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- 5 Things That Could Kill the Housing Recovery
- The recession can't end until housing bounces back. There are many small signs of hope — and five big reasons to be cautious. ...
- Articles 2009-07-08
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- Say Hello to ppip, Son of PPIP
- The Fundamental Analyst submits: When Banking Industry Lobbyist Treasury Secretary Geithner announced the PPIP program back in March, markets rallied on the prospect that banks might finally rid themselves of toxic assets. 4 Months later and the PPIP has morphed, or more correctly shrunk, into the ppip. Originally meant...
- External links 2009-07-09
- Gaming PPIP: Best Minds of My Generation Could Be Working On It
- http://rortybomb.wordpress.com submits: 1) Though they didn’t use this language, I think The Economist hinted that the PPIP-gaming critics, including myself, are being a bit Glenn Beck Doom Bunker about their analysis. PPIP Doomsday Scenario XVII: Werewolf Congress! Ha! The Economist: Given how absurdly bad those scenarios...
- External links 2009-04-07
- PPIP Program: Investors Have Mixed Sentiments
- Brighton House Associates, LLC submits: The much anticipated Public-Private Investment Program (PPIP) announced by the Treasury in March has recently commenced with the announcing of 9 financial firms charged with helping banks rid themselves of toxic RMBS and CMBS loans. Each of the 9 firms will be charged with...
- External links 2009-08-10
- Making Sense of the PPIP
- Promod Radhakrishnan submits: Tim Geithner unveiled a good amount of detail on the much-awaited financial sector resuscitation package over the last week. Apart from addressing the core issue of unfreezing the credit market and hence imrpoving liquidity, the Treasury also clearly articulated the broad guidelines of new financial sector regulation....
- External links 2009-03-29
- AIG, PPIP and GM: A Tangled Web
- Tom Lindmark submits: It’s fascinating to watch all of the financial scrambling that the government is engaged in slowly dissolve into a Marx Brothers movie. Here are some connections between a few dots that illustrate the point. The WSJ had a rather good editorial yesterday that points out...
- External links 2009-04-02
- Why Was the PPIP Extended Today?
- Trading Alpha submits: The more important question is not being asked about today's announcement by the Treasury to extend the PPIP to 4/24/09 as found on the Treasury website. That question is, why extend for something that is so critical and time sensitive? by Trading Alpha
- External links 2009-04-06
- 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
- REITs Are Not Right for PPIP Players
- Patrick Harden submits: This week, Angelo, Gordon & Co. became the latest of the nine firms awarded the right to take part in the U.S. Treasury's Public-Private Investment Plan to file a prospectus for a new real estate investment trust. These REITs are designed, of course, as tax-efficient vehicles...
- External links 2009-07-14
- PPIP to the Rescue
- The "bad bank" program to purchase loan assets from the balance sheets of banks called PPIP was supposed to be the mother of all bank balance sheet cleanups. The program was divided into two components: the loan program and the securities program - the Treasury would provide leverage and investors...
- External links 2009-10-11
- An Overview of the Public Private Investment Program
- Reggie Middleton submits: I have reviewed analyses of the PPIP in blogs and news outlets across the web and have perused the comments section in as well. I am impressed by the bright, cogent analysis but need to warn my blog readers that those early analyses may not be based...
- External links 2009-03-25
- TALF's Strengths and Weaknesses
- Reggie Middleton submits: Below, I have outlined and detailed strengths and a glaring weakness in the PPIP plan proposed by Geithner. I also included a relatively simple and easy to implement solution to the problem, a problem which if left unchecked puts the US taxpayer at guaranteed and highly unnecessary...
- External links 2009-04-02
- First Horizon National Corp. Q1 2009 (Qtr End 03/31/09) Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from the line of Steve Alexopoulos - JPMorgan Steve Alexopoulos - JPMorgan In your opening comments you mentioned the stress test, are your regulators putting you through the same stress tests that the banks over $100 billion in assets...
- Earnings calls 2009-04-17
- Early Exuberance: Are We Getting Ahead of Ourselves?
- Promod Radhakrishnan submits: It's surprising that merely two months after PPIP was announced, with foul play cries from critics on 'too much government/tax payer support', there are already indications of a lack of interest in the program from larger banks. The treasury secretary himself referred to this in a recent...
- External links 2009-06-21
- Impressive Rally, But It's the Fourth One in the Past Six Months
- Macro Man submits: Ouch. Macro Man was sceptical of the PPIP yesterday and sceptical of the early-doors knee-jerk rally in stocks. He was short. He was wrong. His stop having been executed above 800, he can now sit back and survey the damage to his portfolio. Fortunately,...
- External links 2009-03-24
- Geithner and Summers Need to Address the Banking Problems Square-on
- Michael Pomerleano submits: The Obama administration program to address the fragility of the banking system is based on a two major initiatives. First, it has proposed the Geithner- Summers Plan to buy subprime securitized assets from the banks. The toxic assets plan deals with less that 40 percent of the...
- External links 2009-04-14
- The Many Ways TARP Is Misguided Continue to Pile Up
- Tom Lindmark submits: Is it time to shelve all of the plans for resolving the banks and just go back to a plan that we know works? Consider what’s transpired over the past couple of days: Tim Geithner says over the weekend that...
- External links 2009-04-22
- Let's Bury PPIP Before It Starts to Stink
- In Scotland the tradition is three days, in the Middle East it's one day; that's how long it takes for the deceased to start to stink. by Andrew Butter
- External links 2009-05-01
- Roubini on Risk Management - And Why I Disagree
- Eric Falkenstein submits: Nouriel Roubini called the recent crisis, and for this his status as a prognosticator has elevated. But his call has been perennial, and the driver anything and everything. In Tuesday's Wall Street Journal, Roubini outlines how he would address the crisis, and he outlines regulations he...
- External links 2009-05-05
- M.D.C. Holdings, Inc. Q1 2009 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from Michael Rehaut. Your line is open. Michael Rehaut - JPMorgan First question just on the comments earlier on about still being restraining yourselves in terms of investments in land, and in any types of opportunities. I remember last quarter...
- Earnings calls 2009-05-08
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