Quick Facts: People spurring US financial crisis
Press TVCox says his agency lacked authority to limit the massive leveraging that set up last year's financial collapse. In truth, the SEC had plenty of power to go after big investment banks like Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch for better disclosure, ...
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Stocks mixed on last day of strong year for market
Appleton Post Crescent
said Scott Rostan, a financial consultant for investment banks and an adjunct professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. A distrust of the stock market helped fuel a boom in commodities, which finished 2010 at their highest levels in ...
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If George Osborne's cuts are so clever, how come America isn't copying him?
The Guardian
US policymakers were much more enthusiastic than Osborne & Co about the economic "stimulus" that was required for emergence from the financial crisis, and far more cautious about withdrawal of the said stimulus. Indeed, if Osborne had been in charge of ...
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When Irish Eyes Are Voting
Gold Seek
Even the venerable Martin Wolf of the Financial Times agrees. Writing last week: “So what might a new government seek to do? Its degrees of freedom are, alas, limited. Even excluding recapitalisation of the banks, the primary fiscal deficit (before ...
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My Secrets To Investing In The Stock Market
I attained my investment license in 1998 and have been working in the financial services industry since then. I have witnessed many stock market advances and ugly declines. I experienced the Asian financial crisis in 1998 which was caused by ... news is already priced into the stock market. Remember, the market always thinks forward at least 6 to 12 months ahead. In conclusion, you should allocate your investment money to a mixture of stocks, bonds, mutual funds and cash. ...
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Read the rest of this entry - Scientific Clearing House
By Carson Chow
Michael Lewis has a must-read article on the Irish economic crisis in Vanity Fair this month. The Irish situation is much, much worse then the United States. The country is in debt to the tune of a hundred billion Euros for a population ... One of Ingram's colleagues, a fellow named Ed Allchin, was also made to apologize to Merrill's investment bankers individually for the trouble he'd caused them by suggesting there was still money to be made on shorting Irish banks. ...
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Will banksters get away with it? | Foreclosureblues
By Foreclosureblues
Financial journalists increasingly embedded themselves in the culture and narrative of Wall Street by hyping stocks and CEOs. The “guests” routinely chosen by media outlets to explain the crisis were often part of it. .... Its arrogance is evident in an email the Financial Times reported was “pinging around” trading desks. It reads in part: “We are Wall Street: It's our job to make money. Whether it's a commodity, stock, bond, or some hypothetical piece of fake paper, ...
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Perdido Street School: How Goldman Sachs And Wall Street Caused ...
By reality-based educator
During the dog days of the financial crisis in 2008, the investment bank advised clients to bet that Wisconsin and 10 other U.S. states would go broke by purchasing credit default swaps against their debt. ... Economist Dean Baker of the Center for Economic and Policy Research calculates that if after 2007 states had instead invested their retirement funds primarily in 30-year Treasury bonds, then state and local pension plans would be $850 billion richer (click on chart ...
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MONEY TALKS, PEOPLE LISTEN | The Big Picture
By Guest Author
But history, technology, geography and overwhelming financial convenience are powerful forces behind the euro. If necessary the hard working Germans will pay and pay. Post World War II Germany has been determined to comport itself as a ... Looking over to the other side of the Atlantic, can we be even cautiously optimistic about the US whose president in the midst of a cyclical and structural fiscal crisis, dreams of massive railroad and alternative energy expenditures? ...
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When Irish Eyes Are Crying | Business | Vanity Fair | Slinking ...
By admin
Tony Blair had credited him with a kind of genius in how he brokered the Northern Ireland peace negotiations; on the other hand, seeking to explain the financial crisis, he actually said, “Lehman's was a world investment bank. ... What they don't mention is what he did with the money: invested it in Anglo Irish bonds! When the bank failed Fitzpatrick was listed among its creditors, having (in April 2008!) purchased five million euros of Anglo Irish subordinated ...
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The Global Flight into Gold and Silver :: The Market Oracle ...
It could be inflation, hyperinflation, deflationary depression and another contrived war to distract people from the more important issues of the economy, finance and economic survival. ... whatsoever as recommendations to enter into a market position either stock, option, futures contract, bonds, commodity or any other financial instrument at any time. We recommend that independent professional advice is obtained before you make any investment or trading decisions. ...
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Banking Mammoths – Top 10 U.S. banks have $11 trillion of the $13 ...
By Stephanie
The top 1 percent in the United States control 42 percent of all financial wealth. But breaking it down further we realize that the top 10 percent control 93 percent of all financial wealth. This kind of imbalance was last seen in the United States right ... This is similar to when gold was confiscated during the 1930s banking crisis yet those that managed to hold onto gold or other valuable commodities did well as the U.S. devalued the dollar during the Great Depression . ...
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Just When It Looked Safe To Get Back In The Water...
By John Mauldin
Irish taxpayers are being asked to pay French, German, and British bond banks and the ECB, which bought that debt. It is 30% of their GDP, along with the rest of the debt. At 6% interest, that means it will take 10% of their national income just ..... John Mauldin is an author and financial commentator, who has appeared on CNBC, Bloomberg and other radio shows in the U.S. He is edits a free weekly economic and investment e-letter that goes to over 1 million subscribers. ...
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Week ahead: February 28-March 4 | beyondbrics | News and views on ...
