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* Chris Dodd’s wife and derivatives trading – all in the family
Count Us Out —
Authority: 441It’s all in the family! Senator Chris Dodd writes a financial reform bill but forgets to regulate derivatives, “financial weapons of mass destruction.†Then we find out that his wife works for the owners of two exchanges that will very likely benefit from Dodd’s “reform†legislation. They make the rules. ...
4 hours ago
Goldman and JPM Still Playing with Other People’s Money
Livinglies's Weblog —
Authority: 140The five biggest U.S. commercial banks in the derivatives market — JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America Corp. , Citigroup and Wells Fargo & Co. — account for 97 percent of the notional value of derivatives held in the banking industry [$605 trillion], according to the Office of the Comptroller ...
8 hours ago
Peter Schiff on the Derivatives and toxic Assets Impact
Fuck Bankers —
Authority: 171We Should have let them go bankrupt and here they are making more money than never before says Peter Schiff The derivatives allow tremendous amount of leverage , but the problem comes with the counter parties , the reason that AIG went banckrupt is because they could not afford to make good on the obligations ...
9 hours ago
Peter Schiff on the Derivatives and toxic Assets Impact
Gulag Blog —
Authority: 171We Should have let them go bankrupt and here they are making more money than never before says Peter Schiff The derivatives allow tremendous amount of leverage , but the problem comes with the counter parties , the reason that AIG went banckrupt is because they could not afford to make good on the obligations ...
9 hours ago
Lubuntu is a fast, lightweight and energy-saving variant of Ubuntu using the LXDE (Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment) desktop.
Linuxlandit & The Conqueror Worm —
Authority: 117Julien Lavergne has announced the availability of the first beta release of Lubuntu 10.04, an unofficial Ubuntu variant with the lightweight LXDE as the default desktop environment: " Lubuntu Lucid Lynx beta 1 released. New stuff since alpha 3: new logo; addition to the seed - gnome-disk-utility and ...
10 hours ago
Economic bubbles and financial crises, past and present
In These New Times —
Authority: 141“What type of reform? First and for all, the packaging of different debts in impossible to untangle CDOs ld be outlawed. These products are financial time-bombs waiting to explode for the real economy, not only in the United States, but around the world. Second, CDS insurance products should be issued only against ...
19 hours ago
Senators divided over rules on the derivatives market
The Washington Post —
Authority: 958Two senators charged with shaping new rules to oversee the vast, unregulated over-the-counter derivatives market said Friday that they have failed to reach agreement on the legislation, considered a crucial element of the effort to revamp the nations financial regulatory system.
1 day ago
Amendments and Impasse May Stall Financial Bill
DealBook —
Authority: 775The Senate Banking Committee, which is set to begin consideration of a bill that would overhaul financial regulations, received 359 amendments by the Friday deadline.
1 day ago
Capitol Hill News Open Thread
The Progressive Electorate - Front Page —
Authority: 504Good afternoon, Progressive Electorate readers. This is your afternoon open thread to discuss all things Hill-related. Use this thread to praise or bash Congresscritters, share a juicy tip, ask questions, offer critiques and suggestions, or post manifestos. Well be here all weekend. Two programing notes. First ...
1 day ago
Treasuries End the Week Mixed
Commodity Trader —
Authority: 130Bonds and notes made an impressive attempt at a Friday rally, but the volume nor the news was able to support mid-session gains. There were absolutely no economic reports for traders to move on, making the highlight (or lowlight) of the day a speech by President Obama on healthcare. There is a lot of supply coming ...
1 day ago
Gensler Metaphor Alert!
Streetwise Professor —
Authority: 129This could become a regular SWP feature: Gary Gensler continues to grind out the metaphors in his verbal attack on OTC markets.  The most recent : “[the dealer banks] is also the group that nearly drove us off the cliff.†Wait a minute.  Just days ago he said: “The dealers collectively nearly burned down the ...
1 day ago
Energy Position Limits: No Evidence, No Legal Basis
Streetwise Professor —
Authority: 129The Futures Industry Association, a trade group for futures commission merchants and exchanges, has come out strongly in opposition to the CFTC’s proposed energy position limits .  The most interesting thing to me about the FIA letter is the fact that one of the central pillars of its argument is similar to an ...
1 day ago
Missing the Important Issues on Derivatives Reform
The Foundry: Conservative Policy News. —
Authority: 763Senator Chris Dodd’s monstrous 1336-page financial reform draft includes a whopping 217 pages devoted to “improving†over-the-counter derivatives markets. Dodd the derivatives section may be replaced by a yet-to-be-released bipartisan compromise from Senators Jack Reed and Judd Gregg. But the Dodd draft ...
1 day ago
Is there an alternative to exchange-traded CDS?
Felix Salmon —
Authority: 733I just had an interesting conversation with a senior market participant about the optimal way to structure and regulate the CDS market, compared to the proposal which has now been put forward by Chris Dodd. Essentially, there are two options here: you can either consolidate all the different functions (trading, ...
1 day ago
I.M.F. Chief Suggests Fire Brigade for Europes Banks
DealBook —
Authority: 775Europe should have a "fire brigade" backed by funds from governments and the private sector to deal with failures of large banks, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund said Friday.
1 day ago
CFTC Confirms TARP Leakage To Non U.S. Banks
Newsroom Magazine —
Authority: 125OTC derivatives were at the center of the 2008 financial crisis. They added leverage to the financial system with more risk being backed up by less capital. U.S. taxpayers bailed out AIG with $180 billion when that company’s ineffectively regulated $2 trillion derivatives portfolio, managed from London and ...
1 day ago
The 2012 Credit Apocalypse
Creditinfocenter Blog —
Authority: 125I’m been laughing at the 2012 doomsayers for the past year. It’s just a date, I would say – what’s so special about it? Well, maybe 2012 is something to worry about after all. I just read this article in the New York Times, and I find myself being a little nervous.Apparently, [...]
2 days ago
The Junk Bond Ticking Time Bomb, Going Off Soon. Near You!
Reconstitution 2.0 —
Authority: 477Our next financial crisis is just around the corner, and it looks a lot like some of our past crises.Taxpayers, are you ready to pony up again and save those greedy asshats who were stupid enough to buy into these? I hope you are, because the corporatist state will probably demand that you start living [...]
2 days ago
What the banking system has learned about derivatives: nothing at all
MAKE WEALTH HISTORY —
Authority: 466I was tempted to post that headline with a blank space underneath, but I’d better explain. Much of the crisis in the banking sector in 2008 was due to over-reaching in the trade of derivatives. The invention of derivatives allowed banks to transcend their actual assets, and then soar above them in layer after layer ...
2 days ago
CSRC outlines how funds can invest in CSI 300 futures
FiNETIK - Financial Industry Networked Thinking - Asia and Latin America —
Authority: 121The regulator releases an early draft of the proposed rules for Chinese mutual funds that want to invest in CSI 300 index futures.s fund analysts and managers continue to attend futures training courses organised by the China Securities Regulatory Commission, a draft of the CSRC’s proposed rules on how Chinese ...
3 days ago
