China Asks Local Lenders Not To Lend to U.S. Banks: Report
By V. Phani Kumar – MarketWatch (24 Sep 2008)
China Stops Its Banks From Lending to U.S. Banks
By Jane Cai and Adam Chen – South China Morning Post (25 Sep 2008)
Goldman Shares Got Suspicious Boost Just Before Buffett Bid
By Kristina Cooke – Reuters (24 Sep 2008)
Does U.S. Face A Run On Its Currency?
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard – London Telegraph (23 Sep 2008)
Treasuries Lose Appeal for Asian, European Investors
By Daniel Kruger & Kyoungwha Kim – Bloomberg News (24 Sep 2008)
American Must Rescue the Bonuses at Goldman Sachs
By Michael Lewis – Bloomberg.com (24 Sep 2008)
Bailout Can’t Hide It: The Country Is Busted
By Chris Powell – GATA (25 Sep 2008)
Paulson Facilitates Insider Trading
By John Crudele – New York Post (25 Sep 2008)
Fury at $2.5bn Bonus for Lehman’s New York Staff
By David Prosser – The Independent (22 Sep 2008)
Retirees Filling the Front Line in Market Fears
By John Leland & Louis Uchitelle – New York Times (22 Sep 2008)
Money Central – Advice You Can Bank On
Compiled by Rebecca O’Connor – Times Online (27 Nov 2007)
Flow of Funds Accounts of the United States
Federal Reserve Statistical Release – Second Quarter 2008
Press Release – Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
(14 Sep 208)
U.S. Treasury Widens Scope of Plan to Buy Bad Debt
By Dawn Kopecki – Bloomberg.com (21 Sep 2008)
Australia Bans Short Selling
By Iain McDonald – Wall Street Journal, Asia (21 Sep 2008)
Financial Crisis: Default By the U.S. Government Is No Longer Unthinkable
By Liam Halligan – London Telegraph (21 Sep 2008)
Hedge Funds Plan to Sue FSA Over Short-Selling Ban
By Louise Armistead – London Telegraph (20 Sep 2008)
60% Say U.S. Economy Is Not Fundamentally Sound
Rasmussen Reports (19 Sep 2008)
Sue Them, Jail Them, Make Them Pay for Meltdown
By Ann Woolner – Bloomberg.com (19 Sep 2008)
Paulson’s Focus on ‘Excesses’ Shows Goldman Gorged
By Mark Pittman – Bloomberg.com (5 Nov 2008)
Paulson Bailout Plan a Historic Swindle
By William Greider – The Nation (19 Sep 2008)
Bank of China Buys Into Rothschild Bank
ShanghaiDaily.com (19 Sep 2008)
Free Market Ideology is Far From Finished
By Naomi Klein – Guardian.co.uk (19 Sep 2008)
Regarding the articles above in which the Chinese Banking Regulatory Commission issued a ban on lending to US financial institutions, retracted their statement here:
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/china-bank-regulator-denies-report/story.aspx?guid=%7B1F3681AC%2D2953%2D4963%2D99EC%2D57BECF1E9291%7D
Wow. The cat’s out of the bag! James Turk on Financial Sense: “Government Money or Sound Money”: “No one can doubt any longer that the United States is run totally for the benefit of the banks.”
Also some interesting insights from Rob Kirby (“And the Band Played On”) into links between some some familiar faces (on this blog) and a recently failed financial institution, also on Financial Sense.