64868?RS_show_page=0 EDITOR’S NOTE: How refreshing to see someone who approached this not with caution but with a desire for truth. Read this and you will understand a lot more about the Great Recession. “The “Pig in the Poke” scam is another key to the entire bailout era. After the crash of the housing bubble — […]

Tags: AIG, AIG counter-parties, Blankfein, Federal reserve, Goldman Sachs, Matt Taibbi, Societe Generale
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Leo II bgitt47@verizon.net 2010/04/25 at 12:26 am Editor’s Note: I believe Leo is right. These suits allege that the SPV do not own the loan portfolios. They also allege directly that the Trust Assets included insurance — payments from credit default swaps. Two revealing lawsuits filed against Goldman-Sachs that I believe further support arguments that […]

Tags: Blankfein, credit default swaps, Goldman, insurance, Leo II, Shareholders, SPV, TRUSTS
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In my opinion, the growing anger at Wall Street is giving Lloyd Blankfein and Jamie Dimon another chance at misdirection. They are using the current popular angst to steer the debate into whether derivatives and synthetic CDOs should be banned. In the end they will win that debate, and they should win it. What they […]

Tags: Blankfein, BOND, co-obligors, creditor, DEBTOR, derivatives, Dimon, disclosure, DVL, Ebbers, Federal reserve, fraud, FTC, insurance, intermediaries, liquidity, mortgages, note, notes, obligations, OCC, OTS, prosecution, QWR, regulation, RESPA, TILA, transparency, Wall Street
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The five biggest U.S. commercial banks in the derivatives market — JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America Corp., Citigroup and Wells Fargo & Co. — account for 97 percent of the notional value of derivatives held in the banking industry [$605 trillion], according to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. Goldman Sachs Demands […]

Tags: AIG, Alexander Samuelson, Bank of America, BEAR STEARNS, Blankfein, Bloomberg, Brad Hintz, Brian Marchiony, Chistine Harper, Citigroup, collateral arbitrage, Craig Stein, Darrell Duffie, David Viniar, derivatives, Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, Goldman Sachs, International Swaps and Derivatives Association, ISDA, Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan, Kevin McPartland, Lehman, Michael DuVally, Michael J. Moore, Morgan Stanley, New York Fed report, Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker, Richard Lindsey, Robert Claasen, Schulte Roth and Zabel LLP, Stanford University, Tabb Group, Wells Fargo
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Phil Angelides, the former state treasurer of California who is the commission’s chairman, told Mr. Blankfein “it sounds more like you were selling cars with faulty brakes and then buying insurance on the driver.” Mr. Angelides, who lost the governor’s race in California to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2006, pointedly compared some Wall Street chief […]

Tags: Amnesty for Everyone, Bank of America, Blankfein, Brian Moynihan, FCIC, Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, Jamie Dimon, John Mack, KKenneth Lewis, Mark Leibovich, New York Times, Phil Angelides, principal reduction
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