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Will Dimon replace Geithner?
in Sox First, on November 24, 2009
...Post reporting that JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon is emerging as the replacement for beleaguered Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner. According to the Post, sources say policy makers are canvassing Dim...
US to pay $500 billion to service mega debt
in Sox First, on November 23, 2009
... the only way open to it, by printing money out of thin air and exchanging it for promises from the Treasury. That means an escalation of monetary inflation and, somewhere down the road, serious price...
Seen that? - Berkshire Hathaway says 'Get Boring'
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on November 19, 2009
...aluable than anything else [...] Read More Boring Old Bonds: U.S. Savings Bonds & Treasury Bonds at The Personal Finance Weblog Other th...
Seen that? - Currency trading with Retirement money
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on November 15, 2009
...nipulating the value of their currency, the yuan renminbi. At least that's what Obama's new Treasury Secretary, Tim Geithner says. The statement came as part of his 102-page response to questi...
Glass-Steagall and the market meltdown
in Sox First, on November 13, 2009
...ppalling quotes from Clinton and Phil Gramm. He reminds us that the other culprits include the then Treasury secretary, now Obama economics czar Larry Summers, Gary Gensler, then a treasury undersecre...
Goldman Sachs and God
in Sox First, on November 9, 2009
...an Sachs' spectacular success has been its links with the US Government. The list includes: the treasury secretary under Bill Clinton (Robert Rubin); the treasury secretary under George Bush (Hank Pau...
The Goldman Sachs lie
in Sox First, on October 11, 2009
...ogram (TARP), Neal Barofsky issued a report showing that the banks were not as healthy as the US Treasury would want people to believe. In contrast, prominent banking analyst Meredith Whitney has ...
Who is buying up US debt?
in Sox First, on August 23, 2009
...They are in there among the top 10 debt holders. You can see that for yourself in the most recent Treasury International Capital report . According to the report, the grouping known as the Caribbea...
Buffett cleans up on Goldman Sachs
in Sox First, on July 25, 2009
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US taxpayers did well when Goldman Sachs repaid US Treasury's TARP loan of $10 billion. According to Bloomberg , they made a return of 23% which is not too bad at all in any market, let alone...
Bonuses for bankers, despite losses
in Sox First, on July 23, 2009
... of $1.26 billion in the last quarter after paying back $10 billion government investment under the Treasury's Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP. Chief executive John Mack reckons the bonuses...
Regulating PE's & VC's? Treasury Wants To...
in Bizinformer, on July 20, 2009
... The US Treasury Department proposed a bill earlier this month that would regulate venture capital, private equity firms and hedge funds that had more than $30 million in assets. Registration wit...
Banks misused TARP funds
in Sox First, on July 20, 2009
...e is a need for more transparency. US taxpayers need to know where their money is going. But the US Treasury says that can't be done. Of course, when Timothy Geithner announced his bailout plan ...
Derivatives tripped up regulators: Geithner
in Sox First, on July 12, 2009
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Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is pushing the Obama administration's plans to regulate the exotic and opaque derivatives market, something that's long overdue. Let's face it, th...
The Goldman Sachs-Rolling Stone slugfest
in Sox First, on July 3, 2009
..." He talks about how Goldman honchos infiltrated the US Government. Names include former Bush treasury secretary Henry Paulson and Bill Clinton's former treasury secretary Robert Rubin who s...
Mafia cashes in on crisis
in Sox First, on June 19, 2009
...e financial crisis with two apparently "Japanese" men bringing $134 billion worth of fake Treasury bills into Switzerland. The men were questioned by Italian police who subsequently let them...
The Coming Solar Revival
in IfEnergy, on June 15, 2009
...thers had been a major investor in renewable energy projects. SunPower CEO Tom Werner says that the Treasury Department's cash grant program (part of February's economic stimulus package) will...
Banks fight to keep accounting tricks
in Sox First, on June 6, 2009
...s being put on the balance sheets of the nation's 19 largest banks that have just completed the Treasury's stress tests. These off balance sheet items left the US economy in smoking ruins. The...
Faberge Jewelry
in The Jewelry Weblog, on May 29, 2009
.... He drew his inspiration from the art of earlier generations, which he found in the well-stocked treasury of the Hermitage.
Faberge 18K Yellow Gold Blue Enamel Bracelet
Faberge lady's 18 ...
The recession: blaming the business schools
in Sox First, on May 21, 2009
...uated top of his class. And then of course, there's George W Bush, Hank Paul-son, the former US Treasury secretary, and Christopher Cox, the former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commissi...
