Doomsday Scenario: 'Quiet Coup,' AIG CDS shenanigans, newspaper ads crash


Another day of interesting news to watch. Not sure if you have read Simon Johnson's article in the Atlantic "The Quiet Coup" about how financial oligarchs in the U.S. are delaying the Big Reckoning, but its thoughtful and sobering reading.

Zero Hedge weighs in with an anecdotal post about AIG panicking to unwind its CDS book in a hurry and, in the process, forking over billions of taxpayer money to the big banks. So much for the February rebound at the banks. And LAT reports that the insurance industry is the next leg down in the Big Crisis. And TechCrunch weighs in on the latest sad data about newspaper advertising.

Alex Salkever is the Director of Research at Piqqem.com, a stock prediction community powered by the Wisdom of Crowds.

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