Subject: Two Examples of First Class Gasligting

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Tavakoli Structured Finance, Inc.
Allow me to issue and control a nation’s money, and I care not who makes the laws.”
Mayer Amschel Rothschild
Two Examples of First Class Gasligting

The first is Robert Mueller. I believe he was acting, and he was brilliant. He’s laughing all the way to the bank.
 
When you study how to be a witness, the posture is completely different depending on whether one is an expert witness or one is a witness in one’s own defense. In the latter case, acting incompetent and forgetful is in one’s best interest. But he was fast and lucid with yes or no responsese when questioned by friendly Democrats. Mueller gave a master class in how to protect oneself from prosecution.
 
Find Mueller’s testimony and take notes if you are ever called to give a non-expert witness deposition. Even Ann Coulter was fooled She thought he was being abused when Congress called him to testify. The poor frail old man who just earned millions for his investigation!
 
The second is Representative Sean Duffy. He fooled Ann Coulter, too. Sean Duffy questioned SunTrust CEO William Rogers, and Coulter thought he is “America’s greatest congressman." But wait! Duffy was careful to state that despite what he’s pointing out, he supports the merger!:
 
 SunTrust is making a social policy judgment by refusing to bank detention facilities that follow American law. William Rogers, CEO of SunTrust should step down if he continues to refuse to bank them, or Congress should deny the merger.

Lead Article in the Journal of Structured Finance

My article, “More Than One Million Reasons to Lie About Structured Finance,” is the lead article in the current Spring 2019 issue of The Journal of Structured Finance. For the next week, you have free access to the article via this link (name and email sign up will be required, however). After that, the article will remain available only to the journal’s subscribers. .
 
You may recall that the last time I wrote an article for JSF. It was for the Winter 2006 issue. It was also the lead article and was titled “The Elusive Income of Synthetic CDOs.” For many, it was a very long winter.
 
My finance classic, Structured Finance and Collateralized Debt Obligations was released by John Wiley & Sons in September 2008. It is an ongoing reference for lawyers, Congress, and students interested in both control fraud and legitimate instruments, applications, and hedging. It has just been re-released as a print replica eBook available only via Amazon for selected reading devices and as a trade paperback.
 
It’s funny to read the reviews of the first edition, mostly snark from “professionals.” The same people sang a different tune when the financial crisis hit and my analysis proved sound. 
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