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For over 20 years, David has been a banker covering the energy industry for several global banks in New York. Currently, he is working on several journalism projects dealing with corporate and political corruption that, so far, have escaped serious scrutiny by mainstream media. He is trained as a lawyer.

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(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Fatal Flaws In The Lawsuit Against Fannie Mae Execs, Part 2 The SEC's definition of "Alt-A" may have problems passing a reality check.
Series: Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac (18 Articles, 43866 views)
SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Fannie Mae "Accounting Scandal" Discredited In Court Fannie Mae's "accounting scandal" was like Saddam's WMD, a bogus media narrative that failed the smell test.
Series: Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac (18 Articles, 43866 views)
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SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Mortgages, Ed Pinto, And A Vast Conspiracy Of Silence A conservative "expert" on mortgages became famous because he and his fans continue to block out information from the outside world.
Series: Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac (18 Articles, 43866 views)
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, October 11, 2013
How Niall Ferguson Invented False Quotes By Paul Krugman To make his case against Paul Krugman, Niall Ferguson lied.
(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, January 25, 2010
How Paulson's People Colluded With Goldman to Destroy AIG And Get A Backdoor Bailout An AIG bankruptcy would have wiped out Goldman and exposed the toxic assets that Goldman sold, under Hank Paulson's watch. Here's how Paulson's proxies concealed what was going on.
(6 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Fox News Embraces Cyber-Terrorism to Subvert the Copenhagen Summit The real scandal about "Climate-Gate" is that the global warming deniers are encouraging dirty political tricks and passing off unfiltered information as journalistic "leaks."
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(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, February 7, 2015
Fannie, Freddie and the Right Wing Myth of a "Mortgage Meltdown" The Big Lie about the financial crisis is based on a deliberate confusion between mortgages and mortgage securities.
Series: Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac (18 Articles, 43866 views)
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, November 10, 2010
The Bush Tax Cuts And The Republican Cult of Economic Failure The evidence that Bush's tax cuts boosted economic growth and/or created jobs is nowhere to be found.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, January 14, 2011
How An FCIC Commissioner Fabricated a 25-Million Mortgage "Meltdown" A sampling of the disinformation campaign to protect the enablers of financial fraud.
Series: Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac (18 Articles, 43866 views)
(7 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, February 21, 2009
Time Rewrote History With "25 People to Blame for the Financial Crisis" Much of Time's "25 People to Blame" is a sham. Instead of pinpointing culpability among the key players, it deflects blame away from Republicans and falsely implicates Democrats, to create a muddleheaded "plenty-of-blame-to-go-around" narrative.
SHARE More Sharing        Monday, January 24, 2011
Dirty Little Secrets About Goldman's Collateral Calls on AIG There are a lot of layers of deception regarding Goldman's destruction of AIG. This is but one, heretofore undisclosed, layer.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, July 15, 2010
Why Do The Rich Default on Their Mortgages? Because In California and Arizona, They Can The media and politicians continue to ignore the real albatross on the economy, under water mortgages.
SHARE More Sharing        Monday, January 28, 2013
SEC Reversed Its Initial Charges Re: Fannie Mae's "Accounting Fraud" The SEC's dirty little secrets about its false accusations of "accounting fraud."
Series: Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac (18 Articles, 43866 views)
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, January 5, 2011
The Real Reason Fannie and Freddie Lost So Much Money Fannie and Freddie lost money because they ignored the guidelines set by the Clinton Administration to avoid predatory loans.
Series: Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac (18 Articles, 43866 views)
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, January 29, 2010
Sham Transactions That Led to AIG's Downfall: The Ugly Truth Was Hiding In Plain Sight The dirty little secrets in the deals that killed AIG.
SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, July 21, 2010
How Reporters Provide Cover For Darrell Issa's Lies On The Countrywide "Scandal" Another phony right wing story that may be under your radar.
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(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, April 15, 2013
S&P's Utterly Bogus 1st Amendment Defense S&P and Moody's use a bogus 1st Amendment defense against their fraudulent credit ratings.
Series: Credit Rating Agencies (6 Articles, 7630 views)
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SHARE More Sharing        Monday, July 22, 2013
SEC Lawsuit: Paolo Pellegrini's He-Said/She-Said Perjury To sabotage the SEC's case for securities fraud, Paolo Pellegrini audaciously lied under oath.
SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, November 2, 2011
GOP Scheme For "Mortgage Finance Reform" Insulates Fraudsters From Accountability Now that Wall Street's role in promoting mortagge fraud is finally coming to light, the GOP wants to impose obstacles to limit aggrieved investors from obtaining redress.
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(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, December 12, 2013
Fannie and Freddie's Legal Settlements Are The Tip Of The Iceberg A review of hundreds of thousands of loan files shows how fraud in private label mortgage securities was ubiquitous and how most investors got shafted.
Series: Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac (18 Articles, 43866 views)
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, May 17, 2012
In Romney's "Dream," He Takes Undeserved Credit For Steel Dynamics Romney's claim that Bain played an essential role the Steel Dynamics is flat out false.
SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, December 7, 2011
How The Prosecutor Who Charged Chris Matthews' Brother Abused Her Power To bring a prosecution against Chris Matthews' brother, a Republican district attorney turned the grand jury process into a political sham.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, July 21, 2011
How Murdoch's Times of London and Fox News Coordinate Their Deceitful Reporting on Climate Change How deceitful reporting within the Murdoch empire spreads and mutates like a virus.
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(10 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, March 4, 2010
Karl Rove's Perversions of History, And His Media Enablers The claim that Bush believed that Iraq had WMD is an insult to our intelligence.
(13 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, December 21, 2009
Holocaust Deniers, Global Warming Deniers, Chris Wallace: Any Difference? Truth is very inconvenient for Fox News, which relentlessly distorts science for its own political agenda.
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(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, February 25, 2013
The Big Lie Annotated: An AEI History Of The Financial Crisis Promoters of The Big Lie about the financial crisis, never engage in direct rebuttal. So here are some annotations to the mendacity.
Series: Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac (18 Articles, 43866 views)
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(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, August 22, 2013
Gov't. "Watchdog" Bamboozles Press About Fannie and Freddie Once a government watchdog fooled the media about another Fannie and Freddie "scandal," others ran with it.
Series: Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac (18 Articles, 43866 views)
SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, January 27, 2011
Why No Other Republican Would Sign On to Peter Wallison's FCIC "Report" Even members of the GOP refuse to sign on to the crackpot report from the American Enterprise Institute.
Series: Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac (18 Articles, 43866 views)
SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, April 14, 2013
How Hank Paulson's Office Colluded With JPMorgan And Subverted Efforts To Rescue Lehman Hank Paulson used his chief of staff to leak highly confidential information to JP Morgan during sensitive negations to save Lehman.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, February 5, 2011
FCIC Shows That Most Synthetic CDOs Were Designed To Fail If you ever doubted that most toxic CDOs were designed to fail, an FCIC survey disabuses you of that illusion.
SHARE More Sharing        Monday, December 19, 2011
Fatal Flaws In The Case Against Fannie Mae Execs, Part 1 The SEC hopes the District Court will ignore the fine print that exculpates the defendants
Series: Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac (18 Articles, 43866 views)
SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Why Obama Won't Do What's Needed to Deal With the Mortgage Crisis The problems are too big, and too interconnected, to be resolved on a scattershot basis in a dysfunctional marketplace. If the government wants the job done right, it must do the heavy lifting itself. But politically, it's much easier and safer to blame the banks, who won't do the job properly.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, October 16, 2012
What Moody's Ex-President "Never Knew" Apparently, the Moody's executive who oversaw the explosion of Aaa ratings assigned toxic assets was a "big picture guy."
Series: Credit Rating Agencies (6 Articles, 7630 views)
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, November 1, 2012
How Fox News and The GOP Plant Stories To Dispute The Ohio Vote How Fox News fabricates a "scandal" out of nothing of substance.
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SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Pursuing The Rating Agencies: A Roadmap Through Three Big Falsehoods A roadmap for prosecuting rating agency malfeasance.
Series: Credit Rating Agencies (6 Articles, 7630 views)
SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, October 17, 2012
ISDA v. CFTC: How A Judge Abused His Power For Wall Street A roadmap through the dishonest judicial "reasoning" used to subvert Dodd-Frank.
SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, September 12, 2009
David Brooks' Lies on Healthcare Reform: An Incomplete List Just because he's more subtle about how he maligns healthcare reform, does not mean that he's more honest.
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(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, September 20, 2012
The Panic of 2007 and Blind Faith in Fatally Flawed AAA Ratings How the rating agencies seek to evade accountability for their sham AAA ratings.
