Banks’ Self-Dealing Super-Charged Financial Crisis

August 28, 2010 · Filed Under Main Page, Money and Banks · 1 Comment 

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by Jake Bernstein and Jesse Eisinger ProPublica, Aug. 26, 10:09 p.m.

Over the last two years of the housing bubble, Wall Street bankers perpetrated one of the greatest episodes of self-dealing in financial history.

Faced with increasing difficulty in selling the mortgage-backed securities that had been among their most lucrative products, the banks hit on a solution that preserved their quarterly earnings and huge bonuses:

They created fake demand.

A ProPublica analysis shows for the first time the extent to which banks — primarily Merrill Lynch, but also Citigroup, UBS and others — bought their own products and cranked up an assembly line that otherwise should have flagged. Read more

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Free Report: Is Your Money Making Money For You Or Your Bank?

May 2, 2009 · Filed Under Main Page, Money and Banks · Comment 

Here is a question for you. If you put your money into a savings account in the bank, who makes money from your saved money?  

I have just completed a free report,  “Who Is Your Money Working For? You Or Your Bank?”

The goal of the report is not to bash the banks,  but to identify what happens to money itself when you save it, and how “saving” money  limits your ability to “make” money.

The report is available for immediate download at Free Report

For Your Abundant Success,

Kalinda Rose Stevenson, Ph.D.
kalinda@NoMoneyLimits.com
www.NoMoneyLimits.com

PS. Do you understand how the current economic crisis is directly related to what bankers understand about the nature of money? Find out how the banks made money out of thin air, in “No Money Limits For Real Estate Investors.”

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