[KR13] Keiser Report – Markets! Finance! Scandal!

February 2nd, 2010 by stacyherbert

Stacy Summary: Sorry I was late posting this; spent the day at the Russian embassy . . . and lots of running around in the rain.

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  • Phil /Germany
    Feb 3, 2010 at 2:59 am

    @Youri Carma ….. Volcker

    Volcker has been there since Obama was elected .. he was just ignored until now. Why now ? … crooked politics again ? / i.e. O should have listened to him right from the start. Will O change his mind again later … when it suits him ?

    It is pretty simple …bring back the old fashioned boring banks and spin off the crooked parts with their crooked CEOs into HFs ( uncovered by FDIC or bailouts etc. ) so we can short the hell out of them !
    JMHO FWIW

  • Mep
    Feb 3, 2010 at 3:08 am

    @ Phil – Why now ? Because of the Mass. Senate loss. Voters are pissed that the Dems are in bed with Wall Street. I sent a note to the WH the night before the Mass. race and bitched about the need to get rid of Geithner and Summers and listen to Volcker. So I was happy to see him 2 days later. Nobody probably read my e-mailed comment, but it felt like for once, anger was aligning with something hopeful.

  • Youri Carma
    Feb 3, 2010 at 3:12 am

    A new trend may be emerging where Web sites exercise more control over their comment areas — or drop them all together http://tinyurl.com/y9yuxkk

  • Mep
    Feb 3, 2010 at 3:29 am

    @ Youri – I’ve noticed that all of the articles related to Israel on the HuffPost are always marked as “fully moderated.” IMO, they do it to prevent discussions from taking place on the subject at hand in the comments section. It’s pretty hard to have ongoing conversations with others when comments are held in moderation and collect there for a long time. The majority of the comments I’ve ever had deleted there were comments on Israel, and it’s not like I’m an anti-semite or anything and said horrible, outlandish things.

  • The Man from Glad
    Feb 3, 2010 at 3:33 am

    Iran bugs the hell out of the US by saving a fortune selling oil for Euros and Yen. Sets a bad example for the rest of the Gulf.

  • Youri Carma
    Feb 3, 2010 at 3:33 am

    Support for Swiss Franc ends but liquidity support for Dollar continous: http://www.ecb.int/press/pr/wfs/2010/html/fs100119.en.html

    The liquidity-providing transactions were conducted by the Eurosystem in connection with the temporary reciprocal currency arrangements (swap lines) that the European Central Bank has with the Swiss National Bank and the Federal Reserve System. The EUR/CHF foreign exchange swaps had no effect on the net position of the Eurosystem in foreign currency. As announced on 18 January 2010 these Swiss franc liquidity-providing operations will no longer be conducted after 31 January 2010.

    The net position of the Eurosystem in foreign currency decreased by EUR 2.9 billion to EUR 159.1 billion on account of customer and portfolio transactions and US dollar liquidity-providing transactions.

  • Bonn
    Feb 3, 2010 at 3:34 am

    @ Mep
    Me posting of the Moon a blog was prevented
    Go Figure
    Hic ;-)
    De Beers
    ROFL

  • Troy Ounce
    Feb 3, 2010 at 3:44 am

    Consider me sick if invited for a dinner party with Ritholz

  • Martin Blake
    Feb 3, 2010 at 7:21 am

    berry ritholtz is kind of a jackass and you could tell in this interview that max is way above him in knowledge of the markets. berry is a talking head imo. just because you can cus doesnt mean hes out of the mainstream like max is.

  • Bonn
    Feb 3, 2010 at 7:37 am

    @ Martin Blake
    Kinda Agree with ya
    Lotta hot air with even less insight IMO
    Hic ;-)

  • pohdinpa
    Feb 3, 2010 at 10:37 am

    @Mep
    How many poor pregnant Mexicans are crossing the border into Kuwait and Bosnia illegally with problem pregnancies. How many crackwhores and addicts live in these countries

  • Dave
    Feb 3, 2010 at 11:13 am

    Tea party bashing is popular these days. Seems max can talk alot of smack for being thousands of miles from america. Yes the tea party is being co opted. It grew out of the Ron Paul movement, and has spread into a wider base. Mainly it is angry voters who are republicans. It will result in a Republican landslide in 2010, but will it change anything? Can the Tea party movement not disband as the anti-war movement did once obama was elected? We wil see. To categorize these ppl as self-serving, corporate, or only republican is conjecture from somebody not even in the country. Anyways at least some of us have the stones to stay in fight for our country in what avenues are available. That is until the 2nd revolution begins in the next few years.

  • Mark Meijer
    Feb 3, 2010 at 12:56 pm

    I thought it was hilarious that one of the commercials during your show was for another show called Private Armies.

    Looks like Xe is trying to polish up its image.

  • simpletips
    Feb 3, 2010 at 4:02 pm

    yeah, the modern tea parties are a joke, but they started out as something very genuine, grass roots and even non-partisan.
    the tea party movement co-founder has been lamenting how much the movement has been co-opted by the GOP, fox and partisan hacks:
    http://www.elliscountypress.com/news/132/ARTICLE/5284/2009-11-30.html

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