Tue 2008-09-23 00:00 EDT
naked capitalism: $5 Trillion Needed to Stop Bank Crisis, Says Japanese Expert
5 trillion needed; naked capitalism; Says Japanese Expert; Stop Bank Crisis.
trillion Topic in The Credit Debacle Catalog
Mon 2008-09-08 00:00 EDT
The Institutional Risk Analyst: Paulson Begins Gradual Wind-Down of GSEs within Conservatorship
Paulson Begins Gradual Wind-Down of GSEs within Conservatorship, by Institutional Risk Analytics; ``Now that the Treasury at least partly has followed our recommendation and taken the GSEs off the table as a concern for the bond investors who hold trillions of dollars worth of GSE debt, the markets and the respective presidential candidates can focus on the next, more pressing challenge, namely helping to refloat the US banking system''
conservatorship; GSEs; Institutional Risk Analyst; Paulson Begins Gradual Wind.
Mon 2008-07-14 00:00 EDT
naked capitalism: Whither Citigroup's $1.1 Trillion of Off Balance Sheet Assets?
1; 1 Trillion; balance sheet assets; Citigroup's; naked capitalism.
Mon 2008-06-30 00:00 EDT
Angry Bear: Broken Clock Day
Thomas Friedman accidentally tells truth: "Since President Bush came to office, our national savings have gone from 6 percent of gross domestic product to 1 percent, and consumer debt has climbed from $8 trillion to $14 trillion."
Sun 2008-06-01 00:00 EDT
The Great Oil Swindle: How much did the Fed really know?
The Great Oil Swindle: How much did the Fed really know? by Mike Whitney; soaring commodity prices "hoax cooked up by the investment banks and hedge funds...trying to dig their way out of the trillion dollar MBS mess", billions of Fed dollars diverted into commodities
Wed 2008-04-16 00:00 EDT
Institutional Risk Analytics
Large OTC Markets + Excessive Leverage + Fair Value Accounting = Systemic Risk, by The Institutional Risk Analyst; FAS 157; JPMorgan "an uncapitalized, $76 trillion OTC derivatives exchange with a $1.3 trillion asset bank appendage"
Wed 2008-04-16 00:00 EDT
Foreign Policy: 8 Steps to a Trillion-Dollar Meltdown
by Charles R. Morris; how the U.S. financial crisis happened
Sat 2007-12-29 00:00 EST
Calculated Risk: BofA: Attitudes Changing Towards Default
Tue 2007-12-11 00:00 EST
Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Derivatives Trade Soars To Record $681 Trillion
"everal hedge funds are going to get carted out on a stretcher all at once and cause a cascade of defaults."
681 Trillion; Derivatives Trade Soars; Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis; records.
Mon 2007-12-10 00:00 EST
Money Matters: A Bubble That Broke The World--Book By Garet Garrett
by Elaine Meinel Supkis; "Chinese plan...accept a loss of even $2 trillion if this means the utter destruction of the US military due to the USA going bankrupt"
Fri 2007-11-30 00:00 EST
naked capitalism: Counterparty Risk Problems With Credit Default Swaps?
(45 trillion notional CDS outstanding; counterparties "concerned about collecting from hedge funds that were long"?
Counterparty Risk Problems; Credit Default Swap; naked capitalism.
Fri 2007-11-30 00:00 EST
Sudden Debt: CDS: Phantom Menace
CDS notional amounts increased from 26 to 46 trillion in last year; "far more CDSs are written relative to the amounts outstanding in individual bonds and thus credit events will infect and destroy much more speculative capital"; "generate highly volatile equity exposure with minimal or even zero margin requirements"