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10a
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- Short Selling, The One Satisfaction Rule
Payoff Game - on Wall
Street.
Short Selling, Insuarnce and
credit swaps Elements of Fraud
/Credit-default swaps, conceived by
bondholders, allow investors to buy
protection against a company defaulting.
As the market expanded, speculators
started using them to bet on a company's
creditworthiness. The contracts pay the
holder face value for the underlying
securities or the cash equivalent should a
company fail to repay its debt.
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Though it grew a hundredfold in the last
seven years, total outstanding contracts
in credit-default swaps are dwarfed by
other derivative markets, including those
that bet on interest rates. Those markets
had contracts linked to about $465
trillion as of June 30, the International
Swaps and Derivatives Assn. said.
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The joint probe announced Monday will also
examine allegations of insider trading,
market manipulation and other forms of
fraud, according to a second person.
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Cuomo and US probe credit-default swaps
The probe seeks to "determine whether any
federal laws have ... an earlier inquiry
by Cuomo's office, US Atty. ... Cuomo has
been probing alleged manipulation of
credit Business | October 21st, 2008
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Google's
World ofWiTel - The
WiTels®™©) device, which
will run on Google's new Android operating
system, will go on sale for $179. A
mass-market device with a sharp touch
screen and slide-out keyboard that brings
the experience of mobile Web surfing
closer to that of a personal
computer. MORE
STORY ABOUT
gPHONE
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Google - 10 years Later 1998 - 2008 -
• Google's
World ofWiTel -
The
WiTels®™©) device, -- will
go on sale for $179. MORE
STORY ABOUT gPHONE
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Google
- 10 years Later 1998 - 2008 - Sergey Brin
Speaks / MORE STORY ABOUT
gPHONE
10e
-Why Do You
Believe?
•••A
new study out of Northwestern University,
starts to provide data and insight into
what Marx was getting at -- not if there
is a God and not whether it makes sense
that humans should believe, but simply why
humans believe - CLICK FOR MORE
BIBLICAL STUDIES.
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10f
- Google Yahoo Deal on Hold. The
partnership is under scrutiny by the
Justice
Department.
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On
October 4, 2008, Yahoo Inc. and Google
Inc. agreed to delay an Internet-
advertising partnership while U.S.
regulators investigate whether the deal
would hamper competition. - CLICK FOR
MORE Google
Story.
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The Crash of
2008
10a
- One Satisfaction Rule Payoff Game -
Q&A
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How much foreclosure relief will Borrowers
get from bailout plan?
•••It
all depends on the "IF" answere: WAS AN
INSURANCE COMPANY INVOLVED. Was insurance
$$ part of the Payoff. - CLICK FOR
MORE BAIL-OUT
GAMES.
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10b
FICO The Credit Rating Agencies -
Fraudulent FICO
SCORES
•••In
D.C., a few
congressmen blame Benchmark firms for
financial crisis
Congress had a big hand in oversight
failures and deregulation, in part through
a philosophy of reducing government's
role. Rep. Waxman begins hearings today
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10c
- Fipping Real Estate Is Illegal.
ScamMers
of Deeds of Trusts in California were
involved high-end house flips on Wall
Sreet usesing Deeds of Trust.
•••Lehman
Bros. Bank, which last month spiraled into
bankruptcy amid the nation's deepening
financial crisis, and another lender, RBC
Mortgage Co., lost about $42 million on
the loans. - MORE FLIPPING
STORY.
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10d
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BackDatingFraud.
Former McAfee, Inc.
lawyer is
acquitted in stock options backdating
trial
•••Kent
Roberts, who served as the software
maker's general counsel until he was fired
in 2006, was accused of tampering with
grants to increase his shares' value by
$200,000. CLICK FOR MORE BACKDATING
STORY.
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2007b
BofA settles privacy lawsuit. Who's
next -- American Express? CLICK FOR
MORE STORY
•10e
-Why Do You
Believe
•••A
new study out of Northwestern University,
perhaps without really meaning to, gets at
something much more interesting. It starts
to provide data and insight that add to
our ability to understand what Marx was
getting at -- not if there is a God and
not whether it makes sense that humans
should believe, but simply why humans
believe.
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MORE 4308 STORY
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10fGoogle
Yahoo Deal on Hold. The partnership is
under scrutiny by the Justice
Department.
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On October 4,
2008, Yahoo Inc. and Google Inc. agreed to
delay an Internet- advertising partnership
while U.S. regulators investigate whether
the deal would hamper competition.
CLICK FOR
MORE 4308 STORY
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The
10th Anniversary of Google. October marks
the Beginnings of the Browser War &
Chrome's Shiny
Features
•The Los
Angeles Times
reported,
"if
Explorer and Firefox are the Toyotas of
browsers, Chrome is the sporty Mini
Cooper."
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Chrome's
developers promoted it as a speedier,
safer and more reliable way to navigate
the Web that will give consumers more and
better options. Chrome, in the works for
about two years, was first tested on
thousands of finicky Google employees --
including co-founders Larry Page and
Sergey Brin. CLICK
FOR MORE STORY
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FCCSafetyAirwaves
Public
Safety Airwaves Up For Sale
2009
•••FCC
-- Federal Communications Commission
Chairman Kevin J. Martin proposed putting
a nationwide swath of public safety
airwavwes up for sale again after cutting
the minimum price by 42%.
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MORE STORY
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GoogleYahooAdDeal
Google's CEO, Eric Schmidt will pursue
Chrome
and the Yahoo AdDea
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Apple
Settles "backdated option awards"
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