Mon 2008-08-11 00:00 EDT
bankers Topic in The Credit Debacle Catalog
Mon 2008-08-04 00:00 EDT
London Banker: What's up with the covered bond push?
"Whenever Henry Paulson at Treasury, Ben Bernanke at the Fed and Shiela Bair at FDIC agree on anything, American taxpayers should check for their wallets...When the troubled bank nonetheless fails, our golden circle creditors get the good collateral in an expedited release from FDIC under its new policy statement. The FDIC is left with all the toxic waste assets and liability for depositor insurance claims, with no prospect of recovery"
Thu 2008-07-03 00:00 EDT
Information Arbitrage: Straight-talk on FAS 157: Blackstone and their Banker Buddies Have it Wrong
gap management; "Trading risk becomes liquidity risk when you can't trade...Do real stress-testing of liquidity scenarios and construct a capital structure that address much of the liquidity risk posed by non-standard assets...So why do risk managers and bank managements' so consistently make bad decisions? Probably because there is an over-reliance on measures that are seemingly quantifiable."
Banker Buddies; Blackstone; FAS 157; Information Arbitrage; straight-talking; wrong.
Thu 2008-07-03 00:00 EDT
naked capitalism: Are Trichet's Rate Hikes 1930 All Over Again?
"rather have the central bankers simply sit tight and do nothing for a quarter and try to get a better handle on the fundamentals."
Sat 2008-05-24 00:00 EDT
naked capitalism: Commodities Spike: Vote of No Confidence in Central Bankers?
Steve Waldman; commodity price run-up due to loss of faith in monetrary authorities? large-scale repudiation of financial assets; "nd of a paradigm: large scale OTC markets, lightly regulated players and instruments, dollar as reserve currency, US as the most important global economic actors"
central bankers; Commodities Spike; Confidence; naked capitalism; voting.
Fri 2008-04-18 00:00 EDT
Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Central Bankers Guessing Everywhere
"all central bankers are guessing, and not just on interest rate policy either...no one has consistently guessed wrong more often than the Fed and Bank of Japan"
Central Bankers Guessing; Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis.
Fri 2008-04-18 00:00 EDT
Jesse's Café Américain: Bankers Ask: Are the Bankers Rigging the Markets?
Jesse's Café Américain: Bankers Ask: Are the Bankers Rigging the Markets? "LIBOR rates might be 'fixed' by large global banks providing false information."
Bankers Ask; Bankers Rigging; Jesse's Café Américain; Market.
Sat 2008-03-22 00:00 EDT
naked capitalism: Desperate Central Bankers to Bail Out MBS Market? (Not Yet, Perhaps....)
"ntent of policy should be to limit damage to individuals rather than intervene in asset market in ways that are destined to fail anyhow"
bailed; Desperate Central Bankers; MBS Market; naked capitalism; PERHAPS.
Tue 2007-12-11 00:00 EST
MORTGAGE MELTDOWN / Interest rate 'freeze' - the real story is fraud / Bankers pay lip service to families while scurrying to avert suits, prison
by Sean Olender
avert suits; Bankers pay lip service; family; fraud; freeze; interest-rate; mortgage meltdown; prisoners; real story; scurrying.
Mon 2007-10-08 00:00 EDT
Inflation Measurement and Price Volatility - Richard Fisher Speeches - News & Events - FRB Dallas
Inflation Measurement and Price Volatility, by Federal Reserve banker Richard Fisher; FRB Dallas; understating inflation
events; FRB Dallas; Inflation measure; news; Price Volatility; Richard Fisher Speeches.