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Banks likely to Stop Private Equity (PE) Investing or Sponsorship.... PE, of course, Was in Distress throughout 2009, as Inexpensive Financing - the Life Blood of PE - was hard to come by!
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2/10/2010 4:25 PM
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No One Objects to Capitalism.... What One Objects to is Predatory Short Sellers & Speculators, who Prey Upon Our Country, and Then receive Government Bailouts for the Havoc they have Wrought!
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2/10/2010 7:53 AM
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U.S. National Debt and Need to Be the World's Fiat Currency.... Leaves the U.S. Prone to China's Maneuvers to Dump U.S. Currency..... Then again, think of the Spur to the U.S. Economy when the U.S. Cuts Off China's Imports!
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2/10/2010 7:42 AM
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China Obstructs Sanctions..... Lets Hope Iraq Goes On-Line, before Iran Gets Taken Out.... Otherwise the Impact on China's Economy Could be Significant!
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2/10/2010 7:21 AM
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Retro Blog: "Tell It to Get Smaller....."
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2/9/2010 10:10 PM
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Why is AIG so Slow to Divest... Thought they Were Rock Solid? MetLife - Alico Deal to be Financed with Stock?
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2/9/2010 10:05 PM
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Goldman Probed - By SEC....
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2/9/2010 10:01 PM
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TARP RECIPIENTS MISSING DIVIDEND PAYMENTS TO THE TAXPAYER! AIG AMONG THEM.
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2/9/2010 9:57 PM
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"Congress isn’t doing a thing about Wall Street because it’s in the pocket of Wall Street."
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2/9/2010 9:49 PM
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M3 Contracts Heralding the Double Dip... No Immediate Signs of Inflation, As Bankers Refuse to Lend, and Hold Liquidity Tight. Outlook for Jobs? BAD!
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2/9/2010 6:07 PM
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The G.O.P. Goes Far RIGHT!
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2/9/2010 6:18 AM
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The SEC Grows a Pair?
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2/9/2010 6:11 AM
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Retro Blog - WE REMEMBER: The Only Wall Street Executive to Join Paulson, Geithner, and Bernanke in the September 2008 AIG Bailout Was Goldman Sachs President, Mr. Blankfein!
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2/9/2010 6:01 AM
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The Bear Returns!
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2/9/2010 6:00 AM
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Populism is Not the Problem….
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2/8/2010 8:56 PM
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Former Head of Merrill to Run CIT.... Doesn't Rule Out Selling Off Bank Units, or the Bank! CIT Still Owes the Taxpayers TARP Monies!
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2/8/2010 7:14 AM
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Money is Far from Cheap, As Interest Rates Rise!
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2/8/2010 7:08 AM
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PIIGS Present Opportunity: Destruction of the E.U., or the Rise of a Central Government Over Europe.... Should Get Interesting!
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2/8/2010 6:34 AM
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Retro Blog: The Always Prescient Dr. Roubini..... On the New-Corporatism Sweeping the Land! Thank You, Bush, Paulson and Bernanke.... WE REMEMBER!
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2/8/2010 6:28 AM
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What's This? A Gift for the Democrats? The Republican Leadership Bench is looking a little Shallow These Days....
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2/8/2010 6:21 AM
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The Coming Showdown Over this Nation's Future: Democracy or Plutocracy? What the "Fat Cats" Don't Realize is the Volcker Rule Spawns from a Popular Uprising Against the Wall Street Trust! Too Big to Fail Eliminated, and the Banks Broken Up!
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2/8/2010 6:09 AM
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Private Equity Firm, Terra Firma, IS ON UNSTABLE GROUND, FINANCIALLY! Volcker Rule Anyone?
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2/7/2010 6:49 AM
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The End of the Euro or the Rise of a Centralized Government in Europe? And Would a Central Government Rein in Socialist Tendencies?
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2/7/2010 6:25 AM
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Retro Blog: We Still Remember: Unvarnished Greed + Monopoly = Recession
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2/7/2010 5:59 AM
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How Goldman Sachs: Sold the American Dream Short, Sold AIG Short, and Pricked the Bubble that Precipitated the Greatest Financial Collapse in the History of Man! Thank You Paulson, Geithner, Bernanke!
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2/7/2010 5:46 AM
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Want to Mitigate Systematic Risk.... Break Up the Banks!
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2/6/2010 8:43 PM
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Could the PIIGS Be the Beginning of a Chain of Falling Sovereign Dominos.... Leading to a New World Currency?
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2/6/2010 8:30 PM
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Up and Down Wall Street... One of the Best Columns Written. Mr. Abelson touches on it below, but we often comment on the Tax Drag on the Economy, but what about the Usury Drag Created by Banking? All to Make Sure Bankers Get Their Compensation!
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2/6/2010 8:07 PM
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I'm Always Amazed How People Forget Which Political Party Ran the Executive Branch, When the Deficit Spending and the U.S. National Debt Spiraled Out of Control....
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2/6/2010 7:12 PM
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You Know If We Just Wish Hard Enough.... Maybe This Crisis Will Go Away!
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2/6/2010 5:19 PM
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Democracy for Sale.... No Thanks!
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2/6/2010 4:38 PM
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Will the Problem with PIIGS Debt Cause: The Abandonment of the Euro, or Create a Central European Government?
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2/6/2010 7:54 AM
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Christina D. Romer: “The overall number (unemplyment rate) is too high. You can’t look at 9.7 percent unemployment and say that’s anything but a tragedy.”
