UK’s biggest hedge fund star RETIRES with a $700m fortune – at the age of 41

Australian Greg Coffey owns sprawling estate in Scotland and mansions across world Dubbed ‘the Wizard of Oz’, he announced resignation to investors after 20 years in the industry

At the age of 41, he is one of the UK’s biggest hedge fund stars, having amassed a fortune of $700million.

But with mansion properties spanning the globe and a family to look after, he has decided to take early retirement.

Top City trader Greg [...]

WSJ: “All banks are potentially insolvent. Therefore Libor is no longer an effective proxy for credit availability”

BY HOLMAN W. JENKINS, JR.

Ignore the man behind the curtain, said the Wizard of Oz. That advice doesn’t pay in the latest scandal of the century, over manipulation of Libor, or the London Interbank Offered Rate. The mess is one more proof of the failing wizardry of the First World’s monetary-cum-banking arrangements.

Libor is a reference point for interest rates on everything from auto loans and mortgages to commercial credit and [...]

The Bloomberg Billionaires team has revealed another hidden billionaire

Hidden Billionaire Morse Proves Man Behind Curtain with Villages

By Brendan Coffey

 

Billionaire   H. Gary Morse, 75, controls almost every facet of life at the Villages, one of the world’s largest retirement communities  in Ocala, FL.

 

Morse owns the local newspaper, a television channel and an AM radio station. His realty company controls 60 percent of the re-sale market in the Villages, whose commercials have been fixtures on the Golf Channel. His [...]

Bernanke and Germany Wake Up to a Merda Storm

The realization has been shockingly slow, but the lamestream media, such as Bloomberg, is picking up on how toxic the LTRO program has been to the merda-storm countries’ banks. Today, they ran a clip on how Spanish banks borrowed LTRO funds to speculate on Spanish sovereigns at prices that are now well underwater. That’s what happens when the artificial buying frenzy has come and gone. The fact that the Spanish 5-year CDS hit [...]

Nine Gold Myths Everyone Needs to Understand to Survive this Global Economic Crisis, Part II

by smartknowledgeu

There are a nine prevalent myths and false arguments that bankers and their puppet commercial investment firms have used to precent people from buying physical gold and physical silver over the years (remember the paper GLD and the paper SLV are NOT proxies for physical gold and physical silver and from the information in the prospectuses, very likely nowhere near 100% backed by physical gold and physical silver as they claim). To [...]

Our Marxist Wizard of Oz

By Peter Ferrara on 12.14.11 @ 6:09AM
The American Spectator

Obama’s not in Kansas anymore.

His mother was an unabashed hippie from 1960s central casting. His father was an openly avowed Communist from Kenya. While his father wasn’t around much, his devoutly progressive grandparents arranged for him to be mentored during his adolescent years by a dues paying member of the U.S. Communist Party, Frank Marshall Davis.

When he went to college, he was [...]

Our Marxist Wizard of Oz

By Peter Ferrara on 12.14.11 @ 6:09AM
The American Spectator

Obama’s not in Kansas anymore.

His mother was an unabashed hippie from 1960s central casting. His father was an openly avowed Communist from Kenya. While his father wasn’t around much, his devoutly progressive grandparents arranged for him to be mentored during his adolescent years by a dues paying member of the U.S. Communist Party, Frank Marshall Davis.

When he went to college, he was [...]

Who ever controls the QUANTITY of money in circulation controls the government and the people.

by anonymous

The Federal Reserve System is a PRIVATE CORPORATION that controls the quantity of money in the system. It makes huge profits guaranteed by taxes. Repayment of interest to the central banks creates deflation.

See behind the curtain with ‘Secret of Oz,’ ‘Money as Debt,’ and ‘Creature from Jekyll Island’ documentaries on youtube. They show how and who the national debt is really owed.

Write your representatives and the President and [...]

Credit Suisse Group AG and JPMorgan Chase & Co need to swap more than **$4 billion **of MGM debt

MGM Studio Files for Bankruptcy,

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=12045102

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc filed for bankruptcy on Wednesday, under a plan that would put one of Hollywood’s most storied film studios under the control of its lenders.

The Chapter 11 filing follows a vote by MGM creditors last week to endorse a “prepackaged” bankruptcy that would put MGM under the control of Hollywood executives Gary Barber and Roger Birnbaum, [...]