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BLOG.JMHAMILTONPUBLISHING.COM: Daily Archive - 2/8/2012

“Mitt Romney is saying that I’m not a conservative. That’s almost laughable for a moderate Massachusetts governor who has been for big-government programs,” Mr. Santorum said on “Fox and Friends”

The passage of the Dodd-Frank reforms seeks to reestablish some of the disciplines that were imposed on the financial years ago.

Is there a lesson to draw here for the prospects of Dodd-Frank?

Goldman Sachs is picking up the pieces from the wreckage of the American International Group.

Deutsche Bank AG won dismissal of two lawsuits in which investors in residential mortgage-backed securities accused the bank of selling them securitized loans it internally disparaged as “crap.”

Tony James, president of Blackstone Group LP, talks about criticism of private-equity firms and impact on the industry.

The auction will be the second major sale of the year of assets held by the New York Fed in a vehicle known as Maiden Lane II

Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley declined to comment.

“The MERS- related litigation could run into the billions.”

Inflation ‘Misinformation’

For now, the deal’s fate rests with the Federal Reserve Board governors, who will meet in Washington on Wednesday afternoon.

In New York especially, it’s the regular people, he argues, who benefitted from all that crazy leverage.

"The other candidates are all piling on Romney," Heye said, "and that's going to have an effect."

Democrats view the carried interest issue as an element of the tax fairness theme that President Barack Obama is highlighting in his re-election campaign.

The Assad family has run Syria as an Alawite mafia syndicate since 1970.

“I’m very bullish on the market,” Laurence D. Fink, chief executive officer of BlackRock Inc., the world’s largest money manager

“Bottom line is we moved away from the disaster scenario and now it’s being endorsed or even underwritten by central bank activity in the U.S. and Europe.”

With unemployment at 19 percent, businesses closing, credit scarce and the proposed new wage cuts expected to further decimate the shrinking middle class, the hard left and extreme right are rising.

The Kremlin is sensitive to the perception that Russia, Mr. Assad’s strongest foreign backer, had given the Syrian leader a green light to crush his political opponents.

Americans have been frustrated by what they see as Iraqi obstructionism and are now largely confined to the embassy because of security concerns, unable to interact enough with ordinary Iraqis to justify the $6 billion annual price tag.

“I’m pretty confident we’ll come in No. 1 or No. 2,” and acknowledging “a good night for Senator Santorum.”

“I’m not going to be able to raise the scale of money Governor Romney can,” Gingrich said. “I don’t have Goldman Sachs. And I don’t have all of his major donors from Wall Street.”

NEC Display, a major supplier of monitors, said 30 to 40 percent of the employees of its corporate customers now used more than one monitor, up from 1 percent four years ago.

Obama & Citizens United: Surrendering principles, or living again to fight another day for those Principles?

The three-judge panel issued its ruling in San Francisco

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