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Derivatives tripped up regulators: Geithner
in Sox First, on July 11, 2009
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, the US Government wasn't even aware of how serious a problem it's been. Associated Press rep...
Do you still have faith in Obama's stimulus plans?
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on July 10, 2009
I happily voted for Barack Obama last year. I was thrilled to see George Bush and his cronies swept away.
But I had no illusions: I knew that fixing the country's problems, especially its struggling economy, would require a long, hard slog. I knew, too, that things weren't magically g...
The Goldman Sachs-Rolling Stone slugfest
in Sox First, on July 3, 2009
Hard to go past Matt Taibbi's piece in Rolling Stone where he accuses it of engineering every market manipulation since the Great Depression. Taibbi doesn't pull any punches either. He calls it the "Wall Street bubble mafia". He writes: "If America is circling the drain...
Sotomayor and the Supreme Counrt
in Latina Viva, on June 29, 2009
...tion , ABC News
Most Americans Want Sotomayor on Court , in the WaPo
And then there's the politics:
Senior Republican Seeks More Material on Sotomayor , in The Caucus
Brownback Third ...
The True Story of True Ventures
in Wangtam, on June 29, 2009
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Climate change: the lawyers' picnic
in Sox First, on June 27, 2009
... tied up in the courts for the years ahead. One thing for sure: litigation is going to reshape the politics of climate change. A report from insurer Swiss Re warns that climate change litigation is...
Bankers' pay soars despite crisis
in Sox First, on June 22, 2009
... us now that the bankers are working out ways of getting around crimping bonuses in response to the bailout rules of the Troubled Asset Relief Program. Instead of bonuses, you just boost the base sala...
A new wave of mortgage foreclosures on the way?
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 18, 2009
I'd like to think that we've seen the worst of the foreclosure crisis. I'd like to think that we'll be seeing fewer homes fall into foreclosure, and fewer homeowners missing their mortgage payments.
I'd like to think all that. Unfortunately, I can't.
What I really think is ...
Banks fight to keep accounting tricks
in Sox First, on June 6, 2009
...rule change. They are also spending millions lobbying Congress. Not content with their $700 billion bailout, the banks want to keep investors in the dark. There's nothing US banks hate more than t...
Is manufacturing dead?
in Sox First, on June 3, 2009
...he observations in Robert Reich's blog on the future of manufacturing. Reich argues that the bailout of GM is just buying time. It won't create jobs and it won't save GM. Manufacturing ...
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in Wangtam, on May 18, 2009
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Why stricter laws won't work
in Sox First, on May 13, 2009
The problem with bringing in stricter laws to fix the banking system is that it turns good behavior into a matter of compliance. As economist John Kay writes, that stricter rules can never replace integrity and that they only result in people finding ways to circumvent them. "Regulation b...
Madoff's secretary tells all. What's next?
in Sox First, on May 11, 2009
Gee, she sure can talk. Hard to go past the revelations last week in Vanity Fair from Eleanor Squillari, Bernard Madoff's secretary of more than 20 years who claimed the man was an egotistical sexist who got his rocks off in massage parlors. "Madoff was flirtatious and had a habit o...
The 60th Anniversary of the People's Republic of China is Making China Visas Hard to Get
in Global Mobility Report, on May 10, 2009
...oyee). Three, and probably most important, is that the Chinese government will nearly always place politics and stability over economics. ...
Bankroll blues
in Sox First, on May 7, 2009
...worth of assets that created the meltdown were owned and financed by investment banks now receiving bailout money. Investment banks owning and financing subprime lenders included Merrill Lynch, JPMorg...
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Is Twitter Politically Conservative?
in The Social Networking Weblog, on April 29, 2009
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Well, it's hard to believe. But I managed to go over a month without talking about Twitter. It's been 32 days now since we discussed some aspecty of the fabulous microblog. So we're past due...
I was surprised to some across a post recently that sugg...
Big bonuses at imploding banks
in Sox First, on April 26, 2009
...heir bonuses are bigger than last year. That includes UBS which despite gettiong a Swiss government bailout is paying its "star" 15-20% more. Until the banks are sorted out, the financial c...
TARP fraud investigations
in Sox First, on April 21, 2009
...g entry looking at how the TARP cop Neil Barofsky bemoaning the lack of accountability for the bailout funds being put up by US taxpayers. Clearly, the system is open to fraud and now we have th...
