Thu 2009-07-30 00:00 EDT
-- Friedrich Hayek's seminal Prices and Production, published in the depression days of 1935...discerned the critical role of the shadow banking system long before the advent of securitization, derivatives and other products that today have caused the monetary supply problem to reach a screaming crescendo...shadow money and credit are not just the dynamo that drives the free market, but also its Achilles heel
Tue 2009-06-16 00:00 EDT
Prosper offers trading platform called Open Market that lets any financial institution securitize (package and re-sell) its portfolio of loans to individual P2P lenders
CNET; Prosper CEO says P2P lending; reboot economy; Webware.
Tue 2009-04-21 00:00 EDT
``securitization is inherently a process of wealth-stripping'' ``the claim of "wealth creation" in any of this "financial product innovation" is a bald-faced lie.''
Wed 2009-04-01 00:00 EDT
Can We Fix the Banks, Help Homeowners, and Rebuild the Securitization Markets? No Problema
bank; Fix; help homeowners; Institutional Risk Analyst; mortgage markets; Rebuilding.
Thu 2009-02-26 00:00 EST
Chocolate Covered Cotton, by billmon; ``taking a look at how the stinking heap was created''; securitized lending morphing to fatal innovation, collateralized obligations; ``full nationalization still would be less expensive and messy than creating the kind of Potemkin markets the Geither plan seems to envision''; ``ncreasingly desperate attempts to maintain a phony façade of free markets and private enterprise, in an economy now utterly dependent on the federal safety net''
Mon 2008-11-03 00:00 EST
1; 4; Calculated Risk; Citigroup; Credit-Card Securitizations; losses.
Tue 2008-05-20 00:00 EDT
What the ETF? by Minyan Peter, Minyanville; "a broadened investor base, particularly inexperienced investors, and enhanced liquidity have been critical elements of every financial bubble in history"; "for the first time in financial history, the bubbles -- in securitized debt and commodities -- are truly global phenomena"
Thu 2007-12-27 00:00 EST
Winter (Economic & Market) Watch >> Leaking; credit card securitization delinquincies rising; bizarre comment by "loan originator"
Fri 2007-11-16 00:00 EST
Einhorn on credit; rating agencies compromised; securitization flawed; charging too little for risk-bearing; rating agencies have privileged access to deal data; artificial securitization bias
issues papers; naked capitalism; profits; rate; Rating Agencies Created Incentives.
Fri 2007-09-07 00:00 EDT
by James Hamilton; new bank-like institutions have evolved outside existing regulatory structures, issuing commercial paper and buying securitized debt
Fri 2007-09-07 00:00 EDT
The Coming U.S. Hard Landing, by Nouriel Roubini; "the first real crisis of the new world of financial globalization and securitization"
