Selected
- News, Quotes, and Articles
IKB’s CEO Found Guilty of Market Manipulation, Some
U.S. Bank CEO’s Should Also Face Charges
Huffington Post - July 16, 2010
Analysis:
Crisis Panel Targets Goldman as AIG Skates By
Reuters - July 2, 2010
2012: Voters Nix Incumbents, Demand Financial Reform and
Fed Fraud Audit
Huffington Post - July 1, 2010
Fees Exceed Maximum Yields on "Black Box" Convertibles
Bloomberg News / Business Week - June 24, 2010
ICP Once in AIG's "Very Best" is New Front in SEC's CDO Probe
Business Week - June 22, 2010
SEC Charges ICP Asset Management in CDO Fraud Case
Reuters - June 21, 1010
Wall Street's Advice to Joran van der Sloot
Huffington Post - June 8, 2010
CDOs Aren't a Four Letter Word
Reuters - May 27, 2010
"Banging" the U.S. Stock Market
TSF
(at Huffington Post)- May 10, 2010
Ackman Versus Wall Street's Ponzi
Scheme
TSF (at Huffington Post) - May 4, 2010
Barofsky Says Criminal Charges Possible in Alleged AIG Coverup
Bloomberg News - April 28, 2010
President Obama: Bring Back William
Black
TSF (at Huffington
Post) - April 25, 2010
Exclusive: Abacus might have had other benefits for Goldman
Reuters - April 23, 2010
ProPublica's (and NYTimes') "Untold" Magnetar
Story Creates Excuses for Wall Street and Washington
TSF (at Huffington Post) - April 19, 2010
Goldman Sachs Clients First Pledge Undercut by SEC
Bloomberg News - April 17, 2010
"Goldman
Sachs: Don't Blame Us" and
"Goldman Sachs: Spinning Gold"
Business Week (Cover Story) - April 14 2010 and follow-up
commentary on HuffPo
Congress's FCIC Nearly Nailed Former Citigroup Executives
to the Wall--Then Blew It
Huffington Post - April 8, 2010
Fed Reveals Bear Stearns Assets it Swallowed in Firm's Rescue
Bloomberg News - April 1, 2010
How to Corner the Gold Market
TSF - March 30, 2010
AIG
Continued to Write Protection After 2005 (Lewis and TIME are
Incorrect)
TSF - March 20, 2010
Michael Lewis: Junior Salesgirlieman
Huffington Post -
March 15, 2010
Lehman's Hidden Leverage "Shenanigans" May Haunt Fuld
Business Week - March 13, 2010
Fed Helped Bank [Lehman] Raise Cash Quickly
New York Times - March 12, 2010
Wall Street's Role in Greek Crisis Should be No Surprise
Washington Post - March 10, 2010
Larry Fink's $12 Trillion Shadow
Vanity Fair - April 2010
Washington Must Ban U.S. Credit Derivatives
as Traders Demand Gold (Parts 1 and 2)
Huffington Post - March 8, 2010
CNBC Protects Bad Guys Who Took Huge Bailouts from Taxpayers
Huffington Post - March 4, 2010
Role of Banks Eyed in Greek Debt Crisis
Globe and Mail - February 26, 2010
Secret AIG Document Shows Goldman Sachs Minted Most Toxic
CDOs
Bloomberg News - February 26, 2010
Wall Street and Washington Hope You Are Gullible: Disappoint
Them
TSF (also at HuffingtonPost) - February 14, 2010
Congress Exposes Potential Profiteering in AIG's Deals: Delay
Enabled Further Cover-Up
TSF (also at HuffingtonPost) - January 28, 2010
Show Bernanke and Geithner the Door
TSF (also at HuffingtonPost) - January 22, 2010
New York Fed "Very Sensitive on AIG, Company E-Mail Says
Bloomberg News - January 19, 2010
Redacted AIG Filing Might Have Spotted Worst Deals
Reuters - January 12, 2010
Bank of America's Shareholders (and All Wall Street Shareholders)
Should Reject Bonus Plans
TSF (also at Huffington Post) - January
12, 2010
What
Wall Street Owes You (Commentary) -
Revisited
CNN (exclusive to CNN) - July 15, 2009
Timothy Geithner, I Call Your Bluff
TSF (also at Huffington Post) - January 7, 2010
Washington's
Bipartisan Betrayal: The 2015 Global Financial Crisis
TSF (also
at Huffington Post) - December 31, 2009
Turmoil Shatters Faith in "Creative" Products
Financial Times - December 29, 2009
Responding
to Goldman Sachs
TSF (also at Huffington Post) - December
25, 2009
Treasury Cover-Up of Goldman's Role in AIG Crisis?
TSF (also
at Huffington Post) - December 22, 2009
Inside the Wall Street Journal's Future
of Finance Initiative
TSF - December 14, 2009
Goldman Fueled AIG
Gambles
Wall Street Journal -
December 12, 2009
The
Bank Job
Vanity Fair - January 2010 Issue (released December 1, 2009)
Beware of Geeks Bearing Grifts
Risk Professional - by Janet Tavakoli - December
2009
Goldman, Guns, and Bloomberg's B.S.
TSF - December 2, 2009
Warren Buffett, Stop Using My Credit Card!
TSF - November 23, 2009
Revisiting a Fed Waltz With A.I.G.
New York Times - November 22, 2009
I Retract My Apology and Call
for More Regulation of Goldman Sachs
TSF - November 22, 2009 (and related commentaries)
Can Citigroup Carry Its Own Weight?
