Tue 2008-09-23 00:00 EDT
Memo to the President-Elect; How Much Capital Does a Bank Need? by Institutional Risk Analytics
banks need; capitalism; Institutional Risk Analyst; memo; President elections.
Tue 2008-09-02 00:00 EDT
Memo to the President-Elect; How Much Capital Does a Bank Need? by Institutional Risk Analytics
banks need; capitalism; Institutional Risk Analyst; memo; President elections.
Sun 2008-08-24 00:00 EDT
by Martin Hutchinson (Prudent Bear); auction-rate securities (ARS); credit default swaps (CDS); ``CDS market creates many times as much risk as it hedges or transfers''; GSEs ``leveraged more than would have been possible without the governments quasi-guarantee, lobbied like to crazy to ensure they were not properly regulated and collapsed thankfully into the arms of the taxpayer as soon as ill winds began to blow...by their presence they turned the soundest product in financial markets, the home mortgage, into an obscene speculative casino, causing collateral damage of many times their own losses.'' ``much of the financial services innovation of the last generation was spurious and unsound, and needs to be done away with''
Wed 2008-08-13 00:00 EDT
enable private placements of large lots of stock without the need for public disclosure; dark pools
Sat 2008-07-12 00:00 EDT
Fannie; Freddie; Henry Kaufman; naked capitalism; stand; Treasury Needs.
Thu 2008-06-19 00:00 EDT
Jesse's Café Américain: FDIC Criticizes Fed Handling of Bear Stearns: Says Banks Need Expanded Supervision
Bear Stearns; FDIC Criticizes Fed Handling; Jesse's Café Américain; Says Banks Need Expanded Supervision.
Thu 2008-06-19 00:00 EDT
Ron Paul and Dwight D. Eisenhower - True Patriots by Jim Quinn; If as a country we continue to allow our politicians and their military industrial complex corporate sponsors to spend $700+ billion per year on weapons, to the detriment of higher education, alternative energy projects, and national infrastructure needs...as deficits accumulate, the dollar plummets, and inflation rears its ugly head, our great country will decline as other empires who overstepped their bounds declined"
Sat 2008-05-17 00:00 EDT
NEWS & VIEWS-Five Things You Need to Know: The Inflation Hysteria, by Kevin Depew; "Today's 'inflation' is illusory. It is the tail end of the Federal Reserve's mirage of economic production; credit creation."
Thu 2008-03-27 00:00 EDT
It's Time To Cut The Trade Deficit, by Peter Morici - Forbes.com; "Globalization is not an unalloyed good. We don't need 300-horsepower cars. And Wall Street is not a citadel of integrity."
com; cutting; Forbes; Time; Trade Deficit.
Tue 2008-03-25 00:00 EDT
How ghosts vote on Bear Stearns, by Steven M. Davidioff - International Herald Tribune; "A class of stakeholders in Bear Stearns with economic interests that differ from the shareholders' can use derivatives to ensure that their needs are met. In the process, shareholders are left holding the nearly empty bag, and regulators are left shaking their heads."
Tue 2007-12-04 00:00 EST
International Markets Show Important Divergences: Global diversification might help least when it is needed most, by William Hester
Tue 2007-12-04 00:00 EST
anonymous industry insider: "how are rate cuts going to help anything when what the system needs is "more balance sheet," and there's none to be found, and in fact credit continues to contract?"; plan will because underwater buyers should and will walk away
lip services; Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis; Paulson's Plan.
Fri 2007-11-30 00:00 EST
Five Things You Need to Know: Why Should You Care About LIBOR?; Risk Aversion Leads to Risk Aversion, by Kevin Depew (minyanvill); watching LIBOR; banks hoarding cash, reluctant to lend (2007-11-16)
care; financial News; know; LIBOR; needed; risk aversion; Risk Aversion Leads; thing; Yahoo.
Wed 2007-10-24 00:00 EDT
Cutting The Bull > Hank needs a hug; Fed signs off on Hank Paulson's plan to save commercial paper
Fri 2007-09-07 00:00 EDT
Winter (Economic & Market) Watch >> 10 Reasons Why Berserkers Need Rate Cuts, by Russ Winter; "capitalist Ponzinistas"
10 Reasons; Berserkers Need Rate Cuts; economic; Market; watch; winter.
