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Dude, you are way over reacting, there was a bomb attempted on times square, it was claimed by a terrorist group. This is actually one of the...
Of course it's not called
Sheed is completely useless. :mad:
I don't actually disagree with you on this, I just don't agree with the number one bullseye you and few others are putting on the CDS product.
First check out the difference between MBS, CDO and CDS. You seem to get all hanged up on this "big (leveraged) bets, synthetic CDOs", those...
Securitization does not equal to synthetic CDO/CDS etc. Anyway, my point was we were going to have a bad recession world wide because we had a...
You are giving synthetic CDOs far too much credit. I was watching multiple 500 million to billion dollar subprime deals getting done every month...
Actually, CMOs, CDOs are sold to overseas investors for many years. The underlying asset bubble (this was a world wide credit bubble) is the main...
All I am saying is CDS is NOT the driver for this deep recession. Crappy subprime/negam mortgages were very popular way before CDS market became...
CDS played a role in triggering the meltdown, but the meltdown was coming regardless. There was an insane asset bubble that was going to pop, no...
It was Bush and Paulson started the bailout process and handed off to Obama. would be a little tough for the Dems to claims it as their own....
Let's wait and see what kind of price GM shares can fetch on the open market. But the whole TARP program is looking less and less like the...
I am talking in general terms, obviously any single transaction can be positive or negative.
douche culture in Boston? WTF is that? :rolleyes:
They knew what they were doing, GS were on the right side of the bets, even when the losers didn't have enough money to pay up, you could argue...
synthetic CDOs, which essentially are credit default swaps, probably should be banned unless you own the underlying assets. Unless you need it...
I would assume SEC thinks it can prove Goldman knew Paulson was going short when it marketed the securities. Wonder what kind of trouble Paulson...
The financial reform bill is coming up soon, I would wonder about the timing of SEC.
As long as your overall tax rate after all credits and deductions is above the AMT rate, then it really shouldn't effect you. (slightly more...
Wrong, it would depend on how your income is structured and how much tax credits you can claim.
