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blogs.reuters.com - 10/30/2009
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(Reader note: from here on out, instead of citing the publication in which a piece appears, I plan to cite the writer….where possible anyway.) Goldman sends back some collateral to AIG (Liam Pleven) Interesting. Recall that AIG served as a slush fund through which the Fed sent money to ...
Shock and Awe
epicureandealmaker.blogspot.com - 10/30/2009
Shock and Awe
— epicureandealmaker.blogspot.com — What the hell did I ever do to piss Steve Randy Waldman off? I tell you honestly,... Dear Readers, my afternoon conversation with this genial and intelligent gentleman started unremarkably enough, with a little playful banter in the Twitterverse on ... (more) Shock and Awe

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Never Send a Boy to Do a Man's Job
epicureandealmaker.blogspot.com - 10/28/2009
Never Send a Boy to Do a Man's Job
— epicureandealmaker.blogspot.com — Interesting article over at Bloomberg.com this morning. Did you see it? Oct. 27 (Bloomberg) — In the... months leading up to the September 2008 collapse of giant insurer American International Group Inc., Elias Habayeb and his colleagues worked ... (more) Never Send a Boy to Do a Man's Job

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nakedcapitalism.com - 11/1/2009
“How Goldman secretly bet on the U.S. housing crash” (AIG as Bagholder Watch)
— nakedcapitalism.com — McClatchy, which was the only major US news organization to question the Iraq war until is was... obvious to all that it was a misguided exercise in neocon hubris, has started a series on Goldman’s famed “short subprime” exercise. ... (more) “How Goldman secretly bet on the U.S. housing crash” ...

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