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• Senator Kaufman Calls For Immediate SEC Ban On 'Naked Access' High Risk, High Frequency, Highly Unregulated And Unfair Wall Street Trading Practices

  —Delaware Way

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  Kaufman Asks Commission to Act Now on High Frequency Trading
  In letter to SEC Chairman Schapiro, Senator outlines dangers of manipulative algorithms and systemic risk
  WASHINGTON, DC – Senator Ted Kaufman (D-DE) today urged Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Mary Schapiro to take immediate steps to combat [...]

  Posted: November 23, 2009, 6:37pm EST
  by Nancy Willing

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• Too Big Too FAIL? So, Where's All The Wingnut Pro-Regulation Rallies?!

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  Update: Heard on the Ed Schultz show tonight: Peter DeFazio is coming up with legislation for how Wall Street should make Main Street whole. Here's Pete back in January of 2009.(.pdf). And here's Pete back in September of 2008 ~ from the Loaded Orygun blog:
  

  By now you've' [...]

  Posted: November 16, 2009, 5:30pm EST
  by Nancy Willing

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• Friday The Thirteenth Again

  —Delmar DustPan

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  Another Friday the 13th, this is the third one this year. I guess there will be limited trading on Wall Street today as one of the superstitions is it is bad luck to buy or sell stock. Among other superstitions; don't make travel plans or start a trip, If you' [...]

  Posted: November 13, 2009, 6:02am EST
  by Howard

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• POLITICAL WIRE’S HEADLINES – 11/12

  —Accomack County Democrats

  Corzine Headed Back to Wall Street? Politicker NJ: “The rumor in financial circles is that Gov. Jon Corzine could wind up as CEO of Bank of America. Business Week has mentioned it, as did Charlie Gasperino on CNBC today. There is no confirmation or denial from the governor’s staff.”   The Upside of Being [...]

  Posted: November 12, 2009, 1:25pm EST
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• U.S. Looks To Cut Deficit With Unused TARP Funds: Report

  —Salisbury News

  
  (Reuters) – The White House is looking to cut its budget deficit by using some unspent funds from the U.S. government's Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), the Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with the matter.

  
  Members of the Obama administration are still debating the idea, the [...]

  Posted: November 12, 2009, 7:45am EST
  by joealbero

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• Look To Senator Ted Kaufman For Financial Market Reform Leadership On The Hill

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  From the Hockessin Community News, GateHouse News Service reports -
  

  A little more after a year since the collapse of Lehman Brothers, Wall Street is essentially unchanged, Kaufman said. Trillions of dollars of taxpayer money have gone into bailing out the banks, A.I.G. and a number of financial [...]

  Posted: November 11, 2009, 3:31pm EST
  by Nancy Willing

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• Nightmare On Wall Street

  —Salisbury News

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  Regulation: Washington is quietly preparing a hostile takeover of Wall Street with a new bill that would put regulators in control of managing asset prices.
  
  While all eyes are fixed on the cobra poised to strike the health care industry, a python is wending its way through Hill banking [...]

  Posted: November 07, 2009, 9:25am EST
  by joealbero

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• Goldman Sachs, Citigroup Got Swine Flu Vaccine

  —Salisbury News

  NEW YORK (AP) Some of New York's biggest companies, including Wall Street giants Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, received doses of swine flu vaccine for at-risk employees, drawing criticism that the hard-to-find vaccine is going first to the privileged.
  
  Hospitals, universities and the Federal Reserve Bank also got doses of [...]

  Posted: November 07, 2009, 7:10am EST
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• Senator Bernie Sanders Writes: Too Big to Fail - Too Big to Exist

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  More than a year has gone by since Congress passed the $700
  billion bailout of Wall Street. The Federal Reserve has committed trillions of
  additional dollars in virtually zero-interest loans and other assistance to
  large financial institutions resulting in the largest taxpayer bailout in the
  history of the world. Today, [...]

  Posted: November 06, 2009, 2:37pm EST
  by Nancy Willing

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• Too Big Too Fail Bankers Too Big For Their Britches?

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  I am sure everyone's heard by now about how Wall Street butted to the front of the receiving line for the H1N1 virus vaccine (thanks to Secretary Sebelius).
  
  I read Watertiger's post on the subject this morning LOL!!! She's one of the best around ~ “When Someone [...]

  Posted: November 06, 2009, 7:36am EST
  by Nancy Willing

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• How Ironic - The Financiers Feel Free To Employ Public Bailout Funds Against The Public Interest Via Lobbyists On The Hill

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  Sam Stein says "As the Service Employees International Union reported, all Wall Street institutions -- banks and insurance companies, TARP recipients and non-TARP recipients -- have spent $321 million on lobbying in the first nine months since the bailout.
  From HuffPo ~
  

  In all, during the last quarter" [...]

  Posted: November 05, 2009, 1:32pm EST
  by Nancy Willing

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• The Wall Street Journal Calls Pelosi Health Bill "The Worst Bill Ever

  —Salisbury News

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  Speaker Nancy Pelosi has reportedly told fellow Democrats that she's prepared to lose seats in 2010 if that's what it takes to pass ObamaCare, and little wonder. The health bill she unwrapped last Thursday, which President Obama hailed as a "critical milestone," may well be the worst piece of post-New [...]

  Posted: November 04, 2009, 9:15am EST
  by joealbero

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• Are We All Clear Now? Wall Street Fueled The Housing Bubble Deliberately, Bet The Market Would Fail, Sold The AAA Risky Bits Off And Got PAID To Boot

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  Beat the Press comment rescue ~ (via Atrios)
  So. Is Wall Street populated by incompetents who missed the $8 trillion housing bubble, or by crooks who knew full well what was going on and fueled the bubble deliberately?
  I suspect the answer is yes.
  Posted by: Aatos
  
  It's' [...]

  Posted: November 03, 2009, 10:52am EST
  by Nancy Willing

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• McClatchy Series To Show That Goldman Sachs May Have Violated U.S. Securities Laws On Its Way To Stellar Post-Bailout Profits

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  McClatchy reports ~ (via DKos)
  Coming Sunday: Goldman Sachs' low road to high profits
  No Wall Street investment firm has emerged from the global financial crisis more intact than Goldman Sachs. Now a five-month McClatchy investigation shows that the firm's winning strategy may have violated U.S. securities laws.
  The' [...]

  Posted: October 31, 2009, 8:06pm EDT
  by Nancy Willing

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