Fox Business “Exclusively” Stonewalled By Tim Geithner
He says it’s his policy not to do walk and talks but Charlie Gasparino knows better. This guy’s got something to hide. Watch the latest video at video.foxbusiness.com Related: Charlie Gasparino Blown...
View ArticleHarbinger Capital Has An Interesting Alternative Theory For Why Goldman Sachs...
Yesterday Bloomberg reported that Goldman Sachs had pulled its entire $120 million investment from Harbinger Capital’s flagship fund, citing two reasons: 1) the returns were poor and 2) Phil Falcone...
View ArticleYou Can Thank The FBI For At Least One Thing
In the spirit of the two holidays being celebrated this week– Thanksgiving and Insider Trading Fest(ivus) 2010— let’s stop and take a moment to reflect. Many are probably not thankful for the feds’...
View ArticleIs Goldman Sachs *Strategically* Seeking Securities Fraud Charges?
John Carney and “a great many people” on Wall Street say yes. [The] theory is that Goldman might welcome a ruling by the Securities and Exchange Commission that would declare the firm’s Facebook fund...
View ArticleMark Sanchez Bangs 17 Year-Old Daughter Of Greenwich Capital Founder In...
As you may have heard, Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez has a 17 year-old lady friend. Her name is Eliza Kruger (pictured) and she’s a high school student in Greenwich who he met at nightclub Lavo on New...
View ArticleDid Raj Rajaratnam Not So Subtly Suggest Anil Kumar Should Trade Sexual...
One thing we’ve learned about Raj Rajaratnam gal-pal Danielle Chieis over the last year or so is that the information she passed to the Galleon founder was the best of the best. To be sure, guys like...
View ArticleHere’s An Interesting Theory From Hugo Chavez
“I have always said, heard, that it would not be strange that there had been civilization on Mars, but maybe capitalism arrived there, imperialism arrived and finished off the planet,” Chavez said in...
View ArticleRaj Rajaratnam’s Handlers Think Articles About Alleged Insider Trading Make...
Keeping watch over the 20 or so journalists reporting on Rajaratnam’s trial is Jim McCarthy, who handles the defendant’s media relations. McCarthy, the founder of New York-based CounterPoint Strategies...
View ArticleThings That Make You Go Hmm: bin Laden Real Estate Edition
From the mailbag: “I think I have a solution for the housing problem. All we need to do is hire the people who appraised Bin Laden’s hideout at $1 million. Seriously, it’s an odd shaped lot, with...
View ArticleThis Is A Theory Going Around For The DSK-Maid Incident
It presupposes that yes he did what’s been alleged but that it was a misunderstanding. “…DSK ordered a hooker to come to his hotel room, came out of the bathroom naked, saw that a girl had arrived, and...
View ArticleDick Bové Suggests You Connect The Dots On This UBS “Rogue Trade”
From: Richard Bove Subject: Regulator role in UBS loss Did regulators play a role in the UBS loss? Richard X. Bove Let’s hear him out. Continue reading »Follow Dealbreaker on Twitter or become a fan on...
View ArticleWould You Be More Mad At Corzine For The Whole MF Global Thing If He Didn’t...
In other words, does the rational part of your brain, which wants you to be circus freak-crazy pissed at him, lose out to the part that gets one look at that beard and decides “I can’t stay mad at...
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Bonus Watch ’12: Is UBS Trying To Tell Us Something?
Admittedly it’s just a theory but hear us out– based on the following bonus numbers communicated to managing directors this morning in Stamford, is it possible the Swiss’s long-term revenue generating...
View ArticleA Lot Of People Saddle Their Employer With Billions In Losses Over A Few...
UBS, the Swiss bank, was aware of problems with Kweku Adoboli’s trading five weeks before he was arrested, a court was told on Tuesday. The bank’s back office questioned €3.6bn (£2.9bn) of incorrectly...
View ArticleProfessor: Bankers Did Enough Blow To Kill A Stable-full Of Horses And Global...
David Nutt, the former Government drugs tsar sacked after claiming that horse riding was as safe as taking ecstasy, has said that the banking crisis was caused by too many workers taking cocaine. Prof...
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HSBC Tries To Come Up With Successor To ‘Yuppie,’ But Not Very Hard
Luxury fashion may be switching gender and age roles. In much of the world now, the most attractive demographic for such companies as Burberry (BRBY) and Coach (COH) isn’t middle-aged women with...
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Layoffs Watch ’14: JP Morgan
The House of Morgan is expected to lay off a whole bunch of employees this year. Those cuts, along with increased regulatory pressure, will somehow supposedly, eventually, cause Jamie Dimon to decide...
View ArticleThe Bitcoin Bugle: Aux Armes, Bitoyennes!
Security has become a matter of tremendous concern to the bitiot community, for obvious reasons. BitGo, which in April rolled out the first enterprise-grade “multi-sig” digital wallet to tackle...
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Maybe Dark Pool Clients Like It When Barclays (Allegedly!) Rips Them Off
Or something. Barclays saw the volume of U.S. shares traded at its dark pool rise to the highest since it was sued by New York for allegedly lying to customers of the venue. About 106 million U.S....
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Mathew Martoma’s Parents Raise Some Good, Less Good Points
As you’ve probably heard, yesterday afternoon Mathew Martoma née Thomas was sentenced to 9 years in prison for orchestrating “the most lucrative insider trading scheme ever” during his time at SAC...
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