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Bankers expect bonus pay records
in Sox First, on November 2, 2009
... never change. Around the world, politicians and voters are furious about the massive payouts and bonuses for bankers. But no matter what controls are put in by the G20 and governments, the gravy tr...
Profits are a gift: Soros
in Sox First, on October 25, 2009
...fts, from the government, so I don’t think that those monies, for instance, should be used to pay bonuses. And so there’s a resentment which I think is justified." In other words, US taxpayers have b...
Champions League Group Stages - Fixture 3, Day 1
in The Soccer Weblog, on October 21, 2009
Almost half way through the group stage and things are hotting up. While some teams go from bad to worse, others look to cement themselves in a qualification place before reaching the last two games.
Arsenal, though, could only manage a draw away to AZ Alkmaar, putting them only one point clear ...
The big gap: Wall Street bonuses and normal pay
in Sox First, on October 21, 2009
While banks have been castigated for their excessive pay levels, the pay gap between the so-called Wall Street superstars and ordinary wage earners is the elephant in the room. Some shocking revelations on this gap from the Huffington Post warrant some attention. Check out the chart! Inc...
Failed Lehman bankers pursue $100 million in deferred pay
in Sox First, on October 14, 2009
Questions really need to be raised about long term deferred pay structure with reports that ex-Lehman bankers are claiming over $US100 million in lost deferred compensation from the administrators of the collapsed US bank. These are failed bankers. And to reward them, when investors lost a f...
Unemployment boosts military recruitment
in Sox First, on October 14, 2009
... in 1973. Recruitment is running so strong that the military reports it doesn't have to provide bonuses any more entice potential soldiers. And that's despite disallowing previous waivers for crim...
The Goldman Sachs lie
in Sox First, on October 11, 2009
...This includes not only the large lenders reducing exposure but also the shuttering of several major subprime credit-card lenders." Banks are lending less and that doesn't sound like they are that hea...
Seen that? - Poker Billionaires
in Internet Poker, on October 2, 2009
....S.. If you're going to play online Poker, you may as well play at a site that offers appealing bonuses, so check out the full press release [...] Read More The haves and the have ya...
Should ratings agencies go the way of Arthur Andersen?
in Sox First, on October 3, 2009
...he system for the investment public. Why haven't the rating agencies that were complicit in the subprime-mortgage securities scandal suffered the fate of Arthur Andersen? Despite some moves in Con...
魔鬼辞典之金融危机
in Wangtam, on 2009-09-23
随着金融危机从"狼来了"变成活生生的磨难，金融业的一些特有隐语也进入到了日常对话中。对于不熟悉华尔街这个小圈子的人来说，这种出乎意料的变化可能让他们不快。
安布罗斯•比尔斯(Ambrose Bierce)在1906年出版的魔鬼辞典《愤世嫉俗者词汇手册》(The Cynic's Word Book)中对当时的政治和文化用语给出了独出心裁的解释。按照这种精神，《华尔街日报》也在雷曼兄弟(Lehman Brothers)倒闭一周年之际编写了一个缩写词、新词和滥用词入门手册，这些词可以让人通俗、形像地了解雷曼倒闭给世人留下的烂摊子。
AAA，名词，废词。一种修辞工...
FBI probes BoFA-Merrill deal
in Sox First, on September 21, 2009
...he Securities and Exchange Commission for misleading shareholders about the billions of dollars of bonuses paid to executives at the failed financial services firm Merrill Lynch which lost almost $16...
The next bubbles
in Sox First, on September 12, 2009
...ie, AIG, Citi and Bank of America getting pushed up in the rush to buy cheap; education; repackaged subprime mortgages; securitised life insurance schemes; commercial real estate (definitely popping n...
US taxpayer bailout for subprime firms
in Sox First, on August 31, 2009
...ystem. The Center for Public Integrity presents a new report showing that firms that created the subprime lending frenzy, including subsiiaries of Countrywide, Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch, ar...
UBS whistleblower jailed
in Sox First, on August 30, 2009
...n effect, defraud US taxpayers. Why did he do it. Apparently, he was sick of his bosses getting big bonuses for putting pressure on client advisers such as himself to break US laws. Birkenfeld came f...
Foreclosures dogging the middle class
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on August 14, 2009
...arted to boom? We liked to say it was because of all those greedy homeowners who took out high-risk subprime mortgages to get into homes they couldn't really afford.
Well, today's foreclosure...
