Showing posts with label Capital requirements. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Capital requirements. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 25, 2025

Federal Reserve floats proposal to ease bank capital requirements which were increased in the wake of the Great Financial Crisis of 2008, Fed Governors Kugler and Barr in opposition

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  Divided Fed proposes rule to ease capital requirements for big Wall Street banks   ... The Fed board put the proposal open for a 60-day pu...
Friday, December 19, 2014

Bank Failure Friday: the 18th of 2014 is in Mankato, MN

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Northern Star Bank, Mankato, Minnesota, failed today, costing the FDIC $5.9 million. As of September 30, 2014, there are 6,589 institu...
Sunday, August 17, 2014

Rex "The Nut" Nutting commits drive by shooting of American savers, misunderstands excess reserves

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The resident communist at MarketWatch weighs in  here : Sure, people need to keep some money handy to pay their bills and some folks might h...
Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Bank mergers have doubled annually since 2009 as Dodd-Frank and now new capital rules begin to bite

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The Wall Street Journal reports here : More small banks are selling themselves, and executives say Washington regulations are a big reason w...
Saturday, August 24, 2013

Mortgage Securitization Only Works At The Expense Of Taxpayers And Banks

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So says Arnold Kling for The American, here , who provides a useful summary of crony capitalist rent-seeking since World War II: At this poi...
Thursday, April 25, 2013

Central Bankers Buying Stocks: Is This Another Sign Of A Top?

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Bloomberg reports  here : Central banks, guardians of the world’s $11 trillion in foreign-exchange reserves, are buying stocks in record amo...
Monday, April 1, 2013

Ben Bernanke Is Trying But Failing Miserably At Money Printing

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And it's not exactly his fault. Historically in the postwar period, the increase in Total Credit Market Debt Outstanding (TCMDO) has clo...
Sunday, March 17, 2013

Cyprus Bailout Deal Amounts To Robbery Of Ordinary Citizens' Accounts

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The Chair of the European Parliament's Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee, Britain's Liberal Democrat Member of the European Pa...
Thursday, November 1, 2012

Basel III Capital Requirements May Cause 30% Of Banks To Merge

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So says Victor Nava, here : Community banks are generally defined as banks with less than $1 billion in assets. There are approximately 6,80...
Sunday, July 29, 2012

Massive Central Bank Purchases Of Gold Boosted Price Over 30 Percent In Last Year

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This baby weighs one metric ton That's the upshot from this report in The Wall Street Journal, here , in early June: Central banks incre...
Friday, July 6, 2012

Basel Capital Rules Reinforce Fascist Financialization Of The Global Economy

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Robert Barone for Minyanville summarizes better than anyone else I have read the process whereby banking in partnership with government has ...
Tuesday, June 12, 2012

New Federal Reserve Capital Requirements May Doom Savings and Loans

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And putting savings and loans out of business will dramatically reduce competition in the mortgage business, which is negative for housing, ...
Thursday, January 5, 2012

James Pethokoukis Trots Out His August 2010 Surprise as a January 2012 Surprise

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Involving a supposed mass refinancing of GSE-backed mortgages. Rush Limbaugh fell for it on his show today , but it's a recycled...
Friday, November 18, 2011

The Farce of Letting Banks Simply Refigure Themselves to be Far Less Risky

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From Jeffrey Snider's latest in a series of penetrating meditations on contemporary banking: Basel II gives banks latitude in "mod...
Saturday, February 26, 2011

Record Corporate Cash? Doodleysquat

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Says the master of the S and P: Mr. Silverblatt complains that he has repeatedly seen analysis showing US companies with a big cash hoard, w...