MishTalk

MARCH 28, 2014

reader Dave, a friend, noted that as the Fed jacked up its balance sheet, velocity has mirrored the curve to the downside. I am one of those who staunchly believes that banks should fail. More precisely: Banks did fail, but taxpayers bailed them out. The world will not end if banks fail. No - not to me.

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Tom Spencer

MAY 2, 2020

Since the start of February this year, the Fed has expanded its balance sheet by more than $2.4 To put that in context, the Fed was created in 1913, and its total balance sheet assets only reached $2.4 trillion in assets, but only 2 months to achieve the same amount of balance sheet expansion this year.

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MishTalk

JUNE 30, 2016

Deutsche Bank shares have collapsed to lows deep under crisis lows and collapse of Lehman in the Great Financial Crisis. … Continue reading →

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Just over 10 years ago, French bank BNP Paribas froze U.S. There was a run on British bank Northern Rock. Over the next year, many banks fell. Investment bank Bear Stearns collapsed. We expect investment banks to embark on an even more fundamental makeover during the next decade. The New Face of Investment Banks.

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Banks are in the business of making loans. Exploring Lending Club Bloomberg columnist Mat Levine explores the issue in Lending Club Can Be a Better Bank Than the Banks. There are a lot of ways in which [Lending Club] is not a bank, but the big one is that basically all (95.6 Is that the right model?

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Tom Spencer

JULY 29, 2022

Human resource teams are critical to the growth of a company since employees typically represent both the biggest operating expense and largest off-balance sheet asset for most businesses. Below I spotlight two types of programs within many leading consulting firms and banks. People Advisory Type Consulting.

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MishTalk

AUGUST 22, 2014

As noted in German Two-Year Bonds Have Negative Yield, Demand High; Euro Bond Bubble Guaranteed to Burst , " Banks lend (provided they are not capital impaired), when credit-worthy borrowers want credit and banks perceive risks worth lending." The New York Times DealBook explains Europe Fears Banks Lack Cash Cushion to Cover Bad Loans.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 18, 2013

The Financial Times notes a Big rise in subordinated debt issuance by EU banks Banks have taken advantage of yield-chasing investors to issue $90.7bn of subordinated debt for the year to date, a 41 per cent increase compared to the same period in 2012. It relates to bail-in procedures in the alleged European "banking union".

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

On September 4, ECB President pulled out a financial bazooka including a pledge to build up the ECB''s balance sheet by another €1 trillion. Mario Draghi is to push the European Central Bank to buy bundles of Greek and Cypriot bank loans with “junk” ratings, in a move that is set to exacerbate tensions between Germany and the bank.

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MishTalk

APRIL 12, 2015

In another round of " stress " tests last month, the Fed said Big Banks Pass Muster. Confirmation of the sorry state of US banks comes from former Fed Governor Thomas Hoenig. He served as chief executive of the Tenth District Federal Reserve Bank, in Kansas City, for 20 years. He was ignored. percent at the end of 2014.

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MishTalk

AUGUST 8, 2013

In Fed Balance Sheet vs. Stock Market; Will QE Cause Inflation? Fed Balance Sheet vs. Stock Market. What about foreign central bank assets, especially China and Japan? I posted an interesting chart by reader Tim Wallace of the stock market vs. Fed asset holding (repeated below for convenience).

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 25, 2018

By distributing 100 million sesterces from the imperial bank to reliable bankers around the Empire and dropping interest rates to zero for three years, Tiberius saved Rome and the other affected nations of Egypt, Greece, and France. In the face of illiquidity a bank cannot repay current liabilities or their depositholders.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 17, 2013

On December 12 the Financial Times reported EU reaches landmark deal on failed banks with a "common rule book for handling failed banks". The next day, a friend commented the banking union agreement proved me wrong. I replied "wait for the details". Some senior officials are warning the proposals are too cumbersome.

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Banks create money when they lend. I’d start a charity whereby every newly appointed central bank board member is sent a free copy of Rothbard’s Mystery of Banking except I am beginning to doubt their ability to read. All they have done is give banks the incentive to park money on sovereign bonds with diminishing yield.

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MishTalk

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Having already cut interest rates to record lows and saying they can go no lower, Draghi is now focused on boosting the ECB’s balance sheet. The ECB has issued long-term loans to banks and started buying covered bonds in the hope of flooding the economy with enough liquidity to ease credit constraints. Headwinds explain why.

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MishTalk

MARCH 19, 2014

The Fed’s tapering merely slows the growth of its balance sheet. The rarely admitted truth, however, is that there is no need for central banks’ balance sheets to shrink. They could stay permanently larger; and, for some countries, permanently bigger central-bank balance sheets will help reduce public-debt burdens.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 26, 2014

In an effort to fool the public into believing the latest round of bank stress tests were actually designed to find stress, the ECB found 25 scapegoats, none of which were German banks. Reuters reports ECB Fails 25 Banks in Health Check but Problems Largely Solved. The 130 banks account for 81.6

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MishTalk

APRIL 7, 2014

In lengthy negotiations last month the EU reached a deal on how to handle failed banks. Please consider EU Deal on Bank Failures Risks Unravelling A landmark EU agreement on a common rulebook for handling bank failures is in danger of unravelling over the fine print restricting when a state can intervene to rescue a struggling bank.

