Category: Credit Crisis 2010
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Sunday, April 18, 2010
Going After Goldman: A Crackdown on Financial Crime or a Kabuki Play Maneuvre to Avoid Bringing Criminal Charges / Companies / Credit Crisis 2010
By: Danny_Schechter
Fox Business News was engrossed in interviewing a blonder than thou reality TV bimbo when the news that the Securities And Exchange Commission was filing fraud charges against Goldman Sachs broke on Friday afternoon.
The breaking news bulletins were already flying through cyberspace before the Fox Means Business network got around to moving from a snickering interview with a starlet confessing to commodifying and monetizing her appeal to the biggest story in months on the Street beat. Corporate fraud allegations seem to make free market boosters nervous.
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Sunday, April 18, 2010
Goldman Sachs Lost $90 Million on Paulson’s CDO And Saved Themselves $1 Billion / Companies / Credit Crisis 2010
By: Andrew_Butter
Goldman Sachs is “vigorously” protesting their innocence against the SEC complaint; here is their second press release:
Friday, April 16, 2010
Goldman Sachs Mortgage Fraud Confirms Gordon Brown's Responsibility for the Financial Crisis / Politics / Credit Crisis 2010
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Gordon Brown yesterday confessed that Labour's light touch on financial regulation was a mistake that contributed towards the financial crisis. Previously he had repeatedly self congratulated himself for saving the banking system from collapse and blamed lack of banking sector regulation on pressure from the City of London, form the banking sector, Bank of England and FSA, all of whom he alluded to wanted light touch regulation so as to maximise profits which funded Labours public sector spending spree which he says he reluctantly went along with rather than implement the regulatory reforms that he had all along envisaged.
Friday, April 16, 2010
Is The Banking Cartel Failing? What Next? / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2010
By: DeepCaster_LLC
“The mortgage chief of the second largest U.S. bank was mobbed by angry borrowers after he invited customers to speak to him if they feared foreclosure of their homes…
"He ran. He ran like a dog with its tail between his legs," said Bruce Marks of the Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America (NACA), which helps homeowners avoid foreclosure. "He was scared to death because he doesn't really want to talk to homeowners."”
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Friday, April 16, 2010
EXTEND & PRETEND: Gaming the US Tax Payer / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2010
By: Gordon_T_Long
Today, April 15th, most of us grudgingly settle our annual obligations with the government tax authorities. But for how long will we keep doing this? How long will we support the government’s Ponzi scheme that makes a mockery out of the monies we have annually contributed obediently to our Social Security and Medicare accounts? What I am going to share with you may make this a haunting question for you throughout the next taxation year.
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Fed Moves $421.8 Billion Without Warning, Is the Fed Bailing out Greece? / Interest-Rates / Credit Crisis 2010
By: Dr_Jeff_Lewis
The St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank, which documents the inner workings and balance sheets at the nation's central bank, just released new research and data suggesting that the Federal Reserve lent $421.8 billion – with no one knowing exactly where it went.
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
How Bush Tried to Stop Predatory Bank Lending / Politics / Credit Crisis 2010
By: Mike_Whitney
When the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on investigations convenes on Tuesday, they'll be presented with a mountain of evidence showing that Washington Mutual intentionally issued subprime mortgages that they knew would fail, and then bundled the loans into securities so they could be sold to investors. The senate's year-and-a-half long investigation, has strung together hundreds of e mails and other internal documents that will prove beyond a doubt that the now-defunct bank was engaged in industrial-scale fraud. This is from the Los Angeles Times:
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
To Organize Against Wall Street, We Need A Narrative Focusing On Crime And Massive Fraud / Politics / Credit Crisis 2010
By: Danny_Schechter
In politics, it’s always all about the narrative, about how issues are framed.
As we ask ourselves, how we can be experiencing the largest economic meltdown in decades with millions out of work, and millions more losing their homes, and yet, with no real mass mobilization or ongoing response from the progressive world.
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Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Derivatives, the One Market the Fed Hopes You Won’t Find Out About / Interest-Rates / Credit Crisis 2010
By: Graham_Summers
As we celebrate year three of the Great Financial Crisis with the first official bailout of an entire country (Greece), I’m still astounded and the complete and utter lack of coverage the underlying cause of this Crisis has received.
We’ve had tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of articles and research reports have been written about the Crisis, and yet I would wager less than 1% of them actually bother talking about what caused it, let alone how the various efforts to stop it have in fact FAILED to address the key issues.
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Tuesday, April 13, 2010
The Great Federal Reserve Bank Con Job - There Is No Money! / Politics / Credit Crisis 2010
By: Submissions
Video and Transcript - Dylan Ratigan Show - MSNBC In America today we are getting closer to fully exposing the greatest con and cover-up in this history, it involves our banks, the federal reserve, our congress, and, of course, you and me.
