BLOG.JMHAMILTONPUBLISHING.COM: Monthly Archives for February 2010

Texas Sized - KKR Lead - Private Equity Deal Struggles....

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/28/2010 8:56 AM | Add Comment

Right, Pay prevented Good Risk Management Practices, and Responsible Underwriting….AIG has proven, time and time again, under Its New Leadership, that Everyone is to Blame but Themselves!

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/28/2010 5:09 AM | Add Comment

The Shame of Congress.... The Senate Banking Committee..... How much are they Paying You, Senators?

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/28/2010 4:49 AM | Add Comment

Adam Smith, Still Correct - After All these Years! And to Prove Adam's Point - A Times Article Illustrating that Banks are a Lousy Investment. Bank Management Pays Themselves, First, and Leaves the Crumbs for Ownership/Stockholders!

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/28/2010 4:36 AM | Add Comment

Pull Goldman's Charter! Stop the Malice and Mayhem!

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/28/2010 4:33 AM | Add Comment

Correction Time?

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/27/2010 8:51 PM | Add Comment

Rubin to Face a Pillow Fight....

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/27/2010 9:01 AM | Add Comment

THE ALWAYS EFFERVESCENT GENE EPSTEIN.... GENE SHOULD BE A GAME SHOW HOST. GENE... HELLO GENE... NOBODY IS BUYING!

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/27/2010 8:52 AM | Add Comment

Abelson Nails It: No Recovery - Until Real Estate Finds a Floor! And Obama Continues to Focus on Healthcare. If Fiscal and Monetary Tools are Shot, and Ineffective at Healing our Economic Hiroshama.... Why Not Appear to be doing something on Healthcare

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/27/2010 7:34 AM | Add Comment

The Recessionary Fugue Continues to Build Momentum...

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/26/2010 7:54 PM | Add Comment

A Grand White Wash... A Fed Investigation of Goldman? Why Not Shut Down Goldman Already?

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/26/2010 7:48 PM | Add Comment

Public Leverage, Round One!

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/26/2010 7:45 PM | Add Comment

Bailout II.... This Time Obama Will Own the Banks!

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/26/2010 7:38 PM | Add Comment

The Sucking Sound You Hear Is AIG Feeding Off the Taxpayer..... The Bailout Will Continue!

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/26/2010 7:31 PM | Add Comment

Doooohhhh! Until a Floor is Established Under Home and Commercial Real Estate - The Economy Will Continue to be Abysmal !!!!

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/26/2010 7:24 PM | Add Comment

The Destablizing Impact of Goldman Sachs... Under Review.... Let's Hope Its Not Window Dressing by the Fed...

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/26/2010 7:15 PM | Add Comment

As Predicted at JMH: History Repeats: Goldman Sets the Company or Country Up with Massive Leverage and Off Balance Sheet Financial Products that Obscure Debt, and Then the Sharks Move in for the Kill.... By Selling the Company/Country Short!

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/25/2010 4:49 AM | Add Comment

Retro Blog: A Year and Four Months Later.... And Nothing Has Been Done to Regulate "Financial Weapons of Mass Destruction": Derivatives, Credit Default Swaps, and CDOs....

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/25/2010 4:42 AM | Add Comment

In a Wilderness of Mirrors, the CIA and the ISI... Do the Minuet!

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/25/2010 4:36 AM | Add Comment

Geithner Always Seems to Have an Excuse to Continue the Status Quo... And Eschew Financial Reform

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/24/2010 9:10 PM | Add Comment

Sandy's Dream to Become Undone? Citi to Sell Off Hedge Fund...

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/24/2010 9:06 PM | Add Comment

Five Former Treasury Secretaries Can't Be Wrong... Implement the Volcker Rule!

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/24/2010 6:56 AM | Add Comment

Five former Treasury Secretaries signed a Letter this week Endorsing the Volcker rule!

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/24/2010 6:52 AM | Add Comment

Goldman Sachs: Rogue Operation? Threat to World Stability? National Security Risk?

