For the first time since this Greatest Recession Since the Great Depression (GRSGD) began, bank delinquencies on the books of the more than 7800 banks that report to the FDIC are on the decline. And Exhibit 1 shows the first point on what should continue to be a downward trend as loan delinquencies return to pre-GRSGD levels over the next few years.
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History is Not Bunk Unless Someone Important Wants It to Be
Late in the fall of 1988 the accounting firm, Coopers & Lybrand (C&L), won a competitive award to construct a computer system that collected the monthly security and loan information relating to Ginnie Mae’s mortgage-backed security program. As a C&L consultant with a math major and a Wharton M.B.A., I was put in charge of testing the system as it was being developed.
under: Deficits, Dollar, Federal Reserve, Game Theory, Individual v. Collective, Live and Learn, Treasury, Trust
Tags: Ben Bernanke, Coopers & Lybrand, derivatives, Fannie Mae, FDIC, Federal Reserve, FHA, financial crisis, Freddie Mac, Ginnie Mae, government sponsored enterprises, GSEs, housing bubble, interest rates, moral hazard, mortgage backed securities, mortgage debt, PMI Choice, PricewaterhouseCoopers, primary mortgage insurance, public debt, sub-prime, TARP, Tim Geithner, Treasury, VA
The Power of the Commerce Clause
The interpretation of the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution has been a wild ride with serious implications. The clause grants Congress the power to “regulate commerce . . . among the several States”. For decades it has been used to justify the federal government’s regulation of certain aspects of the economy. Recently, ObamaCare legislated the individual mandate, which will fine people for not obtaining health insurance beginning in 2014. The administration points to the Commerce Clause as their Constitutional right to impose the individual mandate and referred to the fine as a “tax” in court to defend the action as government’s “power to lay and collect taxes”.
America: It’s Time To Stand Up And Scream “We Want New Leadership”
Where is Howard Beale when we need him? Two years into the Greatest Recession Since the Great Depression (GRSGD) and our financial leaders are still telling us that we need to be patient while waiting for our economic recovery.
under: Deficits, Dollar, Federal Reserve, Game Theory, Individual v. Collective, Live and Learn, Taxes, Treasury, Trust
Tags: Ben Bernanke, derivatives, entrepreneurship, Fannie Mae, FDIC, Federal Reserve, financial crisis, Freddie Mac, government sponsored enterprises, GSEs, housing bubble, interest rates, moral hazard, mortgage backed securities, mortgage debt, public debt, sub-prime, TARP, Tim Geithner, Treasury
Quanta Analytics List of Troubled Banks for 2010 and Beyond
Since receiving its last quarter’s data from the nearly 8,000 active banks in the United States, the FDIC is reporting another 700 plus banks as being troubled and part of their “problem bank list”. Simply being on the FDIC’s problem bank list, however, does not mean or imply that a bank will be shutdown. It simply means that the bank is showing some signs of problems, including such things as poor asset quality, insufficient equity to cover losses, poor risk management, etc.
The names of the FDIC problem banks are not made public.
The Media Does Not Like Rand Paul: A Review
Rand Paul just cannot catch a break in the media. It all started after his primary victory over Trey Grayson when he told Rachel Maddow he philosophically disagreed with one out of the 10 titles to the 1964 Civil Rights Act, he was pretty much tarred and feathered constantly for an entire week of 24 hour news cycles.
under: Complete Whimsy, Game Theory, Individual v. Collective, Live and Learn, Trust
Tags: 1964 Civil Rights Act, Andrew Napolitano, Barack Obama, BP, BP oil spill, Democrats, GQ, Kentucky, Kentucky Senate Race, Rachel Maddow, racism, Rahm Emanuel, Rand Paul, Senate, Tea Party Protests, Trey Grayson, Tyler Collins
The Fannie-Freddie Treasury Conference–What Needs to be Done
Mortgage debt in the United States (currently more than $10 trillion) has grown to the point that it is nearly the same size as our national debt (in fact, a few years ago, U.S. mortgage debt actually successfully passed our national debt), and it has only been as a result of the new Administration’s debt spending that our national debt has regained the lead in the race to see which can account for the highest amount of our economic debt.
Now Obama Says the Health Insurance Mandate is a Tax
Today however, the Obama administration is facing lawsuits from 21 states over the mandate. So how do they defend it? Under the taxing powers of Congress of course.
Should the New Health Care Plan Cover Birth Control?
Currently, public initiatives offer free, or heavily subsidized, birth control in some states through organizations like Planned Parenthood. With most state budgets in the tank, these options may not be there forever. Some religious groups scoff at the idea of publicly-funded birth control as it flies in the face of their spiritual beliefs; and more seriously, public financing for abortion. We can save abortion for another day, however, it’s safe to say you won’t find too many public health experts on the platform that distributing birth control is a bad idea.
Scott Horton on Why War with Iran Would Be a Disaster
Scott Horton from Antiwar.com explains why there’s no reason to go to war with Iran. Aside by the fact that all 16 U.S. intelligence agencies are on record saying Iran is not attempting to build a nuclear weapon and the difference between enriched industrial uranium and enriched weapons grade uranium is something like 3.6% to 90% and more (which is no small difference), a war with Iran could mean the end of the United States.
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