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• Global Markets Overview: Beware Illiquid, Pre-Holiday Trading

  
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  Cliff Wachtel submits: Stocks: Prior Day: Asia, Europe, US up, Today: Asia, Europe up. Pre-Holiday thin liquidity is dangerous –don’t be scammed –stand aside and enjoy the holiday. FX: bias against safety currencies [JPY, USD, CHF in order of safety appeal] vs. risk currencies [AUD, NZD, CAD, EUR, GBP ...
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• Government Stimulus at Work: Housing Edition

  
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  Ira Stoll submits: "As of July 25, 73,799 taxpayers had incorrectly claimed $504 million in credits in the program for first-time home buyers," the federal inspector general for tax administration found. The New York Times has a report . The program was so successful it has been extended . As Holman Jenkins ...
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• Obama and Paulson Saved the Financial System? Oh Please...

  
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  Ira Stoll submits: President Obama tells the Washington Post, "the most important thing we did this year was to ensure that the financial system did not collapse." And here we had thought it was "the mild-mannered man who runs the Federal Reserve" who was responsible for that. Seriously, you have to think ...
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• Why Jingle Mail Could Increase Dramatically in 2010

  
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  Anthony Davian submits: by Richard Benson Jingle All The Way; Oh what fun it is today, To just walk away! Jingle Mail (also known as strategic mortgage default) is the happy-sounding phrase used by banks and mortgage servicers to describe homeowners who simply walk away from their homes and mail the keys ...
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• OTC Markets Are Woefully Broken

  
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  http://rortybomb.wordpress.com submits: From Professor Jayanth Varma’s blog , last Friday saw an interesting hidden news dump from the SEC related to ICAP and the the OTC market ( pdf here ). On the UST desks, ICAP, through the Brokers, engaged in deceptive conduct by displaying fictitious “flash” trades ...
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• FDIC Blows It on Transparency

  
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  Gary Greenberg submits: After digesting the latest salvo in the transparency wars, I find myself in the unusual and uncomfortable position of criticizing the FDIC. I do so with great regret. I am a fan of Ms. Bair as she has effectively navigated through the minefields of this continuing credit crisis. One week ...
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• Reducing the Shame of Default

  
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  Felix Salmon submits: Steve Waldman has been doing a spectacularly good job of teasing out the moral and financial implications of homeowners walking away from their mortgage obligations, and delivers another great post : I think that underwater homeowners ought to walk away from their loans for the very same ...
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• The Forthcoming Prime Mortgage Meltdown

  
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  Seth Chalnick submits: Impossible SeeSaw Originally uploaded by R_Thull Complete Story »
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• New Accounting Rule Delayed

  
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  John Lounsbury submits: Banks were saved in March when mark to market rules were overturned. Now another occurrence of "magic powder dispersion" is saving them again. An article by Silla Brush at The Hill.com ( here ) describes an announcement Friday (December 18) by the FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance ...
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• TARP Thoughts: I Told You So

  
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  Bob Mcteer submits: A couple of people have mentioned to me that the TARP repayments are all over the news and suggested that I write about it. My response has been that I didn’t know how to avoid saying I told you so. I’ve written and said often that TARP would produce a profit for taxpayers, or only a ...
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• Why Are Banks Holding So Many Excess Reserves?

  
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  J.C. Kommer submits: New updated paper by Todd Keister and James McAndrews : Why Are Banks Holding So Many Excess Reserves? I have posted on this earlier in november Complete Story »
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• OTC Derivative Regulation: Argument for Exchanges and Swap Execution Facilities

  
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  http://rortybomb.wordpress.com submits: Over at FT Alphaville, Craig Pirrong has a response to my concerns that OTC derivative regulation has major loopholes . Pirrong validates my worries as he also believes these loopholes are real, but instead chooses to cheer them on: Complete Story »
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• Obama Draws a Blank on How Banks Really Work

  
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  Tom Brown submits: Remember, during the presidential campaign, how we all kept going on and on about how smart Barack Obama is? Remember? Turns out we were wrong! I can’t speak to topics like foreign affairs or macroeconomics, but I do know about banking. And I will say flat out that Obama’s approach to ...
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• The WSJ, Obama and Bankers

  
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  Ira Stoll submits: The Wall Street Journal had an editorial yesterday morning about President Obama and the banks that makes some excellent points about how banks are caught in between demands to lend more and demands to lend less. A couple of other aspects of the editorial are worth comment. Says the Journal, ...
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• Whats Wrong with Making Only the Safest Loans?

  
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  Annaly Salvos submits: The problem with Fannie Mae ( FNM ) and Freddie Mac ( FRE ) was always that they served two masters, their public shareholders and their government charter. Satisfying the requirements of these two masters was sometimes in conflict and we now know the results were disastrous. Banks today ...
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• Bank Lending – At Risk if They Do, More Risk if They Don’t

  
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  Zachary Scheidt submits: It’s not easy being a bank these days. Oh sure, it’s nice to still be alive. After all, last year at this time it was uncertain exactly how many financial institutions were actually going to stay in business. But after begging for taxpayer money to keep them alive and kicking, banks ...
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• Lending Lunacy: Will the Madness Ever End?

  
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  Tom Lindmark submits: As the destruction of the past decade begins to pile up and we get a chance to look back and try and figure out how everything could have gone so wrong, the prevailing sentiment seems more and more to be, "how could we have been so stupid?" Consider Felix Salmon’s post on the demise of ...
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• To Big to Initiate an Anti-Trust Suit Against?

  
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  Mark Thoma submits: Ive been somewhat encouraged by this administrations attention to anti-trust issues, but so far theres been more talk than action. I dont think this issue received enough attention in the previous administration -- if anything the Bush administration promoted the interests of large, powerful ...
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• How Smaller Banks Would Have Helped Shrink the CDO Market

  
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  Felix Salmon submits: The WSJ has new details on how banks would pass CDO risk between each other in an improbably long chain: One of Goldman’s trades with AIG involved a financial vehicle called South Coast Funding VIII. South Coast was one of many pools of bonds backed by individual homeowners’ mortgage ...
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• Financial ETFs Pull Back, But What’s the Next Step?

  
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  For those investors who rely on the 200-day moving average as a guide for where and when to invest, financial exchange traded funds (ETFs) could be sending a sell signal. Is the sector primed for a pullback?The moving average (MA) is a significant indicator that investors follow to read signals...
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