The Decisions of July: The European Elite Goes to War in 1914
Elite decision-making before “the Guns of August,” with suggestive parallels to decision-making in the Greek Debt Crisis.
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Groundhog Day for NZ FSPs: Bryan Cook of Asia Finance Corporation is a Crook, but Does NZ’s FMA Care?
Why is it Groundhog Day? Back in 2011, I wrote a seriously messy blog post about dodgy New Zealand FSPs (Financial Services Providers), their dodgy web sites and people and addresses, and the evidently nonexistent oversight of all of this by the NZ Ministry of Economic Development and the NZ Companies Office. To my surprise, […]
Read more...Time to “Fire” Mary Jo White: SEC Covers Up for Bank Capital Accounting Scam Promoted by Her Former Firm, Debevoise
Pam Martens and Russ Martens published a mind-boggling expose yesterday on how the SEC is refusing to stop an abuse by major banks that increases systemic risk.
Read more...Bill Black: Geithner’s Ghost Writer and the Parable of the River of Risk
Bill Black flags a new stunning bit of bank propaganda, that risk is an unavoidable natural condition that is futile for regulators to control.
Read more...Ilargi: QE Breeds Instability
Why both Keynes and Minsky regarded low interest rates as poor policy.
Read more...Perry Mehrling: Volcker Alliance Describes How Regulatory Silos, and Also Intellectual Silos, Hold Back Financial Reform
A report by the Volcker Alliance on financial reform is readable and meaty, and curiously dropped from media sight.
Read more...SEC Vindicates Deutsche Bank Derivatives Whistleblowers Eric Ben-Artzi and Matthew Simpson
Three SEC whistleblowers have been proven right in charging Deutsche Bank with misreporting its biggest derivatives risk,. the bank, predictably, looks to have gotten off easy.
Read more...Belvedere Management and its $16Bn: Now Looking More Like a Huge Collapsing Scam
As the regulatory actions accumulate, Belvedere Management looks less and less like a maligned fund manager, and more and more like a giant fraud. How much of the $16Bn it purported to manage is left?
Read more...Nobel Prize Winner Robert Merton Slams Fed for “Negative Wealth Effect” Policies
Nobel Prize winner Robert Merton and Arlin Muralidhar have charged ZIRP and QE happy central banks with economic malpractice.
Read more...Dubious FX Broker CWM FX Claims Sports Celebrity Scalps, but Princess Anne Remains Unmolested
The CWM FX fraud bust, a murder, Princess Anne and some groping. It’s BAU in the world of sports sponsorship.
Read more...Epic Fail for the Postal Service: The Wrong Model and the Wrong Board
How the managers of the Postal Service, in conjunction with politicians, have worked to undermine the effectiveness of a public infrastructure that is capable of producing broad economic and social benefits.
Read more...The Money Laundering Web: HSBC, Margaret Hodge, Sir Alan Duncan, Vitol…and Mossack Fonseca
Fallout from the HSBC session of the Public Accounts in which Mossack Fonseca’s name cropped up and Margaret Hodge administered a few tongue-lashings
Read more...Sharing Economy Must Come Inside Regulatory Tent
Sharing economy businesses cannot cannot grow as regulatory cowboys. But, vested interests will be happy to strangle them with red tape.
Read more...How the Scammers Behind Virgin Gold Mining Corporation Bit Off More Than They Could Chew (I)
First in a series of posts exploring Virgin Gold, an immense ($2Bn?) pyramid scheme with a messy aftermath
Read more...Wolf Richter: Junk-Bond Bubble Implodes Beyond Energy, Deals Scuttled, Yields Soar, Suddenly “Insufficient Demand”
The year 2015 has just started, and already there have been two junk-bond casualties: the first on Thursday, and the second one yesterday. They weren’t energy companies. Energy companies don’t even try anymore.
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