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We're running out of gold: miners

alertindia wrote 9 hours ago: Gold production will continue to fall, despite a brief boost in 2009 and soaring prices, as deposits … more →

Tags: news.smh.com.au, barrick gold, buying up gold, Canada's second biggest, chamber of mines, coveting gold, global financial crisis, Globally, Gold Deposit

SEC Probes Derivatives in Insider Trading Cases

Institutional Financial Derivatives, Inc. wrote 13 hours ago: Reuters – U.S. regulators are increasingly looking beyond stocks in their insider trading investigat … more →

Tags: dark pools, financial derivatives, Financial Fraud, Front Running, Insider Trading, OTC Transactions, Over-the-Counter Derivatives, Proprietary Trading, Regulatory

Global Warming Fraud (Shitter Was Full) Has Just Been Exposed/Emptied (No-AGW) - So Why Is Bambi Going To Copenhagen? -> DAMAGE CONTROL! In An Attempt To Salvage Fellow Hedge Funders Investments In Alternative Energy Companies!

volubrjotr wrote 23 hours ago: Whoa … “if you own any shares in alternative energy companies I should start dumping the … more →

Tags: Bambi, Copenhagen, global warming fraud, AGW

John Paulson Likes Gold...More Than a Friend8 comments

Joshua M Brown wrote 2 days ago: John Paulson of Paulson & Co, the legendary hedge fund manager who made tens of billions betting … more →

Tags: Commodities, Markets, Stocks, Trading, Wall Street Terminology, Gold, john paulson

Sovereign Debt the New Subprime?1 comment

Institutional Financial Derivatives, Inc. wrote 3 days ago: FT – A few weeks ago, Claudio Borio, head of research at the Bank for International Settlement … more →

Tags: Bank for International Settlements, Banks, bond defaults, Credit Derivatives, Credit markets, european union, Financial Risk, G 20 - Group of 20 Countries, Global markets

SEC to Focus on Derivatives as Insider Probes Expand

Institutional Financial Derivatives, Inc. wrote 3 days ago: Bloomberg – The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission will focus on financial instruments su … more →

Tags: Alternative Investments, Banks, Credit Default Swaps, Credit Derivatives, Credit markets, financial derivatives, Financial Fraud, Fixed Income Derivatives, Front Running

"New gold bugs making gold investments mainstream"-commentary

jacobin777 wrote 3 days ago: “AN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Gold has long been favored by a fringe of the investment w … more →

Tags: U.S. dollar, Gold

"Superwoman" exits stage left, finally

FinFlaneur wrote 6 days ago: Just like relative performance, you can't eat a media persona I’m not going to write one w … more →

Tags: fund of funds, Nicola Horlick, Superwoman

Goldman Sachs as Social Entrepreneur

riskrapper wrote 1 week ago: Goldman Sachs’ CEO Lloyd Blankfein and his largest investor, The Wizard of Omaha, Warren Buffe … more →

Tags: Banking, credit, Economics, FDIC, Private Equity, 10000 Small Businesses, AIM, Berkshire Hathaway, commercial banks

Investing Fads and Themes by Year, 1996 to Present5 comments

Joshua M Brown wrote 1 week ago: Take a trip down memory lane with me, if you would, and maybe even have a chuckle at your own expens … more →

Tags: Analysts, Brokers, Commodities, Economy, journalists, Markets, Stocks, Trading, Wall Street Terminology

Who Are You and What Have You Done With the Community Organizer We Elected President?

rogerhollander wrote 1 week ago: Published on Wednesday, November 18, 2009 by TruthDig.comby Robert Scheer What’s up with Barac … more →

Tags: Economic Crisis, Barack Obama, deregulation, roger hollander, obama, federal reserve, Wall Street, robert scheer, Robert Rubin

Black Swan Free World (10)

riskviews wrote 1 week ago: This is the final post in a 10 part series. On April 7 2009, the Financial Times published an articl … more →

Tags: Action, black swan, Compensation, financial crisis, Trading, Unknown Risks

AIG Makeover

El Quebin wrote 1 week ago: New entry for our Acronyms, Appelations and Aphorisms for our trouble age section: CHARTIS: Cunning … more →

Tags: Humor, AiG, Bailout, bailouts, Banking, Business, chartis, Culture, Current Affairs

(Book review) A demon of our own design

Dirk wrote 1 week ago: A Demon of Our Own Design: Markets, Hedge Funds, and the Perils of Financial Innovation, written by … more →

Tags: Book Review, Financial Markets

G-20 Stamps Out Tax Havens

riskrapper wrote 1 week ago: The fallout from the recent tax evasion settlement with UBS is reverberating throughout the G-20 com … more →

Tags: AML, corruption, I.R.S., Legal, Private Equity, Regulatory, Reputational Risk, Risk Management, Tax

The Coming Private Equity Default Crisis8 comments

Joshua M Brown wrote 1 week ago: There’s a book out called “The Buyout of America: How Private Equity Will Cause the Next … more →

Tags: Wall Street Terminology, Markets, Economy, Private Equity, New York Post, Josh Kosman

Asia hedge funds: Great performance but hard to shake off 2008

Michael Lockrow wrote 1 week ago: The past few years, the Goldman Sach’s Asia Hedge Fund Conference held in Tokyo has lost value … more →

Tags: Asia, hedge fund, Outside Articles, Investor

Is China Frontin' On Us All?9 comments

Joshua M Brown wrote 1 week ago: Mall Construction (source amdoc.org) In my opinion, this is the biggest potential story out there ri … more →

Tags: Analysts, Economy, journalists, Markets, Stocks, Trading, China, Infrastructure, Jim Chanos

Paulson busy buying banks | MarketWatch

zyakaira wrote 1 week ago: As you see below, Paulson’s fund has added BAC, Citi, Indymac, GS and even State Street using … more →

Tags: bank stocks, Financial Markets, Investments, bac, Banking, C#, GS, Paulson, stt


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