Thailand May as Well Be Closed...
in Hidden Travel Gems, on April 20, 2009
...bly plan on the Philippines or Malaysia instead.
I could take a few minutes and try to unravel the politics. But, well, mai pen rai . The truth is simple. Thailand had protests and political unrest ...
Climate change flood warning
in Sox First, on April 20, 2009
Dire warnings from Energy Secretary Steven Chu that some islands in the Caribbean will disappear and that Louisiana and even northern California could be overrun with rising water as a result of global warming. Conservative commentators and so-called experts will no doubt attack Chu for being...
The Panic of 2008-09
in Sox First, on April 7, 2009
The financial crisis is more than just a global recession. It's a Panic, according to Kevin Warsh , a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. In a speech to the Council of Institutional Investors, Warsh compares the conditions to the Panics of 1837, 1857, 1873, 18...
Here we go again
in The CIO Weblog, on April 6, 2009
...ISun? SunBM?) this actually seemed like a good deal for both parties on the face of it; Sun needs a bailout, IBM could use some fresh faces (as is ever the case at IBM). IBM, however, can go out and b...
Bailout funds sink without a trace
in Sox First, on April 6, 2009
... I did a blog entry bemoaning the lack of oversight into the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) bailouts. Some of the banks have not been able to say where the money has gone. Now, the US Public...
G20 and FASB: the banks win again
in Sox First, on April 3, 2009
...vestment community, and the regulators are worse off. The change in the accounting rules is another bailout for the bankers!" Is it any wonder, as ethicist Dov Seidman writes, that the real pr...
Foreign Tourists Allowed Back Into Tibet
in Hidden Travel Gems, on April 2, 2009
...t exactly how many tourists will be let back in is unclear at the moment.
It you can get past the politics of Tibetan tourism, Tibet offers some of the most fascinating history and culture on earth....
Bailouts total $3 trillion with no oversight
in Sox First, on April 2, 2009
...tor General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program Neil Barofsky there were $3 trillion worth of bailout programs, the equivalent of an entire agency or three just to stop the US financial system f...
G20 protest meltdown
in Sox First, on March 28, 2009
London is bracing itself for the G20 protests with warnings from one of the organizers that there could be "real bankers hanging from lamp posts". Regardless of the hyperbole, it's another sign of how polarized the world has become in the wake of the financial meltdown with anti-ca...
Why Geithner's plan won't work
in Sox First, on March 23, 2009
So Timothy Geithner outlines his plan to save the US financial system this morning in The Wall 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, a...
Are Visa Rules a Form of Protectionism? India Thinks So...
in Global Mobility Report, on March 22, 2009
...lus money. It's protectionism, say Indian critics, that Congress has banned companies receiving bailout money from hiring foreigners on H-1B visas. The problem is not just the H-1B visa. Many U.S....
Supermarket looting: a sign of things to come
in Sox First, on March 20, 2009
Is this a warning of things to come? An alarming story out of the Los Angeles Times about looting in a supermarket in Israel that went bankrupt. According to the piece, ex-employees took their revenge first helping themselves to crates of groceries. Then came the creditors who walked in and m...
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in Wangtam, on March 19, 2009
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Madoff to jail, SEC in the dog house
in Sox First, on March 13, 2009
So Bernard Madoff is now in jail after pleading guilty to 11 charges including securities fraud. And he has apologised to the investors he scammed, claiming he was "painfully aware" that he had "deeply hurt many, many people, including the members of my family, my closest friend...
Climate change deniers on the increase
in Sox First, on March 13, 2009
...ion. Thomas Friedman makes a similar point where he points out that Mother Nature doesn't do bailouts. "Let's today step out of the normal boundaries of analysis of our economic crisis... ... is the number of climate change deniers on the increase. The answer is pretty obvious. Look at the politics. The Gallup survey shows that a growing number of Republicans think global warming has been...
Give a Tucker Enough Space and it Will Overwhelm You
in Classical Drives, on March 11, 2009
...s to the auto industry might have been dramatic, with great benefit to consumers. What a shame that politics, poor planning, and false charges by a media muckraker conspired to destroy the Tucker befo...
Bush-era Bans on Stem Cell Research, Lifted By President Obama
in Straightfromthedoc, on March 9, 2009
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The bush-era bans on stem cell research has been lifted by President Barack Obama this Monday - thereby allowing federal financing of medical research using stem cells from discarded human embryos.
