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I am thinking about Swedish banks. They had own crisis almost two decades ago, right? And recently they were pouring money to the Baltic real estate markets like mad. They surely knew what they were doing, not?
by das monde on Mon May 18th, 2009 at 04:43:55 AM EST
Blinded by greed...

And why be prudent just to make sure the bank is in good shape in the future (when you won't be working at it) when you can get massive bonuses yourself right now?

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.

by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Mon May 18th, 2009 at 05:26:28 AM EST
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and the swedish pension funds, i read recently, (maybe here) are heavily invested in....canadian tar sands!

wtf?

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Mon May 18th, 2009 at 11:51:10 AM EST
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The swedish pension funds are a great investment to the banks running them as you have to choose some fund and fund managers always get paid. But I do believe the future pensioners would to date been better off saving the money in the mattress.

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by A swedish kind of death on Mon May 18th, 2009 at 01:18:02 PM EST
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The big scandal is that the state pension funds (which you can't choose not to be a part of cause they are tax-financed) are in deep love with private equity.

So they take lots of money from taxpayers, give them to private equity who buy up Swedish companies, thrust upon them a debt burden huge enough to bankrupt them, and then take all the money and give it not to the pension funds but to the private equity executives in the form of giant fees.

It's truly perverted.

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.

by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Mon May 18th, 2009 at 11:05:39 PM EST
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Heavily... I wouldn't say heavily. They own shares in pretty much all companies in the world, and of course that includes Shell, Statoil et al.

It's mainly a media thing, nothing to care much about.

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.

by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Mon May 18th, 2009 at 11:05:31 PM EST
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