Category: Credit Crisis 2009
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Monday, September 14, 2009
Socially Useless Syndrome Paralyzes Wall Street And The City! / Politics / Credit Crisis 2009
By: Andrew_Butter
It all started with Lord Turner, then Stephen Green of HSBC and right on his heels Lloyd Blankfein of Goldman Sachs. Now it's official, investment bankers are "socially useless"; the financial services industry is bracing itself for a tidal wave of press releases, finally the they are coming clean; next the hunt will be on for which branding consultancy got the million dollars to come up with that brilliant tag line.
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Monday, September 14, 2009
Financial Markets Fraud and Corruption, Trust Gold When There's No one Left to Trust / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2009
By: Adam_Brochert
Fraud and corruption are being exposed at the highest levels of our financial markets. The integrity of our so called "free" markets has been badly damaged and rightly so. The cover up, fraud and deceit have reached biblical proportions.
Sunday, September 13, 2009
How to Prepare For China’s Coming Derivatives Default / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2009
By: Graham_Summers
In case you have not heard the news, China has announced that it will be instructing its state-owned enterprises to potentially default on their derivatives contracts. As I have written extensively in the past, the derivatives market is a massive time bomb just waiting to go off. China’s latest move may be the match that lights the fuse.
Sunday, September 13, 2009
Greenback Gases, Gold and the Meltdown of the Global Financial System / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2009
By: Darryl_R_Schoon
At the end of a good movie, oftentimes apparently unrelated events are woven together and it becomes clear how and why things happened. If, today, it feels as if we are at the end of an era, it is because we are; and, just like the movies, only at the end do certain events and the reasons for them become clear.
Sunday, September 13, 2009
The Credit Rating Firms Are Running Scared / Politics / Credit Crisis 2009
By: Money_Morning
Shah Gilani writes: When it comes to the U.S. credit crisis, we’ve all heard the numbers. The stock market decline wiped out $7 trillion in shareholder wealth. It forced the federal government to commit to $11.6 trillion in bailout programs and stimulus spending. And it’s led to the longest U.S. downturn since the Great Depression.
Sunday, September 13, 2009
FInancial and Economic Crisis Compares to Collapse of the Soviet Union - Video / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2009
By: Submissions
"Seriousness of the Crisis Cannot be Exaggerated, Closest Comparison is the Collapse of the Soviet Union" George Soros
Friday, September 11, 2009
The Financial Industry Will Not Be Reigned In! / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2009
By: Sy_Harding
Did you think it would last, that feeling that Congress and the people were mad as hell and not going to take it anymore?
I refer to the anger over what Wall Street and the banking industry has done to the nation yet again, and the determination they will be brought under control so it can never happen again.
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Monday, September 07, 2009
Neo-Capitalist Principles of 20th Century Fall Apart at the Seams / Politics / Credit Crisis 2009
By: Pravda
The neo-capitalist principles of the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st centuries are falling apart at the seams. It became obvious as a result of the meeting of finance ministers, who gathered for the G20 summit in London on Saturday, September 5. The summit precedes the G20 summit which is slated to take place in Pittsburg on September 24-25.
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Monday, September 07, 2009
A Plan for the Resolution to the Insolvency of the United States Banking System / Interest-Rates / Credit Crisis 2009
By: Mansoor_H_Khan
The core problem of the United States' banking system (and maybe the world's banking system) is not liquidity but insolvency. The liabilities of the United States' banking system exceed the value of its assets. The issue is not only the toxic assets (toxic mortgage backed securities, toxic commercial real estate loans, sub-prime mortgages, alt-A loans, adjustable loans likely to go bust, increase in prime mortgage default rates, etc) but also off-balance sheet liabilities (such as expected huge unaccounted for future derivatives losses).
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Sunday, September 06, 2009
One Sixth Of All Construction Loans In Trouble / Companies / Credit Crisis 2009
By: Mike_Shedlock
The New York Times has an interesting article about construction loans that Inquiring minds will want to read. Please consider Construction Loans Falter, a Bad Omen for Banks.
