- Tom Adams Discusses AIG CDOs on Bloomberg
by Yves Smith 7:35 pm
Monthly Archives: March 2010
March 31, 2010
- FBI warns of mortgage fraud ‘epidemic’: Seeks to head off ‘next S&L crisis’
by Edward Harrison 7:44 am
- Links 3/31/10
by Yves Smith 3:47 am
- Alford: Time to Stop Giving the Fed a Free Pass
by Yves Smith 2:45 am
- Auerback/Parenteau: Operation Twist, Part Deux?
by Yves Smith 1:52 am
March 30, 2010
- Links 3/30/10
by Yves Smith 3:52 am
- Auerback: Greece and the EuroZone: Angie, Ain’t it Time to Say Goodbye?
by Yves Smith 2:31 am
- Guest Post: Dodd’s Financial “Reform” Bill Is Nothing but a Placebo for a Very Sick Economy
by George Washington 2:25 am
- SEC Launches Repo 105 Investigation
by Yves Smith 1:04 am
March 29, 2010
- Links 3/29/10
by Yves Smith 3:22 pm
- Tom Adams: Goldman Not Exonerated on CDOs
by Yves Smith 4:48 am
- High Income Disparity Leads to Low Savings Rates
by Yves Smith 4:14 am
- Greece Rescue = Smoke and Mirrors
by Yves Smith 12:33 am
March 28, 2010
- Links 3/28/10
by Yves Smith 3:31 am
March 27, 2010
- Matt Taibbi Gives Catholic Church Vampire Squid Treatment Over Child Molestation Defense
by Yves Smith 5:31 pm
- Links 3/27/10
by Yves Smith 7:11 am
- EU Willing to Sacrifice Hedge Fund Jobs to Clean Up Industry
by Yves Smith 5:32 am
- Quelle Surprise! Insurance Industry Succumbs to Wall Street Product Complexity
by Yves Smith 3:23 am
March 26, 2010
- Guest Post: The Case for Buying Foreign Bonds from Low-Deficit Countries
by George Washington 3:34 pm
- Links 3/26/10
by Yves Smith 4:46 am
- JP Morgan, Lehman, UBS Alleged as Conspring to Cheat Municipalities on Investments
by Yves Smith 1:28 am
March 25, 2010
- Has Europe put the loaded gun on the table?
by Edward Harrison 9:41 pm
- Guest Post: “In 2009, 45 Percent of Banks with Assets Under $1 Billion Increased Their Business Lending”
by George Washington 3:23 pm
- Links 3/25/10
by Yves Smith 6:08 am
- Debunking Michael Lewis’ Subprime Short Hagiography
by Yves Smith 12:25 am
- Quelle Surprise! Financial “Innovation” Benefits Innovators, Leads to Product Collapses
by Yves Smith 12:05 am
March 24, 2010
- An Open Letter to Dr. Laura Schlesinger
by Yves Smith 11:31 pm
- Top ten reasons you know China has a financial bubble on its hands
by Edward Harrison 9:00 am
- Links 3/24/10
by Yves Smith 5:33 am
- Entering a New Mercantilist Era?
by Yves Smith 4:50 am
- Spitzer/Rosner: “Lehman Scandal: Where’s the Follow Up?”
by Yves Smith 2:04 am
March 23, 2010
- Guest Post: Top Analyst Says “Developed Market Governments Are Insolvent By Any Reasonable Definition”
by George Washington 4:09 pm
- Links 3/23/10
by Yves Smith 5:20 am
- Lehman and the Primary Dealer Credit Facility: Audit the Fed Push Right, Arguments Wrong
by Yves Smith 4:22 am
- Big Institutional Investors Push Against Private Equity Fees
by Yves Smith 1:42 am
- Jane Hamsher Discusses Health Care and Financial Reform on Dylan Ratigan
by Yves Smith 12:03 am
March 22, 2010
- China Expects to Announce Trade Deficit for March
by Yves Smith 2:11 pm
- Links 3/22/10
by Yves Smith 4:37 am
- The Beginning of the End of the Eurozone As We Know It?
