Low salaries means competence issues, and it also means they are more susceptible to corruption. Put it all on Internet and let the bloggers do...
The table shows aggregate reserves for the Federal Reserve member commercial banks, not for the Fed itself. If the reserves are not borrowed,...
The TARP disbursements helped, but most of it was the Fed printing new money and loaning it to the banks in exchange for questionable collateral....
The nonborrowed reserves is the most important, IMO; I think it is the same as the banks' capital.
According to this their capital situation has improved considerably.. http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h3/Current/
Wikipedia says his father was a Christian Scientist wholesale jeweler. <cough>
Maybe some group made him an offer he couldn't refuse. "Bernie, we have the goods on you and you are going to go down. Now you can live the...
It is not my area of the law, but my understanding is that if they were innocent and had no reasonable basis to suspect fraud they get to keep the...
Maybe global warming and peak oil were both intelligence agency disinformation designed to cut oil consumption and to head off the growing power...
Apparently we are in the beginning of a cyclical lull in sunspot activity. The last time that happened was the "little ice age" of a few hundred...
Unbelievable.
Maybe they would be better off with inferior talent.
You think he never invested it? Doubtful. It was likely laundered in complex illicit counterparty transactions. We will never know where it...
Bollyn has a funny background for an antisemite, having lived in a kibbutz in Israel for an extended period. It is clever disinformation, but...
Power and fair don't make a good couple.
I'm with flytiger on this one. Naked shorting causes a stock's price to disconnect from its true market value, not reach it quicker. It is...
As I see it, there is a war going on between the banks and the hedge funds. The hedgies crossed the line when they started shorting C and GS....
Maybe it's not really his money, and it is held in trust for the CIA, to be recycled through the Gates Foundation.
Whatever the story is, I'm sure it is interesting, and I'm sure that it will never be revealed to the unwashed masses. I'm leaning toward a...
http://www.sockandawe.com/ Very satisfying.
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