Saturday, September 05, 2009
Financial Crisis a Failure of Capitalism? / Politics / Credit Crisis 2009
By: John_Browne
Politicians often find scapegoats for America’s economic woes. It is rare – if ever – that they point the finger at themselves. Yet, the basic cause of the current severe economic problem lies in the machinations of government.
Thursday, September 03, 2009
Banking Sector Practices, Sure It’s Legal… But Is It RIGHT? / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2009
By: Graham_Summers
Folks, I’d like to ask your indulgence today. Typically we reserve these pages for in-depth analysis of the stock market and economy. But I’ve grown FED UP with the complete lack of coverage that one area of the current crisis has received.
Ever since the Financial system started imploding in July 2007, I’ve heard countless folks talk about liquidity, bull markets, bear markets, the dollar, bailouts, etc. But there’s one thing I’ve heard virtually NO ONE talk about. That is:
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Wednesday, September 02, 2009
Banking Crisis Accelerates as Number of Problem Institutions Grows / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2009
By: Doug_Wakefield
“‘The Nation was rich, Trade prodigiously great, Paper-Credit run high, and the Goldsmiths in Lombard-street, &c, commanded immense sums…’ was how Daniel Defoe remembered the 1680s.” – Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation
Monday, August 31, 2009
Global Financial Crisis Catalysts Stock Prices Triple this Month / Companies / Credit Crisis 2009
By: Money_Morning
William Patalon III
writes: Three of the financial institutions that were key catalysts to the global financial crisis and that owe the federal government billions of dollars as a direct result of those problems have seen their shares triple in price so far this month.
Monday, August 31, 2009
Robert Prechter Warns Financial Crisis Worst is Not Over! / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2009
By: EWI
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Monday, August 31, 2009
“We don’t want your tired, poor, huddled masses yearning to trash the planet” The Federal Reserve, 2009 / Politics / Credit Crisis 2009
By: Robert_Singer
Having trouble understanding the events since the October 2008 financial crisis?
Any of this sound familiar:
- · Banks hoarding their TARP funds
- · Gas prices going up when they should be going down
- · Automobile dealerships closed without regard to profitability
- · Health Care reform: The Kevorkian is out of jail early
Monday, August 31, 2009
Fed Liquidity to Keep the Financial System from Collapsing / Economics / Credit Crisis 2009
By: Mike_Whitney
Ben Bernanke never should have been reappointed as Fed chairman. Obama made a big mistake. The main thing to remember about Bernanke is that, in the two years since the financial crisis began, he's made no effort to force the large banks and financial institutions to write-down their losses. Nor has he pushed for the regulations that are needed to restore confidence in the system. The credit system is still clogged because the banks are buried under $1.5 trillion in toxic assets and non performing loans which are defaulting at the fastest pace on record. At the same time, Bernanke has failed to push for reform of derivatives trading, off-balance sheet operations, securitization or capital requirements for financial institutions.
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Credit Crisis Bailouts Mean Survival Of The Biggest Banks / Companies / Credit Crisis 2009
By: Mike_Shedlock
On account of Fed sponsorship, Banks 'Too Big to Fail' Have Grown Even Bigger.
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Financial Crisis Called Off, Bernanke, Krugman, Banksters and their Media / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2009
By: LewRockwell
James Howard Kunstler writes: Whew, what a relief! Everybody from Ben Bernanke and a Who’s Who of banking poobahs schmoozing it up in the heady vapors of Jackson Hole, Wyoming, to the dull scribes at The New York Times, toiling in their MC Escher hall of mirrors, to poor dim James Surowiecki over at The New Yorker, to – wonder of wonders! – the Green Shoots claque at the cable networks, to the assorted quants, grinds, nerds, pimps, factotums, catamites, and cretins in every office from the Bureau of Labor Statistics to the International Monetary Fund – every man-Jack and woman-Jill around the levers of power and opinion weighed in last week with glad tidings that the world’s capital finance system survived what turned out to be a mere protracted bout of heartburn and has been reborn as the Miracle Bull economy. Our worries over. If you believe the claptrap. Which I don’t.
Friday, August 28, 2009
Quarter of All FDIC Insured Institutions are Losing Money / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2009
By: Mike_Shedlock
The second quarter 2009 Quarterly Banking Profile has some interesting charts and facts that inquiring minds will be interested in.