall Street. Our laws are the output of a system which clothes rascals in robes and honesty in rags." -1890 speech by Populist leader Mary Ellen Lease, ...
  6 hours ago

• According to the 2rd qtr. OCC Derivative Report, the 5 largest holders of derivatives (commercial banks) hold 97% of all derivatives.

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 449
  Those commercial banks are JP Morgan (JPM), Goldman Sachs (GS), Bank of America (BAC), Citi (C) and Wells Fargo (WFC). The table below shows the total amounts of assets (in $billions), total amount of derivatives (in $billions), the percentage increase/decrease in assets from the previous quarter, the percentage ...
  13 hours ago

• Hedge Funds

  
  Prajna Capital - An Investment Guide — Authority: 128
  This article explains how hedge funds use different strategies to mitigate risk Hedging means managing risk. A fund manager employs a particular hedging technique in order to mitigate a particular type of risk. For example, a market risk can be hedged against by selling a broad collection of securities ...
  14 hours ago

• Derivatives players pocketing the chips?

  
  Bearwatch — Authority: 472
  "... total money and credit are contracting, [...] the world of derivatives and leverage is contracting despite our government’s best efforts to flood the system with money."
  20 hours ago

• Here There Be Big Nymbers (Sic)

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 761
  The earlier discussion of CDS, Einhorn, and the US UST-CDS basis trade, sparked a flurry of queries on the topic of "really big numbers." Therefore, even as ZH staff awaits the most recent data out of the BIS, we present for your numeric (in)comprehension pleasure lots and lots of zeroes. The chart below summarizes ...
  23 hours ago

• My Visit to the US Treasury, Part 5

  
  The Aleph Blog — Authority: 578
  One other blogger took his nameplate with him — I’m not sure who; the rest left theirs.  But this is what was in front of each one of us as we sat down to discuss matters at the US Treasury.  Treasury officials had similar nameplates.  It dictated where we would sit as well.  From the front of the room on the ...
  1 day ago

• 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 ...
  1 day ago

• 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 ...
  1 day ago

• 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

• Cure of Shortage and Famine

  
  Reason for Liberty — Authority: 118
  We have seen how the state planning for alleviating famine and food shortage fails miserably in a planned economy. Often in a mixed economy, government seeks proper control over the agriculture and food sector and that becomes the reason of corruption and further suffering at the times of need, scarcity and famine. On ...
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• Zero Hedge Endorses Senator Bernie Sanders Petition To Tim Geithner

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 761
  Petition from Vermont Senator Bernie Sander To Time Geithner Too Big to Fail is Too Big to Exist Financial institutions that are “too big to fail” played a major role in undermining the American economy and driving our country into a severe recession. Financial institutions that are “too big to fail” put ...
  2 days ago

• BLOOMBERG: Buffett’s Berkshire Profit Triples on Derivatives

  
  Everything Warren Buffett — Authority: 441
  By Andrew Frye Nov. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Billionaire investor Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. said third-quarter profit tripled on the gain in derivatives tied to stocks and bonds. Net income ...
  2 days ago

• On the Trading Floor

  
  eTrades.net — Authority: 440
  You’ve seen trading floors before. No, were not talking Liars Poker here Weve all seen the so-called pit traders on CNBC yelling and screaming at each other. But whats it like on a typical trading floor at a large bank that you might work at? Usually, youll see one large open room ” no cubicles. On the ...
  2 days 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

• A Detailed Look At Goldmans CDS Holdings And How CDS Trading Has Become The Squids Multi-Billion Cash Cow

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 761
  One of the more useful information items in Goldmans periodic filings is granular disclosure on the firms CDS holdings, and specifically segregated data by maturity bucket and by spread as pertains to "maximum payout and notional amount of written credit derivatives." In essence, due to the firms monopoly in CDS ...
  3 days ago

• Frank Seeks Stricter Derivatives Bill

  
  DealBook — Authority: 782
  Representative Barney Frank, the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, is seeking stricter legislation for privately traded derivatives, and he wants to make it harder for banks to avoid trading the contracts on exchanges.
  4 days ago

• Larry Summers and derivatives

  
  shopyield.com — Authority: 428
  A lot of threads related to our financial crisis come together in the form of Larry Summers and derivatives. Actions taken out of a fear of global instability and ignorance of the potency of leveraged bets using derivatives weave through this story. It’s a long list of damage caused by Wall Street banks and ...
  4 days ago

• Interest Rate Futures: Introduction, Examples & Tutorials to InterestRate Futures

  
  Finance Trading Times — Authority: 110
  Interest Rate Futures IRF are something that are gaining real good popularity. They are a kind of derivatives, which are based on interest rates, and offer hedging, arbitrage and speculative opportunities for various market participants. Typically, it will be the banks which will get into Interest Rate ...
  4 days ago

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