good afternoon and welcome to capital account i'm lauren lyster here in washington d.c. these are your headlines for wednesday august eighth two thousand and twelve u.s. stocks fluctuated today following a three day advance as a rally in hewlett packard shares tempered the dallas bed president's remarks that adequate stimulus is in place at least though the headline goes that one from low but how much of this on any given day is actually driven by robotic algorithms and high frequency trading well we'll ask the man who wrote the book on dark pools scott patterson he's in studio and because of course the jury's still out on what happened as knight capital though the first round been regaining some of its market share and media reports show knight actually received another offer from rival citadel to stay afloat terms include it alone plus control of night hot spot f.x. trading platform so was this driven by a desire to acquire the firm's trading software we don't know but we'll talk about just how valuable the algos have become and sticking with this theme could drones be

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good afternoon and welcome to capital account i'm lauren lyster here in washington d.c. and these are your headlines for friday august tenth two thousand and twelve the justice department well it's official it says it won't bring charges against goldman sachs or any of its employees for a financial fraud related to the mortgage crisis this is following a yearlong investigation what is this justice or is gerald celente has often said is it just us big bankers getting away with whatever we want we'll ask them that said have we found someone to take on the big banks benjamin lawsky superintendent of the new york state department of financial services he threatened to revoke standard charter's banking license after accusing the bank of laundering billions for iran's financial institutions this is set off what appears to be a backlash from federal regulators so are they going after this new york regulator for doing his job or is the regulator going rogue will discuss plus the lie board benchmark interest rates are no longer fit for purpose as britain's financial regulator als

the capital account i'm lauren lyster. fundamentalism gets controversial was a time to get the cia and vault apparently that's of the new york times one of the new york times reporters dead times reporter mark mazetti reportedly forward in his advanced copy of maureen dowd's column to a cia spokes person the piece was about the film zero dark thirty which is about the killing of osama bin laden here's a look at the trailer. dowd's column criticize the white house for giving hollywood inside information to make this film while leaving the public in the dark about the operation this is all coming to light thanks to documents disclosed by the transparency group judicial watch talk more about this i'm joined now by jeff cohen media critic and journalism professor at ithaca college jeff welcome so descent into unpublished call into a government agency as this new york times reporter did would you say that it violates media ethics. well there's no doubt that it does you know the job of an independent reporter who's covering a po

someone i brought he was used to that when he was working for the prosecutor's office and that was lauren lyster host of the capital account that's going to do for tonight's bus for more of the stories we cover check out our youtube channel youtube dot com slash artsy america you can also check out our web site that's our teeth tom slash usa and you can also follow me on twitter as wall for now have a great night.

on getting hammered right here on this show for you and moving on desert pundit tweeted at us lauren lyster i disagree with richard duncan on some of what he said but contrary voices expand the idea space and i wanted to bring this up because i think people get really pegged to a specific view and they get angry at us on our common boards when the person we have on the show disagrees with that worldview but i couldn't agree with a reviewer more it is so important to get a variety of views in order to understand what you think or kick the tires on what you think because you can't get to set your ways without listening to things that contradict it so i couldn't agree more and we hope to continue to try to do. that within the realm of these alternative voices that are offered in the mainstream media l as raven one asked me on you two do you hate men lawrence i've noticed a continual theme here it's cool if you do of course i do women most of the time so it would be fair i thought that was funny it was referring to a quote that i read of talking about a man lacking integrity and i think she mea

good afternoon welcome to capital account i'm lauren lyster here in washington d.c. these are your headlines for tuesday august seventh two thousand and twelve fifty morgan says in a court filing p.f.g. subpoena of the bank may be too burdensome so will j.p. morgan get its way and get out of it well it looks like they could be off the hook for accusations of silver manipulation this is amid a financial times story reporting u.s. regulators are increasingly likely to drop their investigation of silver manipulation after four years failing to find enough evidence to pursue the case now i should mention one key regulator dost protest this report but we'll find out what chris powell thinks he's co-founder and treasurer of the gold antitrust action committee plus it's been fodder for many a tale of talking about this. place since it was a few secrets. are still very worried so. i'm referring to questions about the true state of the u.s. is gold reserves will reportedly the federal government is auditing the gold stored at the new york that at least so are those who've bee

good afternoon and welcome to capital account i'm lauren lyster here in washington d.c. these are headlines for thursday august ninth two thousand and twelve back in may we were talking about lessons from spain bankia bailout and other problems emanating from that country which led us to this. wall we are all in spain the big question will we see a stag's it perhaps before gregg's it. well we haven't but can we now add brings it to the list the latest addition to the euro exit speculation family has been making the rounds on various recent headlines so does this mean anything or is this just the next catchy phrase coined by the media obsessed with suffixes we'll get the skinny from economist constant and from ireland plus today is the unofficial five year anniversary of the credit crunch five years ago today the dow fell nearly four hundred points as france's largest bank b.n.p. poppy bah announced it was halting three funds with exposure to u.s. subprime mortgages now this triggered a credit freeze as global banks stop lending to each other central banks intervened the