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/23/2010 9:32 PM | Add Comment

“Despite the bank’s somewhat coy refusal to concede the materiality of these nondisclosures, it seems obvious that a prudent bank shareholder,” the judge wrote, “would have thought twice about approving the merger or might have sought its renegotiation.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/23/2010 6:11 AM | Add Comment

Team Usury Looking for New Ways to Drag Down the Economy and Prop Up The Banks!.... Overdraft Protection, Caveat Emptor!

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/23/2010 6:00 AM | Add Comment

Next Time a Tea Bagger Demands a Tax Cut… Please remind them what Three Decades of laissez-faire Capitalism have done to this Economy. Tax cuts have been enacted all right, courtesy of the Financial Crisis and the Politicians who deregulated the Banks!

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/23/2010 5:53 AM | Add Comment

Did Senator Brown Just Turn Democrat? “It is the first step in creating jobs, not only for the people of Massachusetts but for the people of the country,” said Mr. Brown

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/23/2010 5:49 AM | Add Comment

Big Government Republicans Criticize Obama's Stimulus Package, and then Ask for the Pork!

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/22/2010 9:54 PM | Add Comment

AIG: Revenues Up, Profits Down, Under Investigation in PA, and Taxpayers No Where Close to Being Made Whole....

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/22/2010 9:49 PM | Add Comment

Goldman Sachs Says Greek Swaps Not ‘Inappropriate’

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/22/2010 9:29 PM | Add Comment

States Have Not Yet Seen the Worst of Economic Times, Governors at Meeting Say .... So the Recovery is Fiction?

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/21/2010 8:41 AM | Add Comment

Technical Recovery? Maybe. A Real Recovery - Still A Dream for Millions!

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/21/2010 8:31 AM | Add Comment

Excellent Thoughts, but Will Congress Give the President the Line Item Veto or the Power to Impound!

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/20/2010 5:49 PM | Add Comment

Brilliant Mr. Abelson: More Tar and More Feathers, Please!

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/20/2010 5:17 PM | Add Comment

Goldman Drops Suit Against Former Employees... Interesting! What Leverage Did these Former Employees Have to Stop Goldman?

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/20/2010 8:43 AM | Add Comment

(The Fed's) balance sheet stood at $2.2 trillion. The assets included $1.03 trillion in mortgage-backed securities and $165.6 billion in debts guaranteed by housing entities. The Fed’s asset purchases have helped to cradle the housing market...

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/20/2010 8:33 AM | Add Comment

Is Private Equity (PE) the New Pariah? Bloomberg Dumps PE's Quadrangle, In Advance of Possible Presidential Run....

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/20/2010 8:25 AM | Add Comment

A Key Component In Any Guerilla War, Stealth.... Drones Over Afghanistan!

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/20/2010 8:21 AM | Add Comment

They thought it would fall under the radar screen.... AIG Bonuses....

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/19/2010 9:12 PM | Add Comment

So Much for the Recovery....

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/19/2010 9:04 PM | Add Comment

Goldman Insiders Dumped Stock Throughout the Crisis!

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/19/2010 7:41 PM | Add Comment

China's Cyber Attacks by Proxy?

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/19/2010 7:24 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

One Man, and his Ideas, Threatens China!

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/18/2010 8:20 PM | Add Comment

Retro Blog: Anatomy of a Financial Nightmare!!! And Get Ready for the Next One... Famous Last Words: “We’ve got the right people in place as well as good risk management and controls.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/18/2010 7:59 PM | Add Comment

The Fix is In: "Banking committee members are considering adding to their legislation a watered-down version of the Volcker rule that would lean against a strict ban on proprietary trading..."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/18/2010 7:51 PM | Add Comment

Has Obama Been Tough on Business or Tough on Wall Street?

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/18/2010 7:45 PM | Add Comment

A Legacy of the Fed's Easy Money Policies: Private Equity Gets Ready to Return, but Finds Few Takers of Its IPO Offerings

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/18/2010 7:40 PM | Add Comment

Citigroup Plays Hard Ball with Private Equity's Guy Hands... Head of Terra Firma.... Citi Threatens Mr. Hands Tax Status!

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/18/2010 7:33 PM | Add Comment

China Continues to Divest U.S. Treasuries, Leaving Japan as the Number One U.S. Creditior?

