Tag Archives: derivatives

Understanding Credit default swaps

Posted on October 30, 2010 by

In the first video clip toward the end you heard we the taxpayers were taking over approximately 14,000,000,000:00 Billion worth of Derivatives or (CDS) from Anglo Irish Bank  alone! (I personally believe that that figure to be near the 100,000,000:00 … Continue reading →

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18 months later!

Posted on October 13, 2010 by

Ireland’s leading academics recommend ‘Nationalising banks is the best option’ Date: 17 Apr 2009 The following commentary has been written by a group of Ireland’s leading academic economists, including faculty from UCD Smurfit School: John Cotter, associate professor of finance, Don Bredin, … Continue reading →

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NAMA and its derivative trading

Posted on July 13, 2010 by

NAMA and its first Quarterly accounts  ACCOUNTS NAMA    PDF Doc   I have been warning for the last 18 months that the Banks were hiding losses in their derivative trades .I then showed that NAMA was also intending to deal in derivatives. I … Continue reading →

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Derivatives ???

Posted on March 1, 2010 by

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc said fourth-quarter profit surged, helped by derivatives bets tied to global stock markets, though operating profit fell 40 percent as the weakened economy weighed on several businesses. Profit rose for a … Continue reading →

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Wall St. Helped to Mask Debt Fuelling Europe’s Crisis

Posted on February 15, 2010 by

As worries over Greece rattle world markets, records and interviews show that with Wall Street’s help, the nation engaged in a decade-long effort to skirt European debt limits. One deal created by Goldman Sachs helped obscure billions in debt from … Continue reading →

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The Derivatives bubble

Posted on January 15, 2010 by

      Derivatives have grew into a massive bubble, some USD 1,144 Trillion by 2007. The new derivatives bubble was fuelled by five key economic and political trends: Sarbanes-Oxley increased corporate disclosures and government oversight Federal Reserve’s cheap money … Continue reading →

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Russian-Roulette

Posted on January 14, 2010 by

  Let’s consider a well publicized recent sale of Russian gold bullion to itself: I noticed this article to-day by Rob Kirby And it is a very worrying development indeed! Russia sells gold to itself December 14, 2009 3:47pm by … Continue reading →

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The Elephant In The Room

Posted on August 6, 2009 by

More Pieces of the Puzzle  by Rob Kirby | August 4, 2009 This following article was an address by Rob Kirby at the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc., GATA Goes to Washington — Anybody Seen Our Gold?, at the Hyatt … Continue reading →

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