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Bailing Out the Speculators
The government's loan modification program gets a wrong-headed new twist...
By Thomas Brown,Posted 01/31/2012
A Shadow Over Housing's Shadow Inventory
Plenty of it will be absorbed by pent-up new demand and an absence of new supply ...
By Thomas Brown,Posted 01/24/2012
In Runoff, And At A Deep Discount
Primus delists from the NYSE--and its stock suddenly becomes a bargain ...
By Thomas Brown,Posted 01/06/2012
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Memo To GOP Candidates: Enough With The Bernanke Bashing
He's doing a great job. If you doubt it, check out what's going on in Europe....
By Thomas Brown,Posted 12/14/2011
A Big Whiff By The Credit Unions
"National Transfer Day" turns out to be an even bigger dud than anyone thought...
By Thomas Brown,Posted 12/09/2011
The Democrats' Proposed "Fee" On Lenders Is Really A Tax
The Democrats try to stick it to the middle class without anyone noticing. ...
By Thomas Brown,Posted 12/06/2011
Martha Coakley's Lawsuit Is A Monumentally Bad Idea
It won't help borrowers. It will hurt them. ...
By Thomas Brown,Posted 12/05/2011
News Headlines
South Florida Sun-Sentinel : House hunters still flock to Florida  Despite the threat of hurricanes and a tsunami of “underwater” mortgages, potential ...
New York Times: S.E.C. Is Avoiding Tough Sanctions for Large Banks Even as the Securities and Exchange Commission has stepped up its investigations of Wall Street, the agency has repeatedly ...
Bloomberg: Geithner Says Systemically Risky Firms to Be Named in 2012 U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner said the first non-bank financial companies deemed systemically risky ...
A.P.: Bernanke defends Fed policies against GOP critics Ben Bernanke defended the Federal Reserve's decision to hold interest rates at record-low levels for the next three ...
Bloomberg: Wall Street Splits as Money Managers Fault Banks’ Foreclosure Settlement Wall Street’s biggest lobbying group is split over a proposed settlement of state and federal foreclosure probes, after a committee ...
TheStreet.com: Why Bank Stock Investors Should Worry About February 6 Come Monday, Feb.6, investors will have two events that could make or break the bank stock rally in recent weeks. ...
New York Times: Goldman at a P.R. Crossroads News that Goldman Sachs is wooing a former Treasury official has had Wall Street buzzing with talk that Lucas van Praag may ...
Bloomberg: Geithner Says Dodd-Frank Opponents Add to Financial Market’s Uncertainty U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner criticized opponents of new financial industry regulations and ...
New York Times: Progress on Letting Big Banks Fail The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation has taken some good first steps to regulating the biggest banks, and what's more ...
Bloomberg: U.S. Brokerage Firms Closing Shop After Trading Drop-Off, Capital Squeeze Stand-alone U.S. brokerages hurt by 2011’s trading slump may struggle to raise capital or obtain adequate ...
N.Y. Post: Cohen an Amazin’ investor Hedge-fund heavyweight Steve Cohen is one of a handful of investors close to buying minority stakes in the cash-strapped ...
Reuters: Fed still divided as Fisher sees no need for QE3  A third round of large-scale asset purchases by the Federal Reserve is not needed and would compound the difficulties ...
Bloomberg: Ackermann Shuns ECB Loans Because of ‘Reputational’ Risk for Deutsche Bank Deutsche Bank AG shunned the three- year loans the European Central Bank offered to banks in December on concern taking the funds ...
Charlotte Observer: Bank data centers could find Charlotte attractive Read more here Data security centers are becoming an integral part of bank operations as lenders navigate new regulations and battle fraud. And ...
Wall Street Journal ($): Push Sputters for Credit-Default Swap Futures  A push by Wall Street banks to devise a more-transparent way to bet on bond defaults has stalled amid uncertainty ...
Wall Street Journal ($): Banks Deplete Earnings Backstop  The rainy-day funds that U.S. banks have been tapping to boost their earnings could soon begin to dry up, ...
Quick Takes (Bankstocks.com Daily Blog)
ONE MORE REASON TO BE OPTIMISTIC ABOUT THE FUTURE
Great news for the housing market: Once the economy picks up in earnest, the country could see a mini-boom in divorces, Matt Yglesias says. Think of t...
Posted 02/02/2012 12:23 PM By Matt Stichnoth More>>
YOUR DODD-FRANK FEEL-GOOD STORY OF THE DAY
Oh, the mysteries of Dodd-Frank. Now it turns out that CLO managers (who bundle, resell, and manage portfolios of bank loans) will be subject to its 5...
Posted 02/01/2012 12:24 PM By Matt Stichnoth More>>
PLUS, THINGS WORKED OUT SO WELL THE LAST TIME BANKS ALL OWNED THE SAME TYPE OF ASSET CLASS
Bloomberg reports that the U.S. regulators are considering cutting some slack to foreign governments that have objections to the Volcker Rule: ...
Posted 02/01/2012 11:52 AM By Matt Stichnoth More>>
BIG JOB CUTS COMING AT THE BIG BANKS--BUT IN A GOOD WAY
Where can banks find earnings leverage in the new, ever-more-regulated Dodd-Frank world? For starters, by spending less on dealing with delinquent mor...
Posted 01/31/2012 10:58 AM By Matt Stichnoth More>>
RATINGS AGENCY FINDS NEW WAY TO LOOK HAPLESS
It’s official! One of the ratings agencies admits it doesn’t know what the heck it’s doing: Moody’s Investors Service “did not have any understa...
Posted 01/30/2012 12:54 PM By Matt Stichnoth More>>
THE TECHNICAL TERM IS POOLING EQUILIBRIA
Crowing in his State of the Union address last night that, because of the Affordable Care Act, health insurers no longer have “unchecked power to
Posted 01/25/2012 2:19 PM By Matt Stichnoth More>>
IT TURNS OUT DE-LEVERAGING IN THE U.S. MAY NOT TAKE FOREVER, AFTER ALL
How goes the de-leveraging of the developed world? McKinsey has the answer: [M]ajor economies have only just begun deleveraging. In only three of ...
Posted 01/24/2012 2:58 PM By Matt Stichnoth More>>
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