Bank of America has $2.3 trillion in assets but $956 billion of that is made up in loans. Think those loans are valued at current market levels? The FDIC would have a challenge even breaking up one too big to fail bank.
The FDIC has a herculean challenge in confronting the too big to fail banks. There is little doubt that having institutions that are too big is part of the reason for the current systemic crisis. Yet through the last few years the solution has been to make these banks even bigger allowing their web to […]
The status of the working and middle class American worker for fall 2010 – 42 percent of unemployed persons had been jobless for 27 weeks or more. Young workers have the highest unemployment rate on record at 19.1 percent.
There can be no sustained recovery without putting Americans back to work. We live in an odd time where GDP can be going up while middle class America is slowly dismantled. Let us be clear that the employment situation hasn’t improved. The recent job gains are largely part of the Census hiring that is now […]
Plundering the middle class – 35 percent of American households live on $35,000 or less each year. Bailouts a success for the wealthiest 5 percent of Americans.
The middle class is being slowly dismantled piece by piece. New Census data released this week highlights a continuing trend that is pushing more average Americans into a perpetual struggle to stay financially afloat. New data shows that the median household income is $50,221 in 2009 which is down from $52,029 in 2008. This drop […]
Will quantitative easing 2 bailout the commercial real estate market further? The shadow bailout world not being covered by the mainstream media. Fed deliberately trying to crush U.S. dollar to bailout banking system.
As the Federal Reserve gears up for quantitative easing part two, a slow hidden bailout is occurring in the commercial real estate market. Commercial real estate is a giant industry making up over $3 trillion in outstanding loans in the U.S.  Yet not much is being said about this in the press. Why? Because in […]