The government decided to conduct stress tests on banks to know how long these banks can cope up with the crisis. However, the bank stress tests have been leaked, albeit in incomplete form.   The bank stress tests indicate that the largest banks, all of which received large installment loans from the taxpayers, are still heavily leveraged and still run a huge risk of collapse.   The source isn't exactly known for its journalistic integrity or anything resembling something positive.   The leak comes from the Turner Radio Network, run by Hal Turner, a radio show host and blogger who is closely tied to the white supremacist movement and is a Holocaust denier (a crime in Germany and Austria).   Regardless of the dubious nature of the source, the listed companies on the banks stress tests still need debt relief.

Whilst I appreciate that developers have to cut a crust - and DevSeed have been great about using the presumably lucretive WorldBank contact to sponsor The Leech's further development - this whole distro really smacks of an organisation arriving late to the wrong party. It's doesn't cache or permalink the original source, and really adds little to what one can gain for free from a half-decent RSS reader? Once again the World Bank shows it can blow money without concern for value or impact, and that there are plenty of beltway leeches to sieze on the error.

Hi Brit,

Thanks for checking out the buzzmonitor and helping spread the word. Given the fact that it is an aggregator, the buzz aggregates whatever you feed it. For the demo, we have used a couple of feeds arounf HIV aids and africa. The idea is that you can download it, install it on your server,  and create your own feeds (i.e. the ones that matter to you). You can put search feeds  for whatever keywords you want or simply add a bunch of blogs you subscribe to etc. etc.. You feed it and it aggregates, generates the tag clouds, ranks etc...Makes sense?

Cheers,

PG