First SOX clawback
in Sox First, on July 26, 2009
...-Oxley Act requires chief financial officers and chief executive officers to reimburse the company bonuses and stock profits following a fraud. The rationale behind the legislation is that they were ...
Bonuses for bankers, despite losses
in Sox First, on July 23, 2009
...een a banker and a bag of money. Despite their massive losses, bankers are still raking in enormous bonuses. The Guardian reports that the House of Mack, Morgan Stanley has set aside $3.9 billion, ...
Nach der Krise - kommt das dicke Ende noch?
in Das Börsen Weblog, on 19.07.09
...en dürften eine Antwort parat haben. Im Artikel heißt es: "Denn auch wenn die Krise mit Subprime-Krediten ihren Anfang nahm - global wurde sie erst richtig durch die von Bankern konstruierten str...
Create Zoho Creator Web Apps from Microsoft Access Database
in Wangtam, on 2009-07-11
...plans "checkbook journalism"
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Is plain vanilla the right goal?
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 30, 2009
...erest-only options or any of the other fancy stuff that got so many borrowers in trouble during the subprime mortgage-lending crisis — if they choose.
But the Washington Post today asks an impo...
Bankers' pay soars despite crisis
in Sox First, on June 22, 2009
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It's hard to believe but bankers are now raking in enormous bonuses despite the global financial crisis. The Financial Times reports that Merrill Lynch, UBS and Citigroup are actually crank...
Does owning a home have to be the American Dream?
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 17, 2009
We like to find people to blame for our problems, don't we? And today, a lot of us are busy looking for people to blame for the mortgage meltdown the country is currently suffering through.
You know all about the meltdown: Housing foreclosures are soaring. Owners are walking away from thei...
How'd the mortgage meltdown happen? NPR knows
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 15, 2009
... you ever wanted to know — and then some — about mortgage loans, bad lending practices, subprime mortgages and the reasons why the mortgage industry went so wrong: It's NPR, of course....
What economy? CEO private jets take off
in Sox First, on June 11, 2009
...re finding all sorts of creative ways of increasing CEO pay, despite the fall in their salaries and bonuses. Let's remember that hundreds of thousands of dollars spent flying around in private jet...
Are reverse mortgages the next trouble spot?
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 9, 2009
...ke action to prevent reverse mortgages from causing some of the same problems for homeowners that subprime loans have already caused.
Reverse mortgages are popular these days. They let homeowners 6...
Wells Fargo accused of pushing bad loans on African-Americans
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 8, 2009
... Bank singled out African-American borrowers in Baltimore and suburban Maryland for high-interest subprime mortgages.
Baltimore has since filed a lawsuit against Wells Fargo. The city claims that t...
Subprime and racism
in Sox First, on June 8, 2009
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One of the things that has disturbed me the most about the subprime crisis is the impact it's had on the African American and Hispanic communities, and the way banks had targeted these people ...
Mortgage giant Mozilo charged with fraud
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on June 5, 2009
...ated $461 billion worth of mortgage loans. Too many of those loans, though, were bad ones. When the subprime lending crisis hit, Countrywide quickly fell apart.
Mozilo was once the king of the mortga...
More housing woes
in Sox First, on May 30, 2009
...rtgagees are in serious trouble. What's even more concerning is the fact that it's not the subprime loans that are the main cause of the problem. Prime fixed-rate loans now represent the larg...
Loan modifications not always helping homeowners
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on May 26, 2009
...difications aren't quite working .
The paper cites a Fitch Ratings report that points out that subprime loans that have been modified are turning bad again at high rates, even with a change in lo...
Looking to buy? Your mortgage loan might be smaller than ever
in The Mortgage Roadmap, on May 13, 2009
...elling today.
And qualifying for a mortgage loan today is more difficult, as lenders, stung by the subprime lending crisis, are doing everything they can to avoid passing out mortgage money to borrow...
A Hippocratic oath for managers
in Sox First, on May 9, 2009
...g virtual products as they did in financial markets wasn't serving anyone. Neither was flogging subprime packages to people who couldn't repay them, securitising them in packages that nobody c...
Bankroll blues
in Sox First, on May 7, 2009
...won't crack down on them? First comes its report showing that that the top 25 originators of subprime loans, the $1 trillion worth of assets that created the meltdown were owned and financed by...
Animal Spirits by George Akerlof and Robert Shiller
in Sox First, on May 4, 2009
... loan (S&L) crisis, the 2001 recession by Enron and the latest by the totally amoral selling of subprime mortgages to people who would never be able to repay them, and their securitization in pack...