Series: Credit Rating Agencies (6 Articles, 7630 views)
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, November 21, 2011
AIG's Former CEO Claims Discrimination For Being Shut Out of Wall Street's Affirmative Action Program Hank Greenberg's travesty of corporate governance caused the demise of AIG. Now he claims that the government bailout is an unconstitutional act of discrimination, against him.
SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Shale Gas Reserves May Be Way Overblown, Reports The NY Times, Which Awaits A Cogent Response Estimates of shale gas reserves are based on data that is, to put it charitably, unreliable.
SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Fannie's Settlement Agreement Conceals Dirty Laundry After a 9-year lawsuit that produced nothing, Fannie's conservator settles rather than allow some inconvenient facts to emerge.
Series: Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac (18 Articles, 43866 views)
SHARE More Sharing        Monday, June 20, 2011
Goldman's Disinformation Campaign: Drilling Down Into The Documents Goldman punked its media friends by contriving a bogus "discrepancy" in the numbers.
SHARE More Sharing        Friday, April 18, 2014
Koch Bros./GOP Brain Trust For Housing Finance "Reform" How the Koch Brothers fund professors who act in lockstep to promote a legislative agenda.
Series: Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac (18 Articles, 43866 views)
SHARE More Sharing        Monday, December 5, 2011
ISDA's Lawyers Make Up "Facts" And "Law" To Overturn Limits On Speculators Because they had had neither the facts nor the law on their side, lawyers for Wall Street trade groups made up stuff in their complaint to overturn new regulations on speculative position limits.
(11 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, August 20, 2009
Karl Rove's Non-Denials About the Siegelman Case Segue Into Lies in the Wall Street Journal Karl Rove can't help himself. The more he talks the more he suggests that he's guilty as sin. His throw-crap-against-the-wall-and-hope-it-sticks piece in The Wall Street Journal constitutes his latest non-denial about corrupt dealings with the Justice Department.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Wall Street Journal Reporter Conceals Facts About The Real Countrywide Mortgage Scandal A birth certificate didn't stop the birthers from maligning Obama, and a full investigation that discredited a "scandal" doesn't stop The wall Street Journal from repeating right-wing smears against prominent Democrats.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, November 27, 2009
Rewriting History to Blame Tim Geithner: An Incomplete Story of the AIG Bailout Placing the blame on Geithner for problems with the AIG bailout suits those who want to oversimplify the problem, and deflect away culpability from the Bush Administration.
SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, July 25, 2010
Goldman's Highly Suspicious Half Trillion Dollars With A Small Hedge Fund Only a fool would assume that Goldman Sachs $590 billion trading volume a small hedge fund was innocent.
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Wall Street Journal Attacks Politifacts And Wins Pulitzer Yesterday's Pulitzer prises were diminished by the award for editorial writing.
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(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, June 7, 2011
How Goldman Sachs Dissembled In The Wall Street Journal Goldman distorts its record of market manipulations with misleading claims about "betting against the housing market."
SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, July 29, 2010
Bret Baier's Half-Lie About Shirley Sherrod Caught On Tape When confronted with its own dishonesty, Fox News responds with more deceptions and a defamatory smear.
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(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, January 14, 2014
The Big Lie Mutated in NYT: More on AEI's History of the Financial Crisis Once again, Fannie and Freddie did not swamp the market with bad loans, or inflate the housing bubble, or open the floodgates to low down payment loans.
Series: Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac (18 Articles, 43866 views)
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, September 26, 2021
Glenn Greenwald's Big Lie Campaign About Hunter Biden's Emails A new book about Hunter Biden's emails doesn't confirm much of anything new. But Glenn Greenwald uses it as a pretext for inventing a vast left wing conspiracy about Big Media, Big Tech, the intelligence services and the Democrats. His technique: The Big Lie.
SHARE More Sharing        Monday, November 16, 2009
The Moral Compass Missing From The Greatest Trade Ever A hedge fund manager's scheme to make billions by getting his bankers to issue new securities that were designed to fail. How some on Wall Street got rich by giving irrational exuberance an extra jolt.
SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, August 25, 2022
Alan Dershowitz and Other BS About Trump's Executive Privilege All the chatter about privilege and declassification is a distraction from Trump's indefensible position about his illegal control of government property.
SHARE More Sharing        Friday, February 28, 2014
Rating Agency Lawsuit: How S&P Fabricates Evidence Out of Thin Air Attorney Floyd Abrams' "evidence" of government retribution against S&P is nonexistent.
