Category: Credit Crisis 2009
The analysis published under this category are as follows.Sunday, November 29, 2009
Federal Reserve Allowing Bailed Out TARP Banks To Restrict Commercial Lending / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2009
The following information may be the most important we have ever published. One of our Intel sources, highly placed in banking circles, tells us that on 1/1/10 all banks that have received TARP funds have been informed by the Federal Reserve that they must further restrict any commercial lending. Loans have to be 75% collateralized, 50% of which has to be in cash, which is a compensating balance.
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Sunday, November 29, 2009
Dubai Debt Default illustrates Financial Crisis Not Over / Interest-Rates / Credit Crisis 2009
The default in Dubai is not the beginning of Financial Meltdown 2. Don't look for dominoes here. Yes, it does raise serious questions about the vast debt-overhang in emerging economies--particularly East Europe. But, this is not a "sovereign default" in the strict sense, nor is there any great risk of contagion.
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Friday, November 27, 2009
Flashback: Head of FDIC Says ‘The FDIC will never go broke’ / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2009
Flashback: On January 15, 2009, the head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Sheila Bair, insisted that deposits in American banks were secure:
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Thursday, November 26, 2009
Rothbard on the Financial Panic Then and Now / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2009
Murray Rothbard's Panic of 1819, written for his dissertation and originally published in 1962, provides a window to an era when there was once a vibrant and well-articulated public debate on monetary policy measures. Fortunately, it was rereleased by the Ludwig von Mises Institute in hardback in 2007.
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Monday, November 23, 2009
Warren Buffett, Stop Using My Credit Card! / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2009
I like Warren Buffett. I even wrote a book about the financial crisis contrasting his principles of prudent finance with recent excessive leverage, bad lending, and malfeasance (Dear Mr. Buffett). Buffett is not a regulator, an altruist, a consumer advocate, or an elected official. As CEO and largest shareholder of Berkshire Hathaway, his goal is to maximize shareholder value.
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Monday, November 23, 2009
Red Alert, The Second Wave of The Financial Tsunami to Hit in 2010 / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2009
Many of my friends who have been receiving my e-mail alerts over the last two years have lamented that in recent weeks I have not commented on the state of the global economy. I appreciate their anxiety but they forget that I am not a stock market analyst who is paid to write articles to lure investors back into the market. My website is free and I do not sell a financial newsletter so there is no need for me to churn out daily forecasts or analysis.
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Monday, November 23, 2009
I Retract My Apology and Call for More Regulation of Goldman Sachs / Companies / Credit Crisis 2009
According to SIGTARP1, both the Federal Reserve and Treasury agreed that an AIG failure posed unacceptable risk to the global financial system and the U.S. economy. On March 24, 2009, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke testified before the House Financial Services Committee [P.9]:
Read full article... Read full article...[C]onceivably, its failure could have resulted in a 1930’s-style global financial and economic meltdown, with catastrophic implication[s].
Friday, November 20, 2009
Robert Prechter The FDIC Anaesthesia Is Wearing Off / Companies / Credit Crisis 2009
The following article is an excerpt from Robert Prechter's Elliott Wave Theorist. For more information from Robert Prechter on bank safety, download his free report, Discover the Top 100 Safest U.S. Banks.
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009
More than 130 banks will have failed by the end of 2009. Is Your Bank Safe? / Companies / Credit Crisis 2009
Gary Grimes writes: Please understand that this article is about more than safeguarding your money; it's about saving you headache and heartache. It's about giving you peace of mind.
Before I explain, please allow me to ask a few questions:
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Financial Crisis Not Over, More Banks Going Bust, 100 Safest U.S. Banks / Companies / Credit Crisis 2009
Is Your Bank Safe? More than 130 banks will have failed by the end of 2009. What if your bank fails? Did you know you could be left in the lurch for days, weeks, even months before you get your money back from the FDIC? What happens if the FDIC can't cover your funds? How do you find a safe bank to protect your deposits right now? Find answers to these questions and more in the original "Safe Banks" report from Elliott Wave International. Learn more and download your free report now.
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Friday, November 13, 2009
Neil Barofsky's TARP Report on Bailout Losses Comment / Politics / Credit Crisis 2009
My comments on the upcoming TARP report will echo my February 4, 2009 comments. TARP’s inspector general Neil Barofsky already anticipates losses. Unfortunately, the losses are right on schedule.
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Thursday, November 12, 2009
Résumé Tips For CEOs, Board Members / Companies / Credit Crisis 2009
Finding a CEO these days appears to be much more difficult than in the past. For example, Bank of America was forced to expand its search to include those living in New York. Shocking!
Thursday, November 12, 2009
The Triumph of Socialism / Politics / Credit Crisis 2009
Do you think ideas don't matter, that what people believe about themselves and their world has no real consequence? If so, the following will not bug you in the slightest.
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Thursday, November 12, 2009
Janet Tavakoli and Fox’s Liz MacDonald Discuss the Outlook for Future Financial Crisis Prosecutions / Politics / Credit Crisis 2009
" Prosecutors are still licking their wounds today after the US losses criminal case against two former Bear Stearns hedge fund managers for their role in the financial crisis last year. Now a jury acquitted them of all six counts of securities fraud this was a shock it shocked Wall Street when the verdict -- in. That these guys are walking -- angry investors get their pound of flesh from anyone. Shouldn't but let's get a topical issues better president -- technically structured finance and author dear mr. Buffett Janet welcome. I was telling you I'm great -- that we use surprised that a verdict."
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Bear Stearns Ralph Cioffi Acquitted of Fraud Charges Yesterday / Companies / Credit Crisis 2009
Ralph Cioffi and Matthew Tannin, former hedge fund managers and co-heads of Bear Stearns Asset Management, were acquitted yesterday (November 10) of all six counts in their fraud trial” U.S. v. Cioffi, 08-CR-00415, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Brooklyn).
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Tobin Tax, Making Wall Street Pay Its Fair Share / Politics / Credit Crisis 2009
Read full article... Read full article...“Regular people know that they got done in by excesses on Wall Street, and they see a Democratic administration shoveling trillions of dollars to the same Wall Street banks that caused the mess. . . . What is overdue is a little bit of populist retribution against the people who brought down the system — and will bring it down again if the hegemony of the traders is not constrained.” --Economist Robert Kuttner arguing for a “Tobin tax”
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Hedge Fund Perps Walk Free From Financial Crisis Criminal Trial / Politics / Credit Crisis 2009
Will Anyone Ever Go To Jail In Connection With Wall Street Crimes?
Danny Schechter Reports On How The Prosecutors Blew The First Big Case
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Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Credit Card Fiasco, Who is the Blame? / Personal_Finance / Credit Crisis 2009
I was recently talking to my mother, and she started talking about the evil credit card companies, and how they were out to get us all — right now — by jacking up our rates unfairly in a bid to record massive profits before new consumer-oriented legislation begins going into effect.
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Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Post-Financial Crisis Secularization Controversy / Housing-Market / Credit Crisis 2009
Martin Hutchinson writes: Massachusetts Land Court judge Keith C. Long recently ruled that foreclosure sales of two properties with securitized mortgages were invalid, a decision that ties up thousands of Massachusetts real-estate transactions.
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Monday, November 09, 2009
Stocks, Dollar or Bonds, Which Crisis Will be Next? / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2009
As I wrote earlier this year, the US’s monetary policy has already laid the seeds of the next Crisis. Is now no longer a question whether or not another Crisis is coming; instead, it’s a question of which Crisis and when. I’ve detailed what I think are the three general options below:
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