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FTR #823 Caution, Banksters at Work, Part 2 (Still More Collateralized “Death” Obligations)

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ November 30, 2014 ⋅ 14 comments

Updat­ing FTR #‘s 772 and 792, the broad­cast high­lights a recent social psy­chol­o­gy exper­i­ment that indi­cat­ed a strong incli­na­tion toward dis­hon­est, crim­i­nal behav­ior on the part of bank­ing pro­fes­sion­als. After not­ing Deutsche Bank’s pre­car­i­ous posi­tion, the pro­gram notes two oth­er sus­pi­cious deaths. Deutsche Bank’s Calogero Gam­bi­no alleged­ly took his own life, fol­low­ing the alleged sui­cide of anoth­er Deutsche banker–William Broeksmit. Cit­i­group’s Shawn Miller sup­pos­ed­ly slit his own throat, this after plac­ing some 911 calls com­plain­ing about being fol­lowed. The Sen­ate bank­ing com­mit­tee recent­ly con­clud­ed an inves­ti­ga­tion of the bank­ing indus­try’s involve­ment in the com­modi­ties’ mar­kets, some­thing that offers tremen­dous oppor­tu­ni­ty for ille­gal spec­u­la­tion, as well as leav­ing banks with poten­tial­ly cat­a­stroph­ic expo­sure to fluc­tu­a­tion in those mar­kets. In Octo­ber, a dra­mat­ic fluc­tu­a­tion in the mar­ket for U.S. Trea­sury bills has raised omi­nous ques­tions con­cern­ing the sta­bil­i­ty of this glob­al finan­cial safe haven. The prob­a­bil­i­ty of such an event hap­pen­ing was once every 1.6 bil­lion years!


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

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ May 7, 2011 ⋅ 47 comments

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.


Update on the Meltdown: BOHICA

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ March 28, 2010 ⋅ 3 comments

Com­ment: There is a mil­i­tary slang acronym “BOHICA,” which stands for “Bend Over, Here It Comes Again.” “Econ­o­mists: Anoth­er Finan­cial Cri­sis on the Way” by Matthew Jaffe; ABC News; 3/2/2010. Even as many Amer­i­cans still strug­gle to recov­er from the coun­try’s worst eco­nom­ic down­turn since the Great Depres­sion, anoth­er cri­sis – one that will be […]


FTR #693 Miscellaneous Articles and Updates

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ November 24, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Black­wa­ter secu­ri­ty out­fit plots to kill whistle­blow­ers; dead­ly pathogens miss­ing from Ft. Det­rick; virus­es mutat­ing to infect oth­er species; the bailout has­n’t assured eco­nom­ic secu­ri­ty and has made the insti­tu­tions that are “too big to fail” even big­ger.


FTR #675 Interview with Lucy Komisar: No Such Thing as a Free Lunch

Posted by FTR ⋅ June 19, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Food Ser­vices Giant Sodex­o’s scams cost tax­pay­ers, school chil­dren big bucks; Tim­o­thy Gei­th­n­er ignored U.S. Trea­sury bonds naked short sell­ing; Swiss Banks join­ing AIG in off­shore machi­na­tions.


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