Posted on 03/11/2009 1:03:40 AM PDT by CutePuppy
Needs to be confirmed I think I read that part of the reason AIG liked CDS being written in its London office is that the UK was even more hands off that the USA for such derivatives operations
UK is very serious about “The City” and London being the capital of international finance. So I would not be surprised if this were true
Britain can kiss my fanny...there is a reason why AIG left the US and located in England...they could not engage in their risky behavior here...there were not enough regulations but but there were some. They wanted to make sure the US could not impede their risky strategy in any way...no worries in Britain apparently. Really, AIG crashed the world economy with their CDS mess with Britain’s help. We could just as easily blame the UK.
He did, and so did a lot of others. Theses things should have been regulated, and corporate management should have known the risks, regardless.
If you substituted 'some Americans' for 'some Brits' in that sentence wouldn't it be equally true? Or indeed some citizens of a good few other countries...Isn't it a pretty well universal, and on the whole fairly harmless characteristic in countries with any pretensions to extensive international influence?
Crack? By design, credit default swaps were unregulated (thanks for nothing, Phil Gramm). By design, they were set up to be a time bomb for European banks, who were allowed to purchase credit default swaps in lieu of reserves.
There was nothing sneaky about it.
“Architects of AIG collapse were in London (Daily Mail 21 September 2008)
AIG trail leads to London ‘casino’ (Daily Telegraph 18 Oct 2008 - and, no, it wasn’t A E-P)”
US MEdia couldn’t admit that Democrats were neck-deep in all of this until Obama was elected.
EVERYWHERE WE LOOK in to the financial crisis, we see DEMOCRATS, or big Democrat financiers!!!
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.