Selected
- News, Quotes, and Articles
Tel Aviv versus Davos
Huffington Post - June 5, 2013
Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen Are the Google: Julian Assange
Warns Resistance is Futile
Huffington Post - June 4, 2013 (Satire)
Growth
versus Viral: Google+ and Facebook
Huffington Post - May 29, 2013
Structured Notes Mirror JPMorgan's London Whale Credit Trades
Bloomberg News - April 9, 2013
S&P as Sole Target Has Wall Street Asking About Moody's
[and Fitch]
Bloomberg News - February 7, 2013
McGraw-Hill
Defense Seen as Diversion Against U.S. Fraud Claims
Bloomberg News - February 6, 2013
Leeway on Repo Rules is Cut Back
Wall Street Journal - January 16, 2013
Facebook Advertisers Beware
Huffington Post - January 16, 2013
Hebalife, Bill Ackman and Dan Loeb: Gains and Losses
Huffington Post - January 10, 2013
Bill Ackman is Right about Herbalife: It's Ripe for Investigation
Huffington Post - December 23, 2012
Facebook's
Fake Numbers: "One Billion Users" May
Be Less Than 500 Million
Huffington Post - December 11, 2012
Facebook: SEC Should Investigate
the Pump and Dump (pdf)
TSF - Novermber 30, 2012
Facebook: Soaring Fraud and Decelerating User Growth
(pdf)
TSF - November 16, 2012
Vatican
City: True Financial Crime and Murder
Huffington Post - November 10, 2012
Facebook's New Strong Sell Signals
Huffington Post - October 31, 2012
Facebook's Plummeting Stock Price (pdf)
TSF - October 16, 2012
Behind the Fall of [Alex Rekeda]
a Crisis Era So-Called Whiz
Wall Street Journal - October 12, 2012
BP Oil Spill Fine Upset: Likely to Soar Tens of Billions
Huffington Post - October 11, 2012
BP: Still Leaking
TSF - October 9, 2012
Déjà vu:
When Money Dies
Huffington Post - October 4, 2012
Steve Cohen's Press Release on SAC's Alleged Insider Trading:
I'm a Genius! (Satire)
Huffington Post - October 2, 2012
China and Japan (and U.S.) Island Dispute: It's All About
Oil
Huffington Post - September 25, 2012
How to Get an Angel Investor
Huffington Post - September 24, 2012
Is Nokia's Management Insane?
Huffington Post - September 6, 2012
Prince
Harry Offered Partner Position at Goldman Sachs (Satire)
Huffington Post - August 29, 2012
Citigroup Agrees to $590 Million Subprime Settlement
Washington Post - August 29, 2012
Failed Regulators and Other Culprits of the Financial
Crisis
Advisor One - August 29, 2012
Crime and Mayhem in the USA
Huffington Post - August 1, 2012
Facebook: Is Stock Research Rigged?
TSF - July 26, 2012
Wall Street's Ongoing Great Bailout
TSF - July 24, 2012
JPMorgan Raises Fraud Questions: Rising Trading Losses Top $5.8
Billion
TSF - July 16, 2012
JPMorgan Profit Drops on 'Whale'
of a Loss
Reuters and MSNBC - July 13, 2012
Dimon Risk Reputation on Line
Bloomberg Businessweek - July 10, 2012
Third World America 2012: A Country At War With Itself
Huffington Post - July 6, 2012
Financial
Journalism: “Sometimes Being
Responsible Means Pissing People Off”
TSF - July 3, 2012
JPMorgan's Losses Keep Adding Up
CNN Money - June 12, 2012
Hedge
Fund Managers: Sex Talk and Prostitution
New Economic Perspectives - June 12, 2012
US-Investorin zum Finanzmarkt: „Es müsste
tausende Anklagen wegen Betrugs geben“
Deutsche Wirtschafts Nachrichten - June 2, 2012
Cover
Story: Finding the Culprits
Research Magazine - May 2012 Issue
JPMorgan's Huge Loss Exposes the Risky Side of Banks
L.A. Times - May 31, 2012
Investors Bet on Facebook's Fall
Wall Street Journal - May 30, 2012
Facebook Shares Plumb New Depths, Valuation Questioned
Reuters - May 29, 2012
Jamie Dimon: JPMorgan's Chief is the
World's Funniest Financier
Huffington Post - May 15, 2012 (Updated May 19,
2012)
Analysis: The Core Problems with JPMorgan's Failed Trades
Reuters - May 14, 2012
Jamie Dimon's SNAFU: JPMorgan's Other Derivatives' Losses
Huffington Post - May 12, 2012
Warren Buffett Calls for 90% Billionaire Wealth Tax (Satire)
TSF - May 7, 2012
MF Global Implosion: Congressman Grimm Sends a Message
Huffington Post - May 3, 2012
Renewed Hope that Jon Corzine Will Face Criminal Charges
Huffington Post - May 1, 2012
MF Global: JP Morgan Produces Smoking Gun
Huffington Post - April 3, 2012
The JOBS Act Is So Criminogenic That It Guarantees Full-Time Jobs for Criminologists
by William K. Black - March 20, 2012 (JT Note: I am among the co-signers)
What Do Customers Really Think About Goldman Sachs?