Pandemic preparation in the IT department
in The CIO Weblog, on April 28, 2009
...tical staff on hand and available where otherwise they might be inclined to avoid work altogether. Bonuses or other guarantees might also show staff that the company recognizes their risks and values ...
Big bonuses at imploding banks
in Sox First, on April 26, 2009
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The banks are imploding but that hasn't stopped the bankers raking in massive bonuses. Just what they're being rewarded for is anyone's guess. The New York Times reports that six of...
More bad news ahead, says Roubini
in Sox First, on April 8, 2009
...rtgage delinquencies comes when you break down the figures further. According to the data, 39.8% of subprime borrowers were at least 30 days behind on their home mortgage loans, up 23.7% from last yea...
G20 and FASB: the banks win again
in Sox First, on April 4, 2009
...asure risks like liquidity risks, reputation risk and cost of capital. Executives will not be given bonuses immediately when the risks are stretched out over time and where it's uncertain when the...
Geithner's push for power and the law of unexpected outcomes
in Sox First, on March 27, 2009
...that it's anti-business, the Obama administration appears to be softening its stance on the AIG bonuses. The Economist points out that the big danger for Obama is that he will be accused of pand...
AIG witch hunts: the new McCarthyism
in Sox First, on March 21, 2009
...fault swaps. Worse still, the people who have helped place those bets are receiving $165 million in bonuses. That's why the tabloids have gone to town, with the New York Post singling out James...
Systems and the AIG catastrophe
in The CIO Weblog, on March 18, 2009
...iddy testify before the House Financial Services Committee insisting that he had to pay out massive bonuses to a bunch of people who, rightly or wrongly, are widely seen as culpable for leading the co...
Mortgage fraud and AIG
in Sox First, on March 17, 2009
...ington Examiner says Obama should be focusing on mortgage fraud rather than chasing down executive bonuses at AIG. But it's missing the point. While Obama has done a face-saving back flip, the pr...
AIG's Contracts and Obama's Outrage
in Bizinformer, on March 16, 2009
...The Daily Kos had a good piece today on outrage many American's feel over AIG's bonuses being paid to people in it's financial unit - the same people who were responsible for the company...
The politics of AIG
in Sox First, on March 16, 2009
...he AIG bailout will be massive. With $165 million in US taxpayers' money going to pay executive bonuses, the Obama administration is bailing itself for a backlash. It looks impotent and ineffectiv...
Tour Gets Burned Again
in Eagle Par Birdie, on February 24, 2009
...roiled in this mire. Enron was a perfect example in its time. Merrill Lynch proffering enormous bonuses on the eve of its takeover by Bank of America (with substantial taxpayer dollars) is another...
Bad Money by Kevin Phillips
in Sox First, on February 18, 2009
...take over the US economy, a turbo-charged growth of financial debt and extending mortgage credit to subprime and other unqualified buyers, swelling the housing, mortgage and credit bubble to the point...
The meltdown and fascism: minister warns
in Sox First, on February 10, 2009
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In his book The Subprime Solution , economist Robert Shiller warns that in good times people are willing to co-operate and accommodate others but when optimism for the future turns sour, they bec...
Stimulus Hype: Will the Stimulus Work? (Part I)
in Bizinformer, on February 7, 2009
...money to people they knew would in all likelihood eventually default. They did it for performance bonuses at the time. And the result was a credit crunch and a stalled housing market that's drag...
Wall Street bonus time, despite recession
in Sox First, on January 30, 2009
...d taxpayer-funded bailouts, financial companies in New York collected an estimated $18.4 billion in bonuses for the year. That's the sixth biggest haul on record and ranks with what they got i...
President Obama Shocked At Wall Street Bonuses
in Exclusive from our news room , on January 29, 2009
Wall Street executives announced today that bonus pay in the amount of $18 billion dollars has been disbursed to Wall Street upper echelon employees.
President Barack Obama expressed shock and outrage at this revelation citing the fact that Wall Street has been gifted with hundreds of billions of t...
The Market for MBA Grads Tightens Up
in Biz Plan Hacks, on January 26, 2009
...eeded to train new hires. So today there's still some hiring going on...
That said, signing bonuses are shrinking. The days of $50K signing bonuses are pretty much gone.
You can listen to t...
