Category: Credit Crisis 2009
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Monday, August 03, 2009
Global Big Banks Exploit the Financial Crisis to Reap Massive Profits / Companies / Credit Crisis 2009
By: Global_Research
Stefan Steinberg writes: At the start of this week, German-based Deutsche Bank announced a huge increase in its profits. The bank reported a net profit of €1.1 billion in the second quarter of this year, nearly doubling its earnings over the same period last year (€645 million).
Sunday, August 02, 2009
Bernanke Is Stuttering, Stammering, Panicking / Politics / Credit Crisis 2009
By: LewRockwell
Gary North writes: Bernanke video: He stutters; he stammers; he is in visible panic mode over Ron Paul's bill to audit the Federal Reserve. Watch it. You'll love it! Then send it to your friends.
Usually, when Ben Bernanke is interviewed, he has the demeanor of a college professor in the presence of freshman students. Of course, as a full professor, he did not have to teach freshmen. That is for untenured assistant professors to do. Stammering and stuttering are therefore a real departure for him. There is a reason for this.
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Thursday, July 30, 2009
How to Profit From Britain's Bank Lending Drought / Companies / Credit Crisis 2009
By: Money_Morning
Despite Chancellor Alistair Darling's desperate pleas, Britain's banks simply aren't doing as they're told. In June, bank lending to British businesses fell year-on-year for the first time ever recorded, according to the Bank of England.
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Dead Banks Walking / Companies / Credit Crisis 2009
By: John_Browne
In recent weeks, the financial world has been dazzled by strikingly high earnings reported by our leading investment banks... or at least what we used to call investment banks. The numbers are reminiscent of another era - the one that came to a crashing end last September. Today's euphoria was keyed to the record $3.44 billion 2nd quarter profit announced by that branch office of the Treasury Department also known as Goldman Sachs. Wells Fargo, JP Morgan Chase, and State Street also chipped in with strong numbers.
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Mark-to-Market Accounting Scapegoat for the Financial Crash / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2009
By: LewRockwell
Betsy Hansen writes: If you are a dedicated reader of the financial papers you may have fallen for the line that mark-to-market accounting rules are a major contributor to the financial crisis. I caution you to examine that argument with a great deal of skepticism. Mark-to-market accounting rules did make things worse in the financial markets, but this ill-conceived rule was not the primary cause of the crisis.
Sunday, July 26, 2009
California Public Employees’ Retirement System in Deep Trouble, Gambling on Riskier Bets / Economics / Credit Crisis 2009
By: Mike_Shedlock
Calpers, the California Public Employees’ Retirement System, is in deep trouble. Calpers got in trouble by not understanding risk. It still does not understand risk and thinks risk is the solution.
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Customers Pay to Rebuild Bank Profits / Personal_Finance / Credit Crisis 2009
By: Sarah_Jones
Banks and building societies are trying to rebuild their balance sheets at the expense of retail customers, according to Moneyfacts.Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Credit Crunch Crisis Part2 / Economics / Credit Crisis 2009
By: Axel_Merk
Green Shoots Everywhere! The credit crisis is over; an economic recovery is just around the corner! Hold your horses – there may not be enough water to nourish them at the next pit stop. Hold on – isn’t a bad decision supposed to turn into good policy when you back it by trillions of freshly printed U.S. dollars?
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Banks Still in Big Trouble; Protect Your Portfolio / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2009
By: Money_and_Markets
Martin Weiss writes: Since the debt crisis began with the eruption of the subprime mess in 2007, Wall Street pundits have declared “an end to the crisis” at least three times: in mid-2007, in early 2008, and now.
Each time, the government intervened with massive amounts of money to tamp down fear. Each time, investors rushed back to take risks. And each time, stocks rallied sharply.
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Monday, July 20, 2009
Goldman Sachs in Talks to Acquire U.S. Treasury Department / Politics / Credit Crisis 2009
By: Joseph_Toronto
Sister Entities to Share Employees, Money - In what some on Wall Street are calling the biggest blockbuster deal in the history of the financial sector, Goldman Sachs confirmed today that it was in talks to acquire the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
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Saturday, July 18, 2009
Europe Banking and Financial System on the Brink of Collapse / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2009
By: John_Mauldin
Europe on the Brink
And Then There Was Leverage
Too Big To Save
Those Wild and Crazy Swiss
A Positive Third Quarter?
