February 7, 2012

Mortgage Fraud, Banks Borrow From Fed, Housing Starts, Buffett Buys American

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Mortgage Fraud US attorney is on the hunt for mortgage scoundrels. He is promising "dramatic results," but I am skeptical about making mortgage application fraud stick to these former high-flying executives. Mortgage applications were worked and approved at very low levels within these organizations. Loan origination strategies and behaviors were managed with commission plans and production quotas--making proving high-level, endemic fraud very hard to prove. Banks Borrow Record Fed Funds Banks … [Read more...]

Ben Bernanke Talks to New York Economic Club

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It is mostly about FINANCIAL MARKETS: Bernanke Themes: Talk about unique nature of the financial market crisis Recent history recapped, as only an economic historian could More about TARP Federal Reserve's role in all this, relative to Treasury and FDIC Stabilization confidence talk Oops, a little talk about inflation again... Global coordination is still important Full Text of Bernanke's address to New York Economic Club. (word analysis: wordle.net) … [Read more...]

Mortgage Rates, Gordon Brown, New Bank Capital, and Credit Crisis in 30 Slides (or Less)

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Mortgage Rate Update: Volatile, Float UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown claims to be leading the world through the global banking crisis and it looks like he may be right, as the US and Treasury Secretary continue to take queues from UK government action. The mounting question on the US financial crisis rescue execution front is: Will banks lend or hoard new capital? Crisis of confidence #2: Recession begins new market slippage. Major US banks begin to report quarterly earnings this week. … [Read more...]

Morning Worldwide Central Bank Rate Cuts Trump News

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The rush of morning economic news is all about the extraordinary, coordinated rate cut by most of the world central banks. This coordinated 0.5 percent rate cut is a growing indication of a global economy that is comprised of increasingly coupled independent national economies. The world markets over the last several days have been an eerie forecasting tool for each new market opening. Here is some of the initial coverage as markets seem to react positively: Federal Reserve explains in … [Read more...]

Good Quick Analysis on UK Bank Bailout

Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis does a quick, down and dirty analysis of the UK banking bailout. Bailout plan sends European indices and US futures into a predictable downward trend. Mish predicts coordinated US Fed, Bank of England, European Central Bank rate action. … [Read more...]

Government to Buy Unsecured Corporate Debt

The Government is now REALLY wading taxpayers into dangerous waters-considering buying (unsecured corporate debt) commercial paper. Link tour of the issue: Credit crunch continues to spread, freezing corporate credit (NYTimes) Federal Reserve and Treasury discuss buying commercial paper (Reuters) $95 billion has flowed out of the commercial paper market in the first week of October (Telegraph) Bill Gross of PIMCO never saw a bailout he didn't like (Bloomberg) … [Read more...]