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Paulson Letter on Abacus AC1

When I first wrote about the case against Goldman Sachs for fraud on Friday I said that my reaction was "largely positive" as fraud was a major factor in what led to crisis and it is high time regulators started to acknowledge this.…

Goldman's Abacus 2007 AC1 Indicative Terms

From the SEC: The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Goldman, Sachs & Co. and one of its vice presidents for defrauding investors by misstating and omitting key facts about a financial product tied to subprime…

Econbrowser: More on oil prices and the economic recovery FT.com - John Gapper - A short story of a star hedge fund The scandalous Lehman CME auction | Felix Salmon A Thin Case: Ex-RAF Terrorist to Stand Trial for 1977 Murder - SPIEGEL…

Second Mortgages Vex Borrowers - WSJ.com U.S. Says Regulators Feuded Over WaMu for Years - NYTimes.com Tim Duy's Fed Watch: Stuck in the Middle FT Alphaville - Tracy Alloway - Robbing Pedro to pay Paul (of Greece) … AIG,…

Intel demos software that reads your mind | Cutting Edge – CNET News FT.com – Merryn Somerset Webb: Debt debacle is not going to go away Polish President, Bank Chief in Plane Crash, Reports – Bloomberg.com East Germany's…

By now, you know about the much-discussed swaps that Greece used to conceal it’s debt load.  While the amount of debt concealed is low relative to the total, the mere fact that Greece attempted to conceal its true fiscal position is…

Marshall Auerback here with a post which I originally co-wrote at New Deal 2.0 with Randall Wray. In recent weeks, there has been much discussion about what to do about Greece. These questions become all the more relevant as the country…