Sometime in the next couple of months The Federal Government is going to give the state of California a lot of money. After lavishing more than a trillion dollars on Banks, Insurers and Auto Companies, there is a 0% probability that the government will sit idly while the largest state collapses.
There [...]

We are living through a time in which all common sense and logic has been sacrificed for blind hope and misplaced faith. According to the current gospel, peddled by the Messiah and even his anti-Christ enemies (the Republicans ironically), in a crisis in which millions are being thrown out of jobs, debts are being [...]

BANKS HAVE MORE THAN ENOUGH CAPITAL
At a congressional oversight panel on the government’s financial rescue program the tax evading Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner testified, “Currently, the vast majority of banks have more capital than they need to be considered well capitalized by their regulators.”  With the recent fair-value lying accounting changes banks have reported surging quarterly profits. [...]

“Conventional economic theories exclude the changing thought patterns and modes of doing business that bring on a crisis. They even exclude the loss of trust and confidence. They exclude the sense of fairness that inhibits the wage and price flexibility that could possibly stabilize an economy. They exclude the role of corruption and the sale [...]

I just spent an hour today going through American International Group’s last twenty years of Annual Reports, finding out how much tax AIG has paid over the last 20 years, working out estimates of how much tax its employees have paid on their incomes and how much has been remitted to the Treasury on dividends [...]

Gosh, I’m so sick of their commercials. Where do they get the goofball with the infinitely joyful sing-song voice, who is always offering ever more fantastic deals on clothing that no one needs!
Buy three suits, get five free!!! For what, dude? Don’t have no job, don’t need no suit!
Or if [...]

What we are seeing right now are the kinds of last ditch efforts that reveal how truly inept and desperate our leaders are. First there is the AIG bonus fiasco, a case study in the bumbling incompetence of the representatives in charge of containing the financial fallout (ironically the very people that preempted [...]

First let me state a few qualifiers when it comes to the Mets’ now infamous Citi Field. Citi Field is gorgeous. The team that will inhabit it is not as gorgeous. It is outrageous that the taxpayers are backstopping the bank which made the naming deal with the team. It is embarrassing to [...]

In a settlement with New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo and the North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA), Credit Suisse agreed to buy back nearly half a billion dollars of individual investors’ securities purchases and a $15 million fine. Credit Suisse is Switzerland’s second largest bank. (www.swissinfo.ch)
The settlement concerned sales of auction rate securities [...]

A recent headline at CNN.com said “Fed bails out GMAC with $6 billion.” Since I had heard it was the Treasury department funding the GMAC giveaway, I had to check the story to make sure this wasn’t another $6 billion being thrown down the drain. Fortunately, CNN just got it wrong: it was the feds [...]