From The Big Picture:
Morgan Stanley in a free fall. Goldman Sachs at multi-year lows. Citigroup looking ugly. Bank of America off 50% from recent highs.
You may be wondering what is going on with the major firms in the financial sector. While each of these firms have different problems -- vampire squids to Countrywide acquisitions -- they all have something in common: Their balance sheets are opaque.
This is no accident. Indeed, it was by design that execs in the banking sector, and their outside accountants, hatched a scheme in 2008 to...
Read full article...
More on the banks:
The big U.S. banks were CRUSHED today
The euro collapse could wipe out this big U.S. bank
No longer "Too Big to Fail": This U.S. bank is in serious trouble