Category: Credit Crisis 2011
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Wednesday, July 06, 2011
Banks Playing the Credit Rating Theatre Game / Politics / Credit Crisis 2011
By: Videos
Ratigan, Eliot Spitzer and comedian Sherrod Small play a game of credit rating theater. There is extreme truth in this little bit of comedic fiction, including the fact that absolutely nothing has changed. Pass this one to a friend. This clip is phenomenal.
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Dodging Default, French Banks Scramble to Prevent Another Global Collapse / Interest-Rates / Credit Crisis 2011
By: Money_Morning
Kerri Shannon writes:
The threat of a Greek default has become so real that French banks, which constitute some of the top Greek debt holders, have intensified their efforts to ease the country's floundering finances.
French lenders, along with their government, have suggested a debt rollover program, the first private-sector proposal to help save Greece.
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Monday, June 20, 2011
Dizzying New Heights of Global Criminal Enterprise / Politics / Credit Crisis 2011
By: Midas_Letter
That the United States government, the U.S Federal Reserve, and a plethora of financial institutions, are in breach of numerous U.S. laws in regards to fraud and fiduciary duty to the American people, is held to be self-evident, by a growing minority of individuals around the world. That this breach of law and duty has resulted in the deterioration of the global marketplace, diminished opportunities for workers, and effected an acute decay in living standards for millions around the world, is without doubt.
Friday, June 17, 2011
Greek Debt and U.S. Banks Trigger for Next Global Credit Crisis / Interest-Rates / Credit Crisis 2011
By: Money_Morning
Shah Gilani writes:
Will a hidden link between the Greek debt situation and the U.S. banking system ignite the next global credit crisis?
The odds of the "next" global credit crisis are increasing with each new day, and with each new revelation. And escalating fears are hitting worldwide stock markets hard.
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Wednesday, June 15, 2011
TBTF Day of Reckoning for the West / Interest-Rates / Credit Crisis 2011
By: Gary_North
You probably know what TBTF stands for: too big to fail. We need a comparable acronym: TBTK. It stands for too big to kick, as in "kick the can."
"Too big to fail" is such a common phrase these days that HBO chose it as the title for a movie on the big bank bailout of 2008. The context of TBTF is correct: the largest banks, all over the world.
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Monday, June 13, 2011
How Bankers use the Debt Crisis to Roll Back the Progressive Era / Politics / Credit Crisis 2011
By: Michael_Hudson
Financial strategists do not intend to let today’s debt crisis go to waste. Foreclosure time has arrived. That means revolution – or more accurately, a counter-revolution to roll back the 20th century’s gains made by social democracy: pensions and social security, public health care and other infrastructure providing essential services at subsidized prices or for free. The basic model follows the former Soviet Union’s post-1991 neoliberal reforms: privatization of public enterprises, a high flat tax on labor but only nominal taxes on real estate and finance, and deregulation of the economy’s prices, working conditions and credit terms.
Sunday, June 12, 2011
That Speeding Freight Train You Hear is the Next Financial Crisis / Politics / Credit Crisis 2011
By: Gary_North
The mainstream financial media are running stories on the next financial crisis. This is unheard of two years into a so-called economic recovery. So weak is this recovery that the old pre-2008 confidence has not returned.
The first sign that "this time, it's different," was Treasury Secretary Geithner's statement, which received widespread coverage, that there will be another crisis.
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Thursday, June 09, 2011
Credit Crisis 2011, Discover the Top 100 Safest U.S. Banks / Personal_Finance / Credit Crisis 2011
By: EWI
Bank failures still dominate headlines as the number of failing banks continues at an alarming pace in 2011. The odds are that you've seen at least one bank failure in your community since the financial crisis hit in 2008. Some economists claim we're in a recovery, yet hundreds of smaller financial institutions still suffer from the debt crisis that began a few years back.
Wednesday, June 08, 2011
Fraudulent Fractional Reserve Banking Operations Means That There are No Safe Banks / Politics / Credit Crisis 2011
By: Gary_North
Occasionally, we see an official attempt at a serious discussion of what Federal Reserve System economists would like the public to believe is safe banking. This means safe fractional reserve banking. This means fraudulent safe banking. This means fantasy banking.
All fractional reserve banking rests on a legal promise: you can get your money out at any time. Yet the money that you deposit is loaned out by the bank. This means that your money is gone. Then how can you withdraw it at any time? Only if (1) the money is loaned out on a "repay instantly on demand" basis, or (2) hardly anyone will demand withdrawal at the same time. The bank will pay you out of its tiny slush fund for withdrawals. The first option assumes that the debtor is always in a position to repay at any time, which is of course ludicrous for most corporate and business borrowers. They will not agree to such terms. The second option is equally ludicrous during a banking crisis.
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Tuesday, June 07, 2011
Goldman Subpoena, Investigation Add to Pressure on Bank Stock Prices / Companies / Credit Crisis 2011
By: Money_Morning
David Zeiler writes:
Big bank stock prices, already suffering from an avalanche of difficulties, suffered another setback when news broke last Thursday that Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE:GS) had received a subpoena from the Manhattan district attorney for records relating to its role in collapse of the mortgage market.
