Equity investors might find it a bit surprising that the rating agencies are not necessarily all that excited about the recent wave of stock investor activism. In fact some view such aggressive investor involvement as risk to corporate credit. Institut…
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Spain eyes support from banks | IFRe
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Spain is expected to strong-arm its banks into buying more government debt in exchange for aid, after Madrid was forced to borrow up to €100bn from its European partners to bail out its banks, adding to the nation’s debt and making future bond sales more difficult. Follow the money. Find the profits!Liquidity is money. Regardless…
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MF Global Trustee Says Claims May Exceed $3 Billion – NYTimes.com
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The trustee overseeing the bankruptcy of MF Global estimates that creditors, including banks, big investors and service providers, could have more than $3 billion in claims against the failed brokerage. Follow the money. Find the profits!Liquidity is money. Regardless of where in the world that money originates, eventually it flows to and through Wall Street.…
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Bridgewater Assoc.’s Dalio Says It’s A Beautiful Deleveraging – Barrons.com
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Barron’s: You’ve called the current phase of the U.S. deleveraging experience “beautiful.” Explain that, please. Follow the money. Find the profits!Liquidity is money. Regardless of where in the world that money originates, eventually it flows to and through Wall Street. So if you want to know the direction of the next big moves in stocks…
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On FX
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Want to see a completely wrong headline? Here’s mine from seven months ago:
The “deal” that I was referring to in this piece was changed dramatically from the one that is being worked on with creditors today.The haircut on bonds has changed, a…
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Geithner’s Ploy: Saving U.S. Banks at Taxpayer Expense, Once Again
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By Michael HudsonU.S. and foreign stockmarkets continue to zigzag wildly in response to expectations about whether theeuro can survive, in the face of populations suffering under neoliberalausterity policies being imposed on Ireland, Greece, Spain, Ita…
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Control Frauds Continue to Maim and Kill
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By William K BlackThe financial scandal and the Great Recession that it causedhave understandably captured the bulk of our attention, but we must not losesight of the fact that “control frauds” continue to maim and kill enormousnumbers of people an…
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The day of sovereign defaults
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Any bears with solutions?
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What happens on the day sovereign defaults are declared? — and how does a small firm that relies on TTs from Europe/USA survive the turbulence?
Scenario: A small $50 million dollar company with business in SE Asia…
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We’ve just had the Biggest Municipal Bankruptcy in US History
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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) – Alabama’s Jefferson County filed for bankruptcy court protection on Wednesday in the biggest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history.
Commissioners for the county, which is home to Birmingham, the state’s biggest city …
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Just give everyone on earth $100,000
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Let’s face it, the quick and easy (theoretical) way out of a global debt crisis is a global helicopter drop.
Right now it looks like the economy of planet earth is going to be stuck for the next 20 years with all parties nervously thrusting and parry…