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- 5 Economic Scenarios to Keep You Up at Night
- Stagflation, more bank failures, crippling government debt ? these are just a few of the worst-case scenarios envisioned by several money managers and financial experts we consulted. While not all these experts see these chilling scenarios as likely, they remain a stark reminder of what could happen if we?re not...
- Articles 2009-10-28
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- The Rise (But Not From The Dead) Of Zombie Banks
- As share prices of financial firms have continued to climb this year in the face of an uncertain economic recovery, the discussion about the role of so-called zombie banks is beginning to come up again. Wednesday, Reuters' Rolfe Winkler pointed out a discussion between three economists about...
- Blog posts 2009-09-24
- Dr. Doom Gets Sunny about Nationalizing Banks
- The economist Nouriel Roubini has made his reputation by more or less accurately decrying things he doesn't like about the economy. In this weekend's Wall St. Journal, he talks about something he does like: temporary nationalization of troubled U.S. banks. He tells the Journal: "The idea that...
- Blog posts 2009-02-22
- Japan's Zombie Banking Is Alive and Kicking
- Bill Zielinski submits: Japan’s Zombie Banking Taken To New Levels Of Lunacy Japan’s real estate and stock market bubbles burst in the early 1990’s. Since then, twenty years of non-stop Government stimulus programs have failed and left Japan with the highest debt to GDP ratio in the...
- External links 2009-10-06
- Do Zombie Banks Walk Among Us?
- Jeffrey Korzenik submits: Investors should not get too enthusiastic about the rally in Citigroup C shares. Until details are released on their earnings call in April, the jury remains out on the significance of the corporation’s booking of deferred tax assets. This may well suggest that asset sales...
- External links 2009-03-13
- The Return of Japan's Zombie Finance
- Economists and policy makers agree that a major contributing factor to Japan’s 10-year “Heisei Malaise” was the prevalence of “zombie finance”, where Japanese banks continued to provide support for highly inefficient, debt-ridden companies, commonly referred as zombie companies, and the government effectively allowed the banks to simply ignore their festering...
- External links 2009-10-21
- Voodoo and Solvency
- Bill Luby submits: With talk of nationalization of European and American banks heating up, I want to make sure everyone had a chance to read Paul Krugman’s Wall Street Voodoo from Sunday’s New York Times. Krugman tackles the issue of so-called ‘zombie banks’ that can still operate while...
- External links 2009-01-20
- Legislators Debate "Fair Value" Again -- But Don't Expect a Suspension of the Accounting Rule
- There's yet another hearing on "fair value" accounting today, this time in the House subcommittee on capital markets. But don't expect a suspension of the rule that requires to mark-to-market valuation of financial instruments held by financial institutions. Earlier this week, Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke said...
- Blog posts 2009-03-12
- The Debate over the Stimulus Plan
- Our optimist, Professor Menzie Chinn of the University of Wisconsin, sees a bold investment that came not a moment too soon. Our skeptic, Garett Jones of George Mason University, smells a boondoggle. Follow their debate and decide for yourself who's right…When the president signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act...
- Articles 2009-03-17
- Barclays: Crushed
- Trader Mark submits: Sometimes it is a wonder the S&P is not trading at 400 instead of 800. Barclays BCS - for American readers - is one of the largest UK banks. The UK, as you know, decided to follow the US model of light regulation and massive "financial...
- External links 2009-01-16
- Zombie Community Banks Still Lining Up for TARP Funds
- Tom Lindmark submits: With all the hoopla this past week about the big banks repaying their TARP loans you would tend to think that the program is, if not winding down, then in a collect the interest and wait for repayment mode. If that’s the case, they you’re thinking if...
- External links 2009-06-28
- Economic Change: Not from this Administration
- Benign Brodwicz submits: For me the litmus test of whether Bernanke will ultimately fail and lead the country into deeper depression—or whether he will reform the financial system—begins with this: now that the immediate crisis is averted, over coming months does he weed out the bad debts and...
- External links 2009-08-27
- JUST HOW STRONG IS THE U.S. ECONOMY?
- David Rosenberg is a 20 year veteran of the Street, David most recently was Merrill Lynch's chief North American Economist, where he correctly warned about the Housing and Credit Collapse and Recession in advance. He is the Chief Economist of Canada's Gluskin Sheff > > What made things so interesting...
- News items 2009-10-28
- Prime Solution in Action: WestAmerica Bank
- Christopher Whalen submits: We spend overmuch much time on dead zombie banks. Let's switch gears now and talk about how strong, well-managed banks are helping the FDIC and state regulators create what we've called the Prime Solution, putting troubled assets and deposits in strong hands,...
- External links 2009-02-10
- Rating Fifth Third Bancorp: A Zombie of a Different Kind
- Martin Hutchinson submits: Following my report on the viability of the top 12 U.S. banks, a number of readers have suggested that I missed Fifth Third Bancorp FITB. I’m happy to report that it wasn’t an oversight: The reality is that Fifth Third – with $120 billion in...
- External links 2009-02-22
- Want Recovery? History Says Be Patient. Very Patient.
- Take a long enough perspective, and it is no surprise that what some had been calling the GGBAT the Greatest Global Boom of All Time ended with the GGRSGD the Greatest Global Recession Since the Great Depression. Both the boom and its panicky finale fit neatly into a long, human...
- Blog posts 2009-10-23
- Rumors of Interest Rate Cuts Are Back on the Front Burner
- Trader Mark submits: Long time readers will know what we constantly talked about all fall and winter - the constant interest rate cuts from the Federal Reserve. Markets would trade +/- 2% on Fed days, because if the Federal Reserve cut rates it would solve all our ills. The market...
- External links 2008-09-11
- Zombie Debris Is Leaving Many Opportunities for Independent Financial Institutions
- Given that there are indications that some of the dust may be settling for some of the banks, it is perhaps a propitious time to reflect on these events from an SME’s perspective. The first important observation is that though the UK banking sector appears to have reached calmer...
- External links 2009-06-28
- Japan: It's the Supply Side, Stupid!
- Japan, after twenty years of failure, has suddenly changed direction. They are now talking a strong Yen. The common wisdom of the Monetarist, supported by the Keynesians is that low interest raises borrowing and consumption and drives the economy. But Japan has had low interest rates for two decades and...
- External links 2009-09-20
- China's Stimulus: Wasteful or Wise?
- Adam Sharp submits: Wasteful or wise? China’s massive infrastructure rollout has been hailed by many as brilliant. Helping its case is the inevitable comparison to America’s dismal emergency spending, the majority of which is propping up black hole zombie-banks. by Adam Sharp
- External links 2009-11-16
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