Category: Credit Crisis 2009
The analysis published under this category are as follows.Sunday, July 12, 2009
Fed Gets It Wrong, Credit Crisis Losses Rising Everywhere / Interest-Rates / Credit Crisis 2009
Mike Larson writes: Remember when policymakers at the Federal Reserve told us in 2007 and 2008 that the credit problems were “contained” to the subprime mortgage sector? Or when then-Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson spouted the same line?
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Monday, July 06, 2009
End of the Financial Crisis, the Great Lie of 2009 / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2009
Martin Weiss writes: Just as the authorities were touting the “end of the financial crisis,” all heck has broken loose again …
We have a new surge in unemployment, and even without counting those who are excluded from the official numbers, 14.7 million are now jobless, the most since records dating back to 1948. Worse, for the first time since the Great Depression, every single job created after the prior recession has been wiped out.
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Monday, July 06, 2009
Derivatives the Greatest Scam in the History of the World / Politics / Credit Crisis 2009
Chris Clancy writes: This essay is a story about insurance, or rather, a story about a type of insurance policy which underwent a mutation. This mutation was not spontaneous – it was engineered. It was one of the biggest scams ever perpetrated.
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Wednesday, July 01, 2009
Great Banking Confusion / Personal_Finance / Credit Crisis 2009
The (usually) transparent process of inter-bank lending works so well that most of the time we don't even think about it. This process has largely weaned the public away from physical paper money. Note that most money (about 90%) now exists only as entries on bank ledgers, backed by loans (debt). Also, note that possessing physical paper dollars is like having equity in the economic output of the United States of America, and has no credit risk associated to it. Physical paper money is not anyone's liability.Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, June 29, 2009
Objective Analysis of the Increase in the Fed's Balance Sheet / Interest-Rates / Credit Crisis 2009
In recent weeks two prominent economic commentators - Arthur Laffer and Alan Greenspan - have warned about the inflationary potential emanating from the unprecedented increase in the Fed's balance sheet. Yes, as shown in Chart 1, reserves created by the Fed have increased by a staggering $858 billion in the 12 months ended May. But excess reserves on the books of depository institutions have increased by almost as much, $842 billion (see Chart 2). So, in the 12 months ended May, 98% of the increase in reserves created by the Fed has simply ended up as idle reserves on the books of depository institutions.
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Saturday, June 27, 2009
European Governments Bow to the Banks / Politics / Credit Crisis 2009
Peter Schwarz writes: For over a year leading European politicians promised to regulate financial markets and rein in the activities of speculators in order to prevent a repetition of the international financial crisis. Now finally the mountain has moved and given birth to a mouse. The regulations agreed by the European heads of state and government at their conference a week ago in Brussels are even weaker than the noncommittal regulations adopted by the US.
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Friday, June 26, 2009
Bernanke Suffers From Selective Memory Loss; Paulson Calls Bank of America "Turd in the Punchbowl" / Politics / Credit Crisis 2009
Fed chairman Ben Bernanke's memory seems to be failing at an amazingly convenient time, for Bernanke. Please consider Bernanke Blasted in House.
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Thursday, June 25, 2009
Who’s Really to Blame for the Crooked Financial System / Politics / Credit Crisis 2009
Martin Hutchinson writes: It’s been in the news the last couple of days. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS) bankers are headed for record bonuses. The Financial Times reports that bankers’ pay in the London market is already right back to 2007 levels and going higher. Banks are poaching each others’ best staff, and are offering huge pay packages to staffers willing to make the leap.
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Thursday, June 25, 2009
Financial Crisis, : and the Winner Is… GOLDMAN SACHS / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2009
The king to the banker did say
Tis I who ride you this day
This day it is true the banker did say
But tomorrow tis I who ride you
News of Goldman’s Sachs’ triumph arrived when Reuter’s newswire reported on June 22, 2009: “Goldman Sachs on pace for record bonuses”. At a time when the US is struggling with the greatest financial crisis since the 1930s, Goldman Sachs has triumphantly weathered the crisis. That should be no surprise for Goldman Sachs created the crisis in the first place.
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Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Bankster's Plan “Holiday” for September? / Politics / Credit Crisis 2009
Kurt Nimmo writes: Bob Chapman’s influential International Forecaster is reporting on the possibility of a so-called “bank holiday” planned for late August or early September. According to Chapman’s sources, U.S. embassies around the world are selling dollars and stockpiling money from respective countries where they operate.
