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Subprime
New York Times:
Dominique Strauss-Kahn urged the world’s major economies to retain their economic stimulus programs until there were durable signs of a recovery. (Read More)
New York Times:
Dominique Strauss-Kahn urged the world’s major economies to retain their economic stimulus programs until there were durable signs of a recovery.
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Trader Mark submits:Sometimes I feel like grandma warning to look both ways before crossing the street, and to tie your shoes or you may trip, as we talk incessantly about these issues.... to a wall, it appears. No one listen (Read More)
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A proposal that would force a company’s creditors to take less than they are owed if a bailout is necessary could have the result of making credit harder to get. (Read More)
The Daily Reckoning:
With at least part of the subprime crisis behind us, Gillian Tett of The Financial Times questions if policy makers are focused upon solving what is likely to be the next danger, or if they are simply avoiding a repeat of the (Read More)
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A proposal that would force a company’s creditors to take less than they are owed if a bailout is necessary could have the result of making credit harder to get.
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The Guardian:
Wall Street will never be fair while industry lobbyists wander the halls of Congress, sucking the life out of financial reformThere are more than 15 million people unemployed and almost 2 million people set to lose their home (Read More)
Business on HuffingtonPost.com:
These days, there is a near-unanimous belief among western regulators that one way to prevent a repeat of the 2007-08 crisis is to stop banks taking crazy risks with subprime mortgage bonds or complex instruments such as coll (Read More)
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Mark O'Byrne submits: Gold Gold has rallied to new record nominal highs in dollars with geopolitical concerns about Iran escalating and the dollar falling again. Possibly of more importance are increasing concerns about the u (Read More)
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The Economists' Forum:
From the FT :Will sovereign debt be the new subprime? - Gillian TettFrom elsewhere:The thing about the Fed most worth knowing - Economic PrincipalsThe Phantom Menace - NY Times, Paul KrugmanHow preferential are preferential t (Read More)
New York Times:
The United States has started an auction process to bring in a market price for a handful of companies’ warrants, including JPMorgan’s.
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New York Times:
Three Harvard professors say the top five executives at Bear Stearns and at Lehman sold a great deal of their stock while prices were still high.
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FT.com - Comment:
As policymakers rush to implement reforms, they are apt to create distortions that pave the way for the next disaster. Gillian Tett warns that the banking sector's balance sheets are increasingly stuffed with government bonds. (Read More)
SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page:
I stand by my basic premise that Barney Frank, like other members of Congress does not understand finance. He lacks the skill set to write a bill that by definition must be technically intensive if it is to create the archit (Read More)
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The student protests of the 32% fee increases approved by the University of California Board of Regents this week are notable for many reasons, not least because they are one of the few mass responses to widespread applicatio (Read More)
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The Global Financial Crisis
New York Times:
A government report on the bailout of A.I.G. is must reading for taxpayers looking to know why the $182 billion “rescue” is the most troubling episode of the financial disaster.
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New York Times:
A variety of economists say that economic stimulus legislation is helping an economy in free fall a year ago to grow again and shed fewer jobs than it otherwise would.
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New York Times:
Ben S. Bernanke’s nomination to a second term as Federal Reserve chairman will be the subject of a Senate Banking Committee hearing next month.
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The Daily Reckoning:
What happened yesterday? The Dow sold off 93 points. Investors had been hesitating. There’s supposed to be a recovery going on. But the latest news is unsettling. Housing and employment numbers are weak. What’s going on? Mayb (Read More)
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