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Confession Time for Big Banks in Europe: Banco Santander Reports $12.7 Billion Loss
Confession Time for Big Banks in Europe: Banco Santander Reports $12.7 Billion Loss Too-Big-To-Fail Santander is also one of the Eurozone’s worst capitalized banks. Banco Santander, Spain’s largest lender and one of the Eurozone’s eight global systemically important banks (G-SIBs), has posted its first ever loss in 163 years of operations. And it was gargantuan. During the first […]
Free-Riding Investors Set up Markets for a Major Collapse
Free-Riding Investors Set up Markets for a Major Collapse Free riding is one of the oldest problems in economics and in society in general. Simply put, free riding describes a situation where one party takes the benefits of an economic condition without contributing anything to sustain that condition. The best example is a parasite on […]
Crisis After Crisis: 10 Years After the Crash, There’s No ‘Reforming’ Global Capitalism
Crisis After Crisis: 10 Years After the Crash, There’s No ‘Reforming’ Global Capitalism The real battle is now between two post-globalization camps: democratic socialists… and fascists. Shutterstock It is now clear that financial crises are not discrete events but are linked phenomena that have been unleashed on the globe ever since the financial markets were […]
How the Next Downturn Will Surprise Us
How the Next Downturn Will Surprise Us In their campaign to contain the risks that caused the Great Recession, central bankers may have planted the seeds for the next global economic crisis. ImageCreditCreditJi Lee After the fall of Lehman Brothers 10 years ago, there was a public debate about how the leading American banks had […]
Weekly Commentary: Approaching the 10-year Anniversary
Weekly Commentary: Approaching the 10-year Anniversary We’re rapidly Approaching the 10-year Anniversary of the 2008 financial crisis. Exactly one decade ago to the day (September 7, 2008), Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were placed into government receivership. And for at least a decade, there has been nothing more than talk of reforming the government-sponsored-enterprises. It’s […]
Bartlett Naylor: The Banks Are Becoming Untouchable Again
Bartlett Naylor: The Banks Are Becoming Untouchable Again Regulations? We don’t need no stinking regulations! When the dust settled after the Great Financial Crisis, we learned that the big banks had behaved in overtly criminal ways. Yet none of their executives would be held criminally accountable. And while legislation was passed in the aftermath to […]
The Coming Banking Crisis & The End of Bailouts
The Coming Banking Crisis & The End of Bailouts Behind the curtain, there is a growing concern about a serious banking crisis beginning once again in Europe. Many governments are talking about the crisis behind-the-curtain and we are now beginning to see steps that are being taken to end the TO-BIG-TO-FAIL policies that dominated the […]
Gary Cohn Backs Reinstating Glass-Steagal, Breaking Up Big Banks
Gary Cohn Backs Reinstating Glass-Steagal, Breaking Up Big Banks In an unexpected statement made by the former COO of Goldman Sachs and current director of Trump’s National Economic Council, Gary Cohn told a private meeting with lawmakers on the Senate Banking Committee on Wednesday evening that he could support legislation breaking up the largest U.S. […]
Major Problems Announced At One Of The Largest Too Big To Fail Banks In The United States
Major Problems Announced At One Of The Largest Too Big To Fail Banks In The United States Do you remember when our politicians promised to do something about the “too big to fail” banks? Well, they didn’t, and now the chickens are coming home to roost. On Thursday, it was announced that one of those […]
Major Problems Announced At One Of The Largest Too Big To Fail Banks In The United States
Major Problems Announced At One Of The Largest Too Big To Fail Banks In The United States Do you remember when our politicians promised to do something about the “too big to fail” banks? Well, they didn’t, and now the chickens are coming home to roost. On Thursday, it was announced that one of those […]
Federal Regulators Accuse Banks Of Not Having Credible Crisis Plans, Would Need Another Bailout
Federal Regulators Accuse Banks Of Not Having Credible Crisis Plans, Would Need Another Bailout Perhaps the biggest farce to result from the Dodd-Frank legislation designed to “rein in” banks was the ridiculous notion of “living wills” – a concept that makes zero sense in an environment where the failure of even one bank assures a […]
Italy Seeks “Last Resort” Bailout Fund To “Ringfence” Troubled Banks, Meeting Monday
Italy Seeks “Last Resort” Bailout Fund To “Ringfence” Troubled Banks, Meeting Monday Italy’s finance minister, Pier Carlo Padoan, wants to “ringfence” its troubled banks. Padoan called a meeting of the executives of Italy’s troubled banks in Rome on Monday. The banks allegedly will come up with a “Last Resort” bailout fund. Last resort or first […]
New law proposed to shift bank failure risk from taxpayers
New law proposed to shift bank failure risk from taxpayers Ottawa proposes ‘bail-in’ regime to force creditors to prop up failing banks The Liberal government says it will create legislation that shifts some of the risk in a bank failure to creditors. (Canadian Press) Canada will introduce legislation to implement a “bail-in” regime for systemically […]
Day Of Reckoning: The Collapse Of The Too Big To Fail Banks In Europe Is Here
Day Of Reckoning: The Collapse Of The Too Big To Fail Banks In Europe Is Here There is so much chaos going on that I don’t even know where to start. For a very long time I have been warning my readers that a major banking collapse was coming to Europe, and now it is […]
