Category: Credit Crisis 2012
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Back to Basics: A Planned Financial Crisis? / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2012
By: DeviantInvestor
Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States said, “In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.”
Monday, November 26, 2012
Shadow Banking: The Next Financial Crisis Landmine / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2012
By: Alasdair_Macleod
The Federal Reserve Board originally led us to believe that it was necessary to expand money supply through quantitative easing to offset the contraction of bank credit. Bank credit is no longer contracting, and indeed was already expanding when QE3 was introduced. This objective is now being satisfied as illustrated in the chart below:
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Tuesday, November 20, 2012
The Bankers Lost - 2012 Debt Tipping Point Results / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2012
By: Darryl_R_Schoon
The bankers’ bet that sufficient credit can reverse an economic contraction is no longer on the table. This does not mean central bank credit will tighten. Just the opposite will happen. Monetary easing will continue until the very end. Central bankers are trapped. The end game is now underway.
It is highly unlikely the Mayan predictions of the end of the world referred to the bankers’ world of credit and debt. Nonetheless, with only one month remaining until December 21, 2012—the end date of the Mayan 5,125 year Mesoamerican calendar—the concomitant end of the bankers’ 300 year ponzi-scheme of credit and debt should not be dismissed as mere coincidence.
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Friday, November 16, 2012
THE Biggest Story in Finance That No One Is Talking About / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2012
By: Graham_Summers
Modern financial theory dictates that sovereign bonds are the most “risk free” assets in the financial system (equity, municipal bond, corporate bonds, and the like are all below sovereign bonds in terms of risk profile). The reason for this is because it is far more likely for a company to go belly up than a country.
Friday, November 16, 2012
What Really Happened When Lehman Failed… And Why Spain Will Be Much Worse / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2012
By: Graham_Summers
Countless pages have been written about why Lehman caused the system to almost implode. However, the reality is that Lehman nearly took down the entire financial system for two reasons:
1) Lehman’s $155 billion worth of bonds were used as collateral in hundreds of billions of Dollars’ worth of trades.
2) Lehman’s 8,000 clients who were all using Lehman to make trades saw the collateral that they had placed with the firm (to backstop their portfolios) frozen.
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Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Italian Prosecutor Charges Fitch and S&P Employees With Culpable Incompetence / Interest-Rates / Credit Crisis 2012
By: Andrew_Butter
I noticed that the public prosecutor in some remote corner of Italy is attempting to get a clutch of hapless employees of S&P and Fitch charged with…well I‘m not quite sure what? Public disorder…incompetence…economic terrorism…driving whilst under the influence of America?Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, November 12, 2012
The Fiscal Cliff is a Mole Hill Compared TAG Program Expiry / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2012
By: Money_Morning
Shah Gilani writes:
Everyone is afraid of falling off the "fiscal cliff." But there's another dangerous countdown clock about hit to zero.
And no one is talking about it, even though it will spell even more financial problems for us all.
At midnight on December 31, 2012, the Transaction Account Guarantee (TAG) program will expire.
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Saturday, November 10, 2012
Investors Misled by Credit Ratings Agency / Politics / Credit Crisis 2012
By: InvestmentContrarian
Sasha Cekerevac writes: In what will most likely be a landmark ruling, Australia’s federal court has ruled that one of the world’s leading credit ratings agencies Standard & Poor’s (S&P) misled investors by issuing a AAA rating, its safest rating, to securities that were extremely complex and risky, and that ultimately lost most of their value.
Thursday, November 08, 2012
The Stage Has Been Set For Another Credit Crisis / Interest-Rates / Credit Crisis 2012
By: Money_Morning
Shah Gilani writes: If you think yesterday's market action was something to worry about, you ain't seen nothing yet.
President Barack Obama getting re-elected sets the stage for another credit crisis.
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Tuesday, October 23, 2012
The World’s Largest, Most Toxic Banking System… / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2012
By: Graham_Summers
As noted earlier in yesterday’s article, the entire European banking and corporate system is over-burdened with debt.
Germany sports a real Debt to GDP of over 200% (this from the former head of the Bundesbank), and the rest of Europe is in even worse shape.
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Thursday, October 18, 2012
QE Infinity Won't Work, What the Banks Are Really Afraid Of ... / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2012
By: Money_Morning
Keith Fitz-Gerald writes: Dallas Federal Reserve President Richard Fisher recently offered a stunning assessment about our policymaking central bankers down in Washington.
They're winging it.
In a talk before a Harvard Club audience, Fisher presented a candid assessment about all the levers the Fed has been pulling in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. And that includes the recently announced QE3.
Monday, October 08, 2012
How Spain Could Take Down the Entire EU Banking System / Interest-Rates / Credit Crisis 2012
By: Graham_Summers
Spain was already experiencing a banking crisis as well as a sovereign crisis. It’s now on the verge of a constitutional crisis (as well as its ongoing sovereign and banking crises).
