Comments on: How U.S. Missteps Triggered a Spiral of Worldwide Margin Calls and Deepened the Financial Crisis

By: Hedge Funds Have Another $200 Billion to go to Complete Their “De-leveraging”

Mon, 09 Feb 2009 21:14:26 +0000

[...] Money Morning Credit Crisis Investigative Report: How U.S. Missteps Triggered a Spiral of Worldwide Margin Calls and Deepened the Financial Crisis. [...]

By: Don’t Give Up on Gold | Geiger Index - Keith Fitz-Gerald

Don’t Give Up on Gold | Geiger Index - Keith Fitz-Gerald — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:19:13 +0000

[...] as “credit default swaps” has exacerbated the fallout from the global financial crisis, and touched off the aforementioned de-leveraging process. As asset markets have melted down, hedge funds, financial institutions worldwide, and even [...]

By: Four Ways to Sidestep the Damage Wall Street’s Big Money Movers are Inflicting on Main Street | Geiger Index - Keith Fitz-Gerald

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:55:24 +0000

[...] experience suggests that one or more hedge funds have imploded. Whether by margin call or redemption proceedings is a moot point. We won’t know for sure until much later next week when [...]

By: Gold is Experiencing Record Demand: So Why Have Prices Fallen?

Gold is Experiencing Record Demand: So Why Have Prices Fallen? — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:11:57 +0000

[...] and hedge funds were forced to liquidate assets across the board. This so-called “de-leveraging” is taking place for a number of reasons, but one is due simply to asset allocation [...]

By: For the U.S. Economy in the New Year, the Pain Will Precede the Promise

For the U.S. Economy in the New Year, the Pain Will Precede the Promise — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:30:04 +0000

[...] Money Morning Special Investigation of the U.S. Credit Crisis (Part VIII): How U.S. Missteps Triggered a Spiral of Worldwide Margin Calls and Deepened the Financial Crisis. [...]

By: Four Ways to Sidestep the Damage Wall Street’s Big Money Movers are Inflicting on Main Street

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 09:01:13 +0000

[...] experience suggests that one or more hedge funds have imploded. Whether by margin call or redemption proceedings is a moot point. We won’t know for sure until much later next week [...]

By: Buy, Sell or Hold: PepsiCo Inc.

Buy, Sell or Hold: PepsiCo Inc. — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 09:57:41 +0000

[...] But history tells us that the massive sell-off in stocks is similar in magnitude to the average sell-off since 1890. And value indicators already have been screaming, “Buy” for months. The market is terribly oversold and offers tons of value as banks, hedge funds and other leveraged investors have been forced to sell – not because of fundamentals – but because of losses they’ve taken (and, in some cases, continue to take) in unrelated investments that force margin calls. [...]

By: PC

PC — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 21:58:10 +0000

Well Mr. Gilani,
your own words to describe your activity in the trading pits depict yourself as a market manipulator, that as far as I understand is a criminal activity. As a consequence, why should people really care of what you believe is right or wrong when it comes to Paulson’s or the Fed’s decision?
Much more interesting instead would be to know from you, based on your personal experience, what should be done to get rid of all the market manipulators. That should prove quite interesting to the many that are robbed of their savings and also to the public companies that would be released from this often lethal trap

By: april montefiore

april montefiore — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:32:34 +0000

NONE of this could have ever even gotten started without the
removal of the Glass Steagall Act by President Clinton in 1999.

This opened the door for the banks to sell off risky mortgage bundles to investment firms who then sold them off in thousands of bits all over the world – all betting on a housing market that had no top. Brilliant financial experts created this mess. Add to that pushing people to sign up to buy houses so far out of their league, this was the perfect storm waiting to happen.

By: Rick R. Pelley

Rick R. Pelley — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 09:13:58 +0000

Yes, I agree with you, that Mr. Gilani understands and can explain the facts.

This time around, however, more than just the middle class are, and will, be affected as the chips continue to fall where they may.