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• Gold & Armageddon: What All Gold Investors MUST know (Pt. 2-A)

  
  Ethical Foreclosure Fortunes — Authority: 151
  your mind to another point of view. And if u haven’t thought threw the other side of the gold/dollar collapse issue, then you’re probably not that conscious of your own position and most likely not as secure of your own position as you might think. How much do you know about what factors are affecting the gold ...
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• Ubuntu Derivatives

  
  Linux/Unix News - motd.ambians.com — Authority: 165
  Ubuntu is one of the best community developed operating systems and is a great choice for laptops, desktops and servers. There are several operating systems in the market which have been derived from Ubuntu, so such operating systems are called Ubuntu Derivatives. More here In a broader sense, we can divide ...
  14 hours ago

• 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 ...
  17 hours ago

• Further My Last (On Clearing)

  
  Streetwise Professor — Authority: 132
  My previous post on the Acharya et al (AEFLS) assertion of the purported externality in bilateral OTC markets focused on whether there was actually an unpriced “bad.”  I judged otherwise based on the fact that credit and counterparty risks are repriced repeatedly (and ruthlessly).There is another reason to reject ...
  18 hours ago

• Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid.

  
  Streetwise Professor — Authority: 132
  Via SeekingAlpha:“One of the huge lessons of our work over the last few years has been how shockingly stupid incredibly smart people can be,” said Davidson, who with Blumberg has been reporting on the crisis for nearly two years as part of National Public Radio’s “Planet Money” team. “That includes ...
  19 hours ago

• I bought MacArthurCook Industrial REIT on 18 Nov — a bet gone wrong?

  
  TheFinance.sg — Authority: 134
  6 November 2009 : MacArthurCook Industrial REIT (MI-REIT) announced a severely value destructive recapitalisation plan on the 6 November 2009. 11 November 2009 : Cambridge Industrial Trust (CIT) annouced the usage of $10.5m out of $28m from recent private placement to acquire 9.76% interest in MI-REIT. 16 November ...
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• New derivatives legislation "was probably written by JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs"

  
  Corrente — Authority: 623
  The Nation : Who drafted this dubious piece of legislation? Bankers (or their lawyers) did. The leading sellers of derivatives are an exclusive club of five very large financial institutions--Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs--that hold 95 percent of the derivatives ...
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• Barbara Hits the Nail on the Head

  
  Streetwise Professor — Authority: 132
  In his megalomaniacal effort to use the financial crisis as a Trojan horse to advance his campaign “on every front to increase the role of government,” Barney Frank is hellbent on fixing things that demonstrably didn’t break.  Even under the extreme stresses of the crisis.  Case in point: he wants to require ...
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• What Stands In The Way Of Taxing Derivatives: 1,479+ Lobbyists

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 768
  There are about $1.4 quadrillion of them. So why not tax them? As Tim Geithner says "Thats not something we are prepared to support." Some are curious, who is this editorial "we" in this case. According to a co-sponsor of an upcoming bill, he has been called three times by none other than Jamie Dimon to promote the ...
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• Mexican Stock and Derivatives Exchanges BMV & MexDer launch Co-location

  
  FiNETIK - Financial Industry Networked Thinking - Asia and Latin America — Authority: 522
  Bolsa Mexicana de Valores Group (BOLSA), which owns BMV, the Mexican stock exchange, and MexDer, the Mexican derivatives exchange,  announced today that it launched Co-location service on November 12th, which is offered to all the trading members.Click here for  detailed  Bolsa Transactional Services on DMA and ...
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• RECLAIMING SADNESS

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  Or the Obligation to Be Up-Beat The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has announced that soon all New York City Metrocards will be stamped "OPTIMISM." Positive thinking, our unofficial national ideology, is becoming harder and harder to escape. Happiness and cheerfulness are good things, to be sure, as are ...
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• Do Cellulite Creams Actually Work?

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 510
  No cellulite cream can counteract the effects of a sedentary lifestyle, for instance. Neither can a cream magically restore circulation or drop excess weight from a body that does very little and takes in more than it needs.The best lotions, the most evolved lotions, cannot make up for diets composed of fast foods ...
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• Nirvana is Just a Band

  
  Streetwise Professor — Authority: 132
  Last week I wrote about one justification for exchange trading and clearing mandates–the market power argument.  This week I’ll examine another argument, and render a similarly skeptical verdict.In a chapter of Restoring Financial Stability, Viral Acharya, Rob Engle, Steve Figlewski, Anthony Lynch and Marti ...
  2 days ago

• This is what reform sounds like… part II

  
  shopyield.com — Authority: 429
  Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News , World News , and News about the Economy Thank you  Chairman Gensler for your heavy lifting on derivatives reform. More on derivatives reform at Riski …
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• Timmy!’s Testimony

  
  Streetwise Professor — Authority: 132
  Krugman is bashing Timmy! Geithner for his role in the AIG bailout.  This poses something of a dilemma for yours truly.  My sentiments parallel those of Henry Kissinger during the Iran-Iraq War: too bad they both can’t lose.All snark aside, the SIGTARP report that has put Timmy! (oh, that was snarky–sorry) on ...
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• Europe’s Peripheral Players Worry Investors

  
  WSJ.com: MarketBeat — Authority: 678
  Worries about Europes weakest economies may be resurfacing after a period of relative calm.One sign of concern: Prices are rising on so-called credit-default swaps tied to Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Italy. Investors buy these swaps -- which pay off when countries default -- as a kind of insurance against bad ...
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• Black Friday Dirty Secrets: Limited Quantities and Derivatives

  
  ShoppingBlog.com — Authority: 650
  CNN has an article here that discusses some of Black Fridays "dirty little secrets." CNN writes that retailers may only have limited quantities of the doorbusters they list in Black Friday circulars. Another issue is that some of the electronics doorbusters may lack features. Some doorbuster items are even specially ...
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• The AIG-Maiden Lane III Controversy

  
  The Baseline Scenario — Authority: 695
  As everyone knows by now, Neil Barofsky, special inspector general for TARP, has a new report out on the decision by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York last Fall to make various AIG counterparties (primarily some very big banks with names you know) whole on the the CDS protection they had bought from AIG to cover ...
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• Hurricane futures for 2010 now available on Eurex

  
  www.Artemis.bm — Authority: 129
  Eurex , the European derivatives exchange, has launched it’s U.S. hurricane futures for 2010. The instruments are now available to trade for the whole of next year for the same three regions as 2009 (U.S. nationwide, Gulf Coast and Florida).  More details are available from Reuters . You can find the hurricane ...
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• Bank of America, UBS, JPMorgan Sued Over Derivatives

  
  Survival News Network — Authority: 143
  Bank of America Corp., UBS AG and JPMorgan Chase & Co. were sued by a California public utility over claims they rigged sales of municipal derivatives and shared illegal profits through kickbacks.The lawsuit, filed by the Sacramento Municipal Utility District, is based on federal and state antitrust claims. It ...
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