To rob a country, own a bank….loll
TheRealNews — March 19, 2010 — William Black, author of “Best way to rob a bank is to own one” talks about deliberate fraud on Wall St.
TheRealNews — March 19, 2010 — William Black, author of “Best way to rob a bank is to own one” talks about deliberate fraud on Wall St.

Wealthy to Be Targeted in Robin Hood Budget as Australia Enters Recession Australian Treasurer Wayne Swan will tonight unveil a Robin Hood-style budget, slashing tax breaks and welfare-payments to high-income earners as he tries to contain a record deficit amid the global recession.
Look out the expiry has past, the dollar is broke up through $1.30 to the euro this morning. If the Fed doesn’t jump on it with both feet – I would be very surprised. Seems that they all like the $1.33 peg.
Mishkin was on CNBC this morning saying the banks will need more money because we don’t want to end up like Japan but without the savings. I should say not!
I think it is more likely that global community is looking for a bailout.
Funny how a bank will never take a loss.
Now, it is likely know that the deceleration of the velocity of money will cause credit contraction and some ‘good’ debt destruction as the corporations will pay off debt because they can’t roll the debt over. The down side is that they had built a ‘cash’ cushion back in 1999-2006 time frame and spent a lot of it in stock buyback schemes designed to support the corporations stock price (and not incidently, the value of compensation options).
So blame it on the housing bubble if you want to but the stock market merely reverting back to it’s mean because they stopped the decline in price by reducing the number of shares outstanding. Now, they can’t roll their debt, they have no cash for operational shocks and the shares are in the tank.
Don’t you just love it when a fancy suit cashs out just before the news hits the wire? The karmic b-slap is a real doozy though.
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