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nakedcapitalism.com - 2 hours ago
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David Einhorn, who enjoys his considerable reputation for
hard-fought battles against firms with shaky finances and dubious
accounting (Alliance Capital and Lehman), has taken aim at a new and equally deserving target: credit default swaps. In an ...
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Einhorn: First, Let’s Kill All the Credit Default Swaps
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dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com - 55 minutes ago
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Senator Bernard Sanders of Vermont has introduced legislation
that would force the Treasury Department to break up
all financial institutions whose failure could cause a major disruption to the nation's financial system.
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Senator Seeks to Break Up Banks 'Too Big to Fail'
dealbreaker.com - 41 hours ago
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Having just written a book on the subject
( When Mooks Fail , currently #15 on the
Amazon.com best-seller list ), Charlie G. continues his intrepid reporting on the utter shamelessness of Wall Street. Now, Tom Maheras , the former Citigroup president, ...
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The Man Who Sunk Citigroup Launches Hubris Fund
thereformedbroker.com - 2 days ago
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The “everybody’s a real estate mogul” era started
innocently enough, with a distaste for the stock market
after the dot com meltdown and an incredibly long stretch of time with 1% interest rates. The leap from trading up in house ...
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3 Potential Bubbles for Retail Investors
ft.com - 5 days ago
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Since March there has been a massive rally
in all sorts of risky assets – equities, oil,
energy and commodity prices – a narrowing of high-yield and high-grade credit spreads, and an even bigger rally in emerging market asset classes (their stocks, ...
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Mother of all carry trades faces an inevitable bust
mcclatchydc.com - 6 days ago
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WASHINGTON — In 2006 and 2007, Goldman Sachs
Group peddled more than $40 billion in securities backed
by at least 200,000 risky home mortgages, but never told the buyers it was secretly betting that a sharp drop in U.S. housing prices would send ...
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How Goldman secretly bet on the U.S. housing crash
businessinsider.com - 5 days ago
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It's time to finally lay to rest claims
stretching back as far as 2007 that Goldman Sachs
was peddling securities backed by risky home mortgages while it was secretly betting that the US housing market was in trouble. Far from being "secretly" down on ...
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Sorry, Folks: Goldman's Bet Against Housing Was Hardly A ...
bespokeinvest.typepad.com - 3 hours ago
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Interestingly, Ford Motor (F) has been the best
performing S&P; 500 stock since the 2008 election. With
all the troubles that the US auto industry has gone through over the past year, Ford has made it out alive and now appears to be getting stronger. ...
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Best and Worst Performing S&P 500 Stocks Since Obama's ...
politico.com - 25 hours ago
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Center for Responsive Politics releases new report describing
the wealth of members of Congress.
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Report: 237 millionaires in Congress
deepmarket.com - 4 minutes ago
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Stocks in the Twitter stream:2009-11-07 19:14:30.0 - NI
Technology report on cloud computing covering $GOOG $VMW $AAPL
$PALM $RIMM - Have to optin but it's interesting - http://bit.ly/1obKIc2009-11-07 18:42:55.0 - RT @alleyinsider: iPhone For Verizon In 2010 $AAPL $VZ $T by @fromedome ...
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Recent Stock Market Chatter on Twitter – 2009-11-07 ...
hf-implode.com - 23 minutes ago
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Fannie Mae’s request to sell $2.6 billion in
low-income housing tax credits would be a bad deal
for taxpayers and won’t be allowed, the U.S. Treasury said. The government decided the deal would cost taxpayers more than Fannie Mae would gain from the sale, according to a letter sent to the ...
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Fannie Mae’s Sale of Tax Credits Is A Bad Deal, Treasury ...
vixandmore.blogspot.com - 14 hours ago
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As far as I can tell, I have
not yet posted about the use of Bollinger bands
in conjunction a rate of change (ROC) indicator to identify volatility breakouts. In summarizing the action in the VIX over the course of the past two weeks, the chart below captures some of the drama in terms of 10% ...
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Combining Bollinger Bands on Rates of Change in the VIX
hf-implode.com - 30 minutes ago
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" The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC)
on Thursday approved a proposal to establish a new
model for determining ratings of residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS).The new model will establish ratings designations for approximately 18,000 RMBS owned by US insurers by ...
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RMBS Ratings Proposal Will Determine Insurers’ Capital ...
hf-implode.com - 37 minutes ago
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"Although a new foreclosure alternative program announced Thursday
by Fannie Mae (FNM: 1.04 -7.14%) presents a new
step in mitigating foreclosure risk among distressed borrowers, it looks to have only a “marginal” effect on prepayments within Fannie residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS), ...
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BarCap Sees ‘Limited Use’ of Fannie’s Deed-for-Lease Program
dividendsvalue.com - 3 days ago
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Those that have read this space for any
period of time are well aware of my enthusiasm
for using dividend growth stocks as a vehicle for building long-term wealth and income. However, with that said, a successful investor must do more that just buy stocks that pay a growing dividend, or ...
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Dividend Stocks: A Disciplined Approach
news.yahoo.com - 10 hours ago
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AP - Thousands of borrowers on the verge
of foreclosure will soon have the option of renting
their homes from Fannie Mae, under a policy announced Thursday.
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Fannie Mae to rent out homes instead foreclosing
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baselinescenario.com - 28 hours ago
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Via Yves Smith , John Hempton analyzes the
quarterly results of Bank of America (so-so) and Fannie
Mae (terrible). The underlying issue is that bank quarter-to-quarter results are largely driven by the amount of provisions they take against future loan losses. You can think of this as a very ...
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Accounting at B of A and Fannie
brontecapital.blogspot.com - 34 hours ago
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There have been some mathematical corrections to this
post discussed in the comments. My pencil notes had
the numbers right. By the time I got to writing it out errors had entered. Sorry. Fannie Mae just put out awful looking results based primarily ...
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Fannie Mae’s results – oh, and what if Bank ...

