Heute morgen ein schockierendes Interview mit Greg Gordon, investigativer Journalist bei McClatchy Newspapers im Radio. Hier nur eine sehr kurze Zusammenfassung in Deutsch, mehr Details koennen den verlinkten Artikeln entnommen werden:
In 2006/07 verkauft Goldman kraeftig als AAA "geratete" Subprime-Anleihen in zweistelliger Millardenhoehe. Gleichzeitig schliesst Goldman Wetten auf einen Zusammenbruch des US-Haeusermarktes ab, ohne den Kaeufern dieser Anleihen dies mitzuteilen. Die Geschaefte wurden ueber Steueroasen abgewickelt, um die in den USA erforderliche Mitteilungspflicht umgehen zu koennen.
How Goldman secretly bet on the U.S. housing crash
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McClatchy's inquiry found that Goldman Sachs:
- Bought and converted into high-yield bonds tens of thousands of mortgages from subprime lenders that became the subjects of FBI investigations into whether they'd misled borrowers or exaggerated applicants' incomes to justify making hefty loans.
- Used offshore tax havens to shuffle its mortgage-backed securities to institutions worldwide, including European and Asian banks, often in secret deals run through the Cayman Islands, a British territory in the Caribbean that companies use to bypass U.S. disclosure requirements.
- Has dispatched lawyers across the country to repossess homes from bankrupt or financially struggling individuals, many of whom lacked sufficient credit or income but got subprime mortgages anyway because Wall Street made it easy for them to qualify.
- Was buoyed last fall by key federal bailout decisions, at least two of which involved then-Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, a former Goldman chief executive whose staff at Treasury included several other Goldman alumni.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/77791.html
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/77852.html
an der Wall-St eingekauft.
