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Now The FHA Is Subsidizing Hedge Funds That Flip Mortgages For Easy Profits

The Business Insider (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

Here's the latest in the FHA's ongoing parade of horrors. (In case you missed it, the agency tasked with keeping the housing bubble alive has been undewriting subrpime-quality loans , and helping broke dudes by apartment buildings in San Francisco .) Now they're subsidizing hedge fund profits. As the NYT reports, hedge funds are buying up big pools of distressed mortgages, modifying the loans with...

Who Do You Trust

Cara Community - Comments (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago

In reply to Blog for November 20, 2009 [See ADDENDUM] : Several columns from the Globe and Natl Post made for a good collection related to corruption in America: reprint of Wall Street Journal article "How A Sell Rating led to an analyst's Downfall"; Fairfax Delisting from NYSE (and their experience with corrupt & powerful US hedge funds); Diane Francis' recap of the laughable antics...

Parliamentarian steers EU to strict hedge fund rules

Reuters UK (Free subscription) | yesterday

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Top parliamentarian Jean-Paul Gauzes has written to members of an influential European Union committee recommending strict rules for hedge funds that clamp down on pay and borrowing, according to his report.

Greenspan-Volcker vs. Ron Paul

The LRC Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday

Good for Ron for stirring these two establishment mullahs to oppose him. But forget their official arguments, which are always a smokescreen in the state-bankster world. Remember that Greenspan was a J.P. Morgan (i.e., Rockefeller) economist before he ascended to the Fed. Now he works for hedge funds and big banks in NYC. Volcker was [...]

LyondellBasell Statement on Reliance Industries

PR News Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday

HOUSTON, Nov. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- LyondellBasell today issued the following statement:

How To Fake Your Way To Billions

Silicon Alley Insider (Free subscription) | yesterday

Remember Danny Pang? He was the head of a huge private-equity firm who hadn't done many of the things his bio said he had done, who had denied having his first wife shot to death in front of her son , who was indicted on fraud charges, and who was recently found dead. Read the rest of this story » See Also: How To Fake Your Way To Billions Danny Pang Probably Committed Suicide SEC Nails The...

PE firms target non-financial sectors to recruit top brass

Indian Express (Free subscription) | yesterday

In a departure from a long-standing trend, private equity firms are zeroing in on industries like manufacturing and services in their hunt for chief executive officers (CEOs), managing directors and other senior executives, thus deviating from the traditional practice of searching from within the financial sector.

Dubai's Abraaj eyes property investments

ArabianBusiness.com (Free subscription) | yesterday

PE firm's CEO says 2010 to be a significant investing year for private equity.

LEAP Options

Universal Financial Plus (Free subscription) | yesterday

By Ahmad Hassam British Pound is known to be a stable currency. Great Britain is a strong economy. But, Great Britain was finding it difficult to stay within the tight exchange rate band set by the European Monetary Union (EMU) in the early'90s. One person who made history with options was George Soros who is famously known as the man who broke the Bank of England. George Soros had this intuition that...

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8 lessons from a $20 billion trade

rssblogstory (Free subscription) | yesterday

In the greatest trade ever, a New York hedge fund manager scored big betting on the housing collapse. Even average investors can learn from his tacti 45 Vote(s)

Gala Bingo parent may get lifeline from Blackstone

Bingo Hideout - Bingo News (Free subscription) | yesterday

Bingo Hideout have been following the Gala Bingo parent debt restructure news stories that have been circulating for months now with interest. It appears now after much wrangling that the hopes of the parent company Gala Coral to restructure the reported £2bn of debt may soon be realised, with news that Blackstone have agreed in principle to a deal and are now in the process of completing the...

Cadbury family member joins Kraft battle

Times Online (Free subscription) | yesterday

A descendant of the founder of Cadbury has spoken out against the £9.8 billion Kraft bid and the stakebuilding in the confectioner by hedge funds, which has risen sharply since the offer was made on November 9.

Five big equity groups face off for Matalan

Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | yesterday

UP TO five heavyweight private equity groups are believed to have placed bids for Matalan, the discount clothing chain.

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Social housing firm is sold for £38.5m

Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | yesterday

LLOYDS Banking Group and private equity firm Alchemy have sold their social housing construction firm Environmental Property Services to facilities management group Mitie.

Indian real estate: Boom or Bubble?

neilsamsung | 25/09/2009

Property prices are rising fast as the tech boom spreads across the country. When Farallon Capital Management, a U.S. hedge fund, and its joint-venture partner, Indiabulls, snapped up an 11-acre property in central Mumbai in March 2005 for $54.5 million an acre, the purchase was called an act of idiocy by local developers. A few months later, when the same joint venture offered $95.5 million an acre...