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- No Rescue or Bailout Can Save the Dying Banks
- Michael Panzner submits: Until now, the desperate machinations by central bankers, regulators, politicians, and industry officials have been characterized as "bailouts" and "rescues." Yet the realists among us know that none of those terms accurately describes what is going on. However, in a commentary for the Financial...
- External links 2009-01-20
- Financial Crisis: Plenty of Would-Be Infernos Still Smoldering
- Michael Panzner submits: One reason why the financial crisis has been so devastatingly far-reaching stems from the sheer number of eruptions that helped bring it about. Hence, while the focus has been on putting out nearby fires, other would-be infernos continue to smolder, poised to burst into...
- External links 2009-06-21
- U.S. Economy: Another Crack Opening Up?
- Michael Panzner submits: You see plenty of reports nowadays suggesting that financial Armageddon has been avoided. Meanwhile, "experts" in Washington and on Wall Street congratulate each other on their apparent success in preventing the crisis flood waters from breaching the financial system's levee walls. In reality, all...
- External links 2009-07-23
- Banking Sector Rally - A Sight to Behold
- Michael Panzner submits: I've been around long enough to know that the day-to-day -- and even the month-to-month -- action in the stock market is often detached from fundamental realities -- you know, silly little details like earnings and revenues, or a multi-trillion-dollar crash in housing values. ...
- External links 2009-08-14
- Fannie, Freddie and Washington: Denial Ain't Just a River
- Michael Panzner submits: It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.--Bill Watterson, author I have a very highly developed sense of denial. --Gwyneth Paltrow, actress by Michael Panzner
- External links 2009-08-18
- The Bad Cs of Credit
- Michael Panzner submits: Before the era of Frankenstein Finance and the fanatical focus on fee-based income, lenders tried to hold themselves out as models of probity (for the skeptics out there, I did say "try."). Those responsible for making credit-granting decisions and looking after the interests of shareholders also...
- External links 2009-11-01
- Financial Sector: Red Ink Is No Illusion
- Michael Panzner submits: Since the crisis began, banks and other financial institutions worldwide have written off or lost a staggering $1.7 trillion, though the losses have been cushioned by capital-raising to the tune of $1.5 trillion. by Michael Panzner
- External links 2009-12-03
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- Careening Towards a Financial Crisis?
- Michael Panzner submits: It's been debated many times: Who is responsible for the mess our nation's finances are in - Democrats or Republicans? The reality, of course, is that both sides share the blame. No matter how hard they try, partisans can't take...
- External links 2008-08-06
- More Problems for the Ailing Financial Sector?
- Michael Panzner submits: It has long been known that cognitive biases can engender a distorted sense of reality. Even though people may be presented with facts and figures that clearly point in one direction, behavioral mechanisms can prevent them from acknowledging or even seeing the data - data that...
- External links 2008-08-12
- More Fallout from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac?
- Michael Panzner submits: When over-the-counter derivatives began to gain traction in the financial world, Wall Street insiders and industry regulators constantly proclaimed their virtues, and ignored their shortcomings. Among other things, they argued that these paper promises would allow complex risk to be broken down into its...
- External links 2008-08-25
- A Sit Down with Treasury Officials (Part I)
- Kid Dynamite submits: I received a mysterious email last week from the Treasury, inviting me to a discussion about the Administration's policies and reactions to the economic crisis. Although the timing sucked for me - it was the Monday following the weekend of my move out of NYC...
- External links 2009-11-04
- Subprime Still with Us
- Michael Panzner submits: Despite the gusher of cheap money and stimulus programs, the myriad bailouts and rescues, the ongoing regulatory forebearance and accounting rule changes, and the hundreds of billions of dollars of red ink spilled so far -- not to mention the cheerleading, wishful thinking, and time that...
- External links 2009-11-30
- U.S. Economy: How Those in Charge Have Learned Very Little
- Michael Panzner submits: It's funny how little those in charge have learned from the nightmare of the past two years. All the evidence suggests that the various machinations of the Fed, the misjudgments of the Treasury, the manipulations of the moneyed interests, and the malfeasance of elected officials who...
- External links 2009-07-26
- Finally, Establishment Types Admit Possibility of Hyperinflation
- Michael Panzner submits: Two years ago, Financial Armageddon raised eyebrows and caused lots of sniggers with an in-your-face title and a table of contents that included the following section: PART TWO: RISKS by Michael Panzner
- External links 2009-02-01
- U.S. Dollar: Another Sign of Accelerating Loss of Confidence
- Michael Panzner submits: After a multi-month rally, spurred by safe haven buying, short-covering by a large crowd of wrong-footed bears, and technical factors associated with the bursting of a global credit bubble fueled by trillions in dollar-denominated debt -- as predicted in Financial Armageddon -- the world's reserve currency...
- External links 2009-03-20
- Dow at 10,000: Good News for Main Street?
- Michael Panzner submits: Many people are cheering the fact that the Dow Jones Industrials Average has reached an apparently signficant milestone -- 10,000 -- and are suggesting that it means good news for Main Street. Yet even during more "normal" times, the relationship between the stock market...
- External links 2009-10-16
- Another Depression?
- Michael Panzner submits: Slowly but surely, a growing number of people - except equity investors and Wall Street "strategists," many of whom seem to lack the brainpower necessary to figure such things out -- are coming around to the idea that there is something highly unusual about what is...
- External links 2008-08-27
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