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MishTalk

MARCH 1, 2015

This entire notion that you can take bad assets from a bank and put them in a "bad bank" to make everything well, is ridiculous. The step, allowed by new legislation that gives banking supervisors more power to intervene, followed an outside audit of Heta''s balance sheet that exposed a capital hole of up to 7.6

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Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 25, 2011

Thirdly, European banks are currently focused on building their balance sheets not on lending. European banks have until the end of June 2012 to get their core capital ratios up to 9%. Weak financial markets increase the risk that one or more European banks will fail. How could Dexia fail?

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Consultant Ninja

MARCH 31, 2009

Heres my understanding of the current TARP/TARPII/PPIP/etc plans: The major "sick" banks wont lend to businesses, because their balance sheets are tied up with bad assets that they cant sell. The government will buy those assets, freeing up the major banks to loan again to businesses. Banks fail all the time, right?

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Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

This is because the initial trigger for the crisis was reliance by major banks, particularly those in the United States, on mortgage backed securities as collateral. Banks applied steep haircuts to the market value of these securities making it unviable to use them as collateral, and this led the financial system to freeze up.

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MishTalk

MAY 20, 2014

Yesterday, former fed chair Ben Bernanke said " No Need for Fed to Shrink Balance Sheet ". The Federal Reserve does not need to shrink its $4 trillion-plus balance sheet by even "a dime" for it to normalize monetary policy when the time comes, former Fed Chair Ben Bernanke said on Monday.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 26, 2014

Next year will be a very important year for China because possible strains in the banking system and the intensity with which the reformers present their case will give us a better sense both of how much debt capacity the country retains and of how well positioned Xi Jinping and his allies are to implement the needed reforms.

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MishTalk

AUGUST 6, 2013

Balanced Budget Ammendment Sign the Balanced Budget Petition. Reader Question: Does the Fed Balance Sheet Properly Reflect QE Announcements? The feds balance sheet doesnt reflect it. So if QE is $85B a month, where is it and why doesnt it show up in the Feds balance sheet.". Feds Balance Sheet.

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MishTalk

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Banks; Global Financial System is Bankrupt. Addendum: Société Générale disputes the numbers and new calculations using the banks'' numbers are 28:1 or perhaps 23:1 not 50:1 as noted on Forex Crunch. Banks do not plunge out of the blue on rumors. French Banking Primer. trillion balance sheet is leveraged nearly 49-to-1.

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

I received several emails regarding my post on Risk-Free Banking and Fractional Reserve Lending that I would like to share. When I began investing, one looked at the real property on balance sheets. Indeed, as it stands banks are always bailed out at taxpayer expense, the very epitome of "moral hazard". Hello Mish.

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Business Consulting Agency

JULY 26, 2024

Financial Projections : Provide detailed financial projections, including income statements, cash flow statements, and balance sheets. Loans : Consider applying for a business loan from banks or credit unions. Outline your pricing, advertising, and sales tactics. Include assumptions and a break-even analysis.

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MishTalk

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

On October 23, ECB president Mario Draghi announced new bank stress tests. Draghize : "Banks do need to fail to prove the credibility of the exercise". Mish : We are carefully scrutinizing several non-critical banks, looking for a couple of scapegoats, hoping to fool the public regarding the credibility of the exercise.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

This becomes clear when you look at a company’s two most important financial statements: the balance sheet and the income statement. Let’s first look at the balance sheet. Therefore, the balance sheets of physical and digital companies present entirely different pictures.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 23, 2013

The New York Times reports China Rates Approach Crisis Levels Despite Central Bank Measures. The central bank, the People’s Bank of China, said late Friday that it had provided more than 300 billion renminbi, or about $50 billion, in short-term funds to selected banks over a three-day period that week.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Bove, one of the most widely-respected banking analysts in the world, is certain that will have devastating consequences for housing and the rest of the American economy. Bove says the banks he spoke with won''t be able to provide 30-year mortgages in large quantities without Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in the markets. "I''ve

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

The European Central Bank’s first offer of cheap four-year loans has fallen short of expectations, dealing a blow to president Mario Draghi’s hope of sustaining the eurozone’s ailing economy by expanding the central bank’s balance sheet. Why TLTRO Won''t Spur Lending Banks may eventually take the money.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 9, 2014

ECB president Mario Draghi set out to stimulate bank lending by purchasing covered bonds. Covered bond supply has reached its lowest level in nearly two decades as the European Central Bank has been accused of crowding out investors from the market by pushing up prices and depressing yields. The buyer of only resort is the ECB.

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MishTalk

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Alternative Bank Schweiz (ABS), a small bank in Switzerland broke the negative interest rate on deposits barrier, CHARGING customers to cake their money. The Alternative Bank Schweiz wrote to customers telling them they would face a -0.125 per cent rate on their money from 2016 – and a -0.75 emphasis in caps from the article).

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MishTalk

JANUARY 16, 2014

While the ECB confirmed that it will require lenders to have a capital ratio of 8 percent, what qualifies as capital will change over the course of the three-part assessment, the central bank said in an e-mailed statement. Given that requirement, banks could be forced to provision capital against potential risks from the exposure.

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

In response to Janet Yellen’s everything is OK speech following today’s balance sheet reduction notice by the FOMC committee, I received an interesting set of comments from Pater Tenebrarum at the Acting Man Blog regarding rate hike cycles, gold, and stock market peaks.

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