Huffington Post - March 19, 2012
Fear
Gauge at 5-Year Low "An Optical Illusion"
CNN - March 15, 2012
Goldman Sachs Ripped by Critics for History of Issues
AdvisorOne - March 15, 2012
Greece and Credit Default Swaps: Bucking the ISDA Cartel
Huffington Post - March 3, 2012
MF Global: Crime, Comedy and the Cover-Up
Huffington Post - February 28, 2012
Even In a Palace a Right Life Is Possible
Huffington Post - February 12, 2012
Gold and Silver Price Manipulation
Huffington Post - January 25, 2012
Price Manipulation: Look for Motive
Huffington Post - January 19, 2012
China 2012: The Year of the Bull (Rogers) or the Year of
the Bear (Chanos)?
TSF - January 9, 2012
2011: The Year 60 Minutes Misled Americans About Municipal
Bonds
Huffington Post - December 30, 2011
Congresswoman
Marcy Kaptur Confronts MF Global and Wall Street
Huffington Post - December 26, 2011
SEC Sues Hub's Richard Syron
Boston Herald - December 17, 2011
Rehypothecation Is An Old Story: MF Global's Story Is a Different
Story of Filched Funds
Hunffington Post - December 16, 2011
Corzine Facing Questions About Regulator Contacts
Associated Press - December 15, 2011
Wealthy Patriots Wage Class War
Huffington Post - December 12, 2011
Jon Corzine Dodges the Fraud Question
Huffington Post - December 9, 2011
Corzine Blames Predecessors for MF Global's Fall
Associated Press - December 8, 2011
Chanos Crash: Timing China's Financial Meltdown
TSF - December 6, 2011
Goldman Apologist Claims Paulson Hedge-Fund Meeting Was Business
As Usual
Bloomberg News - December 4, 2011
Paulson's Actions Raise Serious Ethical Questions
Huffington Post - December 6, 2011
Is Crony Capitalism Wrong?
Huffington Post - December 3, 2011
How Paulson Gave Hedge Funds Advance Word of Fannie Mae Rescue
Bloomberg Magazine / BusinessWeek - November 29,
2011
Nomura Curtails European Debt Dealings
Wall Street Journal - November 29, 2011
Mistaken
Identity: Janet Tavakoli Is Not the "Queen of RAVs"
MF
Global Revelations Keep Getting Worse (pdf)
TSF - November 21, 2011
Greek Bond Losses Put Role of CDS in Doubt
Financial Times - November 17, 2011
Sad Proof of Europe's Fallout [MF
Global, Leverage, and Opaque Credit Derivatives]
New York Times - November 6, 2011
Credit Derivatives and Leverage Sank Jon Corzine's MF Global
(pdf)
TSF - November 4, 2011
The Two Faces of Jon Corzine
Reuters - November 4, 2011
MF Global's Jon Corzine Runs Out of Luck
Bloomberg Businessweek - November 2, 2011
Selling More CDS on Europe Debt Raises
Risk for U.S. Banks
Bloomberg News / Business Week - November 2, 2001
Clear and Present Danger (pdf)
TSF - October 31, 2011
"Standard" Credit Default
Swaps on Greece Are a Sham and It's Not a Surprise (pdf)
TSF- October 27, 2011
Black Swan Money Manager Returning
23% Anticipating Bear Market
Bloomberg News - October 6, 2011
U.S. SEC Concedes Challenges in Credit-Rating Probes
Reuters - September 29, 2011
SEC Mulls Charges Against S&P in CDO Case
Reuters - September 26, 2011
Statutes of Limitation Fuel Banks' Wave of Mortgage-Bond Claims
American Banker - September 15, 2011
"Gucci
Scaramucci" Fired by Goldman Schmoozes His Way Into Top
Hedge Funds
Bloomberg News - September 9, 2011
"Fraud As a Business Model"
Huffington Post - September 6, 2011
Investing: Bad News, Good News, and What's Next
Huffington Post - August 21, 2011
Investors
Gauge Downgrade Fallout
Wall Street Journal - August 6, 2011
USA
is "AAA" in Label Only
Huffington Post - July 29, 2011
In Symbolic Move, Tavakoli Strips Rating Firms of Key Status
Dow Jones - July 25, 2011
S&P As the Decider?
