Entries Tagged as 'Max Keiser Blog'

[Huffington Post] Max Keiser: Slavery Legal in America Again

August 2nd, 2009 5 Comments

Stacy Summary:  Max’s latest Huffington Post blog.  Go go go comment!

‘Plain Old Slavery’ in America

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[Huffington Post] Max Keiser: The Shadow Banking Pyramid

July 28th, 2009 65 Comments

Stacy Summary:  I love this latest blog from Max for Huffington Post.  So make sure you go there and comment / debate.  (Here too

Max Keiser:  The Shadow Banking Pyramid (Huffington Post)

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Max Blog: Blankfein gives free breakfast to life savings loser

July 24th, 2009 14 Comments

Max: This is the equivalent of the casino giving away a free breakfast to someone who just lost their life savings at the roulette wheel. Buffett is getting 10% right now on the money he loaned to Goldman and the loan is convertible to Goldman stock at $115. He’s up 40% in [...]

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Max Blog: There is no such thing as a ‘naked credit default swap’

July 24th, 2009 30 Comments

Max:   There is no such thing as a ‘naked credit default swap.’ Trading something that has no cost basis whatsoever to another party who does not take delivery of an imaginary financial fiction does not constitute a bona fide transaction. Buying and selling avatars on Second Life has more economic legitimacy.

Banning ‘naked’ credit [...]

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Toxic assets, rising VIX & banker on the run

July 15th, 2009 40 Comments

Stacy Summary:  Wow, it’s been awhile since we had a banker on the run story.  I remember there were quite a few while we were making The Oracle.   And, speaking of bankers . . . Tony Blair is in the news.  Oh god, I thought we were rid of him?  Finally, I love that the [...]

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Max Keiser blows bubbles for America

June 28th, 2009 72 Comments

There is a lot of speculation about what will be the next bubble. What will give us the hot air to inflate America’s economy back to levels we saw before the derivatives crash of 2007?
I have some ideas on how to re-inflate the bubble . . . but before laying [...]

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Max Blog: Pumping and Dumping the 401(k) Crowd

April 29th, 2009 47 Comments

Cross-posted at HuffingtonPost
This is what we know: The fractional-reserve-banking-enabled, Fiat-currency-assisted credit derivatives bubble that grew 10 times larger than Earth’s GDP has popped.
And the collapse of this greatest global Ponzi scheme since the South Sea Bubble has taken world markets with it. It has destroyed pension funds and wiped out banks across the [...]

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Max Keiser blog: Revisiting boycott & hedge fund campaign against Coke

April 19th, 2009 8 Comments

As we gear up to make a fresh assault on the copyright cartel and expand the public domain with PirateMyFilm, it is worth taking a look at this campaign we ran in The Ecologist magazine a few years back.
Boycott Coca Cola
The campaign tried to help activists, environmentalists, etc. expand the public domain by first cleaning [...]

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Max Keiser Blog: Lehman got whacked

April 17th, 2009 14 Comments

Headline:  Yellen signals letting Lehman collapse was a mistake
American entrepreneuralism, as exemplified by innovators like Thomas Edison and Henry Ford, could not have been possible without an equally innovative, creative, engineering marvel known as America’s capital system HQ’d on the corner of Broad St. and Nassau St; home of the NYSE.
Over the decades the home [...]

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Max Keiser mini-blog: The Pirate Bay are guilty?

April 17th, 2009 14 Comments

The court’s decision has been leaked: ThePirateBay are guilty?
Watch the press conference live here at 1pm Sweden time
Update:  Verdict read:  Guilty
This is the battle we’re in. This is the battle all Americans, especially, should be in.  Right now.
Before election reform, environmental protection, equal rights, gay rights, gun rights, we all need the right to connect [...]

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