The SEC commissioners conducted a brief 55 minute hearing on April 28, 2004 that set the stage for the global financial crisis (GFC) which began to unfold in early 2007 and reached full boil in September 2008. As far as I’m aware, only five companies applied for SEC permission to become CSE’s (Consolidated Supervised Entities). […]
Sly and the Family Stone came out with “Let me take you higher” in 1969, it seems a sales trader at a large Wall St firm has taken those boom lacka lacka, boom lacka lacka lyrics to heart. It’s true, it happened, as to whether or not it’s legal, that’s why the SEC is going after […]
The picture is a diagram of the US Shadow Banking System produced by the New York Fed in 2009/10. It is important to note, a handful of the largest, most sophisticated American banks, largely in the Federal Reserve district east of the Hudson created and inflated the Shadow Banking system. Layers two and three contained […]