The tag 'Wall Street' is associated with 56 posts.

“All that Glitters is Not . . .” Oh, Never Mind!

Cen­tral banks buy­ing, not sell­ing gold. This hasn’t hap­pened in 40 years.

Signs of the Times: Insecure Securities and Irregular Regulation

Ana­lysts with Moody’s pres­sured to give top AAA rat­ings to garbage secu­ri­ties, called “shitty” by inter­nal memos. SEC destroyed records of scan­dals going back 20 years.

McGraw Family (Owners of S & P) are Longtime Intimates of the Bush Family

McGraw fam­ily long­time Bush allies. Watch S & P, owned by McGraw fam­ily, do what ben­e­fits GOP, Bush Fam­ily, Under­ground Reich. S & P’s 2011 down­grad­ing of U.S. debt rat­ing was open politicking.

Echoes of 11/22/63; 9/11/2001

Some­one placed a 1 Bil­lion Dol­lar bet that the U.S. debt would be down­graded. Who might have done that? Invest­ing around 11/22/1963 and 9/11/2001 was also suspicious.

FTR #746 Greek Tragedy

Urged to “aus­ter­ity,” Greece’s adop­tion of Ger­man pre­scrip­tions made its sit­u­a­tion worse; trapped by the Euro, Greece can nei­ther revalue its cur­rency nor impose tar­iffs to pro­tect domes­tic indus­try; GOP pro­poses the same medecine for the U.S. that Ger­many pre­scribed for Greece.

Charter Cities: Another, BIG Step toward a Global “Corporate State”

Trans-national cor­po­ra­tions under­writ­ing imple­men­ta­tion of “char­ter cities,” which would per­mit pri­vate, corporate-dominated munic­i­pal devel­op­ments out­side of any domes­tic gov­ern­men­tal control.

Hedge Fund Managers: “Back to the Land!”

Antic­i­pat­ing economic/ecological Armaged­don, hedge funds buy­ing up arable land at fast pace. They intend to deter­mine who gets to eat and who doesn’t.

IMF Chief Strauss-Kahn Feared an Opponent Would Pay $1 Million For Rape Allegation

Just before being charged with rape, IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn expressed fears that an oppo­nent would pay 1 mil­lion dol­lars to destroy his career, pre­vent effec­tive chal­lenge to Nicholas Sarkozy.

IMF Chief Called for World Currency Before He Was Charged with Sexual Assault

Before being charged with rape–he was acquitted–IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn called for estab­lish­ment of world cur­rency, to pre­vent eco­nomic chaos.

FTR #741 Bail, Bail, the Gang’s All Here

For­eign Banks bor­rowed exten­sively from Fed dur­ing the melt­down; aid to Dexia and Depfa needed to avoid muni­pal fis­cal armaged­don, stem­ming par­tially from Dexia’s appar­ent crim­i­nal activity.