weekly Antidote de Jour
( inspired by Yves Smith,
she does it daily in her link section )
applied financial terrorism, STUPID(?) politicians and some...
Names will be changed to protect the innocent, if we find any...
"the economist most responsible for causing the Global Financial Crisis",über 7500 Personen (sehr viele Ökonomen darunter) stimmten ab mit erfrischend witzigen Ergebnissen
The object is to select and award the three economists who first and most clearly anticipated and gave public warning of the Global Financial Collapse (GFC) and whose work is most likely to prevent another GFC in the future.
Given that my audience included academic economists–from PhD students to Professors of some note–I went into more depth on the modelling I have done of Minsky’s Financial Instability Hypothesis than I normally do in public talks. The discussion I had afterwards is also recorded, which is why the video is so lengthy.
Doch ein Schuldiger scheint festzustehen: Es sind die Rating-Agenturen, die mit ihren Ratings der strauchelnden Euro-Staaten die Krise verschärfen.
Such a ban could prevent ratings from being published at “inappropriate moments” that could have negative effects on the financial stability of nations as well as on the global economy, the proposal states, according to the German newspaper." Next up: ban on anonymous blogs whose disclosure of the truth could have "negative effects on the financial stability of nations as well as on the global economy...Full FTD report here.
Read it before it has been "filtered" by Europe's commission on truth sterilization.
"if truth hurts, render it illegal" Always works - NOT!
We recommend shorting the hell out of anything European you can get your hands on that is still legal to be shorted. Censor that, bitchez!Next up: every moment is inappropriate.
Much of this speech comes from outside EU jurisidctionSo, ban EU newspapers from printing the belated speech? That's going to work well when in the presence of the Internet ...
(speech=Bewertungs-Einschätzung)
Tyler, If they do I hope you're going to set up your own online Credit Rating Agency
Gestapo, bitchez!
Selling is only a symptom...Ban Math.
BE Brilliant plan. Just brilliant.TT hah…that is some punchline – great comedy line
Da Schuldner und nicht Investoren die größte Einnahmequelle der Agenturen darstellen, liegt hier die Gefahr eines Interessenkonfliktes nahe: Drohende Herabstufungen könnten zu Streitigkeiten oder gar einem Verlust der Gebühren zahlenden Schuldner durch Wechsel der Agentur führen. Deshalb wird oft kritisiert, dass Rating-Agenturen nicht unabhängig sein können.
About $53 trillion, or 71 percent, were within Bank of America NA
Bank of America Corp. (BAC), hit by a credit downgrade last month, has moved derivatives from its Merrill Lynch unit to a subsidiary flush with insured deposits, according to people with direct knowledge of the situation…
Remember the effect of the 2005 bankruptcy law revisions: derivatives counterparties are first in line, they get to grab assets first and leave everyone else to scramble for crumbs. So this move amounts to a direct transfer from derivatives counterparties of Merrill to the taxpayer, via the FDIC, which would have to make depositors whole after derivatives counterparties grabbed collateral.FDIC is not amused ....