by Yves Smith 4:29 am
- Guest Post: Fraction … Er … Fictional Reserve Banking
by George Washington 12:11 am
March 21, 2010
- Obstacles to SEC/DOJ Pursuing Criminal Indictments for Lehman
by Yves Smith 6:15 pm
- Links 3/21/10
by Yves Smith 4:22 am
- Extolling the Corporate Squeeze of Workers?
by Yves Smith 3:53 am
March 20, 2010
- Hoisted from Comments: The Lehman Whistleblower Letter
by Yves Smith 5:13 pm
- Links 3/20/10
by Yves Smith 2:15 am
- Parenteau: The Hyperinflation Hyperventalists
by Yves Smith 1:55 am
March 19, 2010
- Guest Post: German Central Bank Admits that Credit is Created Out of Thin Air
by George Washington 4:59 pm
- Links 3/19/10
by Yves Smith 3:08 am
March 18, 2010
- SEC, Fed Alerted By Merrill of Lehman Balance Sheet Games in March 2008
by Yves Smith 8:41 pm
- China’s Exporters Hanging by a Thread?
by Yves Smith 7:14 pm
- On China’s currency peg and potential policy actions
by Edward Harrison 5:30 pm
- Links 3/18/10
by Yves Smith 2:25 am
March 17, 2010
- Guest Post: More Evidence that Banks Create Credit Out of Thin Air
by George Washington 6:38 pm
- Jon Stewart: In Dodd We Trust
by Yves Smith 4:45 pm
- Will the Chinese yield to external threats?
by Edward Harrison 1:42 pm
- Links 3/17/10
by Yves Smith 3:37 am
- Martin Wolf: China, Germany Commiting World to Deflation
by Yves Smith 3:14 am
- Lehman: Regulators Chose to Deny, Extend and Pretend
by Yves Smith 1:48 am
March 16, 2010
- Guest Post: The Fed Is Responsible for the Crash in the Money Multiplier … And the Failure of the Economy to Recover
by George Washington 4:29 pm
- Calibrating differences between China and Japan’s bubble blow-off top
by Edward Harrison 8:36 am
- Links 3/16/10
by Yves Smith 5:01 am
March 15, 2010
- Wray: Timmy-Gate: Did Geithner Help Hide Lehman Fraud?
by Yves Smith 3:47 pm
- “Not Only Repo 105”: Total Return Swaps Also Used for Window-Dressing
by Yves Smith 7:17 am
- Links Ides of March 2010
by Yves Smith 4:30 am
- Rob Parenteau: Data Challenges Deficit Terrorist Beliefs
by Yves Smith 3:50 am
- Are Rising US-China Tensions Pointing to a Rupture?
by Yves Smith 12:04 am
March 14, 2010
- Guest Post: 7 Questions About Public Banking
by George Washington 6:26 pm
- Frank Partnoy: Lehman Examiner Punted on Valuation
by Yves Smith 5:33 pm
- Links 3/14/10
by Yves Smith 3:28 am
- Book (and Other Hot Topics) Chat on FireDogLake
by Yves Smith 3:19 am
March 13, 2010
- Links 3/13/10
by Yves Smith 5:01 am
- Indefensible Men
by Yves Smith 4:08 am
- Your Humble Blogger Talks About Lehman on BNN
by Yves Smith 1:31 am
March 12, 2010
- Guest Post: We Can’t Inflate Our Way Out of the Debt Crisis … So What CAN We Do?
by George Washington 3:17 pm
- Links 3/12/10
by Yves Smith 6:38 am
- ECONNED – The Movie, Um, Video!
by Yves Smith 5:08 am
- Guest Post: The Day After Groundhog Day for Financial Reform
by Yves Smith 4:37 am
March 11, 2010
- NY Fed Under Geithner Implicated in Lehman Accounting Fraud Allegation
by Yves Smith 11:06 pm
- Why is Geithner Lobbying EU on Behalf of Hedge and Private Equity Funds?
by Yves Smith 9:49 pm
- Spain’s woes and Germany’s export model could mean double dip
by Edward Harrison 1:51 pm
- Links 3/11/10
by Yves Smith 5:50 am
- Median Net Worth of Single Black Women in Prime Working Years: $5
by Yves Smith 2:28 am
March 10, 2010
- Links 3/10/10
by Yves Smith 5:26 am
- The Empire Continues to Strike Back: Team Obama Propaganda Campaign Reaches Fever Pitch
by Yves Smith 5:15 am
- Guest Post: No One’s Issuing Credit—Why Are Auerback and Parenteau?
