EB's blog
#FF: A Truth-Telling Financial TV Talk Show? Lew Rockwell Interviews Lauren Lyster and Demetri Kofinas of RT's Capital Account
Submitted by EB on 07/27/2012 17:00 -0500Discussing the bull market in alternative media, a Grecian return to the Drachma, and how savings empower the individual (as opposed to state confiscation)
LIBOR 2.0: Is the Biggest Manipulation Yet to Come?
Submitted by EB on 07/25/2012 14:15 -0500Why a new LIBOR based on Fed Funds (OIS) is determined by back door dealings between government sponsored failures (Fannie/Freddie) and a handful of compromised TBTF banks
Interview: Unusual Pre-9-11 Currency Movements; an Ex-Federal Reserve Employee Talks to Robert Wenzel
Submitted by EB on 07/15/2012 17:49 -0500Also: how the Fed's Biege Book is assembled, the $trillion+ sitting at the Fed as excess reserves, the LIBOR "scandal", Warren Buffet and much more...
As PFG Falls, a Return to the MF Global / Eric Holder Connection and How to Keep an Investigation Stale
Submitted by EB on 07/10/2012 06:56 -0500Wasendorf take note: step 1, become powerful governor and/or senator (editor of SFO magazine won't cut it); step 2, hire Blankfein's lawyer for key personnel who can throw you under the bus
7 Questions for Jamie Dimon that no Member of Congress had the Courage to Ask
Submitted by EB on 06/21/2012 07:44 -0500And since it's Mr. Moneybags, one "bonus" question for the readers regarding Maiden Lane fraud and the subsequent cover up when the GAO came a knockin'
Will the DOJ Investigate if JP Morgan Used LCH.Clearnet As a Front to Tank MF Global and Take Customer Money?
Submitted by EB on 06/18/2012 08:35 -0500LCH under investigation by Holder under antitrust statutes. And just who was the ultimate counterparty to the Corzine trade?
TARP Resistance is Futile: Zombie Community Banks Targeted by Former Treasury Insiders
Submitted by EB on 06/12/2012 06:51 -0500- Bank of America
- Bank of America
- Book Value
- Capital Markets
- Comptroller of the Currency
- Deutsche Bank
- Federal Reserve
- fixed
- General Motors
- GMAC
- Hank Paulson
- Hank Paulson
- Institutional Investors
- Market Share
- MF Global
- Moral Hazard
- NASDAQ
- Non-performing assets
- non-performing loans
- POMO
- POMO
- Private Equity
- Raymond James
- Real estate
- Real Interest Rates
- recovery
- Risk Management
- Rogue Trader
- Savings And Loan
- SIGTARP
- South Carolina
- Stress Test
- TARP
- Wells Fargo
- World Bank
A land grab shrouded in a banking takeover, wrapped in a financial crisis "rescue." As always, insiders get first dibs. (And, yes, there is an MF Global connection.)
NY Fed's Brian Sack: Paint The Tape, Close Green, And Get Away Clean
Submitted by EB on 04/26/2012 08:57 -0500We pay homage to one of the architects and chief implementors of quantitative easing and discuss the end game for the Fed.
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 08:25 -0500Has 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?
MF Global Circus: A New Senate Hearing & CFTC Divulges Exclusive Emails Re Corzine/Gensler Meetings
Submitted by EB on 04/18/2012 10:27 -0500Three 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.
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 09:02 -0500Deconstructing Corzine's lawyered up rat speak.
Was FINRA Really First to Sniff Out the Corzine Trade?
Submitted by EB on 03/28/2012 08:31 -0500- B+
- 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
- Washington D.C.
- Wells Notice
A warning by the SEC in mid-March 2011 regarding repo-to-maturity trades suggests otherwise.
Mystery of the Day: Who Wrote This Email to the Fed Just Before Lehman's Collapse?
Submitted by EB on 03/23/2012 09:15 -0500"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"
MF Global Roundup: Louis Freeh Feeling the Heat; Bill Black Talks Fraud on Capital Account
Submitted by EB on 03/22/2012 08:52 -0500Freeh accused of taking $ from Iranian terrorists and taking an MF insurance policy away from customers to pay Corzine's legal defense
Tough Questions for CFTC's Gary Gensler as He Heads to Congress to Beg for Money
Submitted by EB on 03/20/2012 10:15 -0500Fourteen months, one MF Global carcass and $1.6 billion in "vaporized" funds later, does the CFTC still regulate the futures markets by fax?


