Posts Tagged ‘Derivatives’

Financial weapons of mass destruction remain UK’s biggest unexploded bomb

by Michael Meacher.

Despite the recent howls from the City of London about the new criminal offence of reckless misconduct by senior bank executives, little or nothing has been done to curb the very real and big risks associated with derivatives which were at the heart of the financial crash 6 years ago. It is little understood that […]

Asset-backed securities precipitated the crash: let’s do it again!

by Michael Meacher.

It is almost unbelievable, but true, that at the highest levels of today’s capitalism it is being proposed that the asset-backed securities which provoked the banking crash in the first place should now be relaunched as the best avenue for recovery. Both Draghi, president of the European Central Bank, and Carney, governor of the Bank […]

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