New York and Maine
We have avoided Armageddon, at least for now. The cost to the US taxpayer has been a few trillion. Some in the media are loudly announcing the end of the recession. But we are not out of the woods yet. There are a few more bumps in the road. Actually, some of them are quite steep hills. As big as the subprime problem? Maybe.
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Friday, July 17, 2009
Investment Banks CDS Derivatives Positions Deceptions, Deceit and Distrust / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2009
By: Rob_Kirby
With the former Investment Banks being granted Commercial Banking status due to the unfolding financial crisis in late 2008 – it was widely reported in the mainstream financial press that this “change” would mean that these banks would be subject to more oversight and hence, more transparency would result regarding their derivatives activities.
Thursday, July 16, 2009
This 'Unknown' Big Bank Could Go Bust, Making the US Recession Worse / Companies / Credit Crisis 2009
By: MoneyWeek
David Stevenson writes: Until very recently – perhaps just this week – you probably hadn't heard of CIT.
The company is one of the biggest lenders to American businesses. But despite all the flak that's been flying around financial firms over the last two years, it's hardly a name that trips off the tongue.
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Wednesday, July 15, 2009
The Great Inevitable a singular name for the financial, banking, credit, mortgage crisis, meltdown, depression, deflation.. / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2009
By: Adrian_Ash
SO SUDDENLY EVERYONE'S NOTICED what a handful of nutty doomsters said about the financial crisis, long before it broke.
The end of the bubble was inevitable. Only the timing was ever in doubt.
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Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Financial Crisis Solution, Ban Credit Default Swaps? / Politics / Credit Crisis 2009
By: Money_Morning
Martin Hutchinson writes: Ask U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters, D-CA, about credit default swaps and she’ll offer this warning: Ban them now or expect a reprise of the ongoing global financial crisis – which the derivative securities helped create.
Sunday, July 12, 2009
Fed Gets It Wrong, Credit Crisis Losses Rising Everywhere / Interest-Rates / Credit Crisis 2009
By: Money_and_Markets
Mike Larson writes: Remember when policymakers at the Federal Reserve told us in 2007 and 2008 that the credit problems were “contained” to the subprime mortgage sector? Or when then-Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson spouted the same line?
Monday, July 06, 2009
End of the Financial Crisis, the Great Lie of 2009 / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2009
By: Money_and_Markets
Martin Weiss writes: Just as the authorities were touting the “end of the financial crisis,” all heck has broken loose again …
We have a new surge in unemployment, and even without counting those who are excluded from the official numbers, 14.7 million are now jobless, the most since records dating back to 1948. Worse, for the first time since the Great Depression, every single job created after the prior recession has been wiped out.
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Monday, July 06, 2009
Derivatives the Greatest Scam in the History of the World / Politics / Credit Crisis 2009
By: LewRockwell
Chris Clancy writes: This essay is a story about insurance, or rather, a story about a type of insurance policy which underwent a mutation. This mutation was not spontaneous – it was engineered. It was one of the biggest scams ever perpetrated.
Wednesday, July 01, 2009
Great Banking Confusion / Personal_Finance / Credit Crisis 2009
By: Mansoor_H_Khan
The (usually) transparent process of inter-bank lending works so well that most of the time we don't even think about it. This process has largely weaned the public away from physical paper money. Note that most money (about 90%) now exists only as entries on bank ledgers, backed by loans (debt). Also, note that possessing physical paper dollars is like having equity in the economic output of the United States of America, and has no credit risk associated to it. Physical paper money is not anyone's liability. Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, June 29, 2009
Objective Analysis of the Increase in the Fed's Balance Sheet / Interest-Rates / Credit Crisis 2009
By: Paul_L_Kasriel
In recent weeks two prominent economic commentators - Arthur Laffer and Alan Greenspan - have warned about the inflationary potential emanating from the unprecedented increase in the Fed's balance sheet. Yes, as shown in Chart 1, reserves created by the Fed have increased by a staggering $858 billion in the 12 months ended May. But excess reserves on the books of depository institutions have increased by almost as much, $842 billion (see Chart 2). So, in the 12 months ended May, 98% of the increase in reserves created by the Fed has simply ended up as idle reserves on the books of depository institutions.