According to President Obama:
"This orde...
Norman: Take A Pay Cut
in Eagle Par Birdie, on February 28, 2009
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And now we learn that Wells Fargo Bank , recipient of some 25 billion dollars in taxpayers' bailout money and the new owner of Wachovia Corporation is dropping the Wachovia name from the Cha...
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in Wangtam, on February 27, 2009
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Dubai bailout
in Sox First, on February 23, 2009
The meltdown from the credit crisis, combined with a 74% drop in oil prices, is hurting Dubai which has the world's tallest building, most expensive hotel suite and largest man made islands. Dubai borrowed $80 billion to turn itself into a regional financial and tourism hub and, according to...
GM and Chrysler's begging bowl
in Sox First, on February 18, 2009
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And so the bailout continues. Last week, I did a blog entry looking at whether GM and Chrysler will go bust. Now the two companies are begging for more , with GM saying it could need as much as...
Bad Money by Kevin Phillips
in Sox First, on February 17, 2009
...ncompetence and quantitative negligence." And finally, there is the inability of all sides in politics to come up with a policy on energy and oil. All this at a time when the future of the US en...
House And Senate Agree On The Economic Stimulus Package
in Exclusive from our news room , on February 11, 2009
The economic stimulus package has been honed down by some $100 billion which was enough for Senate Republicans to cause them to support President Obama's wish list.
The nearly $800 billion tax cut and stimulus package has a little something for everyone and it is hoped that these funds will res...
Will GM and Chrysler go bust?
in Sox First, on February 10, 2009
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Irony of ironies. Will the bailout of US automakers lead to them going out of business? Will it send GM and Chryler bankrupt? That's the question now being raised. As Forbes points out, the...
The meltdown and fascism: minister warns
in Sox First, on February 10, 2009
...#39;s and Schools Secretary, Ed Balls, that the downturn is likely to see a return to the Far Right politics of the 1930s and the rise of Fascism. ""I think that this is a financial crisis m...
Stimulus Hype: A Populist Plan? (Part II)
in Bizinformer, on February 9, 2009
...ight not get the whole $10,000. Giving the same rebate to everyone is not populism. It's just politics.
Oh, and while Spielberg may not quite know what populism is, his conclusion seems to be tha...
TARP shortchanged taxpayers $78 billion
in Sox First, on February 7, 2009
...n a post last week, I talked about the total lack of transparency in the US Government's bank bailout package. The upshot is that it's likely to mean taxpayers' money is going down the d...
Federal CTO position eviscerated
in The CIO Weblog, on February 7, 2009
... Science and Technology Policy, an even more obscure department than OMB.
I won't get into the politics of the decision, which may make a certain sort of sense in light of other pressing matters ...
Ford May Sell Volvo To China
in Exclusive from our news room , on February 5, 2009
It's lose-lose everywhere for the Ford Motor Company these days. Ford sales are at their lowest in 27 years and the company is trying desperately to avoid having to ask for government bail out money.
Trying to sell off Volvo, one of the company's many bad investments, to the Chinese, is For...
Bank bailout failure
in Sox First, on February 3, 2009
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If nothing else, the latest events are showing us that Bush's bank bailout strategy was a complete and absolute failure. First, we had the reports last week of four banks closing in January...
Bailout transparency problems continue
in Sox First, on January 31, 2009
The Financial Times reports that the Obama administration is expected to come out with a "big bang" announcement next week that will see a bank clean-up, measures to reduce home foreclosures and moves to to kick-start credit markets. The FT says the measures might include the purchas...
Wall Street bonus time, despite recession
in Sox First, on January 29, 2009
... bankers. Not one bit. The New York Times reports that despite all the losses and taxpayer-funded bailouts, financial companies in New York collected an estimated $18.4 billion in bonuses for the ye...
Gaps In the Schedule
in Eagle Par Birdie, on January 28, 2009
...es, sports writer, Steve Elling lambastes Chrysler Corporation for wasting taxpayers' money - bailout money, if you prefer - on the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic.
Except it wasn't called that t...
Harsh Economic Times Forcing Estranged Couples To Stay Together
in Exclusive from our news room , on January 23, 2009
...It's not just politics that makes Strange Bedfellows these days, the current economic downturn is having the same effect, but for different reasons.
