Tag Archive 'CDS'

The Stanford Group Fraud

Lance on Mar 07 2009 | Filed under: Advisory services, Baton Rouge News, Personal Finance

I have had a problem with the  Stanford Group, and the “CD’s” they were pushing, for several years now. No need to explain why at this point. Anyway, this has hit Baton Rouge extremely hard. I don’t believe in relative terms (outside of Antigua itself) any other community had a larger exposure to Stanford than [...]

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JP Morgan, Lehman and Nightmares

Lance on Oct 05 2008 | Filed under: Federal Reserve, Government policy, economy

I am often asked about individual bank stocks, especially JP Morgan. Generally my answer is that Bank of America, JP Morgan and a few others look to be likely survivors, but how profitable they will be I am really unsure.
JP Morgan is a special discussion, because I point out a rather astonishing fact, they have [...]

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