For those of you who keep asking me “Who is doing this?” here is a very
useful tool from the Financial Times which provides revenue and deal value rankings of the global investment banks for 2007.

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Urgent Action on Behalf of Oaxacan Political Prisoners
From Food First (21 Jan 2008)

Learn more about Asamblea Popular de los Pueblos de Oaxaca

Countrywide’s Underwriters Sued for Fraud by New York Agencies
By David Mildenberg & Karen Freifeld – Bloomberg.com (26 Jan 2008)

The New York lawsuit has been consolidated with other lawsuits ag…

Mortgage Lender Hid Big Risks, Suit Alleges
By James Nash – Columbus Dispatch (23 Jan 2008)
“The giant mortgage financer known as Freddie Mac swindled an Ohio pension system out of as much as $27 mi…

Earlier news re insider selling by senior Barrick executives has me wondering what they know about market liquidity, 2008 prices for precious and base metals and how they know it. The heads of explora…

Usually it’s the “lone” assassin. Now that coup d’etats are financial, we have the “lone” or “rogue” trader.

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The lone trader strikes again ala 2008:
SocGen Reels From Record $7billion Rogue…

That’s it. I’m ditching Google. It is lots of little things, but the reality is I don’t trust ’em.

Centralizing internet data does not lend itself to promoting freedom, particularly the way these guy…

Source:

Cleveland Sues 21 Lenders Over Subprime Mortgages

By Christopher Maag – New York Times (12 Jan 2008)
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See City of Cleveland Press Release for a list of lenders.

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World Bank Closes Offices After Bomb Threat
By Lesley Wroughton – Reuters (17 Jan 2008)

Let’s say $40 of every barrel of oil sold to the US by large oil companies sourced in the middle east goes into a sovereign wealth fund. Let’s say there is $4 trillion missing from the US Treasury, an…

Let’s say $40 of every barrel of oil sold to the US by large oil companies sourced in the middle east goes into a sovereign wealth fund. Let’s say there is $4 trillion missing from the US Treasury, an…

In an e-mail (1.02.08) from the FDIC:
The e-mail is to inform you that the FDIC is retiring the loan sales website at www.fdicsales.com effective January 4, 2008. From this point forward, the FDIC wil…

NH Primary: Pre-Election Polls Wildly Different Than Results Announced for Clinton/Obama
Blogged by Brad Friedman – The Brad Blog (8 Jan 2008)

2008 New Hampshire State Primary Results
A Closer Look a…

Thanks to a very special reader, Catherine’s blog review of Political Ponerology has been translated into Swedish.

Click on this image to access the translation:

From opensecrets.org – Race for the White House

Here is how Goldman Sachs employees have voted with their money for the 2008 presidential candidates:
Hillary Clinton – $301,350
John Edwards – $61,950…