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- The FDIC's Deposit Insurance Fund: Adequately Capitalized
- After falling victim to conventional wisdom last week, and speculating whether the FDIC had weeks or days remaining before it would need a Deposit Insurance Fund restoration bailout, I determined that the prudent course of action was to dig a little deeper into the issue. Specifically, I wanted...
- External links 2009-09-15
- Guaranty Financial's Impairment Portends Economic "Death by a Thousand Cuts"
- A new and distinct phase of the financial crisis is beginning to materialize, characterized in part by the fragile please excuse the euphemism state of Guaranty Financial Group Inc. GFG - a financial institution that declares itself to be the second largest publicly traded bank in the state of Texas....
- External links 2009-07-26
- Why GE Is No Longer a Financial Company
- General Electric GE has spent the past 18 months operating under the stigmatic label of "financial company". During the real estate boom such a label was entirely appropriate, as operating earnings from the Consumer/Commercial Finance segment routinely represented 40-50% of GE's consolidated net income. Now however, as evidenced by the...
- External links 2009-07-22
- Lincoln National: Well Capitalized Ahead of TARP / CPP Decision
- The Treasury Department’s decision to expand the scope of the Capital Purchase Program (CPP) to include the nation’s largest insurance companies has created an understandable dilemma for the newly eligible insurers, raising the question of whether or not to accept Treasury’s offer. On one hand, the global economic outlook,...
- External links 2009-06-12
- CIT Group Woes Shatter Illusions of Recovery
- There often comes a time when the purveyor of a falsehood, regardless of the nature of said falsehood, is simply no longer able to maintain the lie. Bernie Madoff's moment came as the world's financial markets crashed in unison, triggering redemption requests that he could not Ponzi away. Many parents,...
- External links 2009-07-13
- Aetna: 'Fat' Profits Nowhere to Be Found
- One of the primary pillars which underpin arguments in favor of health insurance reform is the idea that health insurance companies earn "fat" profits, and it is these profits which stand in the way of an equitable health care system in this country. I feel that this concept has not...
- External links 2009-09-27
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- S&P 500 and the Monetary Base: A Long Term Perspective
- Andy Kessler wrote a rather frank op-ed in today's Wall Street Journal, at one point devoting an entire sentence to the phrase "dumb move" as he issued a critique of Fed/Treasury/Government behavior since the onset of the financial system's woes. Mr. Kessler asserts, rightly so we believe, that the recent...
- External links 2009-07-15
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