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Too Big To Fail Casino Banks Make $518 Billion Bet On PIIGS Sovereign Debt

November 7, 2011 By Problem Bank List Staff 4 Comments

The “Too Big To Fail Banks” are at it again, making huge speculative bets on the odds of sovereign default by Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain.  The costly lessons of the derivatives debacle of 2008 have apparently been forgotten. In 2008, the Too Big To Fail banks bought massive amounts of credit default swaps […]

Filed Under: Bank Failure, Banking News, featured, Financial Crisis, Mega Banks, problem banks, Too Big To Fail Banks Tagged With: AIG, bank of america, Casino banks, CDS, derivative contracts, derivatives, too big to fail

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