Mexico treasury seeks measure favoring Citigroup

Mexico's Treasury Department confirmed Thursday that Mexican law bans foreign governments from holding stakes in local banks, but said it would ask the nation's congress to amend the law to permit participation in cases of emergency.

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One reason the banking mess has receded from view is that the Federal Reserve -- which no doubt prefers that the financial system never be an electoral issue at all -- has been easing policy gradually but steadily since March 1989.

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WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told lawmakers Thursday that the central bank is looking into the use by Goldman Sachs and other Wall Street firms of high-risk financial instruments to make bets that Greece would default on its debt. Bernanke said the Fed is …

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As worries over Greece rattle world markets, records and interviews show that with Wall Street's help, the nation engaged in a decade-long effort to skirt European debt limits.

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The body count is still rising. For months on end, marked by bankruptcies, foreclosures, evictions, and layoffs, the economic meltdown has taken a heavy toll on Americans.

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Earlier this week, the inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, a k a, the bank bailout fund, released his report on the 2008 rescue of the American International Group, the insurer.

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Senator Byron Dorgan, Democrat of North Dakota, was one of eight senators who stood up to oppose the repeal of the Glass-Steagall act in 1999.

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A great primer on how we got into this economic mess! Nice and easy to understand for the layman.

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Sen. Dodd got two Countrywide mortgages in 2003, refinancing his home in Connecticut and another residence in Washington.

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As the July issue of industry publication US Banker noted, more than $168 billion of the $204 billion in commercial mortgages coming due this year are held by banks and thrifts. That dwarfs the $19.1 billion of CMBS loans that also mature this year.

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At one bank in Alabama, the problem is a construction bust. At two in Ohio, the trouble is real estate.

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Today, the Center for Public Integrity releases the results of its investigation into the housing crisis, which showed that investment banks, some of which were recipients of billions of taxpayer dollars through the federal bailout, made major investments in subprime lending.

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Banks employ large teams of highly paid people to devise transactions mainly for the purpose of avoiding tax. These activities seem to be far more profitable than the humdrum business of managing payments and channelling savings towards investment. Why?

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I've physically seen credit reports of someone who's considered in the upper echelon. His scores were through the roof and not a single blemish to be seen anywhere at anytime. Pristine. What I'd like to know...

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John Thain figured seven months ago that he was just one rung down the corporate ladder from becoming chief executive of the largest consumer bank in the U.S. Now, he is trying to climb back from the professional disaster that followed.

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Where oh where has my Rodeo Drive gone? My Black Card has been cut off. Credit lines should now be called Shopausaurus as they are extinct.

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"The Great Depression altered the national consciousness. So far, the Great Recession has not." But being manhandled by banks and credit card issuers might. We do not use banks out of choice, we need them. We carry credit cards because we cannot function without them.

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Tax give-aways to wealthy have contributed to economic meltdown. Tax burden shifted from the rich onto the backs of everyday Americans.

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Madigan said the surest way to identify a potential scam artist is if the company asks for a fee up front after making big promises about being able to get a homeowner out of trouble.

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"The Obama administration warned Monday that scams targeting distressed homeowners struggling to modify their mortgages or avoid foreclosure are on the rise across the United States.

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Is Bank of America Worth $200 Billion?

Just for the record, I did study accounting, both at the undergraduate and graduate levels. I'm no accountant, by any means, but if you explain it to me slowly, I can usually "get it".

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Many of the financial pundits who cheerleaded us into this toxic red debt tide are now calling the bottom. There are, however, hundreds of trillions of dollars of more toxic derivatives remaining in this red tide of debt.

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"The frequency and increasing intensity of financial crises," Zhou said, "suggests the costs of such a system to the world may have exceeded its benefits." Zhou recommended turning Special Drawing Rights (SDRs), the unit of account used by the International Monetary Fund, into th …

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On April 3, 2009 Black appeared on "Bill Moyers Journal" on PBS and provided some disturbing commentary on the current banking crisis.[4] In the interview with Bill Moyers,[5] Black asserted that our current banking crisis is essentially a big Ponzi scheme, that the "liar loans"  …

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I thoroughly recommend the Treasury Select Committee's report into the Icelandic banking crisis.

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Brooksley Born warned that unchecked trading in the credit market could lead to disaster, but power brokers in Washington ignored her. Now we're all paying the price.

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