The banking sector isn’t the only equity space that confounds us – the housing stocks are as equally absurd. Despite what you may have heard from your local real estate [...]
Jul 122010
Jul 092010
Stephen Roach: “I think that one of the problems we had in the aftermath of the bursting of the equity bubble is that Alan Greenspan kept the policy rate too [...]
Abstract: The paper examines the slowdown of lending by large U.S. banks over the period 2007Q3 – 2009Q2, focusing on: (i) whether capital or liquidity was the binding constraint; (ii) [...]
An total must-watch. I thought I had posted this before but couldn’t find it on the site…well, here it is again. Elizabeth Warren, head of the bailout oversight committee and [...]
Rick Santelli: “the only regulation that will ever work is failure. If you don’t allow failure what you end up with is regulators trying to serve when it’s time to [...]
Jun 282010
This was created during a time when the average American saw the value of his savings and income erode relative to prices over time. Many similarities to today… Part 2 [...]
Jun 262010
FDIC Chairwoman Sheila Bair talks to WSJ economics editor David Wessel about the bailouts: “Unsecured creditor’s of a failed bank must be hurt.”
Jun 242010
Lengthy interview with the most depressing guy off Wall St. Listen to MP3 Bob Prechter has his followers and has made some good calls in his career. But he has [...]
Jun 142010
“It is no longer sufficient to analyze macroeconomic and microeconomic trends and individual companies and sectors; we now increasingly need the help of a political analyst who can warn us [...]
Jun 112010
“You can’t make an over-borrowed country less over borrowed by lending it more money,” Carl Weinberg from High Frequency Economics
