Analysis Topic: Stock & Financial Markets
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Friday, May 24, 2024
Big Banks Are Pressuring The Fed To Losen Protection For Depositors / Stock-Markets / Banksters
By: Avi_Gilburt
Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that the Fed and two other U.S. banking regulators are going to significantly reduce a planned increase in capital requirements for the country's large banks.
As a reminder, the regulators were planning a 16% increase in capital levels and a 20% increase in RWAs (risk-weighted assets) for the banks with total assets of more than $100B. These changes should have improved the banks’ financial resilience and prepared them to better absorb potential losses.
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Monday, May 11, 2015
How to Profit from the Fed's Anti-Cash Stance / Stock-Markets / Banksters
By: ...
MoneyMorning.com 
Peter Krauth writes: Savvy investors know that over short time periods, and especially during bear markets, the saying “cash is king” often holds true. It provides security and allows for bargain hunting when assets are cheap.
However, through times of financial repression and negative interest rate policies (NIRP), central planners, along with banks, are changing that precept into “cash is trash.”
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Monday, June 24, 2013
BIS Bank Forecasts More Of The Same / Stock-Markets / Banksters
By: Andrew_McKillop
BORROWED MONEY AND LOST TIME
The strange story of the BIS – whose forerunner founded in 1930 was the lynchpin bank of the Third Reich – is well known and heavily documented. Introducing its 83rd annual report for 2013, the Bank for International Settlements strikes a supposedly pragmatic we-can-fix-it tone. Its Overview under the title 'Making the most of borrowed time' says: “Originally forged to describe central banks’ actions to prevent financial collapse, Whatever It Takes has become a rallying cry for them to continue their extraordinary policies”.
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Friday, February 08, 2013
Central Banks Rigging the Markets, Regulators Blind to LIBOR Fraud / Stock-Markets / Banksters
By: Brady_Willett
Thanks to a series of colossal failures that were impossible to hide, we now know that Futures Commission Merchants (FCMs) could instantly access billions of dollars that did not belong to them. Thanks to incriminating emails and ongoing settlements, we now know that a horde of banks can collude to rig key interest rate benchmarks for decades. This is what we now know after decades of malfeasance. Just imagine, then, what still goes on behind the curtain.
Wednesday, October 03, 2012
Nouriel Roubini Says Too Big To Fail Banks Are Worse Than Before / Stock-Markets / Banksters
By: Bloomberg
Nouriel Roubini and Ian Bremmer, president of Eurasia Group, sat down with Tom Keene and Sara Eisen on "Bloomberg Surveillance" this morning to talk the global economy and U.S. politics. Roubini said that too big to fail banks are "worse than before" and the only solution is for them to "break up."
Bremmer said that if Obama wins the election, it is "not primarily because Romney is a horrible candidate," but because of three people: John Roberts, Angela Merkel and Ben Bernanke.
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Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Wrong Treatment To The Disease Of Global Financial Crises / Stock-Markets / Banksters
By: Akhil_Khanna
Introduction
The seeds of the global financial crisis which were triggered by the collapse of Lehman Brothers in the USA in 2008 had been sown during the last many decades. The basic reason for the emergence of the crisis is the manner in which the financial industry was allowed to grow with minimal regulation and engage in activities which have little to do with their basic function of acting as a bridge between those who have excess funds by accepting deposits and lending to those who invest in economic activities beneficial for the society in return for profit. In the last few decades, the finance industry, apart from the medical and the arms ammunition industry, has evolved to be one of the most powerful and influential industry around the globe.
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