Entries Tagged as 'lehman'

Lehman’s Desperate Housewives and Timmy’s Gate

March 16th, 2010 56 Comments

Stacy Summary:  Note on previous thread re: second rate internet connectivity, my friend in LA had the dial up because broadband WAS NOT available to her!  There were no cables in her neighborhood in LOS ANGELES, the heart of the global media industry.  Or at least it was. Anyway, here are some interesting articles relating [...]

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[Sunday Video Club] Ratigan & Spitzer on Lehman Report

March 14th, 2010 62 Comments

Stacy Summary:  I know it’s been linked to already, but for those who missed it; here is Dylan Rattigan on the Repo 105 / Lehman story.

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Five billion dollar discounts and credit card defaults

September 16th, 2009 21 Comments

Stacy Summary: Check out gold this morning.  Wonder if it’s a bank or an economy threatening to go under?

Lehman says Barclays got $5 billion discount, wants assets back

U.S. credit card defaults up, signaling consumer distress

Bank of America Corp and Citigroup Inc customers defaulted on their credit card debts in August at the highest rates [...]

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Ratings bribes and a lottery ticket rally

September 7th, 2009 19 Comments

Stacy Summary:   When the punter has a fresh drink and is just about to roll the dice, there are plenty of green shoots in the casino.  It all seems so hopeful just then.

Surge in homeless children (h/t @maxkeiser)

Bribes for ratings

Lehman leads the way in ‘lottery ticket’ rally

“People lost so much money last year and they [...]

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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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Headlines, Headlines, Headlines – 15 April 2009 [Updated]

April 15th, 2009 16 Comments

Stacy Summary:  More unemployed Swiss bankers unable to leave their country for fear of the long arm of the American law.  And Lehman collapse proving to be a huge financial stimulus for some people, maybe if we let more banks fail we would see a jobs bonanza in the US & UK?

UBS cuts 8,700 more [...]

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