Distressed Volatility

Goldman Sachs Principal Transactions Update: 741 Million Shares

I feel like Bernanke wants to put a gun to his head...

Goldman Sachs Principal Transactions Update: 741 Million Shares

lol


On Jun 05 12:10 PM mdmrjsds wrote:

> On Jun 05 11:22 AM carey_jim wrote:

How Banks Hedge Counterparty Risk

I'm thinking that in order to prevent this financial massacre going forward there must be capital and collateral ratio requirements that CDS counterparties must follow to make sure they can honor existing swap obligations if their portfolio holdings are written down to distressed levels. Maybe there were ratio requirements in place, but obviously they did not factor in credit disaster risk and look what happened. I wrote a post on how we could prevent the next llliquid cds crisis, and would like to hear more about how CDS transactions were structured during the past few years......d.volatilit... www.distressedvolatili...

Fear and Greed: Premise for Capitulation and Overreaction

ha a little spelling problem there

Fear and Greed: Premise for Capitulation and Overreaction

"Einhorn at Greenlight and others at similar firms colluded in spreading rumors, lies and innuendo. This will be borne out by SEC investigations that will result in many of these liars going straight to the federal pen."

Wow, first off this guy has youtube videos making presentations to the public on why he's shorting stocks. I'm thinking the CEO's, CFO's Analysts and Assistant Analysts, Underwriting Staff at these banks should've applied more risk management in their models. These banks levered bets backed were all backed by a house of cards and illiquid insurance (swaps) backed by every other bank that was doing the same thing! It was a mess from the start, these public banks wouldn'tve done this if the owners/managers were playing with their own money don't you think.. I'm thinking hedge funds will just take over the role, and get big, merge and go public and the cycle will just happen again in 20 years. ???

Wall Street, R.I.P. Now What?

If the consumer can't remain resilient to this mess... then we will have a major problem.

FDIC Won't Run Out of Money, But WaMu May Be Toast

wow, if this really gets bad, banks will have online bank runs, that could be interesting! 5 seconds and capital reserves are wiped out!

Prepare to Sell Monday - Cramer's Mad Money (9/19/08)

We are on the way to becoming China!!!! The Government is going to bail out everyone and they'll have to socialize labor!