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Is Wall Street Full of Human CDOs?

Elise Coroneos | Posted 10.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Cdos, Wall Street, Derivatives, Financial Crisis, Banks, Human Cdos, Collateralized Debt Obligations, Cdo, Business News
Elise Coroneos

After the fiasco of the last year, the financial community should be getting back to the fundamentals of its job, which is to be stewards of the community's wealth.

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Landmark Decision Promises Massive Relief for Homeowners and Trouble for Banks

Ellen Brown | Posted 11.21.2009 | Business

Read More: Goldman Sachs, Wall Street Bailout, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, Fannie Mae Freddie Mac Bailout, Cdo, Home Foreclosures, Mers, Business News
Ellen Brown

60 million mortgages with fatal defects in title could give aggrieved homeowners and securities holders the crowbar they need to exert some serious leverage on Congress.

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Too Little, Too Late For Derivatives Oversight

Jill Keto | Posted 08.17.2009 | Business

Read More: Investing, Cdo, Economics, Stocks, Economy, Derivatives, Otc, Personal Finance, Credit Default Swaps, Recession, Business News
Jill Keto

Derivatives are a problem of breathtaking scale that cannot be cleaned up with a quick government fix.

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Morgan Stanley Turns Downgraded CDOs Into AAA Securities

bloomberg.com | Posted 08.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Cdo, Collaterized Debt Obligations, Mortgan Stanley, AA Bonds, Moody's, Business News

July 8 (Bloomberg) -- Morgan Stanley plans to repackage a downgraded collateralized debt obligation backed by leveraged loans into new securities with...

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Field of Dreams: Fantasy Finance Meets Fantasy Baseball

Les Leopold | Posted 05.28.2009 | Business

Read More: Cdo, Economy, Economic Crisis, Financial Crisis, Banks, Global Financial Crisis, Bernard Madoff, Credit Default Swaps, Business News
Les Leopold

Bernie Madoff, -- the Babe Ruth of fantasy finance -- is in a league of his own. His Ponzi scheme simply did away with all the fuss and bother of investments.

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Green Banking, Good Banking

John Tepper Marlin | Posted 06.12.2008 | Green

Read More: Carter Glass, Gramm, Carbon Bank, Cdo, Vanguard, Clean Energy, Hsbc, Deutsche Bank, Barclays, Jack Brennan, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Energy Efficiency Index, Morgan Stanley, Lehman, Phil Gramm, ABN Amro, Bear Stearns, Glass-Steagall, Brennan, Ceres, Green News
John Tepper Marlin

If Ceres Climate Change ratings had been used as a proxy for long-term thinking, they would have been helpful. They would, in the context of the illiquidity of the credit markets, have been a good predictor of the Bankers Panic of 2008.

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Citi CEO Spins Foreign Bailout Money

New York Post | Paul Tharp | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Vikram Pandit, Citigroup, Dubai International Capital, Cdo, Gulf Investors, Collaterized Debt Obligations, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Citi CEO, Subprime Mortgages, Sammer Al-Ansari, Business News

Vikram Pandit's winding up his 100-day, globetrotting honeymoon as Citigroup's would-be savior by yesterday writing a love note to all employees to as...

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