Subprime meltdown drives litigation
in Sox First, on January 8, 2009
...were sued in a federal securities class action in 2008, compared to only 5 percent in 2007. And the subprime/liquidity crisis was associated with 97 federal securities class actions. In 2008, 111 cla...
Strike at Hong Kong's Airport Delays Flights
in Wandalust, on December 28, 2008
...ars). The union says the company made a profit this year despite the recession, and they want their bonuses. The company has agreed to come up with about half what they've paid out in the past. Th...
Why did the housing meltdown happen in the US?
in Sox First, on December 8, 2008
...preventing riskier loans. And finally, there was the unique role of securitisation which encouraged subprime lending. The big question for the US now is whether the egg can be unscrambled. Given that...
A Look At Some Legit Sites Offering Work At Home Jobs
in Home Based Business, on December 6, 2008
...you think being paid $1.50 for a 200 word article is good money. Yes they promise "Performance Bonuses" based on pageviews, but to get the amount of pageviews that would result in a decent p...
Behind the $1 salary
in Sox First, on December 5, 2008
...o , the only thing it does is change a guaranteed payment. They still get lots of money from perks, bonuses, restricted stocks and stock options. And as this report points out, many executives like ...
The Subprime Solution - Robert Shiller
in Sox First, on December 1, 2008
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Have just finished reading Robert Shiller's The Subprime Solution which offers plenty of food for thought. Provocative and unsettling stuff. Shiller argues that the the impact of the US ho...
Obama slams "tone-deaf" business leaders
in Sox First, on November 26, 2008
...ama has slammed "tone-deaf" business leaders who been pulling in hundred million dollar bonuses and taking risks with other people's money. In his interview with Barbara Walters, Obama...
US market: it's back to 1997
in Sox First, on November 21, 2008
...loomberg says the collapse comes as writedowns and credit losses stemming from the collapse of the subprime mortgage market reaches $965 billion. And it's growing. The market is responding to da...
How the predication models failed
in Sox First, on November 11, 2008
...rectly predicted that a drop in real estate prices of 10 or 20 percent would imperil the market for subprime mortgage-backed securities but the analysts assigned a very low probability to that happeni...
Deutsche Bank's accounting shell games
in Sox First, on November 5, 2008
...o be strongly capitalized. The message: the banks are capable of lending even more. But when the US subprime loan market collapsed, resulting in the credit crunch, those same assets have been marked d...
Fair value battle escalates
in Sox First, on October 29, 2008
... this talk when markets were booming. The world's banks generated enormous profits, and massive bonuses along the way, as bankers cashed in on fair value upswings in asset prices. Indeed, no insti...
Competing for bailouts
in Sox First, on October 27, 2008
...ile the investment banks are holding their hand out for money, they are still paying $20 billion in bonuses. And they wonder why people are so furious? "I'm just flabbergasted that the financ...
Greenspan's legacy
in Sox First, on October 26, 2008
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In his book The Age of Turbulence , former Fed chief Alan Greenspan proclaimed that subprime was a good thing for America. "The gains were especially dramatic among Hispanics and blacks, as ...
One Version of How the Meltdown Happened
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on October 20, 2008
...ill happen in the future.
Ben Stein goes on to give a generally understandable explanation of the subprimes mess and credit swaps and other financial instruments you and I will never grasp completely...
Financial meltdown and climate change
in Sox First, on October 18, 2008
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Why does the subprime meltdown remind me of our inability to deal with climate change? Both are the result of market failure, both are symptoms of the inability of government and markets to plan f...
Casinos find a safe bet in RFID
in The RFID Weblog, on October 10, 2008
...00 chips per second offering real time information. With number of casinos offering jackpots, bonuses and rewards the system has even made it easier to attract new customers and maintain its existing ...
The Lehman legacy
in Sox First, on October 7, 2008
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Last month, i did a blog entry . The issue there was the size of the bonuses given out in the lead up to the bankruptcy. Which raises the obvious question of whether they knew they were going do...
b5Media 将大幅度降低 Blogger 报酬
in Wangtam, on 2008-10-05
... they were actually getting. While, again, this isn't a blogger's fault, neither is the new pay system about "cutting pay". Any reduction in pay is due almost exclusively to the real...
How the Credit Crisis is (Sort Of) Like 9/11
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on October 1, 2008
... as us shaking our heads from afar at the greed of Wall Street and the stupidity of Willy -nilly subprime mortgages could now morph into a financial crisis that will personally touch us, that reall...