Because of lost jobs, decreased income and...
A Wall Street Bailout?
in Eagle Par Birdie, on January 22, 2009
Frank Thomas has taken on the USGA again in his weekly Frankly Golf e-newsletter.
A reader writes to ask Frank about the square groove rule change announced by the USGA last August.
The reader is dead certain that the USGA is manufacturing rule changes on equipment simply to line the pock...
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in Wangtam, on January 21, 2009
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Bush Commutes Sentences Of Border Patrol Agents
in Exclusive from our news room , on January 19, 2009
Outgoing President Bush has invoked executive privilege and commuted the jail sentences of two Border Patrol Agents convicted of shooting an unarmed illegal immigrant in 2006.
The officers, Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean, were sentenced to terms of 10 years and despite widespread public outrage...
Barack Obama Says He'll End "Don't Ask Don't Tell"
in Exclusive from our news room , on January 13, 2009
Barack Obama ran on a promise of "change" and it appears that he'll make good on that promise, in a big way, shortly after he takes office.
Not one to duck a big challenge, President-Elect Barack Obama has outright promised that he will abolish the "Don't Ask Don't Te...
New Visa Rules Impact Golfers
in Eagle Par Birdie, on January 12, 2009
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Over the past couple of years, authorities in the United States have increased their scrutiny of people entering the country - whether they're visitors or returning American residents or citizens.
This scrutiny has taken various forms. Remember those famous "no...
Will Tony Blair Become Europe's First President?
in Exclusive from our news room , on January 9, 2009
In less than 2 weeks the United States gets a new President, Barack Obama, who is already making headlines in Europe amidst talk of the possibility of there soon being a President of Europe.
There's no doubt that Europe has been headed towards more of a "United States of Europe" or &q...
Former eBay CEO Cannot Control Own Name On Internet
in Exclusive from our news room , on January 9, 2009
...ame on the Internet.
When Tom Hall, a Santa Monica resident, learned that Whitman was entering politics he promptly bought and registered at least 5 website names that he felt Whitman would want ...
Blagojevich and Spitzer: a moral tale about power
in Sox First, on January 8, 2009
...re you don't see how your actions will get you in trouble. Of course, this applies not only to politics but to business as well. That's why high flyers, from Jeff Skilling to Conrad Black who...
Charities Given a Helping Hand
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on January 7, 2009
...s; Nonprofits that are struggling because their donors lost money with Bernard Madoff are getting a bailout - but not from the government. Richer foundations are stepping in to help.
Human Rights Wat...
CNN's Doctor Sanjay Gupta Tapped For Surgeon General
in Exclusive from our news room , on January 6, 2009
Doctor Sanjay Gupta, CNN's lead medical correspondent, is the subject of strong rumors to be President-elect Barack Obama's choice for Surgeon General.
Doctor Gupta, a neurosurgeon who also appears on CBS TV on an irregular basis, has had a distinguished career both as a physician and a...
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More bailouts on the way
in Sox First, on January 3, 2009
...ons in deep trouble. The nation's top number crunchers reckon they'll treat each potential bailout on a case by case basis, looking at such issues as how much the collapse would hurt creditor...
More handouts: who's next?
in Sox First, on January 2, 2009
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Who the hell do these people think they are? Banks? Car makers? Bailout-mania is gathering momentum. Now the New York Times reports that the steel industry is lining up for its share, mostly in...
Toyota and Honda revising JIT methods to avoid future crisis problems
in Supplychainer, on January 1, 2009
...ercedes-Benz, BMW and Hyundai, among others.
"We continue contingency planning even after the bailout," Mike Goss, a spokesman for Toyota's North American manufacturing unit in Erlanger...
Minnesota Senatorial Race Continues - Al Franken Leads by 50 Votes
in Exclusive from our news room , on December 30, 2008
Feisty comedian, Al Franken, is holding on to his slim lead over incumbent Norm Coleman.
Still to be counted is a significant number of absentee ballots that were, "forgotten", during the first tally and it is expected that the final count will be known early next week.
Here's what ...
Corporate jets nosedive
in Sox First, on December 26, 2008
... market is still booming, reports Associated Press with financial firms that received billions in bailout dollars still owning and operating fleets. But, as the report says, some are starting to sca...