TARP fraud investigations
in Sox First, on April 21, 2009
... complex and difficult to decipher. Which is one reason why Barofksy's report recommends the US Treasury abandon its planned structure for buying the toxic securities, which include intricate bund...
How a nut case blogger fooled the market
in Sox First, on April 21, 2009
... really don't know what drives US markets sometimes. Today we had a Bloomberg report where US Treasury was called in to deny a blog report that 16 of the 19 banks being stress tested are insol...
Back door bank nationalisation
in Sox First, on April 20, 2009
...ment's existing loans to the nation's 19 biggest banks into common stock. This means the US Treasury could become the biggest shareholder in the banks. Nationalization is not just a plan push...
The great economic cover up
in Sox First, on April 11, 2009
...'s a cover up. BILL MOYERS : Yeah. Are you saying that Timothy Geithner, the Secretary of the Treasury, and others in the administration, with the banks, are engaged in a cover up to keep us fro...
Bailouts total $3 trillion with no oversight
in Sox First, on April 2, 2009
...nformation on their use of funds." All this raises an obvious question. Why hasn't the US Treasury forced the TARP recipients to provide certified reports to Treasury on how they are using t...
Geithner's push for power and the law of unexpected outcomes
in Sox First, on March 27, 2009
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With Bloomberg reporting that Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is moving to tighten up the rules for monster hedge funds, private- equity firms and derivatives markets, it's worth looking...
Why Geithner's plan won't work
in Sox First, on March 23, 2009
... Street Journal . in that piece, he unveils the Public Private Investment Program which will use US Treasury Capital and financing from the Federal Reserve, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, ...
Are we headed for a Depression?
in Sox First, on March 5, 2009
...eteriorated this calendar year and it's unlikely to get any better. And as Bloomberg tell us, Treasury secretary Timothy Geithner warns that the US recession is getting worse and there's nex...
Warnings from Buffett
in Sox First, on March 3, 2009
...US Government's handouts which would, among things, boost inflation. "In poker terms, the Treasury and the Fed have gone 'all in.' Economic medicine that was previously meted out by ...
James Galbraith: Obama not solving the financial crisis
in Sox First, on February 28, 2009
...ee, reported here , Galbraith says the problem is worse than what's portrayed and that all the Treasury plan would do would be to preserve the wealth of investors and bank insiders. Everyone else...
Blind over-optimistic analysts
in Sox First, on February 28, 2009
...e the ones who abstain. Instead, with the stress tests, they are reaching for the strong stuff. The Treasury plans to have the banks conduct the stress tests themselves; regulators will check the resu...
New Blog Deals With Crisis
in Eagle Par Birdie, on February 24, 2009
It is truly a sign of the times; I recently received a comment from Malcolm Milburn on my post titled The Screws Tighten .
Malcolm writes that he has become so concerned over the financial crisis - which I call a depression - and its impact on the game of golf that he has created a blog deali...
Another step to nationalization?
in Sox First, on February 24, 2009
... for the nationalization of US banks? Look carefully at the joint statement put out this week by Treasury, FDIC, OCC, OTS and the Federal Reserve. "Any government capital will be in the form ...
Geithner's vague debut
in Sox First, on February 11, 2009
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Markets slumped when Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner unveiled his rescue plan and for good reason too. The fundamental problem is that there just isn't enough detail. The plan is to to...
Floating the Yuan: Be Careful What You Wish For
in China Venture News, on February 9, 2009
...me more of an issue a few weeks ago with the confirmation to Tim Geithner as the Secretary of the Treasury.
Sunshine rightly points out that Chinese goods are cheap for a lot of reasons - no...
PrimeRevenue Receives Best Supply Chain Finance Company Award
in Supplychainer, on February 9, 2009
...eRevenue was selected as part of the publication's 2008 Leaders in Innovation Awards within the Treasury and FX category.
"The Financial-i Leaders in Innovation Awards recognize banks and s...
TARP shortchanged taxpayers $78 billion
in Sox First, on February 8, 2009
... showing that the bank bailout program short-changed US payers $78 billion. For every $100 spent by Treasury, it took back assets worth just $66. Mind you, that would be a conservative estimate, it&#...
Bailout transparency problems continue
in Sox First, on January 31, 2009
...hat the US Government's Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP) still lacks transparency. It says Treasury has taken some steps to address the problems but there are still issues about accountabilit...
Deloitte's new report on supply chain improvement in crisis times
in Supplychainer, on January 30, 2009
...generally spend their day thinking about operations and don't pay much attention to finance and treasury issues. More often than not, inventory levels and other critical business parameters are dr...
