Category: Credit Crisis 2009
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Friday, August 28, 2009
The Great Depression Rhyming, Bloomberg and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation? / Politics / Credit Crisis 2009
By: Paul_L_Kasriel
On November 7, 2008, Bloomberg LP sued the Federal Reserve Board under terms of the Freedom of Information Act to obtain the names of borrowers of funds from the Federal Reserve as well as lists of the collateral posted by the borrowers. On August 25, 2009, a U.S. District judge ruled in favor of Bloomberg, ordering the Federal Reserve Board to turn over to Bloomberg the requested information within five days.
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Thursday, August 27, 2009
Looming Financial and Economic Crises, Gold the Golden Exit / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2009
By: Darryl_R_Schoon
To survive a transformative crisis, institutions, nations, and individuals must all change. Those who do, will. Those who don’t, won’t.
In July, Vienna’s Erste Bank, released its 2009 Special Report on Gold, In Gold We Trust. The analysis of the current gold market and its future direction by Ronald-Peter Stöferle and his colleagues at Erste Bank is commendable both for its information and its timeliness; for, today, the future of gold is inextricably interwoven with everyone’s future—whether they know it or not .
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Washington Rewarding All of the Characters That Encouraged the Financial Crisis / Politics / Credit Crisis 2009
By: Peter_Schiff
Ayn Rand wrote, "when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - you may know that your society is doomed."
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Understanding Money Market Funds / Interest-Rates / Credit Crisis 2009
By: Paul_Petillo
Paul Volker doesn't like them much. Institutional investors use them frequently. And individual investors, particularly those of the smaller variety don't really understand what they do and in many instances, use them for the wrong reasons. They are like banks but are not regulated as such. The Securities and Exchange Commission currently oversees their activity as per the Investment Company Act of 1940.
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Proving The Effectiveness Of The Only Known Antidote For Economic Suicide / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2009
By: Andrew_Butter
Putting aside colorful sensationalism (tales of greed, fraud, and incompetence), the instrument of the recent suicide attempt was banks lending money against collateral and not taking reasonable or responsible steps to make sure that the value of collateral was more than the loans that were outstanding, at the point in time loans defaulted.
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Critically Under-Capitalized Banks Direct Result of "Wonderful Chain of Stupidity" / Companies / Credit Crisis 2009
By: Mike_Shedlock
Last week the Wall Street Journal ran an article about how trust securities sank Guaranty Financial Group and six family-controlled Illinois banks in early July.
Monday, August 24, 2009
Global Debt Bubble, Steve Keen on Causes and Solutions / Interest-Rates / Credit Crisis 2009
By: Mike_Shedlock
Australian economist Steve Keen is one of the very few who have called this economic crisis correctly. What distinguishes Keen is that his economic forecasts are based on levels of debt and changes in levels of debt as opposed to money supply, output capacity and other things that led most economists astray.
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Bank Failures in the United States / Companies / Credit Crisis 2009
By: Global_Research
Bob Chapman writes: We had a bank go on Thursday and now we have a continuation of the Friday Night FDIC Financial Follies.
Federal and state regulators closed two small Arizona banks Friday evening, but depositors won't feel any pain.
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Wednesday, August 19, 2009
How The Shadow Banks Hijacked The Fed, The Law of ONE / Politics / Credit Crisis 2009
By: Andrew_Butter
The way it's supposed to work is that the way the Fed "controls" the US economy is mainly by adjusting short-term interest rates; lower rates and more money sloshes around the system and GDP goes up, but that can be inflationary, so the Fed keeps a wary eye on that, and if the dangerous iceberg of inflation is "spotted" it raises rates.
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Broke FDIC Squeezes Banks for More Insurance Cash / Interest-Rates / Credit Crisis 2009
By: Mike_Shedlock
Here is an interesting Email from a Bank Owner and CEO regarding As of Friday August 14, 2009, FDIC is Bankrupt
ABO, who as been in the business 30 years, writes:
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
The Financial Crisis Worst is Not Over Warns Robert Prechter / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2009
By: EWI
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Monday, August 17, 2009
Why Iceland and Latvia Won’t Re-Pay the E.U. Credit Crisis Debts / Politics / Credit Crisis 2009
By: Global_Research
Prof. Michael Hudson writes: Can Iceland and Latvia pay the foreign debts run up by a fairly narrow layer of their population?
The European Union and International Monetary Fund have told them to replace private debts with public obligations, and to pay by raising taxes, slashing public spending and obliging citizens to deplete their savings.
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Financial Armageddon Part Two: Securitization Is Too Big To Fail So The Racketeering Must Stop! / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2009
By: Andrew_Butter
Armageddon Part One is over. The question, like a hurricane, is whether the US is now in the eye of the storm or is it plain sailing from here on? The "navigators" are mumbling something about "all clear", but then that's what they mumbled last time.
Follow the money… how much money got "pumped" into the US economy after the start of the credit crunch compared to before? It's a little confusing:
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Saturday, August 15, 2009
FDIC Depositor Insurance Scheme is Bankrupt! / Interest-Rates / Credit Crisis 2009
By: Mike_Shedlock
Bank Failure Friday is in full swing. Tonight there were 5 more failures, numbers 73 through 77 on the year. In the biggest failure since WaMu, BB&T Takes Over Colonial.
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Financial Collapse in the Wake of the Fed's Wall Street Bubble? / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2009
By: Global_Research
Bob Chapman writes: History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and it’s issuance.” - James Madison
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
There is No Recession, This is Planned Financial Demolition / Economics / Credit Crisis 2009
By: Mike_Whitney
Credit is not flowing. In fact, credit is contracting. That means things aren't getting better; they're getting worse. When credit contracts in a consumer-driven economy, bad things happen. Business investment drops, unemployment soars, earnings plunge, and GDP shrinks. The Fed has spent more than a trillion dollars trying to get consumers to start borrowing again, but without success. The country's credit engines are grinding to a halt.
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Credit Markets Driven by Fundamentals or Too Much Liquidity? / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2009
By: RGE_Monitor
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Sunday, August 09, 2009
Iceland: Lessons to be Learned from The Economic Meltdown / Economics / Credit Crisis 2009
By: Global_Research
Eva Joly writes: In the wake of the failure of the Icelandic banks Messrs Brown, Barroso and Strauss-Kahn prove that they have understood nothing.
Wednesday, August 05, 2009
Halifax, HBOS Cancer Continues to Eat into Lloyds TSB, £4Billion Loss / Companies / Credit Crisis 2009
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Today Britains biggest tax payer bailed out bankrupt mortgage bank HBOS, contributed towards Lloyds TSB bottom line loss of £4 billion. The HBOS bad mortgage debt losses continue to eat into Lloyds TSB's balance sheet to the tune of another £10 billion, that's £20 billion to date of HBOS bad debt provisions of which the UK tax payers have a 50% stake in and given more capital injections will soon rise to approx 70% of the group. So that there is no illusion A 70% GOVERNMENT STAKE MEANS DEFACTO NATIONALISATION
Tuesday, August 04, 2009
Derivatives Interest Rate Swaps, The Elephant In the Room: More Pieces of the Puzzle / Interest-Rates / Credit Crisis 2009
By: Rob_Kirby
This following article was an address by Rob Kirby at the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc., GATA Goes to Washington -- Anybody Seen Our Gold?, at the
Hyatt Regency Crystal City Hotel, Arlington, Virginia, Saturday, April 19, 2008. The original address has been updated and added to since new information has come to light.
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