Stacy Summary: Yowza! £165 billion!!!!! That’s twice as much as the AIG bailout and is more than 10% of the UK annual GDP (this year at £350 b / quarter)
Stock Options Hit New High after Bailout Rebound
Secret £165 billion loan keeping Lloyd’s alive
Stacy Summary: I’m thinking that the crisis to end all crises will emerge from one of these ‘dark pools’
Traders stake millions shorting Lloyds
Goldman argues that openness & transparency creates bad prices (Taibbi)
Tags: dark pools · goldman · lloyds
Stacy Summary: Sounds like part of the shift of wealth & power to BRIC and others.
Short selling in Lloyds shares double in week
Hollywood output to decline by 30% as funding dries up
The finances are in freefall, Gill said. In the wake of the financial meltdown, banks that had acted as the main funders of [...]
Tags: hollywood · lloyds · short selling
Stacy Summary: Wait until all those Americans seeking work abroad, like many migrants before them, learn that Americans are uniquely unable due to the fact that most banks refuse to take American customers for fear of the policing bully of the world. Nope, the walls along them there borders are to keep you in, not [...]
Tags: fake coup · lloyds · lost generations
Stacy Summary: The British economy turns Norman Bates-like as taxpayer owned banks start harrassing the taxpayer with threatening phone calls.
Lloyd’s bank staff intimidating debtors with threatening phone calls
Tax-payer supported banks, RBS & Lloyds, report huge pension deficits that taxpayers will have to plug
Tens of thousands of US homes built with toxic Chinese dry-wall
Are you [...]
Tags: bank margins · black swan · chinese drywall · debtors · lloyds · mortgage · pensions · UK