Wednesday, June 01, 2011
Debit Card Interchange Fees and the Politics of Lobbying / Politics / Credit Crisis 2011
By: Fred_Sheehan
Legislation to modify debit-card interchange fees cannot compete with celebrity gossip. Yet, exhausted carcasses are carried on stretchers from the senate office buildings. The Huffington Post explained: "A full 118 ex-government officials and aides are currently registered to lobby on behalf of banks in the fee fight... Retailers have signed up at least 124 revolving-door lobbyists.... The flood fills the hallways with lobbyists and deluges the airwaves with ads. For weeks, Washington's Metro system has been papered with... ads on trains and station walls."
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Europe on the Edge of Abyss, U.S. Housing Market In the Abyss / Economics / Credit Crisis 2011
By: Mike_Shedlock
Robert Samuelson on Real Clear Politics says Europe at the Abyss
Read full article... Read full article...It has come to this. A year after rescuing Greece from default, Europe is staring into the abyss. The bailout has proved insufficient. Greece needs more money, and it can't borrow from private markets where it faces interest rates as high as 25 percent. There is no easy escape.
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Don't be Fooled: Banking Crisis Not Over / Companies / Credit Crisis 2011
By: Money_Morning
Shah Gilani writes:
U.S. banks are seeing positive trends in several measures of their health. That's the good news.
Unfortunately, U.S. banks continue to struggle with some much-more-deeply entrenched problems. Those problems pose a major threat to banking-system health.
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Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Why Are We Banking On Banks To A Promote Economic Recovery? / Politics / Credit Crisis 2011
By: Danny_Schechter
This week the financial crisis finally went prime time in the form of a big budget HBO docudrama called “Too Big To Fail.”
It was a well-acted docudrama focused on the BIG Men and some women in the banks and in government who tried to put Humpty Dumpty back together again up on that wall to prevent a total economic collapse when panic dried up credit and financial institutions faced failure.
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Friday, May 20, 2011
ECB Pushing Greece Over Brink / Interest-Rates / Credit Crisis 2011
By: Axel_Merk
Disagreements on how to address Greece's reform process boiled over this week when European Central Bank (ECB) President Trichet walked out of a meeting. Trichet warned if Greece were to extend the maturity of existing debt, the ECB would stop supporting Greece.
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Friday, May 20, 2011
America's Fiscal Crisis: What States Can Do with Their Own Banks / Politics / Credit Crisis 2011
By: Ellen_Brown
“Ford to New York: Drop Dead,” said a famous headline in 1975. President Ford had declared flatly that he would veto any bill calling for “a federal bail-out of New York City.” What he proposed instead was legislation that would make it easier for the city to go bankrupt.
Monday, May 16, 2011
In an Undercollateralized World / Interest-Rates / Credit Crisis 2011
By: Fred_Sheehan
The world is undercollateralized. This is the single most important feature of the 2011 economy. Sixty years ago, if assets were worth less than loans, it was possible to work our way into the black. In 1950, 59% of U.S. corporate profits were from manufacturing; 9% were from finance. The roles of manufacturing and finance have reversed. Thus, we witness the desperate attempts to forestall what cannot be prevented. Yet, the world must deleverage. Banks must write off loans. Loans to bankrupt developers and companies must be called. Living standards must fall.
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Sunday, May 15, 2011
How to Keep a Damaged Financial and Economic System Afloat? / Interest-Rates / Credit Crisis 2011
By: Bob_Chapman
The elitists who run America from behind the scenes have serious problems in trying to keep a badly damaged financial and economic system afloat. Ironically, these same characters are the ones responsible for the system and the condition that it is in today. It is not only confined to the US, but it prevails in England, Europe and other countries as well. Central bankers are all in constant touch with each other to employ tactics that will extend the current system in the hope that something they are doing will turn into at least a temporary solution. The US maintains virtually zero interest rates and floods the economy with money and credit. The European Central Bank, the ECB, raises interest rates, but continues injecting money and credit into the system. In Europe the higher interest rates are supposed to offset the inflation caused by the increase in money and credit.
Thursday, May 12, 2011
Banking in Darkness FDIC System Insures $7trillion Deposits with Dwindling Insurance Fund / Interest-Rates / Credit Crisis 2011
By: Submissions
John Rolls submits : MyBudget360: Americans are offered close to zero percent interest rates to stuff their money into this banking vortex.
The American banking system is based on pure faith. Usually when the topic comes up in conversation I will ask someone if they know what backs the green cash in their wallet. One of the common responses is “there is gold in Fort Knox” or another typical response is that it is backed by U.S. assets. Unfortunately both of these answers are incorrect. In fact all of our money deposited in the banking system is backed by the pure faith in our U.S. government.
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Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Resurgent Greek Debt Crisis Stokes Concern, Causes S&P to Lower Rating / Interest-Rates / Credit Crisis 2011
By: Money_Morning
David Zeiler writes:
Concern that the Greek debt crisis is far from resolved led Standard & Poor's to lower that troubled country's debt rating even deeper into junk territory yesterday (Monday).
The S&P cut Greece to B from BB- with a warning it could downgrade further.
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