Tag Archives: Morgan Stanley

Billion-Trillion Derivatives Market! … Reform or a Blowup?

Derivatives Reform on the Ropes …  New rules to regulate derivatives, adopted last week by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, are a victory for Wall Street and a setback for financial reform. They may also signal worse things to come … Continue reading

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U.S. Bond Market, The Greatest Hoax Ever Perpetrated on Mankind

By: Rob_Kirby A few years ago, when J.P. Morgan grew their derivatives  book by 12  Trillion in one quarter[Q3/07] – I did some  back of the napkin math – and figured out how many 5 and 10 year bonds the  … Continue reading

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Greek Euro Exit By Numbers (UPDATE )

By Laura Clarke and Katie Martin (Dow Jones) The prospect of Greece leaving the euro is the only thing anyone is talking about in the markets at the moment. It even has its own nickname: Grexit. While the world holds … Continue reading

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Vulturecrats

by Golem XIV A horrid thought has been incubating for the last few days. I don’t know how many of you know much about Vulture Funds, what they do and how they do it, but it forms the basis of … Continue reading

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Banking Elites Stole $1.2 Trillion Thanks to the FED

DB Briefs: Banking Elites Stole $1.2 Trillion Thanks to the FED / Is Ben Bernanke Insane? / Biden Tells China “You Are Safe” Tuesday, August 23, 2011 – by Staff Report Wall Street Aristocracy Got $1.2 Trillion from the FED … Continue reading

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“ECB is happy to let Irish banks go”

  By David Mc Williams David has a new posting and it is well worth a read! Did you know that AIB defaulted on Monday? It did, and the people who internationally govern this type of thing announced yesterday that … Continue reading

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Fed Staffers ‘Embedded’ at Nation’s Biggest Banks

The Fed will need to take steps and make sure that these watchdogs do not go native as is the case of the public directors that were placed on the Irish bank boards .The bank directors and top managers have enjoyed bonus payouts while the banks have pleaded inability to pay and demanded pay cuts and job losses from their staff. The same public directors have remained quiet about the bonus accesses and seemed to be no different that the people they were supposed to be watching Continue reading

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LinkedIn shares skyrocket after IPO

Well we have arrived again at a new dot bomb bubble Continue reading

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Why has ECB raised its main interest rate from 1% to 1.25% today?

April 7, 2011 by namawinelake As expected it has just been confirmed that the ECB is raising its main refinancing operations rate from an historic low of 1%, where it has rested for the past 23 months since May 2009, … Continue reading

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Bank of America Corp

Bondholders are penalizing Bank of America Corp. the most of any of the largest U.S. financial firms as the investigation into the foreclosure crisis expands. Credit-default swaps on the country’s largest bank by assets rose above those of its peers … Continue reading

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