Posted on 25 January 2017. Tags: Banks, Democratic Party, DNC, Florida, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Stacey Patel
In about one month, a new chair of the Democratic National Committee will be chosen. As part of my on-going series of conversations with the candidates, I speak with New Hampshire state chair Raymond Buckley who has some pretty tough things to say about the DNC. You can go back to hear previous interviews with […]
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Posted in Audio, Podcast, Politics
Posted on 30 April 2011. Tags: Anti-Trust, Bank of America Corporation, Barclays Bank, Citigroup, Credit Default Swap, Crédit Suisse Group, Deutsche Bank, European Commission, Goldman Sachs Group, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, UBS
Via the Financial Times today: The European Commission has opened sweeping antitrust investigations into a collection of the biggest players in the credit default swaps market, including ICE, the industry’s leading clearing house. The investigations, launched by Joaquín Almunia, the competition commissioner, open a new chapter in the commission’s attempts to regulate a group […]
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Posted in General Interest
Posted on 03 March 2011. Tags: Banks, Barclays, Citigroup, Financial Power, George Soros, Hedge Funds, Morgan Stanley, Quantum Fund
This may not seem like an earth-shaking moment but it is a telling truth about where money flows, who controls it and how little ability we have to oversee the shadow banking done at the margins of our economy. From the Financial Times: The top 10 hedge funds made $28bn for clients […]
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Posted in General Interest