Posted on October 18, 2007 by MoneyBob
All seems quiet now - but…
the 3 month T-Bill is now yielding only 3.85% as of today’s Interest Rates on Bloomberg -which is saying there is a flight to quality in the bond market.
Did you hear the recent announcments of the major right offs (Losses $$) by all the big Banks in the past week [...]
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Posted on September 27, 2007 by MoneyBob
It’s just the beginning!
Satyajit Das is laughing. It appears I have said something very funny, but I have no idea what it was. My only clue is that the laugh sounds somewhat pitying.
One of the world’s leading experts on credit derivatives (financial instruments that transfer credit risk from one party to another), Das is the [...]
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Posted on August 30, 2007 by MoneyBob
Identity theft is one of the fastest growing financial crimes.
Nearly 10 million Americans fall victim each year. The Identity Theft Resource Center reported in 2005, on average, an ID theft victim of new account and other fraud spent 60 hours resolving problems brought on by ID theft, those victims of existing accounts spent an average [...]
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