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Backdoor Bailout
NYT – A ray of sunlight broke through the Washington fog last week when Neil M. Barofsky, special inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, published his office’s report on the go… more →
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Backdoor Bailout
Institutional Financial Derivatives, Inc. wrote 18 hours ago: NYT – A ray of sunlight broke through the Washington fog last week when Neil M. Barofsky, spec … more →
Sovereign Debt the New Subprime?
Institutional Financial Derivatives, Inc. wrote 1 day ago: FT – A few weeks ago, Claudio Borio, head of research at the Bank for International Settlement … more →
The Gardens of Eyrignac
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josephhillenmeyer wrote 1 day ago: When do I get to take my trip to France? There are so many amazing gardens that I am dying to see. … more →
Derivatives Basics
Institutional Financial Derivatives, Inc. wrote 2 days ago: NYT – Derivatives are financial instruments that were created to reduce risk, and their use on … more →
The Return of Derivatives
Institutional Financial Derivatives, Inc. wrote 5 days ago: Live Mint – Over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives, especially credit derivatives, have been at th … more →
Risk is Not a Game: How do Banks Mismanage Risk?
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mitchellosak wrote 1 week ago: How did global financial institutions mess up so badly in 2008? In three words, poor risk management … more →
Over the Counter, Out of Sight
Institutional Financial Derivatives, Inc. wrote 1 week ago: Economist – Derivatives are extraordinarily useful – as well as complex, dangerous if misused … more →
Wall Street Turns Heating Oil Dealers Against Financial Regulation
Institutional Financial Derivatives, Inc. wrote 1 week ago: Heating Oil – Displeased by the prospect of increased governmental regulation of derivatives t … more →
Derivatives Crackdown Hangs Over Commodities
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Institutional Financial Derivatives, Inc. wrote 1 week ago: FT – Energy and commodity groups are bracing themselves for US legislation that would regulate … more →
Global Oil Scam
Institutional Financial Derivatives, Inc. wrote 1 week ago: Phil’s Stock World – $2.5 Trillion – That’s the size of of the global oil scam. It … more →
"Too Big To Fail" Bill Gives Feds Power To Freeze Derivatives Contracts
Institutional Financial Derivatives, Inc. wrote 2 weeks ago: Huffington Post – The “Too Big To Fail” legislation currently being debated by a H … more →
The Man Who Caused the Credit Crunch
Institutional Financial Derivatives, Inc. wrote 2 weeks ago: Times / UK – If “chick-lit” is the genre of fiction featuring young female protagonists obsess … more →
Paulson Defies Bulls, Makes $10 Million a Day on Wager
Institutional Financial Derivatives, Inc. wrote 2 weeks ago: Bloomberg – Smarts, good timing and a touch of the renegade. That’s what it took to pull off t … more →
Must Read Editorials on Obamacare
traderwasteland wrote 3 weeks ago: Been busy…sorry for the short post. Here’s a must read editorial from the WSJ. And ano … more →
Just Trust Us: Goldman Left Foreign Investors Holding the Subprime Bag
Institutional Financial Derivatives, Inc. wrote 3 weeks ago: McClatchy – When Goldman Sachs decided it was time to ditch the subprime mortgage business, it … more →
PBP - S&P 500 ETF with a hedging scheme
k wrote 3 weeks ago: With all the uncertainty and volatility of the stock market, I want to try my best to minimize the r … more →
Is this where America is headed?
traderwasteland wrote 3 weeks ago: Here are two interesting articles (this one and this one) on Japan’s busted economy and massiv … more →
Airbus (almost) made in USA
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gad allon wrote 3 weeks ago: The Wall Street Journal had an interesting article on Friday about the fact that Airbus’s revenues a … more →
More on Moral Hazards in Bank Bailouts
traderwasteland wrote 3 weeks ago: We’ve discussed in previous posts how the Federal Reserve helps banks earn money. This 1993 p … more →
