Wednesday
Dec082010
Janet Tavakoli: Fraud As A Business Model Within The Structure Of The Wall Street Ponzi Scheme (Powerpoint)
Scribd Document - Repairing the Damage of Fraud as a Business Model
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Video: Janet Tavakoli interview with Katie Couric -- May 2010
GREAT CLIP! Watch this one - runs just 90 seconds.
- "Massive, widespread fraud and malfeasance."
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More from Janet...
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Reader Comments (9)
http://dailybail.com/home/janet-tavakoli-with-max-keiser-debt-lies-and-videotape.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20025071-503544.html
Flashback:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/06/business/06summers.html?_r=1&ref=lawrence_h_summers
Excerpt: While at Shaw, Mr. Summers also peered into the inner workings of the $2 trillion hedge fund industry, which the Obama administration is now relying on to buy billions of dollars of worrisome assets from the nation’s beleaguered banks.
--Is Barry R. Zenyatta in disguise?
Just wonderin' where readers would put their chips in a actual game.
What pops out of SLG*OBP is called runs produced per plate appearance. You have to make the usual engineering bag of crap assumptions (eg, 362/363 = 1) but it's good.
Let's call it RPA. I'd like to hear from those who feel OPS is more useful.
Shit, it's... what day is it?
Just wonderin' where readers would put their chips in a actual game.
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whalen is #1 b/c of exposure...
hedge fund manager jim chanos is the richest most powerful truth teller but he doesn't do a lot of media...you can find clips of him in our search box...
tavakoli got religion pretty early...she goes way ahead of meredith whitney...you can find tavakoli on whitney here...search "drama pundits" and you'll find jt's thought's...
roubini and taleb have huge followings...i like taleb more than roubini...
josh rosner should be included in any list...listen to "50 basis points for 50 years" from last week...awesome stuff...
i'll let others add more names...
source document...
http://www.tavakolistructuredfinance.com/FHFA1282010.pdf
http://www.businessweek.com/investor/content/aug2008/pi20080815_254149.htm
excerpt: In that same roundtable from American Securitization, Ed Gainor, partner at law firm McKee Nelson, remarked "Hopefully, this type of investing will clear out a lot of these bad assets and contribute to jump-starting the market again and providing funding for people who should have home loans."
A little about Mckee and Nelson.
Looking for Distressed Mortgage Opportunities
Listed hedge funds, private equity firms, and closed-end distressed asset funds may provide investors with some exposure to these assets
http://www.businessweek.com/investor/content/aug2008/pi20080815_254149.htm
Excerpt:
While it may be some time before distressed asset investors feel comfortable making bets on mortgage assets, over the longer term the activity is likely to be positive for the overall mortgage market, in our view. In that same roundtable from American Securitization, Ed Gainor, partner at law firm McKee Nelson, remarked "Hopefully, this type of investing will clear out a lot of these bad assets and contribute to jump-starting the market again and providing funding for people who should have home loans."
Note Mckee Nelson in above article and here is more info on them.
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2008/02/01/small-law-firms-big-role-in-bundling-mortgages/
Excerpt:
In recent years, as subprime lending proliferated, a small law firm played a big role on Wall Street.
The young firm, McKee Nelson, helped investment banks and mortgage lenders bundle home loans into securities – lots of them. Since 2000, McKee has been involved in almost 3,300 deals totaling $2.7 trillion, according to Asset Backed Alert, an industry newsletter.
Now moving ahead to Larry Summers.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20025071-503544.html
Flashback:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/06/business/06summers.html?_r=1&ref=lawrence_h_summers
Excerpt: While at Shaw, Mr. Summers also peered into the inner workings of the $2 trillion hedge fund industry, which the Obama administration is now relying on to buy billions of dollars of worrisome assets from the nation’s beleaguered banks.