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- Krugman vs. Sachs on PPIP Loopholes
- Ryan Avent submits: Paul Krugman links to Jeff Sachs worrying about PPIP loopholes, and both have a good long handwring about all this. Sachs says: Suppose, however, that [[Citibank]] itself sets up a Citibank Public-Private Investment Fund (CPPIF) under the Geithner-Summers plan. The CPPIF will bid the...
- External links 2009-04-06
- For Banks, Different Money Has Different Strings Attached
- Ryan Avent submits: There's not much question in my mind that the main reason Goldman GS is itching to pay back its TARP money is to free itself of the program's restrictions. One of Chris Hayes' readers makes the point: Last fall, Goldman also raised capital...
- External links 2009-04-16
- How TARP and Resolution Trust Corp. Compare, and How They Don't
- Ryan Avent submits: If you were wondering how the government's administration of the TARP compared to the last major intervention in the banking system -- the Resolution Trust Corporation formed to get the banking system through the Savings and Loan crisis -- David Altig has an excellent summary of...
- External links 2009-04-16
- How We Measure Financial Productivity Growth
- Ryan Avent submits: Paul Krugman is rethinking everything he thought he knew about American productivity growth: In their paper, van Ark etc. identify the service sector as the main source of America's pullaway -- which is the standard argument. Within services, roughly half they attribute to distribution -- roughly...
- External links 2009-04-17
- If Goldman Repays, Where Does That Leave Regulatory Reform?
- Ryan Avent submits: Should we be worried that Goldman Sachs' GS repayment of TARP funds lets them off the hook, as far as restructuring and reregulation goes? John Gapper makes the case: More fundamentally, we now know unambiguously that Goldman is a "systemically important financial firm". In other words,...
- External links 2009-04-17
- Citi's Profitable Too, Quel Surprise
- Ryan Avent submits: Wonder of wonders, Citigroup C managed to report a profit for the first quarter of 2009. To a certain extent, the bank's results resembled those elsewhere -- trading gains and continued credit losses, adding up to a profit. But Citi's case was somewhat unique. The bank...
- External links 2009-04-17
- Bernanke on Financial Innovation vs. Regulation
- Ryan Avent submits: Ben Bernanke gave a speech today on the need to be careful in crafting financial regulations. An appropriate balance must be struck, he said, between consumer protections and the freedom to innovate. I don't think anyone wants to go back to the 1970s. Financial innovation has...
- External links 2009-04-18
- Housing: When Lawmakers Use Jingle Mail
- Ryan Avent submits: Your more pessimistic economists often predict continuing devastation for housing markets based on the idea that an underwater home is necessarily a home in default or will soon become one. They simply conclude that no rational homeowner would continue paying more for a home than it's...
- External links 2009-04-21
- What Will Induce Banks to Make Riskier Loans?
- Ryan Avent submits: I rather like this bit of CNBC interview with Ken Lewis, helpfully transcribed by Calculated Risk: Q: What about capital adequacy. Are you expecting to raise new capital? by Ryan Avent
- External links 2009-04-21
- Why Banks Won't Have (Fore)closure Until Housing Stabilizes
- Ryan Avent submits: David Leonhardt proves a tease today, with a piece which opens with a chart showing home price to income ratios returning to normal for most markets and closes by telling readers that prices are going to keep falling. His evidence for this comes, in part, from...
- External links 2009-04-22
- What If the Stress Test is Just the Opening Act
- Ryan Avent submits: Today, the government will begin discussing the results of its stress tests with heads of the nation's 19 larger banks in meetings in Washington and will release the methodology of the tests to the public. Then, of course, we'll all sit around twiddling our thumbs until...
- External links 2009-04-24
- If We Had Listened to Geithner Back in September
- Ryan Avent submits: The New York Times has provided a handy blogging point for today in the form of a long piece on the relationships Tim Geithner formed while head of the New York Fed. The story is based in part on the results of a Times FOIA request,...
- External links 2009-04-27
- Stress Test Leaks: Endgame Emerging
- Ryan Avent submits: It’s a leak free-for-all ahead of the stress test release, and it’s a little difficult to sort out what’s going on. Citigroup and Bank of America are apparently asking the government to conclude that they need no new capital while simultaneously looking to raise upwards of...
- External links 2009-05-04
- Fed's Hoenig Has a Non-Plan for Banks
- Ryan Avent submits: Kansas City Fed Chief Thomas Hoenig has discovered that there are downsides to the banking interventions pursued by the Bush and Obama administrations. Luckily he has a novel solution: Non-viable institutions would be allowed to fail and be placed into a negotiated conservatorship or...
- External links 2009-05-04
- On Banks: Krugman vs. Krugman
- Ryan Avent submits: In his latest op-ed, Krugman writes: It’s not at all clear that credit from the Fed, Fannie Mae FNM and Freddie Mac FRE can fully substitute for a healthy banking system. If it can’t, the muddle-through strategy will turn out to be a recipe...
- External links 2009-05-09
- Banks Biting the Hand That Saved Them?
- Ryan Avent submits: In 1993, as the Clinton administration attempted to pass a major piece of health insurance reform legislation, insurance industry groups ran a series of devastating advertisements featuring the characters Harry and Louise, who warned Americans of all the health care choices the government would soon be...
- External links 2009-07-08
- CIT: Too Big to Not Fail?
- Ryan Avent submits: Markets still digesting the good earnings news out of Goldman Sachs GS and JP Morgan JPM are now pondering the potential effect of a CIT CIT bankruptcy. The commercial lender has been on the ropes for days now and furiously negotiating with the federal government over...
- External links 2009-07-16
- CDS Legislation: Proof That Lawmakers Shouldn't Try Regulating
- Ryan Avent submits: Opinions differ on the culpability of credit default swaps in the recent financial crisis, but most market observers agree that some rules ought to change to ensure that CDS don't cause major problems in the future. A central clearinghouse for CDS contracts is one good idea,...
- External links 2009-07-16
- ...Though Pitchforks May Be Useful on Compensation
- Ryan Avent submits: On the subject of pitchforks, I will offer one counterpoint, courtesy of this week's print edition: Lehman Brothers made losses in the two quarters before it collapsed yet continued to accrue a compensation pot not far off the levels of 2007. Shareholder returns over the entire...
- External links 2009-07-18
- What's Next for Fannie and Freddie?
- Ryan Avent submits: The Washington Post reported yesterday morning on discussions within the American government over the fate of quasi-governmental mortgage firms Fannie Mae FNM and Freddie Mac FRE. Readers may recall that the two companies were placed in government conservatorship late last summer after doubts about the financial...
- External links 2009-08-07
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