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NY Fed's Brian Sack: Paint The Tape, Close Green, And Get Away Clean
Submitted by EB on 04/26/2012 09:57 -0400- Ben Bernanke
- Ben Bernanke
- Blackrock
- Bond
- Counterparties
- Federal Reserve
- fixed
- FOIA
- Freedom of Information Act
- Front Running
- International Monetary Fund
- MF Global
- Monetary Policy
- New York Fed
- Open Market Operations
- Permanent Open Market Operations
- POMO
- Quantitative Easing
- recovery
- Tax Revenue
- World Bank
We pay homage to one of the architects and chief implementors of quantitative easing and discuss the end game for the Fed.
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MF Global Roundup: the [so-far] Great Escape of "Teflon Don" Corzine; Bankruptcy Shenanigans Exposed; the "F" Word Revisited
Submitted by EB on 04/23/2012 09:25 -0400- Apple
- Bank of America
- Bank of America
- Bond
- Capital Formation
- Cato Institute
- Citigroup
- Commodity Futures Trading Commission
- Counterparties
- Credit Line
- Creditors
- ETC
- Fail
- FBI
- Fee Application
- Goldman Sachs
- goldman sachs
- Lehman
- Lehman Brothers
- MF Global
- New York City
- New York Post
- recovery
- Sovereign Debt
- Treasury Department
- United Kingdom
Has the case really gone cold? Or, are those who are in charge of the investigation, the "regulators" and the trustees, simply spraying teflon on every piece of sticky evidence that could lead to criminal prosecutions?
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MF Global Circus: A New Senate Hearing & CFTC Divulges Exclusive Emails Re Corzine/Gensler Meetings
Submitted by EB on 04/18/2012 11:27 -0400Three rings...count 'em. Or, are those jail cells? New emails show MF's General Counsel Ferber desperate to get Corzine in front of Gensler and keep the zombie Corzine Trade alive.
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MF Global: The Big Fix Was In; How Corzine Threw a Mid-Level Operations Assistant Under the Bus
Submitted by EB on 04/06/2012 10:02 -0400Deconstructing Corzine's lawyered up rat speak.
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Was FINRA Really First to Sniff Out the Corzine Trade?
Submitted by EB on 03/28/2012 09:31 -0400- Bond
- Capital Expenditures
- Carrying Value
- Counterparties
- Credit Rating Agencies
- Creditors
- Financial Accounting Standards Board
- FINRA
- fixed
- GAAP
- House Financial Services Committee
- Lehman
- MF Global
- None
- Rating Agencies
- Reuters
- Rick Santelli
- Securities and Exchange Commission
- Sovereign Debt
- Testimony
- Wells Notice
A warning by the SEC in mid-March 2011 regarding repo-to-maturity trades suggests otherwise.
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Mystery of the Day: Who Wrote This Email to the Fed Just Before Lehman's Collapse?
Submitted by EB on 03/23/2012 10:15 -0400"We must end the insanity of 'too big to fail'...if the repo markets shuts down, it's game over. And I am not trying to be dramatic"
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MF Global Roundup: Louis Freeh Feeling the Heat; Bill Black Talks Fraud on Capital Account
Submitted by EB on 03/22/2012 09:52 -0400Freeh accused of taking $ from Iranian terrorists and taking an MF insurance policy away from customers to pay Corzine's legal defense
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Tough Questions for CFTC's Gary Gensler as He Heads to Congress to Beg for Money
Submitted by EB on 03/20/2012 11:15 -0400Fourteen months, one MF Global carcass and $1.6 billion in "vaporized" funds later, does the CFTC still regulate the futures markets by fax?
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Was MF Global Worth More as a Carcass?
Submitted by EB on 03/19/2012 10:05 -0400Why MF Global might well be the template for future looting.
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Do they Think We Are Stupid? “Mr. Vaporized” of MF Global Scandal Unmasked?
Submitted by EB on 03/08/2012 10:47 -0400Lies, damn lies and charts. Why no one in charge dares utter the "F" word (fraud).
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Santelli to Chilton: Will the SEC Serve Itself a Wells Notice Regarding an MF Global Bond Offering?
Submitted by EB on 02/18/2012 15:09 -0400
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Round Two Hearings Start, But Feasting on MF Global Continues
Submitted by EB on 02/02/2012 12:12 -0400- Bankruptcy Code
- Commodity Futures Trading Commission
- Credit Default Swaps
- Creditors
- default
- Department of Justice
- FBI
- Federal Reserve
- Federal Reserve Bank
- fixed
- Lehman
- Lehman Brothers
- Meltdown
- MF Global
- Rating Agencies
- Rating Agency
- ratings
- Reality
- recovery
- Securities and Exchange Commission
- Sovereign Debt
- Testimony
- Wall Street Journal
Was the Chapter 11 Petition of MF Global Holdings filed fraudulently?
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MF Global Customer Funds Were Not "Vaporized" - Stanley Haar Takes WSJ to Task
Submitted by EB on 01/31/2012 15:42 -0400Your article gives the appearance of having been ghost written by Andrew Levander and/or the JP Morgan legal department.
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More Details on How MF Global Customers Got Thrown Under the Bus
Submitted by EB on 01/25/2012 11:07 -0400CFTC article from 1993 warned of dangers of SIPA liquidation for a futures broker. So why Ch 11 for the parent company, which destroys customer rights?
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Barclays Accused of Criminal fraud for Golden Key in Geneva
Submitted by EB on 12/30/2011 15:46 -0400One independent investor from Geneva has foregone the US court system and filed his own criminal complaint against the bank and the collateral manager they hand picked...
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