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Paulson's plan to revive the banking system by buying up hundreds of billions of dollars of illiquid mortgage-backed securities (MBS) and other equally poisonous debt-instruments; ignores the fact these complex bonds have already been "marked to market" in the recent fire sale by Merrill Lynch.
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It's built on the misguided assumption that capitalism can thrive without capital; that one dollar can be infinitely magnified by complex debt-instruments and mega-leveraging to generate real wealth and keep the wheels of finance and industry humming along.
Peace, order and good government, eh?: September 2008 Archives 2008
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Surely, the Fed must have known this day would come when they were pumping trillions of dollars into subprime mortgages and complex debt-instruments which served no earthly purpose except to fatten the bottom line for rapacious bankers and hedge-fund managers.
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As financial institutions discover they can no longer count on organic growth in the real economy to increase profits, (because consumers are too strapped to spend freely) they will rely more heavily on dodgy accounting, bogus ratings, opaque debt-instruments, high-frequency trading and lax lending standards.
CounterPunch 2010
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(Monetization) The Fed's balance sheet has become a dumping ground for all manner of toxic waste and putrid debt-instruments for which there is no active market.
GlobalResearch.ca 2009
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Toxic subprime mortgages poisoned the well and now investors have boycotted the entire market for structured debt-instruments.
unknown title 2009
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Securitization is the epicenter of the shadow banking system, the mostly-unregulated universe of opaque debt-instruments, off balance sheet operations, and massively over-leveraged financial institutions.
Dissident Voice 2009
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Toxic subprime mortgages poisoned the well and now investors have boycotted the entire market for structured debt-instruments.
CounterPunch 2009
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Toxic subprime mortgages poisoned the well and now investors have boycotted the entire market for structured debt-instruments.
CounterPunch 2009
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Securitization is the epicenter of the shadow banking system, the mostly-unregulated universe of opaque debt-instruments, off balance sheet operations, and massively over-leveraged financial institutions.
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2009
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