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
The Fed Is Trapped, Gold Is The Exit / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2012
By: Darryl_R_Schoon
47% of US investors dependent on the Fed believe they are victimized by government, who believe they are entitled to enough liquidity to profit when risk is laid-off onto others, to society, to you-name-it…
On September 13th, the Fed announced QE3, a policy of open-ended bond purchases which would add $1 trillion annually to the Fed’s balance sheet. The Fed’s decision to provide liquidity ad infinitum, i.e. QE etc, was framed in reasonable and carefully chosen language:
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Monday, September 24, 2012
Asian Financial Crisis Lessons, Can Malaysia’s Capital Controls be Copied? / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2012
By: Sam_Chee_Kong
The Asian Financial Crisis in 1997 came as a surprise and caught most people by surprise not only by the speed but also the severity of the crisis. At that time the Asian Economic Miracle was the buzzword then and the Asian Tiger economies are at their peak not only in the performance of their export oriented economies but also the stocks and properties market. To accommodate the shortage of funds needed to boost their economies, their governments embark on a ‘loose money’ monetary policies regime.
Monday, September 10, 2012
Central bankers and politicians are running out of ideas / Politics / Credit Crisis 2012
By: Alasdair_Macleod
My father, who at one time was an education minister in the Kenyan government, used to tell a story of a long-forgotten crisis when the leaders in the educational establishment could only turn to him and ask: ”minister, what shall we do?” The point of the story is that these were all highly qualified senior academics, while my father had left school at 16 with no qualifications at all. It amused him.
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Friday, September 07, 2012
Hungary Throws Out Monsanto AND The IMF / Politics / Credit Crisis 2012
By: Raul_I_Meijer
I don't know about you, but I would label my personal knowledge of Hungary as wanting, if not painfully incomplete. It's not an easy country to come to grips with, not least of all of course because Hungarian doesn't look like any western language we know with the possible exception of Finnish. I did visit just after the Wall came down, and remember huge contrasts, almost paradoxes, between rural poverty and a capital, Budapest, that was much richer than other capitals such as Prague, a leftover of Budapest's status as meeting place between western and eastern diplomats and businessmen.
Thursday, August 30, 2012
Currency Twisters and Firestorms on Central Banks Obvious Failure / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2012
By: Jim_Willie_CB
Begin with a preface to a meaningful event that could change the entire US landscape, a redux of what happened four years ago. Consider the next Wall Street financial firm failure. It is in progress. It is not avoidable. It will have numerous ramifications. It will open the door to account thefts, the burial of documents, the ransack of undesired leveraged positions, the concealment of wrecked derivatives, and a path toward the merger of surviving (selected core) firms. It will urge an extreme defensive posture. Back in 2008, both Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers fell. The former because they had too much gold exposure with anti-US$ hedges. The latter because they led in mortgage exposure. Both failures were greatly exploited. My favorite item was the reload given to JPMorgan on a quiet Saturday morning (convened at 6am no less) at the Bankruptcy court of Manhattan. The shadowy syndicate titan was handed $138 billion to handle the private accounts from the fallen banks. Instead, the funds represented a reload for JPMorgan to continue their gold suppression game. Of course, they have been defending American freedom with vigor, preserving the integrity of the US banking system, and assuring the way of life in the nation, while leeching $billions from the public trough. Since their grant, the unassailable JPM has seen fit to gobble private accounts at both MFGlobal and PFG-Best, with regulatory blessing as the courts sprinkled fascist holy water.
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Prince Harry, Goldman Sachs Pays Better than Porn / Politics / Credit Crisis 2012
By: Janet_Tavakoli
Dear Sir,
It has come to our attention that you have been offered a role in a porn film for $10 million. We urge you to reject it.
Princely Pay and Elite Status
Goldman Sachs is prepared to pay you much better than porn, and as a partner, your position will be much more prestigious than the Duke of York's role as a representative for international trade and investment. We twist country treasurers and central bankers around our little fingers. Politicians are at our beck and call. We even pay a lower tax rate than your grandmother.
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Friday, August 17, 2012
Cash Is King? Swiss Bankers' New Safe Haven: Safe Deposit Boxes Full Of Banknotes / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2012
By: DK_Matai
Swiss banks have been doing an extremely brisk yet totally discreet trade with their "New Safe Haven" solution ever since the Eurozone crisis went into full swing and new bilateral tax-treaties were inked with major countries to prevent secret bank accounts in Switzerland being used for evading taxes. Those two drivers together may have inadvertently contributed to a powerful "New Safe Haven" solution.
Saturday, August 11, 2012
China Ponzi Banks Duping Depositors Into Financing Busted Real Estate Projects / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2012
By: Mike_Shedlock
Top Chinese banks are involved in Ponzi financing of investment deals, offering interest rates over 7% to depositors, to finance real estate projects gone bust and other projects whose assets are not even disclosed.
Banks label these schemes "Wealth Management Products" (WMPs) but any individuls foolish enough to invest in them are going to lose money, perhaps all of it.
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