Series: Credit Rating Agencies (6 Articles, 7630 views)
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, March 10, 2013
GSE Critics Disavowing The Big Lie? Republican witnesses disavowed the "Fannie and Freddie caused the financial crisis" meme at a House hearing.
Series: Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac (18 Articles, 43866 views)
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, August 3, 2010
How The Charges Against Maxine Waters Were Fabricated Out of Next to Nothing A little fact checking shows how the waters "scanda" is bereft of substance.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, July 29, 2013
AEI's FHA Disinformation Campaign Ignores Basic Finance How one discredited "mortgage expert" from the American Enterprise Institute launched an ongoing disinformation campaign to destroy a successful government program that helped stabilize the mortgage markets.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Fannie Mae Ignores SEC Lawsuit Fannie Mae's latest financial disclosures belie the SEC's allegations against former company executives. The government lawsuit claims that the company understated its "true," holdings in subprime and Alt-A mortgages back in 2007-2008. Yet four years later, Fannie still refuses to change the way that it calculates and reports its exposure to subprime and Alt-A mortgages.
Series: Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac (18 Articles, 43866 views)
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(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, January 11, 2013
Debunking the Right Wing Case Against Fixed-Rate Mortgages Right wing think tanks trash the 30-year fixed rate mortgage as part of their disinformation campaign about the causes of the mortgage crisis.
SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, December 2, 2010
The Fatal Flaws In The Case Against Maxine Waters The case against Waters was never based on facts.
SHARE More Sharing        Friday, February 12, 2010
Suspicious Timing Surrounding The "De-risking" of AIG's Toxic Obligations Maneuvers by the rating agencies and others to force the government into a backdoor bailout of AIG's banks, have escaped scrutiny. But they're at the center of the scandal.
SHARE More Sharing        Monday, September 21, 2009
Sean Hannity Steals From Hollywood In His Mockumentary, "The Valley Hope Forgot" The California drought is Obama's fault, and climate change is nonexistent in Fox News' parallel universe.
(7 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Obama Debunks The Nonsensical "Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less" Anyone who says that new offshore drilling will affect the price of oil doesn't know what he's talking about.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Monday, March 1, 2010
You Know Fox News Is Lying Whenever The Words "Global Warming" Are Uttered It doesn't matter what the experts say. Fox will always twist their words to suit its agenda.
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SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, November 1, 2015
Homeownership And Conservative Myths About Affordable Housing Policy The meme that Bill Clinton's affordable housing policy drove up homeownership and led to the mortgage crisis is a myth.
Series: Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac (18 Articles, 43866 views)
SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, July 13, 2010
David Brooks' Big Wet Kiss To Hedge Fund Managers Brooks offers a slick version of the Tea party message, which is to conflate the financial crisis with the Democrats' efforts at reform
SHARE More Sharing        Friday, November 19, 2010
The Bush Tax Cuts and the Republican Cult of Affirmative Action The GOP wants affirmative action for the rich.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, February 5, 2013
S&P Lawsuit: Floyd Abrams' Bogus Insinuations Against The Justice Department Standard & Poor's attorney maligned the Justice department by making bogus insinuations to distract away from the damning evidence.
Series: Credit Rating Agencies (6 Articles, 7630 views)
SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, December 8, 2010
How Fraudster Economists Assert That "Higher Taxes Won't Reduce the Deficit" How the right wing perverts the history of tax cuts.
SHARE More Sharing        Friday, January 28, 2011
AIG Took Subordinated Pieces of CDOs It Insured It seems that AIG wasn't telling the truth about its notorious CDOs.
SHARE More Sharing        Monday, September 14, 2009
Newsweek's Samuelson Cites Dodgy Numbers to Attack Health Care Reform Robert Samuelson cites an insurance company study to 'prove' that Obama is less than honest.
SHARE More Sharing        Friday, August 6, 2010
Financial Legislation Doesn't Mean Much If The Government Won't Aggressively Police Against Fraud The financial crisis is easy to understand, once you realize that, under Bush and Greenspan, the government refused to enforce the law.
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(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Legal Pursuit of the Rating Agencies: A Roadmap Thru Three Big Falsehoods A roadmap for a legal lawsuit against the rating agencies
SHARE More Sharing        Monday, August 31, 2009
Are Banks Too Big? Don't Count on Downsizing Anytime Soon Are banks too big to fail? There are over 20 trillion-dollar banks around, and governments are disinclined to downsize them.

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