Geithner on Currency Manipulation, and China's Reaction...
in China Venture News, on January 26, 2009
...nipulating the value of their currency, the yuan renminbi. At least that's what Obama's new Treasury Secretary, Tim Geithner says.
The statement came as part of his 102-page response to quest...
Ariba becomes best supply chain company followed by i2 and CSC
in Supplychainer, on January 19, 2009
... Technologies and CSC as part of the publication's 2008 Leaders in Innovation Awards within the Treasury and FX category, Business Wire reported.
"The Financial-i Leaders in Innovation Awar...
More bailouts on the way
in Sox First, on January 3, 2009
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Citigroup was just the beginning. The US Treasury has announced that it will use more Citi-style rescue packages to help financial institutions in deep trouble. The nation's top number crun...
George W rewrites history
in Sox First, on December 12, 2008
...on, and the tax cuts fed the housing bubble. "With China and other foreign countries absorbing Treasury securities directly, and U.S. corporations still coming off of their late-90's investme...
Auditors slam bailout
in Sox First, on December 3, 2008
...itutions, to monitor participating institutions' activities. For example, it is unclear whether Treasury plans to leverage bank regulators, which in the case of the largest institutions have bank ...
Rubin's self-serving "innocence"
in Sox First, on December 1, 2008
...itigroup, this Wall Street Journal interview with Citigroup director and Bill Clinton's former Treasury honcho Robert Rubin probably takes the cake. Rubin claims innocence about Citi, insisting...
Obama slams "tone-deaf" business leaders
in Sox First, on November 26, 2008
...berg's Margaret Carlson says, we can thank Henry Paulson for some of this mess. "What the Treasury is getting now is a stake in a stinking pile of instruments no one can value much less want...
Gouging with the bailout?
in Sox First, on November 24, 2008
...ject on Government Oversight group to Congress. The note raises key issues like where the hell did Treasury find billions of dollars more to prop up AIG and why Treasury head Paulson authorized the p...
Do we get depressed?
in Sox First, on November 24, 2008
...with a common problem. Back then, we were Cursed with a feckless Federal Reserve, and a wealthy Treasury secretary, Paul Mellon, saw the downturn as a force for good." Of course, the most im...
Tim Geithner: crisis manager
in Sox First, on November 23, 2008
...th president-elect Obama selecting New York Federal Reserve Bank chief Timothy Geithner to head the Treasury. It's a significant choice because Geithner warned years ago that trouble was ahead. T...
Tough Times Ahead
in Eagle Par Birdie, on November 2, 2008
...ring. General Motors and Chrysler were dealt a blow in their efforts to forge a merger when the U-S Treasury turned down GM's request for a bailout. Ford is suffering. Toyota, Honda, Mazda (part o...
Competing for bailouts
in Sox First, on October 27, 2008
...types are all lining up for a slice of the action with the Financial Services Roundtable writing to Treasury officials requesting that the initiative to buy $250 billion in bank stock be extended to c...
Corporate governance takes a back seat
in Sox First, on October 20, 2008
...rnance mess that helped speed up the meltdown. As part of the $700 billion bailout package, the US Treasury said financial institutions getting taxpayers money would have to adhere to stricter corpor...
Can the bailout fix things?
in Sox First, on September 29, 2008
...ys the only thing it will do will be to help bank shareholders and unsecured creditors. "The Treasury plan is a disgrace: a bailout of reckless bankers, lenders and investors that provides litt...
Bailout blues
in Sox First, on September 25, 2008
... constructed so hastily that it may include all manner of flawed provisions: too much power for the Treasury secretary; authority for bankruptcy judges to modify mortgages. Congress faces a wrenching ...
Oh, The Irony
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on September 22, 2008
...k Times should be feeling very proud of herself for this paragraph that leads off a story on the Treasury Department teaching young people how to handle credit :
The Treasury Department started a c...
Bad mortgage bailout pain
in Sox First, on September 21, 2008
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The Bush administration's stupid short-sightedness continues with the Treasury Department plan to buy up to $700 billion in distressed mortgage-related assets from private firms. Let's ...
The Difference Between Chinese Banks and American Banks
in China Venture News, on September 18, 2008
... yuan RMB is the currency that supports both US and Chinese banks (I guess since China buys so many treasury notes).
And he points out the irony that five years ago American banks were bemoaning the...
