Author Archives: Subliminal Watch

Executive Summary: After Greece, Many States And Local Taxing Entities’ Liabilities Will Surpass Greece’s Level With Accounting Rule Revisions By GASB This Summer

The Greek fiscal drama will become old news, when the financial markets react to the coming bombshell in the USA this summer.   The Government lives with different rules than a business in regard to funding of pensions.  Whereas, non-public pension … Continue reading

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Financial Pay To Play Rituals, Play Acting And Masks

“Things are not what they seem, skim milk masquerades as cream” — Gilbert and Sullivan “All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; and their masks and duplicitous … Continue reading

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The Credit Default Swap Moral Hazard And Top Five US Banks

Warren Buffett has described derivatives “as weapons of mass destruction.”   Credit default swaps are portrayed as financial arrangements too difficult for the unsophisticated to understand.   Credit default swaps are a type of derivative held mostly by the top five too-big-to-fail … Continue reading

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Pay to Play, Buying Insurance, or a Protection Racket for Wall Street Gains a 20-Year Low in Financial Fraud Prosecutions

Is it pay to play, buying the necessary insurance against phony prosecutions or a protection racket for Wall Street under Obama?    Why under Obama, his Justice Department and his prosecutor for the Southern District of New York (Manhattan and … Continue reading

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The Coming US State Pension And Budget Fall And Winter

We had the Arab Spring and the next season coming is the State and Local Government Fall and then Winter. Low interest rates on State and local bonds with fantasy projections of 6% t0 8% safe returns on pension investments … Continue reading

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Eric Holder and Lenny Breuer, Protected by Boehner,The Wimp

Eric Holder and his underlings at the Department of Justice lack ethics and pervert the law to the benefit of their chosen people.

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Florida Law in re: Zimmerman

“Just the facts, ma’am, nothing but the facts!” — Sergeant Joe Friday. The State’s Attorney is not taking the case to a Grand Jury, yet. Under Florida law, the State’s Attorney could by-pass a Grand Jury, if she files an … Continue reading

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Kagan Full Of Sound And Fury With Brainless Arguments

Reuters, the British wire service, has an analysis praising the skills and intellect of Justice Kagan, which any intelligent person would laugh at.

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An Affirmative Constitutional Scholar Is My Government?

Today, Obama will be humiliated telling the Fifth Circuit that he was just posturing.

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