Tag Archives: swaps

The Euro will fall to $1 within a year. – [PREDICTION]

A bunch of hedge funds are betting against the Euro. Via Joe Weisenthal

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The unsavory and dangerous practice of financial firms betting against their clients needs to be thoroughly investigated.

New York Times editorial against Goldman Sachs and the other financial firms. Humm. I agree that some practices are evil, but do the NYT know that hedging is good?

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Harvard University crétins did bet on swaps and ended up losing $500 million.

“Harvard paid $497.6 million during the fiscal year ended June 30 to get out of $1.1 billion of interest-rate swaps intended to hedge variable-rate debt for capital projects, the report said. The university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, said it also agreed … Continue reading

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Life Settlement Securities

NBC Nighly News on Friday, October 9, 2009 Wall Street is betting on how long you will live. Download either the M4V file or the WMV file. 00:13:30 into. Hurry up to download the video, as it will expire tonite … Continue reading

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