Reuters - July 24, 2011
Goldman
Topples
Deutsche Bank in Europe Junk Bond Underwriting
Bloomberg News - July 14, 2011
Mark Zuckerberg's Value Problem:
(Some "Whale") Facebook Profiles Were Frauds
Huffington Post - July 14, 2011
Why Some Housing Prices Are Still Falling and Subprime Loans
Are Still Sliding
Huffington Post - June 27, 2011
Exclusive: Deutsche's Firing of Top Trader Sparks Probe
Reuters - June 24, 2011
The Middle Class is Drowning in Debt and Choking on Lies
Huffington Post - June 24, 2011
Third World America 2011: "Fast Tracking to Anarchy"
Huffington Post - June 8, 2011
Euro Endgame (pdf)
TSF - June 1, 2011
Wall Street's Advice to the IMF:
Control Your Alleged Rapists! (Satire)
Huffington Post - May 22, 2011
How Safe Are Your Savings? Complex Derivatives Imperil Retirement
Funds
Demos - May 17, 2011
Warren Buffett and the Boys of Wall Street
Huffington Post - May 9,
2011
Today's Silver Scandal
TSF - May 5, 2011
Buffett Scrambles to Limit Damage
Wall Street Journal (Front Page) - May 2, 2011
Sokol Misled Buffett, Violated Trading Rules
Bloomberg/Businessweek - April 27, 2011
Special Report: Is Buffett's Teflon Finally Wearing Off?
Reuters - April 25, 2011
The Wall Street Mind: Anxious
New York Magazine - April 12, 2011
Buffettgate: An Unenforced Policy Isn't a Policy
Huffington Post - April 6, 2011
Dissension in the Ranks
Mortgage Banking Magazine - March 2011
Special Report: OMG! Dan Loeb Said What?
Reuters - March 11, 2011
The Biggest Headache for Investors in Groupon and Facebook
Huffington Post - March 3, 2011
Hedge Funds Search for Ways to Short Munis
Financial Times - February 8, 2011
Gold Game Changer: J.P. Morgan Accepts Gold as Money
Huffington Post - February 7, 2011
Special Report: Jamie Dimon Wants R-E-S-P-E-C-T
Reuters - February 4, 2011
JP Morgan Faces More Risks on Madoff Trustee Allegations
Wall Street Journal - February 3, 2011
A Bank Crisis Whodunit, With
Laughs and Tears
New York Times - January 30, 2011
Blame the Victims and Enrich the Perpetrators
Huffington Post - January 13, 2011
Tavakoli's Top Ten Business Books of 2010 (Satire)
Huffington Post - Dec 13, 2010
The Nerve to Say No
New York Times - Dec 12, 2010
Repairing the Damage of "Fraud as a Business Model"
Presentation to the FHFA Supervision Summit in Washington
D.C. - Dec. 8, 2010
In Third World America, You Can't Buy a Ream of Paper on Minimum
Wage
Huffington Post - Dec 18, 2010
Fink Builds BlackRock Powerhouse Without Goldman Backlash
Bloomberg News - Dec 9, 2010
An Investment for the Experienced
New York Times - October 20, 2010
"This is the Biggest Fraud in the History of the Capital
Markets"
Washington Post - October 8, 2010
In Foreclosure Controversy, Problems Run Deeper Than Flawed Paperwork
Washington Post - October 7, 2010
Goldman Sachs Sued by German Bank Over Alleged Securities Fraud
Huffington Post - October 5, 2010
Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger: Winning the Class War
Huffington Post - September 21, 2010
Blaming Shortsellers, A Pointless Post-Lehman Game
Daily Finance - September 15, 2010
Goldman Sachs: Bullies on the Block
Huffington Post - September 13, 2010
Despite Reform, Banks Have Room for Risky Deals
New York Times (Front Page) - August 26, 2010
Third World America: "Fast-Tracking
to Anarchy"
Huffington Post - August 25, 2010
Goldman's CEO to Treasury Secretary: OK,
Now What? (Humor)
TSF (and Huffington Post)- August 23, 2010
How to Thwart
the Assassins of the American Dream
Huffington Post - August 15, 2010
JPMorgan's Losses from Indecent Overexposure
Huffington Post - August 9, 2010
Stranguflation: Deflation and Inflation Where It Hurts America
Most
TSF (also at Huffington Post) - August 3, 2010
IKB’s
CEO Found Guilty, 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 (Satire)
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 Huffington Post) - February 14, 2010
Congress
Exposes Potential Profiteering in AIG's Deals: Delay Enabled Cover-Up
TSF (also at Huffington Post) - January 28, 2010
Show Bernanke and Geithner the Door
TSF (also at Huffington Post) - 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 Should
Reject Bonus Plans
TSF (also at Huffington Post) - January 12, 2010
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
Bloomberg 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 Exuberance
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)
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
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
Investment Funds: Should
You Hear Alarm Bells?
TSF - February 9, 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
Bailing Out the Bad Guys
FT Alphaville - January 10, 2009
No Mere Buffett, A 14-Course
Menu
Seeking Alpha -
January 9, 2009
Ponzi Nation
Business
Week -
December
14,
2008
(from
the
archives)
Alternative to Treasury Bailouts: One that Does Not Violate
the Spirit of Democracy
TSF - September
25, 2008 (from the archives)
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