By beyondbrics
Security will also be on the agenda as the Libyan crisis unfolds. Monday 28 February. India reports Q3 GDP and announces annual budget. UN Human Rights Council meets in Geneva to discuss Libya. Dominique Strauss-Kahn, IMF managing director, ... Mexican central bank interest rate decision. Carnaval begins in Brazil. Economic data. Chile central bank monetary policy committee meeting minutes, Feb Philippines CPI, Feb. Saturday 5 March. National People's Congress opens in ...
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When Irish Eyes Are Voting | John Mauldin | Safehaven.com
By John Mauldin
Irish taxpayers are being asked to pay French, German, and British bond banks and the ECB, which bought that debt. It is 30% of their GDP ... At 6% interest, that means it will take 10% of their national income just to pay the interest. ... (I am often asked about how you can become a financial writer by young people who are starting out. I have just two suggestions. Write a lot and then write some more. Writing is no different than the piano or guitar. ...
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Bad Debt Buybacks | WallStreetOasis.com
By Midas Mulligan Magoo
Wall Street Community and news for investment bankers, consultants, traders, private equity and hedge fund professionals. ... Will the fines never come down? Or will we (as I fear) be looking at another financial crisis a few years down the line, as a result? Things seem poised to get interesting as the supposed recovery continues on its 2% steamroll. Average: 0. Your rating: None ...
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2nd UPDATE:Irish Government Talks May Conclude Quickly, Focus On ...
NASDAQ News: 2nd UPDATE:Irish Government Talks May Conclude Quickly, Focus On EU Meetings. ... Union members that will be crucial for Ireland's economic future. ... of the biggest victims of the global financial crisis and its own excesses. ... and oppose using government money to repay bonds issued by the banks. ...
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Gold price loves a crisis - Yahoo! UK & Ireland Finance
If there is one thing that gold loves, it's a crisis - and once again the commodity ... haven from other potential economic and financial shocks," Capital Economics said. ... "Buying gold is always a political investment because you are ... Earlier this month the World Gold Council revealed that central banks had ...
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The long road to an international financial centre — RT
Attendees at the Russian Money Market conference in Moscow heard that .... I think one of the positive developments of this financial crisis is the way that .... The factors that are important to an international bank are not really that ... households make their economic decisions – of saving and investing, etc. ...
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Why Value Investors Hate Gold | Before It's News
Value investing is based on the premise that financial securities -- or really any .... of the yellow stuff: they cannot value it the way that they value stocks and bonds. .... As the monetary system is becoming increasingly chaotic, economic ... The present crisis, which is global, threatens to disrupt all of the ...
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Corporate Subprime The default crisis that never happened ...
Finbox | Financial News, brought to you by YOU! ... Browse Contacts by Department; Investment Banking / M&A; Brokerage / Sales .... Retail investors are pouring money into high yield bond funds—$6.7 billion so far this ... If, indeed, we're having an economic recovery, then it's in the early stages, meaning that ...
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Call for Launching Islamic Monetary Fund
valuations at pre-crisis levels. Investment banks operating in the Middle East earned slightly higher fees in 2010, ... as coco-bonds, as required by the new Swiss capital rules. ... and organize the Islamic monetary prod- ucts, Mehr News Agency reported. ... cially since the global economic crisis. ...
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Central bankers on the catwalk in Paris - Central Bank News and ...
Hosting the event – on global imbalances and financial stability - was ... of the root causes of the global Financial Crisis: The voracious demand from ... Paris that will include many critics of the Fed's aggressive bond buying progra. ... the International Monetary Fund warned that global economic imbalances have ...
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Stocks Up 100% From Crisis Lows - Barrons.com
The February survey of global money managers by BofA Merrill Lynch already ... But unlike other economically sensitive stocks, OfficeMax shares are ... bond broker that was merged with Ramius, an alternative investment manager, in 2009. .... Our annual listing of America's top 1000 financial advisors reveals a ...
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XE.com - GLOBAL MARKETS WEEKAHEAD-Forgotten the euro zone debt crisis?
Financial markets -- and oil in particular -- will doubtless be in thrall in the coming week to ... Money Markets, Financial Services, Monetary Policy, Central Banks ... Spain, one of the potential hotspots, will auction five-year bonds on Thursday, ... UPDATE 1-German MPs to vote on debt crisis motion in mid-March ...
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Furious Chinese Analyst calls for eradication of US Dollar and end ...
Straight from a Chinese news paper editorial written by Professor with State ... Global economic imbalances are in essence a result of the imbalances in global ... rising over the past decade and it has issued 32 percent of the world's total bonds. ... In a sense the latest global financial crisis is an unavoidable ...
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12. The Dollar as Key Currency and the Real Crisis of Global ...
As a result, the US stock markets were able to continue their ... out to be a mere bubble) and the US bond markets were able to maintain their already low ... In this sense, the global slump caused by the Asian currency crisis can be .... The Liquidity of Bank Money and a Return to the Keynesian Beauty Contest · 9. ...
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International Adviser :: Stock market cycles – a brief history
Economic activity recovered to its 1929 peak, but the stock market did not. ... Instead investment fashions turned to bonds and real estate, in which a bubble developed ... Instead the real damage of bank failures and collapsing money supply ... The financial accident of the third crisis took a very different form , ...
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