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SSRN-The Promise and Perils of Credit Derivatives by David Skeel, Frank Partnoy »
Posted by: deathray 4 months, 3 weeks ago in Business & Finance
In this Article, we begin what we believe will be a fruitful area of scholarly inquiry: an in-depth analysis of credit derivatives. We survey the ...
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FT.com / Comment / Opinion - Daddy, tell me, what exactly is a derivative? »
Posted by: jimdoze 7 months, 3 weeks ago in Business & Finance
I f nature abhors a vacuum, politics abhors complexity. There has been much discussion and some angst in the press lately about President Barack Obama ...
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Regulators seek tighter oversight of derivatives »
Posted by: Progressive 1 month, 1 week ago in Business & Finance
WASHINGTON - Federal regulators on Wednesday asked a House panel to strengthen proposed legislation that would impose new oversight on derivatives, complex financial instruments blamed by ...
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McCain's Chief Economic Advisor Helped Create Our Current Financial Crisis »
Posted by: Aidenag 1 year, 1 month ago in News
Lurking in the background of this weekend's collapse of two of Wall Street's biggest names, is a $62 trillion segment of the $450 ...
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More Proof that Credit Default Swaps Caused the "Credit Crisis" »
Posted by: rumple4skin 5 months, 3 weeks ago in Business & Finance
The credit default swap is the primary reason banks stopped lending to each other.
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Fox News - "Massive positions are just starting to be unwound in ...Read (124) | Share | Discuss (3) | Read Full Story at washingtonsblog.com
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Derivatives Are Focus of Antitrust Investigators »
Posted by: engineer 4 months ago in Business & Finance
The Justice Department is investigating the role of several major companies in the credit markets, in another indication that the government is intensifying its scrutiny ...
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What Cooked the World's Economy? »
Posted by: bruhaha 9 months, 2 weeks ago in Business & Finance
It's 2009. You're laid off, furloughed, foreclosed on, or you know someone who is. You wonder where you'll fit into the grim ...
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We've All Been Had »
Posted by: rumple4skin 9 months, 2 weeks ago in News
Everyone should realize that fiat money – by its very design – has a PERFECT historical track record, where longevity is concerned, in that it has always ...
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What the Heck Are Derivatives? »
Posted by: populist 10 months, 1 week ago in Business & Finance
Simplified, the term "derivative" refers to a "derived" wager, or bet, on the price of something, in this case rice, at some point in the ...
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Five Firms Hold 80%of Derivatives Risk, Fitch Report Finds - Risk Management - CFO.com »
Posted by: ChangeToday 3 months, 3 weeks ago in News
First-quarter financials mark the first time comprehensive derivatives disclosure was mandated for all U.S. companies.
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Q+A-Derivatives: What they are and why they matter »
Posted by: Progressive 6 months ago in Business & Finance
NEW YORK, May 14 (Reuters) - The Obama administration has
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proposed exerting new government authority over derivatives, a
largely unregulated multi-trillion-dollar market whose
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U.S. bill would restrict OTC derivatives holdings »
Posted by: Progressive 3 months, 2 weeks ago in Business & Finance
U.S. financial regulators would gain the power to restrict holdings of over-the-counter derivatives under legislation to be considered this fall, the chairmen of two ...
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Derivatives the new 'ticking bomb' »
Posted by: engineer 1 year, 1 month ago in Business & Finance
Buffett and Gross warn: $516 trillion bubble is a disaster waiting to happen Wall Street didn't listen to Buffett. Derivatives grew into a massive ...
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Borrowing from Peter to Pay Paul: The Wall Street Ponzi Scheme Called Fractional Reserve Banking »
Posted by: ehbrown 10 months, 2 weeks ago in News
Bernie Madoff showed us how it was done: you induce many investors to invest their money, promising steady above-market returns; and you deliver – at least ...
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We're Dull, Small Banks Say, But Have Profits »
Posted by: slightgeist 6 months ago in Business & Finance
Community banks have largely done very well (most actually refused bail-out money)--and they're tired of being lumped together with the larger banks who ...
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