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/18/2010 7:20 PM | Add Comment

Kudos and Accolades for the Intrepid Representative, Mr. Issa (Republican).... Issa is seeking to widen the probe into what he’s called a “backdoor bailout” of banks that got funds from AIG.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/18/2010 7:11 PM | Add Comment

RBS Ready to Go: The British government took what is now an 84 percent stake in exchange for the bailout.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/18/2010 7:07 PM | Add Comment

Great, Now if the Feds Could Crack Down on China's Dodge....

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/18/2010 7:01 PM | Add Comment

Contingent Commissions Return: Two Steps Back for the Consumer and Transparency.... Give it Three Months and the Brokers Will Quietly Flip the Switch. First One, and then the Others will have to - in order to Compete!

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/18/2010 6:56 PM | Add Comment

German Public In NO Mood to Bailout Greece.... Will Greece Be Allowed to Step Out of the E.U. - Monetize Their Debt - Then Return to the E.U.?

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/18/2010 6:53 PM | Add Comment

The Highly Irreverent, but Highly Relevant, Matt Taibbi on How Wall Street Preys Upon America, indeed the World, coming and going… and How Washington has Set Us Up for our next Bubble and Crisis!

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/18/2010 6:41 PM | Add Comment

The Usurpation of Independent Fed Power is now nearly Complete with the Politicization of Bank Oversight by the Executive Branch, the Treasury. Happy Halloween!

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/18/2010 5:41 AM | Add Comment

Does the Sudden Downturn in the BDI Signify that the Double Dip Recession has Arrived?

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/17/2010 7:46 PM | Add Comment

Nick Brady, Treasury Secretary Under Reagan Bush - Supports Greater Financial Regulation of Wall Street, and Perhaps the Volcker Rule!

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/17/2010 6:42 AM | Add Comment

“These days I wonder if this country is even governable.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/17/2010 3:16 AM | Add Comment

Retro Blog: When Will Goldman Be Held Accountable? When Will the Revolving Door Between Goldman and the Treasury Cease?

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/17/2010 3:04 AM | Add Comment

Hedge Funds Jump into Financials.... Which Suggests Meaningful Financal Reform is Effectively Dead in Washington?

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/17/2010 2:58 AM | Add Comment

If Politics is the Art of Controlling Your Environment..... Then Greece and Goldman Manipulated and Fabricated the Greece Bond Market, and Entrance into the E.U.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/17/2010 2:53 AM | Add Comment

Why is there not Full Disclosure of all Swaps and Derivative Products on Financial Statements?

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/17/2010 2:37 AM | Add Comment

Retro Blog: Paulson Hires Goldman Sachs to Help Administer the Bailout

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/16/2010 7:31 PM | Add Comment

VOLCKER: I hate to give you this answer, but the crisis I most worry about is the crisis in governance.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/16/2010 7:15 PM | Add Comment

There's Another Way to Skin this Cat: If EU Banks Do Not Want to Play Ball with the Volcker Rule, then Kick them Off U.S. Shores.... I'm sure U.S. Banks will Gladly Fill the Void!

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/15/2010 10:02 PM | Add Comment

Was Adam Smith a Socialist?

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/15/2010 8:10 PM | Add Comment

So Much for the Theory that Iran is a Theocracy.... The Religious Leaders at the Top Have Been Co-opted by the IRGC....

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/15/2010 6:54 PM | Add Comment

European Union leaders said last week the euro zone would take determined and coordinated action to safeguard financial stability, a vague pledge which disappointed investors.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/15/2010 6:48 PM | Add Comment

It would be Interesting to Learn if Goldman Was Betting Against the Euro, as the News of the PIIGS' and EU's Problems Unfolded?

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/15/2010 6:40 PM | Add Comment

Is Iran's Revolutionary Guard Calling the Shots?

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/15/2010 6:48 AM | Add Comment

“We’ve eliminated 12 of their top people, we have taken out 100 of their associates,” Mr. Biden said. "I don’t know where Dick Cheney has been.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/15/2010 6:44 AM | Add Comment

The Only Honest Man in the Room....

