Jan 6 2009
Monetary Policy: Monetary Policy Slamming on Breaks. What do you do when banks don’t want to lend? Become the consumer. Government getting ready to spend to stimulate the economy.
Monetary policy is a delicate game of cat and mouse. You raise rates, you lower rates, or you jawbone a little and normally, the markets respond to the Fed like a conditioned hamster looking for a piece of food. Yet the Fed has lost this power. What happens when the public gets a look behind […]
Jan 3 2009
10 FDIC Charts and Graphs Highlighting Bank Problems: FDIC Analysis Examining 2009 Future of over 8,000 Banks Insured by the FDIC.
With all the problems occurring in the banking system, it is rather astonishing that so few have failed in 2008. At least that is the perception being put out there for us to digest. Yet the failure of one IndyMac or Washington Mutual is the equivalent of 100 smaller bank failures all at once.
It is […]