by Yves Smith 3:47 am
- Are Capital Restrictions On Their Way to Becoming Respectable in Some Circles?
by Yves Smith 3:40 am
- The fake stress tests
by Edward Harrison 3:25 am
March 9, 2010
- Guest Post: 6 Theories On Why the Stock Market Has Rallied
by George Washington 8:27 pm
- Links 3/9/10
by Yves Smith 3:46 am
- Tom Adams: Department of “Huh?” – BlackRock’s Larry Fink as Hero?
by Yves Smith 2:54 am
- Auerback/Parenteau: Coming to a Country Near You: Let a dozen Latvias bloom?
by Yves Smith 12:23 am
March 8, 2010
- Guest Post: TED gets furious, tells Yves to go away and, errm, not be so furious
by Yves Smith 10:55 pm
- Links 3/8/10
by Yves Smith 7:15 am
- More on the Resolution Authority Headfake
by Yves Smith 6:51 am
- Reader Comments, Discussion on ECONNED
by Yves Smith 3:07 am
- Banksters Win Again, Edition 1,477,536
by Yves Smith 12:12 am
March 7, 2010
- Links 3/7/10
by Yves Smith 7:41 am
- Morgenson on Municipalities’ Swap Fiascoes
by Yves Smith 6:15 am
March 6, 2010
- Links 3/6/10
by Yves Smith 7:03 pm
- Felix Salmon and Your Humble Blogger Disagree on BNN
by Yves Smith 5:35 am
- Das: ‘Swap Tango’: A Derivative Regulation Dance
by Yves Smith 4:50 am
March 5, 2010
- Complexity is the handmaiden of deception
by Edward Harrison 2:57 pm
- Links 3/5/10
by Yves Smith 6:01 am
- A Simple Reform Proposal from a Recovering Derivatives Trader
by Yves Smith 5:59 am
- Some Quick Updates on ECONNED
by Yves Smith 5:58 am
- Fed Regional Presidents Conduct Regulatory Land Grab Road Show
by Yves Smith 5:13 am
March 4, 2010
- Hey, no one made people buy these cars!
by Edward Harrison 6:02 pm
- More Credit Card Company Chicanery: Ban on Universal Default Gutted
by Yves Smith 5:06 am
- On the Escalating Rahm Drama
by Yves Smith 4:36 am
- Links 3/4/10
by Yves Smith 2:20 am
- Can We Please Refrain From Consensus-Defending Narratives When the Consensus Was Wrong?
by Yves Smith 1:14 am
March 3, 2010
- Guest Post: No Wonder the Economy Isn’t Improving
by George Washington 4:33 pm
- Antidote du Jour
by Yves Smith 1:48 am
- Alford: Rethinking Monetary Policy in the Light of Asset Bubbles
by Yves Smith 1:37 am
- Webcast, Bloomberg, CNN Covering Conference on Financial Reform, 3/3
by Yves Smith 1:19 am
March 2, 2010
- Links 3/2/10
by Yves Smith 5:13 am
- Parenteau: Leading PIIGS to Slaughter, Part 2
by Yves Smith 4:10 am
- Banksters Win Yet Again: Dodd Proposes Putting Consumer Protection Agency at the Fed
by Yves Smith 3:44 am
- Guest Post: 15 Years Ago, the Combined Assets of the 6 Biggest Banks Totaled 17% of GDP… By 2006, 55% … Now, 63%
by George Washington 2:39 am
- Buiter: Pound at Risk
by Yves Smith 12:47 am
March 1, 2010
- Conflicting Media Reports: Is Greece Getting a Bailout of Not?
by Edward Harrison 4:17 pm
- Links 3/1/10
by Yves Smith 5:35 am
- So Why Hasn’t the Credit Default Swaps Casino Been Shut Down?
by Yves Smith 4:57 am
- Why No Regulatory Action on Banksters’ “Destabilize the Markets” Threats?
by Yves Smith 3:38 am
