2009 December

Entries from December 31st, 2009

The Keiser’s Business Guide to 2010 – REPLAYS AT 4AM GMT

December 31st, 2009 141 Comments

Stacy Summary: Anyone online at 8pm (GMT), you can listen live online (just click the appropriate button the page below). And those in the UK can listen live on Five Live or download it via iPlayer. The Keiser’s Business Guide to 2010

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A Champagne Toast

December 31st, 2009 88 Comments

Stacy Summary: A toast to all the commenters on the site. Old and new. Thank you so much for visiting the site with your conversation, headlines, links and debates. I am especially grateful for the wide diversity of opinion we have here as too many sites end up with groupthink where there is little challenge [...]

Tags: happy new year

[KR06] Keiser Report – Markets! Finance! Scandal!

December 31st, 2009 77 Comments

Stacy Summary: Episode number 6, with guest Ravi Batra.

Tags: keiser report · max keiser · ravi batra · stacy herbert

Investors could only lose in Goldman’s offshore deals that met every definition of a Ponzi scheme

December 31st, 2009 40 Comments

Stacy Summary: But Madoff is in prison, so nothing to see here folks. Just keep moving. Investors could only lose in Goldman’s offshore deals

Tags: cayman islands · goldman sachs · offshore deals

Goldman denies betting against its clients on CDOs [UPDATED]

December 30th, 2009 131 Comments

Stacy Summary: ‘Arson?’ Or, ‘simple hedge?’ We’ll be asking Janet Tavakoli this on the Keiser Report in the New Year. In the meantime, your thoughts . . . Goldman denies betting against its clients on CDOs Update: (Janet Tavakoli just emailed this in response to the above article) From her website: Goldman Sachs recently acknowledged [...]

Tags: betting against · cdos · goldman · shorting

Shoddy Jibber Jabber

December 30th, 2009 32 Comments

Stacy Summary: I believe many of us were complaining about the shoddy nature of many products in the shops these days. Well, apparently, manufacturers are moving production back to UK due to the shoddy quality and high freight costs.

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Chinese firm refuses to pay Goldman $80 million in derivatives losses

December 29th, 2009 109 Comments

Stacy Summary: Oh yeah, here it comes. If your government has nukes, trillions in T-bills AND will stand up to US extradition treaties . . . you have it made in this gangster-gulag-casino economy. Small Chinese firm tells Goldman to take a hike, refuses to pay $80 million in derivatives losses

Tags: china · derivatives · goldman

Genetically Modified Jibber Jabber

December 29th, 2009 53 Comments

Stacy Summary: Too bad that we are stuck with this genetically modified debt weeds. Imagine if Goldman and JP Morgan had patented their toxic waste . . . Genetically modified crops require more, not less, herbicide evidence shows

Tags: gm crops · pesticide · roundup

Tony Blair’s ‘employer,’ JP Morgan, threatens to scrap London HQ plans over Labour’s ‘attacks on City’

December 29th, 2009 51 Comments

Stacy Summary: I have still seen no UK investigation into Tony Blair’s alleged employment at JP Morgan. What do you think he does for the $2 million he began collecting days after leaving Downing Street? Or is it a matter of what he did while in Downing Street? JP Morgan may scrap London HQ over [...]

Tags: hq · jp morgan · labour · london