Entries Tagged as 'lloyds'

A secret £165 billion loan and a stock options bonanza

November 8th, 2009 29 Comments

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

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Dark pools & Lloyds’ shorts

October 28th, 2009 88 Comments

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)

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Betting on a Lloyds collapse & releasing Star Wars over and over again

October 18th, 2009 90 Comments

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 [...]

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Lost generations, fake coups & more UK taxpayer owned loan portfolios go bad

August 5th, 2009 11 Comments

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 [...]

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Headlines, Headlines, Headlines – 12 April 2009

April 12th, 2009 10 Comments

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 [...]

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