Comments on: Citi plans crisis derivatives http://www.tapsns.com/blog/index.php/2010/02/citi-plans-crisis-derivatives/ Mark Anderson Strategic News Service Sun, 16 Jan 2011 14:38:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: tim http://www.tapsns.com/blog/index.php/2010/02/citi-plans-crisis-derivatives/comment-page-1/#comment-1948 tim Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:59:41 +0000 http://www.tapsns.com/blog/?p=838#comment-1948 Beware of Goldman bearing gifts How Goldman Sachs Helped Greece to Mask its True Debt Goldman Sachs helped the Greek government to mask the true extent of its deficit with the help of a derivatives deal that legally circumvented the EU Maastricht deficit rules. At some point the so-called cross currency swaps will mature, and swell the country's already bloated deficit. http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,676634,00.html# Beware of Goldman bearing gifts

How Goldman Sachs Helped Greece to Mask its True Debt

Goldman Sachs helped the Greek government to mask the true extent of its deficit with the help of a derivatives deal that legally circumvented the EU Maastricht deficit rules. At some point the so-called cross currency swaps will mature, and swell the country’s already bloated deficit.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,676634,00.html#

]]> By: tim http://www.tapsns.com/blog/index.php/2010/02/citi-plans-crisis-derivatives/comment-page-1/#comment-1945 tim Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:29:57 +0000 http://www.tapsns.com/blog/?p=838#comment-1945 SYDNEY, Feb 9 (Reuters) - The head of the European Central Bank, Jean-Claude Trichet, is leaving a Sydney meeting of central bankers early to attend a European Council meeting, an official at the Reserve Bank of Australia said on Tuesday. Trichet was originally scheduled to be in Sydney through Wednesday for a seminar of central banks in the Euro Area and East Asia-Pacific. http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSSYU00937520100208 SYDNEY, Feb 9 (Reuters) – The head of the European Central Bank, Jean-Claude Trichet, is leaving a Sydney meeting of central bankers early to attend a European Council meeting, an official at the Reserve Bank of Australia said on Tuesday.

Trichet was originally scheduled to be in Sydney through Wednesday for a seminar of central banks in the Euro Area and East Asia-Pacific.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSSYU00937520100208

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