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• Optimists Expect Mild Inflation in a Decent Recovery

  
  The Daily Reckoning Australia — Authority: 550
  Early this week, the worlds largest central bank, the Federal Reserve, announced plans to exit its monetary stimulus efforts. It unveiled a new tool - reverse repos - to help speed the work. The term, "unintended consequences" was probably invented to describe such tools. Give the feds a saw and they will cut off ...
  22 hours ago

• What the experts think of the QE extension

  
  Loan Empire — Authority: 112
  Following the most recent Monetary Policy Committee meeting the Bank of England announced that the base interest rate was to stay at its all time low level of just 0.5 percent for the eighth month in a row, in the hope that the lower base rate would help to increase affordability and boost the economy. [...]
  3 days ago

• Chinese Government Expected to Sign Off on Second Stimulus Package

  
  The Daily Reckoning Australia — Authority: 550
  Stocks in New York closed nearly on their lows on Thursday. Thats usually not a good sign. It indicates there might be a bit more selling pressure. But they did manage to close up just ahead of the session lows, which leaves us wondering where things stand at the end of the week. U.S. investors are on edge because ...
  3 days ago

• China Is Really Aware That It Has a Bubble Situation

  
  Malaysia-Finance Blogspot — Authority: 132
  Unpaid credit card debt in China has risen by a horrifying 126.5% from a year ago. Beijing should have known this very well as it was central government which instructed the banks to lend like crazy 12 months ago. As at the end of September 2009, there was 7.43bn yuan of credit card debt that was at least 6 months ...
  5 days ago

• Directory of Accounting, Tax & Bookkeeping Services for Your Metro Atlanta Business

  
  Accounting News and Notes — Authority: 135
  Directory of Accounting, Tax & Bookkeeping Services Get Bookkeeping Help When You Need it. Full Service CPA firm Offers: -Accounting Services for Business Owners including Tax & Financial Advice - New Business Start-Up Consulting - Cash Flow Analysis and Budgeting Analysis for Small Business - ...
  6 days ago

• Slideshow: Mauldin Explains why the Economic Crisis is Continuing

  
  The Daily Reckoning — Authority: 617
  Recognized financial editor John Mauldin recently gave a “Thoughts on the Continuing Crisis” lecture where he showed the US is entering a deflationary period much like the one Japan’s been in for about two decades. The Business Insider has put together a slideshow of over 20 of his charts, and here are 11 ...
  6 days ago

• Lending Drops Most Since 1984

  
  Auto Observer — Authority: 547
  Lending by U.S. banks - the lifeblood of the auto industry -- fell 2.8 percent in the third quarter, the largest drop since at least 1984 and the fifth consecutive quarter in which banks have reduced lending, according to a Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. issued Tuesday and reported on by the Washington Post . ...
  1 week ago

• Lending Drops Most Since 1984

  
  Car Reviews & Car Buying Blog — Authority: 165
  Lending by U.S. banks – the lifeblood of the auto industry — fell 2.8 percent in the third quarter, the largest drop since at least 1984 and the fifth consecutive quarter in which banks have reduced lending, according to a Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. issued Tuesday and reported on by the Washington Post . The ...
  1 week ago

• Surge in Chinese Bank Lending in 2009 Leads to Fall in Bank Capital

  
  The Daily Reckoning Australia — Authority: 550
  The internet connectivity here at the lodge were staying in New Zealand is a little spotty. So were going to keep todays notes short and get them out while we can...before the sheep storm our quarters. Honestly, outside either window we see hundreds of sheep...although on one side the mountains are in the background ...
  1 week ago

• China Is Aware That There Is A Bubble

  
  Malaysia-Finance Blogspot — Authority: 132
  As China is facing the prospect of large capital inflows from investors betting on RMB appreciation in 2010, policymakers have made it easier for mainland Chinese to invest abroad. This may be adding to the massive fund inflows other regional markets have experienced in 2009, especially China’s SARs. China’s rapid ...
  1 week ago

• Retail sales rise but lending to businesses still on the wane

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 971
  Spending on Britains high streets held up in October with a 0.4pc rise in sales driven predominantly by sales of clothing and household goods.
  2 weeks ago

• Ben Bernanke: Banks Not Lending

  
  Newsroom Magazine — Authority: 128
  However, access to credit remains strained for borrowers who are particularly dependent on banks, such as households and small businesses. Bank lending has contracted sharply this year, and the Federal Reserve’s Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey on Bank Lending Practices shows that banks continue to tighten the ...
  2 weeks ago

• WE CAN’T BANK ON MERVYN KING TO CONTROL THE BANKS

  
  CALEDONIAN COMMENT — Authority: 122
  Bank of England Governor Meryvn King (pictured above) yesterday gave a gloomy forecast, warning that the UK economy had “only just started along the road to recovery”. Presenting the Bank’s quarterly inflation report, he highlighted the long-term damage to the public finances by the record Government borrowing ...
  3 weeks ago

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

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 751
  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 ...
  3 weeks ago

• Central Bank Tightens Policy A Notch, But What Is It Saying About The Yuan?

  
  China Bystander — Authority: 124
  Pay less notice to the latest monthly industrial production and retail sales figures — both up 16% in October from a year before, with the trade surplus almost doubling from September, to $24 billion, as the contraction in exports eased to its slowest pace this year — and more to the subsequent statement by the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Tighter Bank Lending Standards Reinforce Fed Decision on Rates

  
  SDB Benchmark Real Estate — Authority: 140
  The Federal Reserve said U.S. banks kept tightening lending standards for companies and consumers last quarter, reinforcing the central bank’s decision to leave its benchmark interest rates at record lows for a long time. At the same time, the number of banks making it tougher to borrow diminished, the Fed said ...
  3 weeks ago

• RBS, Lloyds Banking deliberately running down balance sheets

  
  The Edge — Authority: 122
  How do you force banks to lend when their best customers don’t want to borrow? Make them lend to their worst customers? The banks rescued by the taxpayer were forced to promise more loans to business, but they are finding it hard to meet their targets - £16bn extra lending by RBS ( LON:RBS ) in 2009 and again ...
  4 weeks ago

• Quantitative easing and tighter banking regulation: a lunatic combination?

  
  IEA Blog — Authority: 124
  There seems to be near-lunatic policy inconsistency between the employment of the controversial and potentially dangerous policy of quantitative easing to boost broad money and credit, and the regulators’ desire to raise the capital and liquidity requirements of the commercial banks. The latter will almost ...
  4 weeks ago

• Paul Volcker on Charlie Rose

  
  Irish Mortgage Brokers Blog — Authority: 130
  I have long been a fan of Paul Volcker , he is now 82 years old and he brings a lifetime of experience and knowledge to any conversation he enters into, personally I can’t listen to him enough, in fact, my one complaint is that he doesn’t get interviewed nearly as often as he should be! Having said that, he is a ...
  5 weeks ago

• Bankers Betting That the Money Given by Feds Will Be Worth Less Next Year

  
  The Daily Reckoning Australia — Authority: 550
  Were heading for the hills...really! Last week, stocks went up. Stocks went down. Not much was proved one way or another. The week ended in a draw, as near as we can tell. But we think we are making progress in understanding what is going on. The private sector is de-leveraging. Now, its the public sector doing the ...
  5 weeks ago

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