Courtesy of a link on Jesse’s blog, I’d like to link you to a blog post on Scientific American, of all places, that puts the Great Financial Crisis in a mathematical and human perspective. While I would have chosen a title that reflects that ultimately the collapse came from greed more than an equation, here [...]
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More and more late-cycle financial news is emanating from the U.S. From the Financial Times tonight are found the following headline and sub-headlines: US credit card ABS sales soar Securitisation experiences revival ‘Slice and dice’ credit card deals return Wall St engineering revival of CDS Bundled US car loan deals enjoy comeback Riskiest US bonds enjoy strong [...] I said in a recent post that I thought that austerity fatigue had set in in Old Europe. Here’s confirmation, from Bloomberg.com: European leaders declared a turning point in the Greece-fueled debt crisis, shifting their focus away from the budget-cutting spree that has dominated two years of rescue operations. With a second Greek aid package [...]
The funny thing about the populist Move Our Money movement is that the banks really don’t want deposits right now because they are awash in cash and don’t know what to do with it. In an article from American Banker, it was revealed that: “The industry certainly doesn’t need more deposits today,” Fred Cannon, the [...] Consumers choked on the idea of taking down more debt in August, and consumer credit “unexpectedly” contracted 4.6%. Revolving credit which is mostly credit card debt contracted 3.4% and non-revolving credit, mostly autos and student loans, shrank 5.2%. This is the first decline in 9 months of credit growth. I haven’t heard a lot [...] The monthly Fed survey of bankers and lending says that in July lending conditions remained largely unchanged–that is, relatively tight: While banks have been easing up since the financial crisis, lending standards remain tighter than they were before the recession. For most loan categories, the survey found large numbers of banks reporting that their current [...] Ben Bernanke spoke today before Congress; click HERE for his prepared remarks. The markets appear to have seized on the paragraph about potential further easing of monetary conditions. They appear to be ignoring that the text spends one paragraph on easing but two paragraphs on potential tightening. Earlier in the text, he reiterates the Fed’s [...] The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) does an annual survey of its banks to determine credit conditions. Their report was just released and, as expected, there has been some easing of credit in the big banks, but little or no change in the small and regional banks where credit remains relatively tight. [...] Reuters has an excellent summary of the issues the eurozone faces with Greece (Hat tip Zero Hedge). Today at 1:00 p.m. PDT (5:00 eastern) PM George Papandreou faces a no-confidence vote in parliament. It is going to be significant either way. WHAT’S NEXT? * Confidence vote in Greek parliament at 2100 GMT * Representatives from “troika” [...] |
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