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2/6/2010 7:47 AM
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The RING OF FIRE...
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2/5/2010 7:56 PM
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While Obama May Wish to Channel Reagan: There are at least Two Problems: One, National Debt as a Percentage of GDP was 30% under Reagan, and Obama Inherited an 80% Ratio; and Two, Today's Consumers carry significant Debt!
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2/5/2010 7:45 PM
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Google Partners with NSA: Matter of National Security or Privacy Violation?
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2/5/2010 7:34 PM
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Will Senator Dodd, Like Senator Phil Gramm Before Him (Both Responsible for Regulating Wall Street), Soon Be Joining Wall Street for Undisclosed Sums of Money???
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2/5/2010 6:20 AM
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Mr. Dodd Shakes Hands with His Future Employer, Wall Street?
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2/5/2010 6:17 AM
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Lovely, BOA Stockholders Get the Shaft Twice: First, When Mr. Lewis Bought Merrill; and Two, When the SEC fines the Stockholders, Not Bank Management, for Mr. Lewis' Sins!
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2/5/2010 6:09 AM
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One Wonders: Would Kuwait, Qatar, Saudia Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain Like to See A Theocracy Removed, and Iran's Oil Supply Taken Off Line for a Year or Two?
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2/4/2010 7:23 PM
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How Many AG's Will Jump on the Bandwagon? California Seems to Be Hurting Right Now....
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2/4/2010 6:28 PM
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Double Dip... Bear Market Rally Faltering ?
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2/4/2010 6:23 PM
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Justice Thomas Confirms: Corporations Have the Same Rights as U.S. Citizens. Except: They can Rob, Systematically Destroy the Economy, Seek Bankruptcy Protection! And now, they can subvert Democracy!
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2/4/2010 7:24 AM
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U.S. Banks - Serving Third World Despots and Dictators!
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2/4/2010 7:19 AM
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Telegraphing our Punches Does What? Allows the Bad Guys to Escape; Prolongs the War; Feeds the Military Industrial Complex; and/or Corrals the Bad Guys into a Tighter Region, where they can be Eliminated??? Perhaps all the above.
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2/4/2010 7:06 AM
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Does China Pose an Economic and Political Threat to the U.S. by Arbitrarily Keeping Its Currency Deflated? And What Does China's Power Elite Have to Fear from a Rising Middle Class and a Self Sustaining Economy? Answers: Yes. And Everything!
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2/4/2010 7:02 AM
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If Volcker Were Only a Few Years Younger...
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2/3/2010 9:03 PM
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Chinese security agents told his family he was wanted for a brief chat....
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2/3/2010 8:45 PM
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“Malicious cyberactivity is occurring on an unprecedented scale with extraordinary sophistication,” he told the committee.
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2/3/2010 8:33 PM
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Obama: Keeping His Friends Close, and His Enemies Closer.... Smart Move!
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2/3/2010 8:30 PM
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Amazing... Private Equity/Banks Can Trash a Company, Load it Up with Debt, Totally Enrich Themselves, and Usher the Company Into Bankruptcy Court.... and yet, Americans Feel Guilt Over Walking Away from an Underwater Mortgage?
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2/3/2010 8:24 PM
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AIG Still Owes the Tax Payers Billions... Why Hasn't It Been Sold Off?
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2/3/2010 8:20 PM
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Mr. Dodd Apologist for the Big Banks and the Financial Crisis..... Can't Retire Soon Enough.... Hasta La Vista, Mr. Dodd!
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2/3/2010 8:17 PM
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Roubini Speaks!
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2/3/2010 5:12 AM
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Republican Wine!
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2/2/2010 9:18 PM
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Cyber Pearl Harbor!
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2/2/2010 9:17 PM
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And (Bank) industry lobbyists and chief executives have been lining up outside the doors of senators.
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2/2/2010 9:15 PM
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Graveyard of Empires! Afghanistan.
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2/2/2010 9:14 PM
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The Financial Titan of the 20th and 21st Century: Mr. Volcker!
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2/2/2010 9:13 PM
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The Master Guides the Student!
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2/2/2010 9:11 PM
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Further Evidence that America will Default on Its Debt, Does not have Breathing Room to Address the Inevitable, Next Domestic or Foreign Crisis.... Read My Book, Killer with Pen - The Underwriting of America, for Solutions to Our Fiscal Crisis!
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2/2/2010 6:22 AM
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Donlan Nails IT !!!
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2/1/2010 9:29 PM
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Time for Prosecutors to Grow a Pair, Learn from their Bear Stearns mistakes, Realize that Every Jury is Different….. and Prosecute Cassano to the Nth Degree!
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2/1/2010 8:28 PM
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Banking Reform needs to be Global, so as to Prevent Banks from Engaging in Geographic Arbitrage, and Simply Moving Operations Away to More Hospitable Regulatory Environment!
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2/1/2010 7:48 PM
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We are in a Recovery (?), I'd sure as hell wouldn't want to live through Recession, in the New Normal.... Take of heed of Mr. Rubenstein’s remarks, and consider the source, as a member of the Carlyle Group (Private Equity).
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2/1/2010 7:43 PM
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Americans were told at the time of the AIG bailout, in Sept. 2008, that only the London FPU was rogue, and the balance of the Insurance Carrier was sound. We now know that to be false. In fact, AIG U.S. Insurance Operations were also selling Derivatives
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2/1/2010 7:25 PM
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