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Buffet and the ratings agency answer the call | Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission

Posted on June 2, 2010 by zyakaira

Today’s hearings at the Financial Crisis Inquiry commission cover Moody’s and other ratings agencies and their role in bringing down the house in the Crisis. While around the blogs questions have been raised regularly on why these agencies even exist…

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isn’t that news that will haunt your kids¿¿ ha¡ | gen x bumps revolt at advantage ‘zyaada’

Posted on May 16, 2010 by zyakaira

some wannabe i bankers and some forced turds take umbrage at the smooth flow of work and loss of opportunity from resulting discipline. here, the events we thought inconsequential to the followers of the upcoming and the up and coming…

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Posted in Amitonomics, Banking, Financial Markets, O'nomics, Private Equity, Retail Lifestyle

Bad Karma – Discovering the Dow’s ‘sympathetic’ influence in 20 minutes

Posted on May 15, 2010 by zyakaira

Early last week, Greece’s villainy of mismanagement quickly covered lost ground in out pacing Goldman Sachs and their friends the Clintons from the headlines. Greece was however soon lost in the details as the devils of program trading were raised…

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Posted in Banking, Emerging Markets, Financial Markets, Financial Services, Private Equity, Uncategorized

Goldman Sachs makes a bank | Advantage ‘zyaada’

Posted on May 14, 2010 by zyakaira

Warning::This opinion may be speculative, overtly optimistic and may indulge in a little ‘appropriate’ gainsaying encouraging parties unmindful of law to continue doing so and might otherwise blind side you and the readers you recommend to. However, other such reflective,…

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Its the mortgages and the insurance – Lock, Stock and Barrel | Advantage ‘zyaada’

Posted on May 13, 2010 by zyakaira

Loan originators bank of america, citi and wells fargo are still nursing their wounds.. and good for another decade . Federal agencies of the Treasury will continue to struggle with 5% of their stake in pandit’s citi; citi holdings hasn’t…

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What a weekend soiree in Europe | Advantage ‘zyaada’

Posted on May 10, 2010 by zyakaira

The Euro zone banks would anyway be involved in all ECB attempts in mopping up treasury bonds issuance from the myriad nationalbanks in the next phase and also Greek bonds were already being accepted as level collateral. These would be…

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Meanwhile AIG bleeds when it pays Claims!!

Posted on February 27, 2010 by zyakaira

UPDATE: AIG goes National AIG’s asian unit AIA which consolidated most of its international units in life insurance, got sold for $35.5 billion to Prudential of Asia ( UK’s larger insurance and funds company) leaving it in better hands for…

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Portugal, Greece are in fact 'not significant' | Advantage zyaada

Posted on February 9, 2010 by zyakaira

The numbers look like this : Greece first , has $360 billion GDP , $350 Bn of which is Public Debt, Total Debt is $485 billion. All reference data is CIA Factbook, plus hints from indexmundi.com) Similarly, the others ,…

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Posted in Financial Markets, Financial Services, Global, O'nomics, Real estate, Uncategorized

How AIG got out of paying for its default swaps?

Posted on February 7, 2010 by zyakaira

When push came to shove, AIG sat down at the bargaining table instead of paying the sum defaulted..and that’s the usual way of  doing it, but to hear it from the AIG side, Goldman Sachs and Paulson were going to…

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The legal fallout of the crisis | Advantage zyaada

Posted on February 7, 2010 by zyakaira

Among the ones that escaped the notice of the fourth estate earlier, there was some legal action against banks for mis-declarations and civil fraud such as the mortgage ‘quick-cycles’ of Long Island. ( I forget, it was either multiple mortgages on…

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