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/14/2010 5:01 PM | Add Comment

Senate Dysfunctional and in Stall Mode Over Financial Reform!

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/14/2010 4:57 PM | Add Comment

Significant Real Estate Bubble in China!

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/14/2010 4:54 PM | Add Comment

"The whole planet's ability to pay its debt is being questioned." As Well It Should....

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/14/2010 8:01 AM | Add Comment

U.S. Financial Crisis Far From Over: Until a Floor is Establishing Under Real Estate.... Markets, Banks, and the Economy Will Continue to Tumble! Read My Book: Killer with a Pen - To Find Solutions!

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/14/2010 3:00 AM | Add Comment

Goldman Obscures PIIGS Debt.... And in the process, Helps Crush the Euro! International Standards on the Full Discloure of Derivative and Hybrid Financial Products Soon to Follow?

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/14/2010 2:08 AM | Add Comment

Retro Blog: Oct 2008 - AIG: Where did the Cash Go? Why to Back-Door Bailouts to Wall Street (Goldman Sachs, Et Al.).... Where else?

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/14/2010 1:13 AM | Add Comment

Team Usury: At It Again with 79.9% Interest Rates!

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/14/2010 1:05 AM | Add Comment

Luxembourg summit to discuss future of bank secrecy ... Time to Pay Your Taxes!

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/14/2010 1:02 AM | Add Comment

Eurozone Drift Apart - Which Should Hold the Dollar in Good Stead, as the World's Fiat Currency - Despite Everything!

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/14/2010 12:58 AM | Add Comment

The Market is Unsupportive of Blackstone's (Private Equity) IPO Offerings.... The Invisible Hand in Action!

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/14/2010 12:52 AM | Add Comment

Too Big To Fail.... WRONG$$$ The Reasons Why the U.S. Should let Them Fail!!!!

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/13/2010 5:01 PM | Add Comment

History Two: From Another Revolutionary, Mr. Jefferson: I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/13/2010 8:34 AM | Add Comment

Today's History Lesson: Wow from the time of Andy Jackson to the Present Day, Probably Since the Founding of the Nation, A Major Distrust of Banking Interests!

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/13/2010 8:29 AM | Add Comment

Retro Blog: Mr. Greenspan refused to accept blame for the crisis but acknowledged that his belief in deregulation had been shaken.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/13/2010 7:39 AM | Add Comment

Opportunism at its Finest…. The Revolving Door between Congress and the Private Sector…

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/13/2010 7:35 AM | Add Comment

After Afghanistan... Iran

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/13/2010 7:32 AM | Add Comment

China Cannot Afford to Trash It's Currency, if It wants the Renminbi to be the World's Fiat Currency! China's State Run Banks Increase Reserve Requirements, as Inflation Begins to Take Off.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/13/2010 7:25 AM | Add Comment

Making the Grass Grow, and Mowing the Lawn: The U.S. Marines! Unfortunately, thrown into a Nation Building Role Once Again. God Bless the Marine Core!

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/13/2010 7:21 AM | Add Comment

As Corporate Cash Holdings Soar.... M&A Activity May Pick Up

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/12/2010 9:20 PM | Add Comment

Joining the EU Means an Inability to Monetize Debt...

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/12/2010 9:14 PM | Add Comment

China's Government Threatened by a 61 Year Old Monk!

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/12/2010 6:46 AM | Add Comment

China's Government Threatened by the Power of the Internet!

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/12/2010 6:44 AM | Add Comment

Retro Blog: Channels the 2008 Election: Please.... Run Sarah Run!

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/11/2010 6:41 AM | Add Comment

Why Does the President Have to Defend Himself for Attempting to Protect The Country from the Worst Excess of Wall Street.... the Very Excesses that Brought this Nation to her Knees.... It's Wall Street who Belongs in the Docket!

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/11/2010 6:32 AM | Add Comment

Team Usury... Still Pigging out at the Expense of Bank Stockholders, American Business, and Global Economic Prosperity!

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/11/2010 6:22 AM | Add Comment

Will Germany Really Bail Out Greece? Seems like a Slippery Slope.... What's Next? The Other PIIGS?

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 2/11/2010 6:20 AM | Add Comment

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