Hints and tips:
...Neither the monster national players (JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Citigroup) nor the regionals (PNC, M&T, et al) have had much to say about the economy’s effect on credit quality....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College Most unlikely....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College Open question. Depends if he injects a major fiscal stimulus....
...So the FDIC as liquidator of Penn Square et al asserted that the “sales” of loan participations by Penn Square and the others were not “true sales” that gave rights to the underlying collateral (whatever...
...Last month, the Association of British Insurers stated: “This industry report cannot give commitments that particular products will be developed....
...But, as Neil notes, things could have been worse without all that warehousing shenanigans from Goldman et al....
...Red stains, splattered flesh and a pair of earphones are all that’s left of two al-Shabaab bombers who – posing as soldiers of the national army – detonated themselves at the entrance of a courthouse in...
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...from Messrs Paul, Gingrich et al....
...Osborne praises the independence of the OBR – to laughter from the front bench – Chote et al have managed to overshadow today’s statement. 12.37 The OBR has reduced its assumptions about spare capacity...
...While I have little time for Cameron et al, I have to admit that Osborne has done a brilliant job of (just about) keeping the markets onside....
...A judge in Regina v....
...Related links: SEC V. TREVOR G. COOK, PATRICK J. KILEY, ET AL, Case No. 09 CV 3333 – SEC Litigation release...
...In the past month the Bank of England, the Bank of Japan, the Swiss National Bank and the Federal Reserve have all taken bold steps that involve creating money to buy assets....
...“You could argue that value investors could have invested with a greater margin of safety,” said John Buckingham, who manages the value-oriented Al Frank Fund....
...The Federal Reserve last week began buying mortgages backed by government agencies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, part of its planned purchase of $500bn over the coming months....
...The 38 per cent limit has emerged as a rough consensus among policymakers, as the standard used by the FDIC, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the Hope Now alliance of mortgage servicers and recently the Federal...
...Recommended discourse: JCK et al at Alea....
...Shame Michael Moore et al were not listening to him back then....
...Countrywide Financial Corporation, et al is ostensibly brought on behalf of purchasers of such CWALT, Inc. mortgage pass-through certificates, as well as various other mortgage-backed securities registered...
...As well as the provisions related to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the bill will allow the government to guarantee up to $300bn in mortgages refinanced at more affordable rates through the Federal Housing...
...But are national governments ready to give the IMF and World Bank the extra money and authority to play a central role?...
...And if Al Sharpton, Mike Bloomberg, and Newt Gingrich can agree that we need to solve it, then all of us can agree on that....
...Another alternative is of course National Savings products, for the truly risk-averse, since you have explicit government backing....
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