the time really i was saying a lot going on lauren great to have you here in the studio that was lauren lyster host of the capital account that's going to do it for now for more on the stories we covered you can check out our you tube channel you tube dot com slash artsy america you can also check out our website at is r t com slash usa and you can also follow me on twitter liz wall will be right back here at eight pm see that.

good afternoon welcome to capital account i'm lauren lyster here in washington d.c. these are your headlines for tuesday july thirty first two thousand and twelve the effort wednesday begins needing to day followed by the e.c.b. later this week amid reportedly heightened expectations that these central banks are moving toward a new actions but says the wall street journal doubts linger as to whether central banks even have the tools to fix the economic problems they face well reports of preemptive action have us worried about weapons of mass monetary just a rock said contrary to those who fear the central banks can't do anything else we'll take stock of the collateral damage and brace yourself because this brings us to bill gross's latest note the pimco bond titan says the call of equity may be dying but the cult of inflation may have only just begun we'll talk to mike maloney founder of gold silver dot com about the cold and us home prices rose and made for the fourth month in a row according to the s. and p. case schiller data out today look at where this bit of mo

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good afternoon and welcome to capital account i'm lauren lyster here in washington d.c. and here are your headlines for wednesday august first two thousand and twelve u.s. interest rate the decision came out today from the federal reserve extremely low rates until late two thousand and four and fourteen nothing new here let's move on to the e.c.b. then we'll talk to peter chair founder of t.f. market advisors recognized source on all things to europe and while we're on it the manufacturing scenario in europe appears grim the euro zone factory activity fell at its deepest rate in more than three years in july according to market economics the purchasing managers index and german manufacturers suffered the largest fall in new acts more orders of any eurozone country so uh oh trouble in europe's economic powerhouse we'll talk about how this fits into the crisis calculus and as olympians from the u.s. go for the gold when they score one will have to cough up just short of nine grand reportedly to settle with the i r as and chances are their competitors are in the same boat s

good afternoon welcome to capital account i'm lauren lyster here in washington d.c. these are your headlines for friday august third two thousand and twelve jobs numbers are out for july total non-form farm payroll rather employment rose by one hundred sixty three thousand beating expectations of one hundred thousand with the headline unemployment rate inching up a tiny bit from last month to eight point three percent but given seasonal adjustments and birth death adjustments how much stock can you put in these numbers really and how does the election year factor in we'll talk about it regardless u.s. stocks rose today after the report sending the s. and p. toward the highest level since may according to bloomberg earlier what is this dog more going to catch up with the reality that appears far more dismal then doctored economic data reflects we'll try to answer that plus the latest in this rigged game that the london whale was encouraged to boost london whale trade valuations according to the wall street journal by his boss while bank of america is in the thick of t

web producer andrew blake thanks well coming up next hour it's he is the capital account with lauren lyster chat let's check in with learnt to see what is on today's agenda lauren what have gone on over there hi liz i know that it's friday it's summer friday it may feel like we're in the peak of summer but i'm going to break down for you why we are in the middle of winter at least according to our gas. winter which may explain the economic situation where and when this economy's going to hit rock bottom and when we're going to bounce back to prosper. you will not want to miss that right doesn't sound like you want to miss that and that is coming up next on the capital account with lauren list server that is going to do it for the news for more on the stories we cover check out our you tube channel you tube dot com slash r t america or check out our web site r t dot com slash usa you can also follow me on twitter at liz wall we'll be back here in a half hour see that. can someone. please find. the. wealthy british scientist sign some time to write. markets why not. come to. find out what's r

wrap it up for the news but the capital account is up next on our team and let's check in with lauren lyster to see what is on today's agenda lauren i understand are going to be talking jobs report today absolutely it is jobs day last we have the report out for july and people probably know what was kind of the headline number from that report the unemployment rate at eight point three percent a little higher non-farm payrolls that exceeded expectations coming in at one hundred sixty three thousand the question is this a good report or a bad report because you know depending on who you listen to you get a totally different story you have mainstream media saying the good july jobs report that exceeded expectations is why the market rallied then you see mitt romney out using this as ammo to say that the economy essentially sucks we are going to look at how economic data this being one example can be used as a choose your own adventure kind of story and what really then is the true picture is there one that we can gather from something like the economic data coming out from the government that

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