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Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Is the Fed Helping the Big Banks Cook the Books? / Politics / Credit Crisis 2010
By: Mike_Whitney
On Friday, the Wall Street Journal revealed details of a cover up by the nations largest banks that have been engaged in potentially-criminal accounting activities to conceal the amount of debt on their balance sheets. The SEC has been notified of the allegations and has launched a probe to determine whether further action is needed. Among the banks implicated, are Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Bank of America, and Citigroup. According to the WSJ:
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Is Your Bank a Failure Waiting to Happen? / Companies / Credit Crisis 2010
By: Graham_Summers
Yesterday I explained the TRUE underlying cause of the Financial Crisis (derivatives). Today, I’m going to show you which institutions are most vulnerable to this massive, unregulated market.
Now, the most common derivatives are based on typical financial entities/ issues: commodities, stocks, bonds, interest rates, etc. However, the vast bulk of them (84%) are based on interest rates:
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Monday, April 12, 2010
How to Protect Yourself from a Bank Run / Companies / Credit Crisis 2010
By: DailyWealth
An elderly woman was panicking...
"It's my life savings we're talking about, my pension. I'll have nothing left if they go under," she said.
Monday, April 12, 2010
Global Banking System Still Quietly Bankrupt / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2010
By: Mike_Shedlock
Inquiring minds are reading an excellent post by John Hussman about Stock Market Valuations, Extend and Pretend Banking, Public Policy on Housing Bailouts, and Solvency of the Banking System. Here are a few snips from Extend and Pretend.
Monday, April 12, 2010
Wall Street Banks Looting Main Street / Politics / Credit Crisis 2010
By: Global_Research
Matt Taibbi writes: How the nation's biggest banks are ripping off American cities with the same predatory deals that brought down Greece
If you want to know what life in the Third World is like, just ask Lisa Pack, an administrative assistant who works in the roads and transportation department in Jefferson County, Alabama. Pack got rudely introduced to life in post-crisis America last August, when word came down that she and 1,000 of her fellow public employees would have to take a little unpaid vacation for a while. The county, it turned out, was more than $5 billion in debt — meaning that courthouses, jails and sheriff's precincts had to be closed so that Wall Street banks could be paid.
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Saturday, April 10, 2010
Credit Default Swaps Threaten the Whole System, Real Financial Form Needed / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2010
By: John_Mauldin
It's Time for Reform We Can Believe In
The Fed Must Be Independent
Credit Default Swaps Threaten the System
Too Big To Fail Must Go
And This Thing About Leverage
What Happens If We Do Nothing?
Casey Stengel, manager of the hapless 1962 New York Mets, once famously asked, after an especially dismal outing, "Can't anybody here play this game?" This week I ask, after months of worse than no progress, "Can't anybody here even spell financial reform, let alone get it done?"
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Friday, April 09, 2010
The Current Financial Crisis — and After / Economics / Credit Crisis 2010
By: MISES
Kevin Dowd writes: My main topic this morning is the resolution of the current financial crisis, and what might be done to fix the financial system and help avert another crisis in the future.
If this sounds like good news, it is indeed. But you should beware of economists bearing good news on a beautiful Sunday morning: economics isn't known as the dismal science for nothing.
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Thursday, April 08, 2010
Congress's FCIC Nearly Nailed Former Citigroup Executives to the Wall -- Then Blew It / Politics / Credit Crisis 2010
By: Janet_Tavakoli
Phil Angelides, Chairman of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, had Robert Rubin, former senior advisor Citigroup (also former Treasury Secretary under President Bill Clinton, and former Co-Chair of Goldman Sachs), and Chuck Prince, former CEO of Citigroup, in the palm of his hand today. He asked them why they weren't alarmed for Citigroup in May of 2007, when the Bear Stearns hedge funds ran into trouble. He recalled they imploded in June 2007 and joked that it happened around the time of his birthday. Rubin and Prince shrugged it off, and Rubin that he didn't know about Citigroup's CDO troubles until the fall of 2007.
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Wednesday, April 07, 2010
Goldman Sachs Spinning Gold / Politics / Credit Crisis 2010
By: Janet_Tavakoli
Goldman Sachs claims great risk management skills, while it shirks responsibility for its role in the near collapse of the U.S. economy. The former is a myth, and the latter is a dodge. [1] As taxpayer wealth was destroyed, Goldman exploited the financial crisis it helped cause, while the U.S. was (and remains) at war.
Friday, April 02, 2010
A Cavalcade of U.S. Corruption Is Finally Being Scrutinized / Politics / Credit Crisis 2010
By: Danny_Schechter
As The Crisis Deepens, More Attention is Being Paid To Financial Fraud
The “F Word” (for fraud) is back in polite conversation on Wall Street. Fraud and financial crime are slowly becoming part of the debate over what must be done to restrore confidence in what has so plainly been a confidence game.
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