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• Geithner seeks to reassure on dollar

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 163
  Tim Geithner, US Treasury secretary, on Wednesday reiterated his belief in the importance of a strong dollar, ahead of the arrival in Asia of US President Barack Obama. “I believe deeply that it’s very important to the United States, to the economic health of the United States, that we maintain a strong dollar,” Mr ...
  9 hours ago

• Over $1 Trillion In Excess Reserves? Not A Problem According To Goldman Sachs

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 761
  As we pointed out recently , excess reserves at banking institutions have hit yet another all time record over $1 trillion, courtesy not just of the Feds burgeoning reliquification efforts via direct asset purchases, but also due to its strategy to wind down the SFP program , and keep the Federal debt level under ...
  9 hours ago

• Video: US Treasury Loan Modification Program Debated on CNBC

  
  LoanWorkout.org — Authority: 440
  The Treasury Dept. is out with its loan modification status report. Officials claim the rescue program is on track, but is there something they’re holding back? Susan Wachter, of Wharton; Howard Glaser, a mortgage industry consultant; and CNBC’s Diana Olick discuss.
  10 hours ago

• Major League Reckoning

  
  The Daily Reckoning — Authority: 643
  Now there’s a real decoupling. Friday’s unemployment figures came out in America. They showed that 8.2 million Americans have lost their job since the GFC began in 2007. The official unemployment rate (the one that under-measures actual unemployment) is at 10.2% and growing. Stocks rallied on this news. ...
  1 day ago

• German Business Confidence Slides

  
  The Daily Reckoning — Authority: 643
  The non-dollar currencies didn’t move much yesterday, the euro ( EUR ) bumped up and down against the 1.50 figure, while the Aussie dollar ( AUD ) did the same against 93-cents, and the Swiss franc ( CHF ) against parity… So the currencies are trading in the same clothes they went to bed in last night! The Big ...
  1 day ago

• Wheres Does the Money Sit When Commodity Trading?

  
  Commodity Trading & Trend Following — Authority: 126
  Too many investors forget to ask this very important question when trading commodities. In many cases commodity traders leave money in segregated accounts at their Futures commission merchant. As well there are cash management companies. In order to survive in these trying times …using the words of Andy Grove… ” ...
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• Any Takers For TARP II?

  
  Bank Lawyer's Blog — Authority: 123
  TARP II (aka Son of TARP, TARP, Jr., TARP Lite, Tofu TARP, One-Horse TARP, and Diet TARP) is hardly out of the starting gate but is already down on the track with a broken ankle and looks like it might have to be eunthanized . Several community bankers in the Tampa Bay area are saying “no thanks” to the ...
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• U.S. Treasury Auctioning Off $81 Billion in New Debt

  
  The Daily Reckoning Australia — Authority: 551
  The supply of new U.S. debt is growing even faster than the Congress makes plans to spend the money. The U.S. Treasury is auctioning off $81 billion in new debt this week. It will sell $40 billion in three year notes on Monday, $25 billion 10-year notes on Tuesday, and $16 billion in 30-year bonds on Thursday (which ...
  2 days ago

• The MBA: Pandemic

  
  Newsroom Magazine — Authority: 128
  In less than 30 years, the world’s business organizations have been invaded by men and women educated in the ways of destruction arising from short term thinking, zero sum analysis, and self enrichment as the principal, sometimes the only measure of success.New YorkVehicle Of InfectionAdvanced Degrees In ...
  2 days ago

• The MBA: Pandemic

  
  Newsroom Magazine — Authority: 128
  In less than 30 years, the world’s business organizations have been invaded by men and women educated in the ways of destruction arising from short term thinking, zero sum analysis, and self enrichment as the principal, sometimes the only measure of success.New YorkVehicle Of InfectionAdvanced Degrees In ...
  2 days ago

• The Crash of 2008: Its the Panic of 1825 all over again (also 1837, 1847, 1866 ... )

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 792
  Filed under: Economy A freeze in lending triggers a panic in a Western financial capital which then spreads around the globe, eventually tipping several South American countries into default. In a desperate attempt to stem the panic, the central bank steps in as "the lender of last resort" and unleashes a flood of ...
  3 days ago

• Charles Krauthammer Election Myths Ridiculous: Henry Paulson Timothy Geithner Election Crisis

  
  Maggie's Notebook — Authority: 645
  Charles Krauthammer, writing for the Washington Post, takes a look at the November 2008 presidential election and says "...it was all ridiculous from the beginning. The 08 election was a historical anomaly." Then a theory about Henry Paulson and Timothy Geithner and the election crisis that gave the election to Barack ...
  4 days ago

• Just how dangerous are stimulus-driven deficits in the long run?

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 792
  Filed under: Economy Most mainstream academic and government economists -- elites, we should note, who are generally well-protected from the vagaries of the real world -- are united in the view that massive federal deficits to fund stimulus programs are not just a good thing but a necessary thing. Economist J. ...
  4 days ago

• FINALLY A TINY BIT OF GOOD NEWS

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 449
  “Treasury to Block Fannie Sale of Tax Credits to Goldman Sachs” Wall Street Journal - Nick Timiraos “The US Treasury has blocked Fannie Mae’s proposed sale of nearly $3 billion in low-income housing tax credits to Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Berkshire Hathaway Inc. after concluding that the deal would lose ...
  4 days ago

• Gambling, Washington-Style

  
  Boom2Bust.com — Authority: 565
  Had to pop some Tums before sitting down to write this post. Read it, and you’ll understand why. From MarketWatch this morning: At its high point, the federal government was guaranteeing or insuring $4.3 trillion in face value of financial assets, according to a report released Friday by the Congressional ...
  5 days ago

• The Fannie Mae Money Pit

  
  Boom2Bust.com — Authority: 565
  Another quarter, another draw-down in taxpayer funds by Fannie Mae. Bloomberg’s Dawn Kopecki wrote today: Fannie Mae, the mortgage buyer seized by regulators, plans to tap emergency U.S. capital for a fourth time this year, bringing its draws of taxpayer money to $60 billion as the company sees no immediate end ...
  5 days ago

• Longer Term Bond Indicators Flash Sell

  
  GreenLightAdvisor Views — Authority: 436
  The yield of ten-year US Treasury Notes has surged by 34 basis points since the middle of October as market participants started adopting a more upbeat outlook on the economy and shied away from safe-haven assets. Unsurprisingly, the following comes from the minutes of the meeting of November 4 of the Treasury ...
  5 days ago

• Looking For Lessons in the Madness

  
  Bank Lawyer's Blog — Authority: 123
  While most of the press focused on the FDICs use of the cross-guaranty provisions of FIRREA, a couple of other interesting tidbits floated to the surface near the shipwreck that occurred last Friday when the OCC sank, and FDIC took control of, nine banks owned by FBOP. One of those tidbits was the fact that earlier ...
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• Retaining Risk on Wall Street: Necessary but Painful

  
  Sense on Cents — Authority: 560
  How did Wall Street lead the United States economy into the ditch? The pure ‘originate to distribute’ model employed on Wall Street spelled the death knell for Wall Street and our economy. I addressed how firms won under that originate to distribute model in a commentary from November 12, 2008, “The Wall ...
  6 days ago

• Short-Term Advantages of A Weak US Dollar Will Weaken Over the Long-Term

  
  MoneyEnergy — Authority: 565
  There are two short-term advantages to a weak US dollar. The primary advantage of purposefully driving the value of the US Dollar down , as Bernanke and Geithner both know, is that it makes US exports more attractively priced for foreign buyers.  This, of course, helps the US economy in theory (if more goods are ...
  6 days ago

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