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Thursday, June 18, 2009
Credit Contraction as Shadow Lenders Retreat Means Deflation Not Inflation / Economics / Credit Crisis 2009
Ellen Brown writes: While contrarians are screaming “hyperinflation!”, the money supply is actually shrinking. This is because most money today comes into existence as bank loans, and lending has shrunk substantially. That means the Fed needs to “monetize” debt just to fill the breach.
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Thursday, June 18, 2009
Towards a Sound Economy / Economics / Credit Crisis 2009
Sometimes money is compared with the blood of the economy. The credit crisis painfully demonstrated, that the economy depends on a permanent infusion of credits. As soon as the banks deliver a bit less credit, enterprises fail and the mass dismissals succeed each other.
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009
The Great Unwinding of Credit Will Continue, So Make Absolutely Sure You’re Prepared! / Economics / Credit Crisis 2009
Nilus Mattive writes: I often use a lot of market history and economic data to support the arguments I make here in Money & Markets. That’s because I believe crunching numbers, comparing the past to the present, and using a healthy dose of common sense is the best way to figure out what’s happening in the investment world, and where things might be headed next.
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Thursday, June 11, 2009
The Financial Crash: The True Story / Politics / Credit Crisis 2009
Bob Chapman writes: On Friday, we had the latest edition of the FDIC “Friday Night Financial Follies” as regulators on Friday shut down Bank of Lincolnwood, a small bank in Illinois, marking the 37th failure this year of a federally insured bank. More are expected to succumb amid the pressures of the weak economy and mounting loan defaults.
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Monday, June 08, 2009
Economic Policy Makers Have Created A Perfect Financial Storm / Economics / Credit Crisis 2009
Economic news remains focused on banks and housing, while the threat mounts to the US dollar from massive federal budget deficits in fiscal years 2009 and 2010.
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Friday, June 05, 2009
Securitization The Biggest Rip-off Ever, Financial Deregulation has Opened Up A Pandora's Box / Politics / Credit Crisis 2009
Is it possible to make hundreds of billions of dollars in profits on securities that are backed by nothing more than cyber-entries into a loan book? It's not only possible; it's been done. And now the scoundrels who cashed in on the swindle have lined up outside the Federal Reserve building to trade their garbage paper for billions of dollars of taxpayer-funded loans.
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Friday, June 05, 2009
U.S. and European Economies Accelerating Decent into Marxism / Economics / Credit Crisis 2009
Fingers of Instability, Part III:
The Banks
Command Performance
Wealth Creation
Descent into Marxism!
Introduction - The descent into MARXISM is accelerating at a startling rate. Public servants and blind ideologues are stopping at nothing to achieve CREEPING CONTROL over the private sector of the United States of America. As the US economy continues to plummet, the mainstream media continues to talk about GREEN shoots and recovery to get the sheeple, er ... people to FEEL GOOD long enough to get their plans ENSHRINED in law. Once passed, never repealed, and essential to your future security.
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Tuesday, June 02, 2009
Next Phase In The Financial and Economic Crisis / Stock-Markets / Credit Crisis 2009
The recent stock market rise is lulling investors back to sleep.
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Monday, June 01, 2009
Russia to be Hit by Inevitable Second Wave of Banking Crisis / Economics / Credit Crisis 2009
A number of economists are seriously concerned with the second wave of the bank crisis. According to the forecast from ACB’s head, the share of overdues in credit organizations will soar up to 20 percent by the year end. However, today’s banking statistics proves the opposite: the level of overdue indebtedness is declining and the level of deposits influx is rising day by day. Where will that second wave come from?
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Friday, May 29, 2009
The Next Debt Landslide: Lessons from Andrew Carnegie / Interest-Rates / Credit Crisis 2009
Here we are, sitting in our homes or businesses reading commentary about the craziness of the world in which we live. While our collective response to rising markets has always been, “this is good,” never before have we been asked to trust so implicitly in ideas that are so far removed from the lessons of world history. While our political and financial leaders keep telling us that the capacity for debt production is eternal, Andrew Carnegie disagrees. If your friends don’t recognize that name, remind them that Carnegie had a little money in the 1800s. Carnegie Hall, Carnegie Mellon University, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Education all bear his name.
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