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$$$ QBs as PE investors [The Deal]
$$$ Canopy Financial Accused Of Fraud, Investors Burned [TechCrunch]
$$$ White Collar Criminals Are Running Amok, Says U.S. Attorney [BI]
$$$ SEC manages to win an insider trading case [FT Alphaville]
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How many budding billionaires did Brian Hunter try to screw in an attempt to not blow $6 billion out of his ass, have himself escorted from the Amaranth building and be placed on Nick Maounis's permanent shit list? At least one that we know of but maybe more will come out of the woodwork. For ...
Hedge Funds
John Paulson
Illustratively-speaking. Sometimes the Journal makes its subjects look like Biff from Back To The Future . Sometimes they base the headcut on your high school yearbook photo . Sometimes they just make people look entirely unrecognizable, for sport. But today I think we need to give credit where ...
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Despite being owned by the government, WestLB is only now g etting the government-funded bailout that is apparently the right of every bank.
Unlike many of the rest of the banks on both sides of the Atlantic, which got their billions (or trillions) with few--if any--strings attached, Germany ...
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Fairfax Financial, a Canadian Insurer, still has it in their head that some of the most feared and respected hedge funds got non-public information about the company and spread it around the street encouraging their buddies to short the heck out of the stock.
Matt Goldstein, at Reuters , is ...
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SEC
As Steve Cohen prepares to be deposed in some stupid insider-trading lawsuit filed by some goddamned Canadians , we have a piece of advice for the Securities and Exchange Commission: Leave it alone.
We know you think that something is rotten in the City of Stamford. We know you know that ...
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SEC
Think the worst is over? Think again. Greenwich, CT is probably going to be forced to cut back on its Christmas lights this year, having only raised $30,000 for a display that costs a minimum of $45,000 to put on, if we're talking bare bones, $60,000 if we want it done up right. ...
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Yesterday it was suggested that one of the reasons John Paulson was able to make the leap from run of the mill rich guy/peasant by hedge fund manager standards to John motherfucking Paulson! was that he "became a grump." In earlier times, he was known for his loft parties in SoHo, and as he ...
Hedge Funds
John Paulson
Asia's oldest stock exchange has fallen on hard times. Its crosstown rival is getting a lot more play these days and has stolen a march on all the fancy new products a stock exchange can offer.
Rather than go quietly into the night, the Bombay Stock Exchange and its hotshot new CEO are going ...
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Like a sexually-transmitted disease, the credit crisis is proving awfully hard to shake for the world's banks. Just when one outbreak subsides, the burning starts anew .
Having (more or less) fought off the last attack--that caused by the profligate borrowing of others--with trillions of ...
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Raj Rajaratnam has maintained his innocence since he was escorted out of his Sutton Place apartment almost two months ago and apparently that's the story he's sticking with. His lawyers rejected federal insider trading charges this morning, for several reasons. These are our favorite:
1) ...
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AIG's Rescue Bedevils U.S. (WSJ)
Some fed officials want the Pay Czar to ease up on comp restrictions. "AIG is the best example of why the government should never get itself in the position of even having to make these tradeoffs," said Anil Kashyap, an economics professor at the University ...
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American International Group
TARP
$$$ Accused Ponzi schemer Rothstein signed the letter : "Ciao ciao, Money never sleeps motherfucker :-)" [Law.com]
$$$ Mr. Meehan asked him, "Danny, are you going to break it off with Janie?" He says Mr. Pang replied, " No problem. I can get married and still have a girlfriend .'"
$$$ ...
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John Paulson
Stimulus Plan
Earlier today it was rumored that Citi had "kicked off week three of a research department hiring binge that has unemployed sell-side analysts partying like its 1999," starting with the signing of a multi-year, multi-million dollar guaranteed package for a mid-cap software analyst. Some people ...
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Citi Holdings
TARP
Europe just emerged from the recession , but the Irish continue to insist on trying to ruin things. The Celtic Tiger is dead, and Eire is reduced to joining the ranks of Europe's financial lepers , Italy, Greece and Portugal.
Credit-default swap prices on the sovereign debt of those ...
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