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Entries Tagged as 'ENRON'

What caused the crash, who should go to prison and how to fix this mess

April 6th, 2009 No Comments

This article could have so many titles:
 
Whose to Blame?
 
Why are the wrong people being blames?
 
The one reform the market desperately requires?
 
Where was the free market watchdog? No not the SEC……
 
Why are the rating agencies not owning responsibility for their mess?
 
Should AIG and Madoffs investors be allowed to sue the Rating Agencies?
 
Who owns the Rating [...]

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Hidden Time Bombs that investors should learn to look for

February 25th, 2008 No Comments

Investing in businesses in the stock market is riskier business than you realise. The American standard accounting practices hide a multitude of sins from the unsavy investor. Companies like Enron, Countrywide Financial and GMAC can be huge titans one day with seemingly positive and healthy balance sheets and gone the next in a sea of [...]

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Feeding The Beast – Countrywide is Hungry For Money Again

September 12th, 2007 No Comments

It doesn’t seem so long ago that the evils of CFC’s (Chlorofluorocarbons) were being vilified in the press. Today we have a different type of negative connotation to CFC’s (Countrywide Financial Corporation). Blamed for much of financial liquidity crisis and turmoil during August 2007 (they were just being greedily like everyone else, but they got [...]

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Feeding the Beast

September 12th, 2007 No Comments

It doesn’t seem so long ago that the evils of CFC’s (Chlorofluorocarbons) were being vilified in the press. Today we have a different type of negative connotation to CFC’s (Countrywide Financial Corporation). Blamed for much of financial liquidity crisis and turmoil during August 2007 (they were just being greedily like everyone else, but they got [...]

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