The Members of European Parliament are in the limelight again, expected to solve their fellow politicians’ fiscal problems.
Once again, they are bouncing off walls – this time figuratively, as far as we know. Alongside them are central bankers, IMFers and gaggles of other geese ruffling each other’s feathers.
November 5th, 2011 | Nickolai Hubble | 1 comment | Continued
The combination of political deadlock in Greece and the fact that the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) will be funded by debt and not money printing has caught investors off guard recently. They failed to discount the ability of politicians to find other options in their attempts to exhaust all other options before turning to the inevitable one. Hence the falling markets of late.
November 5th, 2011 | Nickolai Hubble | 0 comments | Continued
Poor Ol’ Goldman … Just trying to do ‘God’s work’ … And everybody treats it like the devil.
April 27th, 2010 | Bill Bonner | 6 comments | Continued
Now that the American financial sector is safe and unsound once again, has the threat of serious economic crisis genuinely passed? And has the structure of American capitalism actually improved? Or did the Fed merely dress a sow in lingerie and call her a raving beauty?
April 20th, 2010 | Eric J. Fry | 2 comments | Continued
As the entire investing world knows by now, Goldman Sachs is the latest cockroach to scuttle under the spotlight. Last Friday, the Securities and Exchange Commission accused Goldman of defrauding investors out of $1 billion. The details of the SEC’s complaint allege that Goldman failed to disclose “vital information” about a mortgage-back security called Abacus.
April 20th, 2010 | Eric J. Fry | 1 comment | Continued
Markets all over the world reacted with red to Friday’s news that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) had lowered the boom on Goldman Sachs. The SEC has technically accused Goldman of fraud. It alleges that Goldman helped create a collateralised debt obligation (CDO) made up of subprime mortgages.
April 19th, 2010 | Dan Denning | 14 comments | Continued
Banks and others have complained that this rule distorts the price of assets for which there is currently no market, or which the banks intend to hold to maturity (meaning the current price is largely irrelevant). It’s a clever argument.
April 6th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 19 comments | Continued
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