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  • Paul Volcker Disses Financial Innovations


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    Julia Werdigier reports from England: Paul A. Volcker, the former chairman of the Federal Reserve and an adviser to President Obama, told a room packed with banking executives on Tuesday to "wake up" to the need for more drastic regulatory changes. "Has there been one financial leader standing up and saying, ...
    1 day ago
  • Bernankes Re-Confirmation Testimony


    Dollars & Sense blogAuthority Authority: 468
    With opposition from the left (from Bernie Sanders , who promised to put an "official hold" on a floor vote for Bernankes re-confirmation) and from the right (by two Republicans, as yet unnamed, according to FireDogLake , via NakedCapitalism ). Meanwhile, heres the New York Times account of Bernankes testimony, ...
    1 week ago
  • Calculated Risk: Feds Sack: MBS Purchases Lowered Mortgage Rates …


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    This is significantly higher than my estimate of 35 to 50 bps and suggest mortgage rates might rise sharply next spring (the MBS purchase program is scheduled to conclude by the end of the first quarter of 2010). ...
    1 week ago
  • On the Stimulus


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    Paul Krugmans column in todays New York Times is on the stimulus and the deficit, and how Wall Street is scaring the Obama administration into not doing the right thing with a second stimulus to create jobs. This article from Saturdays Times indicates that theres now a consensus among economists that the ...
    2 weeks ago
  • Calculated Risk: The Fed and Mortgage Rates


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    The Federal Reserve has begun slowing purchases in the $5 trillion market for so-called agency mortgage -backed securities after announcing in September that it would extend the timeline for its $1.25 trillion program to March 31 from ...
    2 weeks ago
  • Calculated Risk: Mortgage Delinquencies and Foreclosures by Period …


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    The second graph provides the same data for prime fixed rate mortgages . Both the 30 and 60 day buckets are still at record levels, although the rate of increase has slowed
    3 weeks ago
  • Calculated Risk: Mortgage Delinquencies and Foreclosures by Period …


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    The second graph provides the same data for prime fixed rate mortgages . Both the 30 and 60 day buckets are still at record levels, although the rate of increase has slowed. Since prime fixed rate mortgages account for about 2/3s of the ...
    3 weeks ago
  • Letter To House Financial Services Committee


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    November 18, 2009 House Financial Services Committee 2129 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Dear Chairman Frank, Ranking Member Bachus, and Members of the Committee, During the past two years, the Federal Reserve dramatically changedits operating procedures. Instead of simply setting interest ...
    3 weeks ago
  • Calculated Risk: Counterparty Risk: The Mortgage Insurers


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    We have institutional credit risk relating to the potential insolvency or non-performance of mortgage insurers that insure single-family mortgages we purchase or guarantee. As a guarantor, we remain responsible for the payment of ...
    4 weeks ago
  • Letters to the Editor – Restore Glass Steagall


    tvanderwell on SmartHippo.comAuthority Authority: 138
    Interesting commentary.    Let me explain a bit: Glass Steagall is the act that separated investment banking from “regular” banking after the Great Depression. It was repealed in 1999 – because it was “different this time.” As Yves Smith at Naked Capitalism has called it, the separation of Casino ...
    6 weeks ago
  • Letters to the Editor – Restore Glass Steagall


    Straight Talk About Mortgages and Real EstateAuthority Authority: 433
    Interesting commentary.    Let me explain a bit: Glass Steagall is the act that separated investment banking from “regular” banking after the Great Depression. It was repealed in 1999 – because it was “different this time.” As Yves Smith at Naked Capitalism has called it, the separation of Casino ...
    6 weeks ago
  • There are some things that I just can’t add anything to……


    tvanderwell on SmartHippo.comAuthority Authority: 138
    Ms. Watkins, why does Charlie have lit dynamite? « naked capitalism Ms. Watkins, why does Charlie have lit dynamite? You are a teacher at a local primary school. Each school day you and some of your colleagues watch over the children at the school playground to make sure all of the children follow the rules and ...
    6 weeks ago
  • There are some things that I just can’t add anything to……


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    Ms. Watkins, why does Charlie have lit dynamite? « naked capitalism Ms. Watkins, why does Charlie have lit dynamite? You are a teacher at a local primary school. Each school day you and some of your colleagues watch over the children at the school playground to make sure all of the children follow the rules and ...
    6 weeks ago

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