Wells Fargo’s (NYSE: WFC) Loan Losses Outpace Bank of America’s (NYSE: BAC) and JP Morgan Chase’s (NYSE: JPM)

October 21st, 2009

Wells Fargo & Co (NYSE :WFC) announced their third-quarter earnings Wednesday morning announcing $3.2 billion in profit for the quarter and also announced that it expects quarterly losses from non-performing loans to peak sometime during the loan. The strong earnings announcement from Wells Fargo was primarily attributed to its community banking profits and investment gains from mortgage gains, but the San Francisco based bank still faces significant losses from increasing numbers of delin

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The Looting of America: How Wall Street’s Game of Fantasy Finance Destroyed Our Jobs, Pensions, and Prosperity—and What We Can Do About It

October 21st, 2009

Review Library Journal Review–Leopold (founding director, Labor Inst. & Public Health Inst. ; The Man Who Hated Work and Loved Labor) spends much of this text providing an excellent “lemonade stand” explanation of the history and mechanics of the various mortgage-related securities and their derivatives that have come under scrutiny as a result of the current financial crisis. Many readers will find the simplicity of this exercise a welcome parry to the mass media refrain that only the

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Left & Right: Liberals/Conservatives

October 21st, 2009

Welcome to Left & Right. Just Politics..? has joined with Let’s Talk Politics to provide two different perspectives on the same topic in the hopes of creating a conversation about a given issue. Be sure to read both opinions and, if the mood strikes you, feel free to leave a comment (or two) below. Of course, Just Politics..? encourages you to visit Let’s Talk Politics for more great articles. The Left The Right By Joseph @ Let’s Talk Politics One of the ben

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NYT > World: Letter from America: Imperialism, Goldman Sachs Style

October 21st, 2009

World. Her main concern was understanding the evils of Nazism and Communism, but Hannah Arendt’s writings on imperialism are eerily applicable to the financial crisis.

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AEI No Way Out I — Ip Panel I Response

October 21st, 2009

Doom Transcripts: Index & Guide Housing Doom is pleased to present a second selection from our under-construction transcript of the American Enterprise Institute’s October 9, 2009 event “No Way Out: Government Response to the Financial Crisis”. 1 The event site has a number of resources, including an audio and video of the proceedings. There is as yet no official transcript. This is the Panel I response to Vince Reinhart by Economist US economics editor Greg Ip. Greg I

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