Entries Tagged as 'calpers'

Calpers investment in forcing middle class out of Manhattan housing fails

September 10th, 2009 229 Comments

Stacy Summary:   Calpers not only operated as the Last Ponzi for their clients, they also engaged in loads of socially irresponsible lending . . . despite their frequent statements otherwise. Christian religious fanatic gets in on the hi-jacking game Ex-AIG adviser who practiced voodoo on victims gets 12 years for fraud Pirate Bay bidder kicked [...]

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Espionage, fraudulent securities and foreign exchange reserves

July 15th, 2009 23 Comments

Stacy Summary:  The lawsuits and tensions begin.  Are we about to enter the next phase of the global depression? China’s foreign exchange reserves top $2 trillion for the first time Tensions rise in China’s Rio Tinto spy case Calpers sues over ratings of securities Hondurans ‘have the right to insurrection’

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Tweetcast #9 – Passive investors and their dumb pension fund managers

April 3rd, 2009 9 Comments

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Headlines, Headlines, Headlines – 03 April 2009

April 3rd, 2009 21 Comments

Stacy Summary:  It is starting to look a lot like neo-feudalism. Gordon Brown hails creation of ‘new world order’ RBS announces more job cuts in order to ward off shareholder revolt over Sir Fred Goodwin’s £17 million pension What the French revolution can teach America about populist rage at bankers (subscription) Did the ECB help [...]

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Headlines, Headlines, Headlines – 31 March 2009

March 31st, 2009 10 Comments

Stacy Summary:  As the tide goes further and further out we are seeing that the financial oligarchs are basically wearing the taxpayers’ bathing suits, leaving us naked and exposed.  Probably explains our shocked collective embarrassed silence as more and more and more and more money gets handed calmly to the oligarchs. The next bailout?  The [...]

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