Best Buy 出价 1.21 亿美元收购 Napster
in Wangtam, on 2008-09-16
Best Buy 刚才宣布 ，将以每股 2.65 美元现金的价格收购数字音乐服务供应商 Napster Inc.。该收购价格包括 6700 万美元现金，以及 Best Buy 截至 6 月 30 日对 Napster 总计 1.21 亿美元的投资。
如果该项收购顺利完成，将使 Best Buy 拥有来自 Napster 的 70 万个在线音乐用户，并使其获得新的客户。Best Buy 连接数字解决方案部门执行副总裁 Dave Morrish 在一份声明中表示："我们能够预见到，Napster 作为一个平台将加快我们在数字娱乐这一新兴行业的成长。"
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Fixing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac: the world waits
in Sox First, on July 14, 2008
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Back in March, we saw the bail out of Bear Stearns. But the US Treasury and US Federal Reserve rescue plan for Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae is much more serious and problematic. Bear Stearns was j...
Here comes the Fed
in Sox First, on June 19, 2008
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It had to happen. When markets are troubled, big government steps in. us treasury Secretary Henry Paulson will be pushing to give the Federal Reserve more power over markets. His speech, s...
Government to Offer Social Security Payments on Debit Cards
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on June 10, 2008
...photo, Jill Fromer
This is interesting , and probably long overdue:
The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Financial Management Service (FMS) has announced that a prepaid debit card for Social...
Why flying will get worse
in Sox First, on June 2, 2008
...profits. And that's certainly happening now with oil prices travelling the way they are, and US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson saying there is no quick fix to the solution. Basically it's ...
Book Review: Follow the Fed to Investment Success
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on May 27, 2008
...rest rates minus the rate of inflation. When real interest rates are negative (the interest rate on Treasury Bills is less than the rate of inflation), small caps are essentially borrowing money for f...
Carl Icahn 将正式卷起新 Yahoo 收购风波
in Wangtam, on 2008-05-17
刚刚已经提及， 亿万富翁 Carl Icahn 上周谋得 Yahoo 董事席位，意欲发动代理权争夺战 。然后 Carl Icahn 在随后发给 Yahoo 的信中确认，他已经发动了旨在促成微软收购 Yahoo 的代理权争夺战。 Carl Icahn 已经提名了十位 Yahoo 董事候选人，希望用他们取代现有 Yahoo 董事会，以推动 Yahoo 接受微软每股 33 美元、总价值 475 亿美元的收购报价。 Carl Icahn 还在写给 Yahoo 董事会主席 Roy Bostock 的信中披露，他已经收购了 5900 万股 Yahoo 股票，并在寻求清除来自国美国联邦贸易委员会的反垄...
George Soros: market fundamentalism and other illusions
in Sox First, on May 12, 2008
...he regulators. Whilst a lot of people could see disaster, the regulators at the Federal Reserve and Treasury ignored it until it was too late. "But I don't hold them personally responsible b...
Stimulus Checks? When Will I Get My Rebate?
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on April 25, 2008
... are scheduled to be deposited or mailed by July 11.
I'm guessing mine will show up July 10.
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson sounds a bit overoptimistic if you ask me:
"Close to 8 million...
On Goons and Thugs, and CNN's Ratings
in China Venture News, on April 19, 2008
Life is complicated. Simplistic views, when they're expressed in isolation, can make some particular issue seem simple; but very few issues are really all that isolated.
I know there's almost nothing I can say about the war of words between CNN commentator Jack Cafferty and the government o...
Treasury Secretary to Announce Regulatory Reforms
in Bizinformer, on March 31, 2008
...of the regulatory reforms was reprinted in the Times on Saturday. This morning at 10:00 a.m. EDT, Treasury Secretary Paulson will make a speech addressing the proposed reforms. I addressed some o...
Coming Up: Credit Suisse's 11th Asian Investment Conference
in China Venture News, on March 24, 2008
Credit Suisse will host its 11th Asian Investment Conference from March 31st to April 3rd this year at the Island Shangri-La Hotel and the Conrad International Hotel in Hong Kong.
According to FinChannel Dot Com , Keynote speakers confirmed to address the conference include Jesse Wang Jian...
The $240 Million Acquisition Of Bear Stearns
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on March 17, 2008
...has a strong track record of effective merger integration," said Heidi Miller, CEO of JPMorgan Treasury & Securities Services business. "We will work closely in the coming weeks with Bea...
Paulson: closing the barn door
in Sox First, on March 14, 2008
...losing the barn door after the horse has bolted. That's how BusinessWeek has described Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's policy recommendations to solve the credit crisis following t...
