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basil99a posted a blog entry

Fri, 08 Jan 2010 11:30:27 America/Los_Angeles

Bubbles & Banks & Zero Lending Standard Loans
Paul Krugman has an interesting OpEd in today’s NYT, one that I mostly agree with. However, I take exception to his...
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lasvegasrealestate411 posted a tweet

Fri, 08 Jan 2010 09:04:25 America/Los_Angeles

Fed Secrecy of Taxpayer Bailouts of AIG payouts @ http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aXIvW4igKV38
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aileron posted a blog entry

Fri, 08 Jan 2010 07:30:54 America/Los_Angeles

PPT: The President’s Working Group on Financial Markets
There’s been a lot of chatter lately about secret cabals and the plunge protection team. I notice it seems to be coming...
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aileron posted a blog entry

Fri, 08 Jan 2010 06:50:52 America/Los_Angeles

NY Fed Now in Charge of Bank Disclosures
Today’s WTF headline: • BusinessWeek: Banks Should Make Swap Prices Transparent, NY Fed Says Which follows...
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Aine posted a blog entry

Fri, 08 Jan 2010 06:37:48 America/Los_Angeles

Tip of the Iceberg
Today, a Bloomberg story revealed that under Timothy Geithner’s leadership, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York told AIG to...
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Tom Usher posted a tweet

Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:16:36 America/Los_Angeles

Federal spending, per se, will not have been the reason for the next dip. Bailouts to banksters will have been. Mark my words.
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basil99a posted a blog entry

Thu, 07 Jan 2010 11:00:16 America/Los_Angeles

Steve Keen on the modern economy and the outlook
Outstanding discussion from a top Economist in Australia Hat tip Carey
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James Dickey shared an item

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:53:39 America/Los_Angeles

Government Uses Takeover of Mortgage Giants to Deliberately Increase Their Massive Losses at Taxpayer Expense
The Wall Street Journal notes that the Obama administration has used the federal government’s bailout of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to do the exact opposite of what the federal government claimed it would do when it took them over a...
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Tom Usher posted a blog entry

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:48:37 America/Los_Angeles

OpEdNews - Article: As Economy Declines, Time To Rein In The Banksters
January 4, 2010 As Economy Declines, Time To Rein In The Banksters By Danny Schechter OLD PROBLEMS REMAIN IN NEW YEAR: NO,...
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Bret Rosenthal posted a tweet

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:05:26 America/Los_Angeles

GSE OBLIGATIONS and the US BANK BAILOUTS continue
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basil99a posted a blog entry

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 11:05:31 America/Los_Angeles

Hoenig: Reinstate Glass-Steagall
“Beginning to break them, to dismember them, is a fair thing to consider.” -Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City President...
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aileron posted a blog entry

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 11:05:31 America/Los_Angeles

Hoenig: Reinstate Glass-Steagall
“Beginning to break them, to dismember them, is a fair thing to consider.” -Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City President...
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basil99a posted a blog entry

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 10:45:04 America/Los_Angeles

Too Big To Fire
Jan. 5: A new report reveals that nearly all of the top executives from the bailed-out banks were able to keep their jobs in...
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aileron posted a blog entry

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 10:45:04 America/Los_Angeles

Too Big To Fire
Jan. 5: A new report reveals that nearly all of the top executives from the bailed-out banks were able to keep their jobs in...
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basil99a posted a blog entry

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 13:16:50 America/Los_Angeles

Krugman: 30-40% Chance U.S. Recession in 2010
click for video > Source: Krugman Sees 30-40% Chance of U.S. Recession in 2010 Steve Matthews Bloomberg, Jan. 4 2010 ...
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basil99a posted a blog entry

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 07:15:43 America/Los_Angeles

Banking Sector Remains (literally) Unchanged
Ever wonder why the banking sector continues to operate as it always has? Here’s a possible answer: According to a report...
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R0b posted a blog entry

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 07:12:26 America/Los_Angeles

The State of TARP (14 Months Later)
Share At the center of all the bailouts and government initiatives to ameliorate the subprime meltdown is the Troubled Asset...
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GrumpyOldMan posted a blog entry

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 04:01:41 America/Los_Angeles

Stop The Bailouts!
By Alan Caruba I can recall the bailout that Chrysler received in 1979. Jimmy Carter was President and the question of whether...
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basil99a posted a blog entry

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 03:46:54 America/Los_Angeles

Bernanke Still Does Not Understand Credit Crisis
“When historical relationships are taken into account, it is difficult to ascribe the house price bubble either to monetary...
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Kimberly H posted a tweet

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:38:58 America/Los_Angeles

Abu Dhabi Moves From Pearl Diving To Nuclear Energy and Billion Dollar Bailouts in 50 Years: If you like reason.. http://bit.ly/77hRsd
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Aine posted a blog entry

Sat, 02 Jan 2010 19:50:58 America/Los_Angeles

Harsh lessons we may need to learn again
We are accustomed to thinking of government transferring money from the well off to the poor. Here it was the poor and average...
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basil99a posted a blog entry

Sat, 02 Jan 2010 06:18:47 America/Los_Angeles

Stopping Counter-Productive Mortgage Mods and Foreclosure Abatements
“The choice we appear to be making is trying to modify our way out of this, which has the effect of lengthening the crisis....
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DeniseK posted a blog entry

Thu, 31 Dec 2009 09:39:37 America/Los_Angeles

Bailouts…
My husband found this and I thought it was absolutely great! And, really, doesn’t it just sum it all up perfectly? ...
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reinkefj posted a blog entry

Thu, 31 Dec 2009 09:37:06 America/Los_Angeles

RANT: Good after bad
Govt gives GMAC $3.8B in new aid, boosts stake *** begin quote *** WASHINGTON (AP) – The government gave GMAC Financial...
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basil99a posted a blog entry

Thu, 31 Dec 2009 07:30:42 America/Los_Angeles

The Dangers of Wanton Money Printing
Interesting commentary in the UK on QE: “The truth is, though, that we have been living in an economic La La Land,...
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