Wed 2008-10-08 00:00 EDT
naked capitalism: Coordinated Central Bank Action Fails to Relieve Money Markets
Coordinated Central Bank Action Fails; naked capitalism; Relieve Money Markets.
fail Topic in The Credit Debacle Catalog
Sun 2008-08-24 00:00 EDT
Winter (Economic & Market) Watch >> Here They Go Again
Winter (Economic & Market) Watch >> Here They Go Again; many early subprime modifications failing; banks which ``moved early and aggressively to deal with this in terms of raising new capital, foreclosing instead of restructuring, and tightening down early on lax credit, may be the last people standing''; loss severity increasing; ``third quarter is going to be an unmitigated disaster for the financial sector'', ``foreign money will move in a big way to gobble up American assets''
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"
Tue 2008-07-15 00:00 EDT
Brad Setser: Follow the Money >> Blog Archive >> Too Chinese (and Russian) to fail?
politics of fannie, freddie bailout
blogs Archive; Brad Setser; Chinese; fail; follows; money; Russian.
Fri 2008-06-06 00:00 EDT
Angry Bear: Failed Trade Policy: Confessions from Our Guy Who Negotiated China's Entry into the WTO
"Robert Cassidy, former assistant U.S. trade for Asia and for China, and Bill Clinton's point man in negotiating China's entry into the WTO, now admits the agreement was flawed from the start, benefiting two groups: multinationals that moved to China and financial firms that financed those investments."; "how globalization was designed"
Angry Bear; confessed; Failed Trade Policy; guys; Negotiated China's Entry; WTO.
Wed 2008-05-28 00:00 EDT
Winter (Economic & Market) Watch >> Aunt Millie-iced
Winter (Economic & Market) Watch >> Aunt Millie-iced; Jefferson County bankruptcy looming over failed derivatives trades; Bill Gross said to bet on mortagage debt
Wed 2008-03-26 00:00 EDT
Winter (Economic & Market) Watch >> Rebuttal of GaveKal's Bully ``Wealth & Platform Theory''
Winter (Economic & Market) Watch >> Rebuttal of GaveKal's Bully "Wealth & Platform Theory"; platform companies "outsource American jobs to safe production locales like China and Thailand, who then pollute the global environment and fail to account for the negative externalities (true costs) of their production...the peculiar slash and burn notion that the US can just eat its young by outsourcing jobs to foreign polluters, while failing to invest in capex and just merrily borrowing from foreigners against its Bubble induced wealth."; 2006-12-26
economic; GaveKal's Bully; Market; Platform Theory; Rebuttal; watch; wealth; winter.
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.
Fri 2008-03-21 00:00 EDT
Urban Dictionary: bear stearned
1. to crash, to collapse, to plummit, to fail; 2. The rapid loss of confidence in one's capabilities from one's traditionally supportive network of friends, customers, etc. 3. Buying an item and then realizing a week later it is worth 3.33% of what you paid for it.
Mon 2008-03-17 00:00 EDT
naked capitalism: Bear Death Watch: Why It Failed
Sun 2007-10-28 00:00 EDT
FT.com / Comment & analysis / Comment - The pseudo-science hurting markets
FT.com / Comment & analysis / Comment - The pseudo-science hurting markets, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb; quantitative trading; modern portfolio theory failings
Analysis; com; Comments; FT; pseudo-science hurting markets.
Tue 2007-08-28 00:00 EDT
The Big Picture | Real Income Fails to Rise for most of the 2000s
Tue 2007-08-28 00:00 EDT
Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Now we know who and why
Citigroup troubles? "Bernanke has his hands full and there are simply too many crack to plug. He will fail."