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  • Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [View article]
    Spald, et al --

    It gets worse. Goldman Sachs was the biggest single campaign contributor to the current administration...

    ...but Fannie and Freddie have more lobbyists and spend more money lobbying Congress and the executive branch. The difference is, at least we <expect> Goldman to act for its benefit and no one else's, but Fannie and Freddie use profits they make from a sweetheart deal to bring the taxing power of the national government to bear in case they ever screw up, which they do regularly, to pay for lobbyists and junkets to keep anyone from upsetting their applecart.

    Break 'em up. Let regional publicly-traded firms, with their balance sheets and operating practices exposed to the harsh glare of full transparency, do the job.

    Tell me again where in the United States Constitution it says the national government gets to decide who holds my mortgage?
    Dec 01 10:42 am |Rating: +7 -1 |Link to Comment
  • Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [View article]
    "Shedding light on the dark pools... the SEC will reportedly today propose slashing the percent of daily volume in a company's shares that can be executed on the systems before quotes must be publicized to 0.25% from 5%...Trading executives warn sweeping rule changes could ultimately hurt the investors regulators are trying to empower."

    I first warned of the abuses inherent in dark pools three years ago. In one of my earliest articles on SA, I tried to expose these practices to the unwelcome (to Goldman, Citadel et al) glare of fresh sunlight. They are basically yet another way to make investors pay more for their trades by hiding the actual size of orders from the trading desks of banks that are playing Big Casino rather than making loans to businesses with the money we gave them.

    The fact that "Trading executives warn sweeping rule changes could ultimately hurt the investors regulators are trying to empower," should be proof enough that reining these gambling addicts in is a good thing. If the "trading executives" are against it it means it's bad for them, good for us.

    The enemy of my enemy is my friend...
    Oct 21 10:08 am |Rating: +9 0 |Link to Comment
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