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“Ben Bernanke is on yet another self-serving mission to save his job. Please consider The right reform for the Fed an op-ed by Ben Bernanke in the Washington Post.”
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” More than 650,994 loan revisions had been started through the Obama administration’s Home Affordable Modification Program as of last month, from about 487,081 as of September, according to the Treasury. None of the trial modifications through October had been converted to permanent repayment plans, the Treasury data showed. ”
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Richard Wilson’s Background

My name is Richard Wilson and my background is in capital raising and working with hedge fund managers.  My career in the industry started in 2002 when I completed a project completing leading indicator trading research for a German-based hedge fund.  My job was to analyze the correlation and relationship between the currencies and commodities of Japan, New Zealand and Australia.  It was through this first project that I begin to learn about how hedge funds operate and invest on a macro level.    After that I worked in risk management and capital raising consulting roles for several years and then moved to Boston to work for a third party marketing firm, a capital raising group serving fund of hedge fund managers, hedge funds, and long only optimization shops.  Within this role I grew from raising less than $100k/week to raising $2-4M/week on average and I picked up techniques and methods which work through making mistakes myself, watching others, reading about sales best practices.

In June of 2008 I decided to step back and stop raising capital hands-on and start helping other managers raise capital.  Here is why:

1. In a third party marketing role I can raise capital directly for 2-4 fund managers at any one time but I am asked for help from literally thousands of managers each year.  Serving just a handful of those when many needed help did not seem like the right answer.
2. My websites on hedge funds, capital raising, and family offices were now getting over 8,000 pageviews a day and I was getting over 150 emails each day from site visitors
3. I had learned a lot through my trial and error and previous consulting work, and I wanted to develop a platform through which to share that knowledge.

Each winter I move to Brazil for 2-4 months to meet with fund managers, hold networking events and create new capital raising tools.  I will be staying in Sao Paulo, Brazil during most of my visit and if you would like to meet with us for lunch, a networking event, or to discuss your capital raising efforts please let us know. Our goal is to constantly collect feedback on capital raising challenges of fund managers so that we can continue to develop methods, tools, techniques and resources to help double our client’s capital raising results.

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Why would this be happening now with a little more than a year before he is eligible for parole? I and others contend that it is because of his recent writing activity and because of his recent interview with the New Yorker Magazine (The New Yorker – “The Secret Cycle…”), and also because there are now several media outlets requesting to do interviews with him – the prison simply does not want, for whatever reason, the access that we have been enjoying lately to continue. I spoke directly to Martin’s younger sister, Nancy, and this is her opinion as well. She is very upset over this move as she, “fears that he may not make it out.” She claims that Martin is very much afraid of this move and for good reason…

Please click through; read about the case (if you are new to it) and the latest situation, and use the included contact information and links to ACT.

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” The United Arab Emirates central bank on Sunday said that it stood behind domestic and foreign banks operating in Dubai after last week’s announcement that Dubai World needed more time to pay back some of its $60 billion in debt.”
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“In 2003 Donald Rumsfeld estimated a war with Iraq would cost $60 billion. Five years later, the cost of Iraq war operations is over 10 times that figure.”
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The key line in Bernankes impassioned(or is that dispassionate?) defense is simply this: Independent does not mean unaccountable.

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Last week, Lloyds Banking Group asked its shareholders, including 2.8 million small investors, to put their hands in their pockets and give it a total of £13.5 billion as part of a massive capital raising exercise.

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” The news out of Dubai late last week, however — that its investment company is struggling to meet repayments on some of its $59 billion in debt — reminds us that we are far from finished with a ferocious deleveraging process that began last year.”
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“Banks borrowed slightly more from the Federal Reserve’s emergency lending program over the past week.”
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