Rolling Stone? LOL!
In dozens of deals across the Continent, banks provided cash upfront in return for government payments in the future
OMG! Governments borrowed money?
with those liabilities then left off the books.
OMG! Governments lied?
Ann Coulter: OBAMA’S OWNED — YOU CAN BANK ON IT (Bought and Paid for)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2448703/posts
February 10, 2010 The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal are bristling with the news that Republicans have decided now is the time to suck up to Wall Street. As the saying goes, there is no truer friend than a Wall Street arbitrageur — they are the salt-of-the-earth, the most loyal men who ever drew a breath! What are Republicans thinking? While not every money-manipulator on Wall Street deserves to be treated like a heroin dealer, lots do. Could the Republicans be a little more discriminating in picking up the Democrats’...
Geithner’s Backdoor Bailout for AIG
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2444553/posts
Federal Reserve Bank of New York Subpoenaed in AIG
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2448855/posts
Here’s the latest in the question of the New York Fed, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and the AIG bailout, as we’ve covered here at Big Government before (here and here). Last year, Iraq war vet Kevin Murray brought a lawsuit against the Treasury Department and Ben Bernanke (Murray vs. Geithner, et al) for its acquisition of AIG– a scheme that made the US taxpayer the world’s largest provider of Shariah-compliant insurance products. Lawyers David Yerushalmi and The Thomas More Law Center’s Robert Muise found, in the course of discovery, that that was just the tip of the iceberg. Yerushalmi and...
Testy Conflict With Goldman Helped Push A.I.G. to Edge
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2446130/posts
Billions of dollars were at stake when 21 executives of Goldman Sachs and the American International Group convened a conference call on Jan. 28, 2008, to try to resolve a rancorous dispute that had been escalating for months. A.I.G. had long insured complex mortgage securities owned by Goldman and other firms against possible defaults. With the housing crisis deepening, A.I.G., once the world’s biggest insurer, had already paid Goldman $2 billion to cover losses the bank said it might suffer. A.I.G. executives wanted some of its money back, insisting that Goldman — like a homeowner overestimating the damages in a...
The Trojan Horse Meets the Vampire Squid (Goldman Sachs innovates to restructure Greece’s debts)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2451175/posts
Goldman Sachs and the Cap-and-Trade Jackpot
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2450953/posts
Goldman Caught Using European Loophole To Help Massively Understate Greek Deficit
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2447561/posts
Goldman Sachs’s CEO Blankfein Gets $9 Million Bonus for 2009
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2445385/posts