New York Times - November 1, 2009
New York Fed's Secret Choice
to Pay for Swaps Hits Taxpayer
Blomberg News - October 27, 2009
Warren
Buffett's Wall Street War
TSF - October 20, 2009
China
Defaults, Currency Basket Threatens Dollar
TSF - October
6,
2009
Wall Street's Fraud and Solutions for Systemic Peril
TSF - September 29, 2009
Revoke
Rating Agencies' NRSRO Designation for Structured Products
TSF - September 17, 2009
U.S. Exit From Bank Bond Program to Go Smoothly
Reuters (Forbes)- September 16, 2009
AIG Bubble: Irrational Exhuberance
TSF - August 28, 2009
Consumers' Debt-Tactic Changes May Hurt Banks, Tavakoli Says
Bloomberg News - August 26, 2009
Buffett's Payouts Climb on Credit Derivatives After Defaults
Bloomberg
News - August 11, 2009
Berkshire
May Post "Blockbuster" Results
by CEO's Gauge
Bloomberg News - August 6, 2009
Where
Were The Drama Pundits [Whitney, Taleb and Gasparino] When
It Mattered?
TSF - July 29, 2009
The Cure For Prostate Cancer: Invest Now
TSF - July 21, 2009
What Wall Street Owes You (Commentary)
CNN (exclusive to CNN) - July 15, 2009
U.S. Probe of CDS Market (and Liz
MacDonald's series:" Crackdown on Wall Street")
Financial Times - July 15, 2009 (and Fox
Business - Feb 2009)
"Model Monkeys" Lose
Track of Reality (Blast from the Past)
Financial Times - May 20, 2005
Unwinding at AIG Prompts Pasciucco to Ponder Systemic Failure
Bloomberg News - July 1, 2009
$2.1 million lunch with Berkshire
Hathaway chief: "Warren
will give him his money's worth"
Examiner - June 26, 2009
Anchored Under Water
TSF - June 26, 2009
Berkshire Bought Municipal Bonds Amid Higher Yields
Bloomberg News - June 9, 2009
Bank Profits From Accounting Rules Masking Looming Loan Losses
Bloomberg News - June 5, 2009
REVISIT
- Investment Funds: Should You Hear Alarm Bells?
WOWOWOW.com
- February 9, 2009
BlackRock Wears Multiple Hats
Wall Street Journal - May 18, 2009
Reaction Mixed to Derivative Reforms
Wall Street Journal - May 15, 2009
Stress
Tests Are Over. The Stress Isn't.
New York Times - May 10, 2009
BlackRock
Is Go-To Firm to Divine Wall Street Assets
Bloomberg News - May 8, 2009
President Obama's Right to Free Speech
TSF - May 10, 2009
Ponzi Schemes and Stress Tests
TSF - May 8, 2009
How to Rescue Capitalism
Forbes - April 27, 2009
Geithner, as Member and Overseer, Forged Ties to Finance
Club
New York Times - April 27, 2009
Ken Lewis Must Go
TSF - April 24, 2009
Barclays' Massive Loan Pool Eludes Notice
The Street.com - April 20, 2009
Credit-Swaps Dealers Take Beating as Auctions Produce Losses
Bloomberg News - April 17, 2009
Mall Vacancies Spell Fresh Trouble for Lenders
Globe and Mail - April 7, 2009
Did AIG Insure Dodgy Mortgage Products for Goldman Sachs?
TSF - March 25, 2009
AIG Paying Out Millions in Bonuses
TSF - March 14, 2009
Buying
into Financial Fix? "Cassandra" Says
Don't
Globe and Mail - March 14, 2009
Buffett, Tavakoli Flag Ponzi Scheme Bigger Than Madoff's
Bloomberg News - March 5, 2009
In Letter, Warren Buffett Concedes a
Tough Year
New York Times - March 1, 2009
In Geithner We Trust Eludes Treasury as Market Fails to Recover
Bloomberg News - February 25, 2009
Obama's Adviser is Wrong: Malfeasance
(Not Models) Killed Wall Street
TSF - (reprinted with TSF permission on WOWOWOW.com)
- February 25, 2009
The Financial Meltdown Foreseen
Financial Times - February 21, 2009
Stimulus Plan, Bad Assets May Inflame
Risk - JT
Note: Misleading
Article From Reuters
Reuters (a misleading article) - February 19, 2009
Merrill's Murder/Suicide
TSF - February 7, 2009
The China Syndrome: It's Our Fault They Don't Trust Us
Financial Times - February 5, 2009
Crackdown on Wall Street: The Perp Walks
Are Coming
Fox Business - February 2, 2009
Divorce - Bank of America Style
Fortune - January 30, 2009
Questions Hang Over Merrill Deal
Financial Times - January 28, 2009
BofA
Says Merrill's Huge Hit was in December (Not November)?
TSF
- January 26, 2009
Four Questions for Tim Geithner
Fortune - January 20, 2009
After Sure-Bet Investment Fails, a Bank Contends it Was
Duped
New York Times - January 20, 2009
Fortune's
Forgiving Instincts
Columbia Journalism Review - January
16, 2009
Bernanke
Urges "Strong Measures" to Stabilize Banks
Bloomberg News - January
13, 2009
Premise of Fortune Cover Story
is Incorrect
TSF - January 11, 2009
Ponzi Nation
Business Week - December 14, 2008
Madoff Deserves Lots of Company
(Sample Pre 2009)
TSF - December 14, 2008
Alternative to Treasury Bailouts: One that Does Not Violate
the Spirit of Democracy
TSF - September 25, 2009
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