Showing posts with label Dodd-Frank. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dodd-Frank. Show all posts
Thursday, March 16, 2023

Discount window bailout operations for banks are now officially worse in magnitude than in 2008, though not in scope

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We don't have 500 bank failures. What we do have is Dodd-Frank 2010 limits on deposit insurance not keeping up with 2023 realities. Unle...
Monday, March 13, 2023

You remember the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation, right?

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 Chickens . . . comin' home . . . to roost!   Studies have found the Dodd–Frank Act has improved financial stability . . .   lol  
Sunday, December 18, 2016

Obama didn't "decimate" the Democrat Party, Democrats did that all by themselves

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David M. Drucker here wants to blame Obama for all the electoral losses experienced by Democrats since 2009.  Good luck with that. ...
Sunday, September 18, 2016

Les Deplorables: Under Obama full-time employment for Asians, Hispanics and blacks has recovered, but not for whites

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Hm. How did that happen? Maybe because race hiring quotas became de facto  mandatory for private employers in late 2013 because of 2010...
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...
Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Rep. Tim Walberg (MI-7) admits everyone in the US House read the Cromnibus bill in July and knew what was in it

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In a recent interview, here  (Capital City Recap with Michael Cohen for Monday, December 15th), Republican Rep. Tim Walberg...
Sunday, July 6, 2014

John Hope Bryant is an ignoramus about Jesus and poverty

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Seen here : 'The Greek word for poor, as used by Jesus, is poucos, which means non-productivity. To be poor doesn’t mean you don’t have ...
Thursday, May 29, 2014

Bank purchases of Treasurys at highest level since 1Q 1994 help drive demand and prices higher, yields lower

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The Wall Street Journal reports here : U.S. banks also have been big buyers of government debt. Treasury bondholdings of commercial banks an...
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...
Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Stupid: Well, There It Is

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P.J.O'Rourke, here : Call a man, best of all, wicked and you get to don the sacramental vestments, climb into the pulpit and thunder for...
Sunday, March 17, 2013

TNR Blames And Credits JK Galbraith For Contemporary Financier Fascism

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It would be nice if liberals could make up their mind. The New Republic's Tim Noah here traces TARP, Dodd-Frank and ultimately the gene...
Thursday, February 21, 2013

Molly Ball Doth Espy The Flaccid Organ Called The Senate

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For The Atlantic, here : "The last time a major new piece of policy legislation passed the U.S. Senate was July 15, 2010. "That...
Thursday, January 24, 2013

ObamaCare Is Fascism? So Is The Federal Reserve.

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And TARP. And Dodd-Frank. So says Robert Romano for Investors.com here : [ObamaCare] guarantees customers to large companies, in this case i...
Sunday, November 11, 2012

Of 7000 Banks, 3500 Need Recapitalization, 2000 Need To Sell

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So note various experts in this story by Stephen Gandel for Fortune, who concludes: Mortgage rates are about one percentage point higher th...
Tuesday, June 12, 2012

FDIC's New Liquidation Authority Under Dodd-Frank Latest Example Of Obama Fascism

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It's not fascism when we do it. Peter Wallison for Bloomberg.com doesn't come right out and say it, of course, but the FDIC's ne...
Sunday, February 19, 2012

Dodd-Frank is 848 Pages Long, Glass-Steagall was 37 Pages

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Robert Lenzner reminds us here that the shorter one worked pretty well for a pretty long time, but the longer one which replaces it is alre...
Thursday, October 20, 2011

Herman Cain's TARP Comments Now and Then Reveal That He Has No Clearly Defined Objection to Government Ownership of 'Private' Industry

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In June 2011, here : I studied the financial meltdown and concluded on my own that we needed to do something drastic, yes. When the concept ...
Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Standards are Inimical to the Left, That's Why Ratings Agencies are the Enemy

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As here at Slate.com: "If everyone hates the credit rating agencies, why won't anyone enforce the Dodd-Frank provision to dethrone...
Sunday, June 19, 2011

Under Bair, FDIC Sought and Won Powers Nothing Short of Fascist

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With Sheila Bair out after five years, the authors of this piece in Forbes don't exactly call a spade a spade, but their message is unm...
Saturday, June 11, 2011

Guarantees Implicit Under Dodd-Frank Hand Big Banks Billions in Borrowing Advantages at Taxpayer Expense

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So says John Carney here , calling Bank of America, Citigroup and Wells Fargo, among others, our new Fannie Maes and Freddie Macs.