At 12:40 Max Keiser talks to Janet Tavakoli about the tide going out on Warren Buffett, his reverse-moral suasion applied towards the rating agencies, et.al., his potential advance information of the September 2008 bailouts, GoldenWest/Wachovia/Wells Fargo, the SEC’s sleight of hand in bringing minor charges, while leaving massive securitization fraud unaddressed, i.e., enabling cover-ups.

By Janet Tavakoli

web site: www.tavakolistructuredfinance.com

Janet Tavakoli is the president of Tavakoli Structured Finance, a Chicago-based firm that provides consulting to financial institutions and institutional investors. Ms. Tavakoli has more than 20 years of experience in senior investment banking positions, trading, structuring and marketing structured financial products. She is a former adjunct associate professor of derivatives at the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business. Author of: Credit Derivatives & Synthetic Structures (1998, 2001), Collateralized Debt Obligations & Structured Finance (2003), Structured Finance & Collateralized Debt Obligations (John Wiley & Sons, September 2008). Tavakoli’s book on the causes of the global financial meltdown and how to fix it is: Dear Mr. Buffett: What an Investor Learns 1,269 Miles from Wall Street (Wiley, 2009).

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