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Alarm Bells Sounded on Wall Street’s Derivatives

February 22, 2018

Alarm Bells Sounded on Wall Street’s Derivatives Andy Green, Managing Director,  Economic Policy Center for  American Progress On February 14, the week after the Dow Jones Industrial Average experienced two separate days of more than 1,000-point losses, the House Financial Services’ Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Securities and Investment convened a hearing to discuss various legislative […]

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The Coming CONTAGION – CDS Sales Double from 2016

August 31, 2017

The Coming CONTAGION – CDS Sales Double from 2016 The issue of credit default swaps (CDS) in 2017 is running at twice that of last year reflecting rising concerns of another coming crash. The number of hedge funds and banks dealing with highly sensitive credit derivatives has reached almost $30 billion in 2017 up from […]

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Which Countries Have The Highest Default Risk: A Global CDS Heatmap

March 8, 2016

Which Countries Have The Highest Default Risk: A Global CDS Heatmap Sweden beats USA and Germany as the least likely to default on its bonds but at the other end of the global sovereign risk spectrum lie two socialist utopias – Venezuela (CDS just shy of 6000bps) and Greece (CDS around 1800bps) are the nations most likely to […]

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Italian Banks Sink As “Bad Bank” Plan Underwhelms

January 27, 2016

Italian Banks Sink As “Bad Bank” Plan Underwhelms Last week, we noted that Italy is rushing to defuse a €200 billion time bomb in the country’s banking sector as investors fret over banks’ exposure to souring loans. “Italian banks’ share prices have been volatile YTD, given the market’s renewed fears over asset quality and potential developments on […]

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What Just Happened With OIL?

January 17, 2016

What Just Happened With OIL? Yesterday, we reported exclusively how the Dallas Fed is pulling strings behind the scenes to conceal the fallout from the oil market crash. As Dark-Bid.com’s Daniel Drew notes, by suspending mark-to-market on energy loans and distorting the accounting, they are postponing the inevitable as long as possible. The current situation is eerily reminiscent to the […]

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The Big Short is a Great Movie, But…

January 5, 2016

The Big Short is a Great Movie, But…   Paris — Michael Lewis is the chronicler of Wall Street.  He takes the complexity behind which the inhabitants of the financial world hide and weaves a tale that is both understandable and compelling.  Starting with the classic “Liars Poker” (1989), Lewis has produced a number of books about […]

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Big Banks Caught Using Credit Default Swaps To Destroy Nations

December 16, 2015

Big Banks Caught Using Credit Default Swaps To Destroy Nations  At the beginning of 2010, readers were presented with what was (at the time) merely a theory. The Big Bank crime syndicate was engaged in the serial manipulation of credit default swaps, in order to (among other things) destroy the economies of entire nations. It’s one of […]

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Wall Street Banks Admit They Rigged CDS Prices Too

October 2, 2015

Wall Street Banks Admit They Rigged CDS Prices Too Back in June, we noted that a group of investors which included hedge funds, pension funds, university endowments, and others were looking to push forward with a lawsuit that alleged Wall Street had conspired to limit competition in the CDS market. Of course the whole case was based […]

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Three Conditions and Three Warning Signs | Mind on Money

December 14, 2014

Three Conditions and Three Warning Signs | Mind on Money. How to Tell if the Next Financial Crisis is Upon Us. In the last post, it was suggested that the rapid collapse in oil prices might have set up a repeat of the 2008 financial crisis. Before we all run for the bunkers and the […]

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