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Alexander Eichler

Occupy The SEC Marches In Support Of A Strong Volcker Rule

HuffingtonPost.com | Alexander Eichler | Posted 02.14.2012 | Business
Read More: Market Maker, Liquidity, Dodd-Frank, Financial Reform, Occupy the SEC, Repo, Prop Trading, Volcker Rule, Paul Volcker, Repurchase Agreements, Proprietary Trading, Lehman Brothers, Occupy Wall Street, Sec, Securities and Exchange Commission, Financial Regulation, Video, Business News

NEW YORK -- A crowd of some 60 people were milling outside the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in the Financial District Monday afternoon. They liste...

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Marcus Baram

MF Global's Risky Practice Could Lead To Next Crisis

HuffingtonPost.com | Marcus Baram | Posted 12.22.2011 | Business
Read More: European Banks, Jon Corzine, Wall Street, Lehman Brothers, Long Term Capital Management, MF Global, Rehypothecation, Financial Crisis, Repo, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Business News

The swift implosion of MF Global highlights a common practice used by aggressive speculators, one that experts say makes the broader financial system ...

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Arthur Delaney

Strategic Defaulter Walks Back To His Mortgage

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 09.14.2011 | Business
Read More: Mortgages, Repo, Strategic Default, Mortgage, Unemployment, Housing, Underwater Homeowners, Housing Crisis, Walking Away, Business News

Ernie Soto and his wife are moving back into their house in Alamogordo, N.M., the same house they abandoned at the beginning of 2010 after Soto lost f...

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Repo Rage: Man Rams Tow Truck, Barricades Self In Home

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles
Read More: Repo, Repossession, Repo Rage, Repo Man, Los Angeles News

TUSTIN, Calif. — A California man suspected of ramming a tow truck that was repossessing his car has surrendered peacefully after an 11-hour sta...

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5 Areas Where 'House Flipping' Is Booming Once Again (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Foreclosure Sales, Bank Owned Homes, Repo, Foreclosure, Riverside California, Phoenix, Realtytrac, Slidepollajax, House Flipping, Foreclosed Homes, Las Vegas, Business News

At least one of the risky money-making schemes from the pre-crisis era has resumed in full force. As Bloomberg noted yesterday, house flipping -- the...

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Mother Allegedly THROWS One-Year-Old Son Into SUV To Block Repo

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Repo Baby, Repo, Krystal Gardner, Thrown Baby, Repossession, Baby Thrown, Home News

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Brad Hintz, Former Lehman CFO: Firm's Accounting Practices Filled With 'Shenanigans' (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Grace Kiser | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Repo 105, Repurchase Agreements, Lehman Brothers, Brad Hintz, Financial Crisis, Repo, Lehman Brothers Bankruptcy, Dick Fuld, Video, Business News

In an interview with Bloomberg Television this morning, former Lehman Brothers CFO Brad Hintz condemned the firm's executives for camouflaging its bal...

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Federal Reserve Testing Strategy to Exit Securities Program

nytimes.com | EDMUND L. ANDREWS | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Repo, Federal Reserve, Financial Crisis, Mortgage-Backed Securities, Fiscal Policy, Treasury Bonds, Business News

The Federal Reserve said Monday that it would begin testing its strategy to shrink its trillion-dollar portfolio of mortgage-backed securities and eve...

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