The only way to exit is by the door the Fed came in. It barged into the market buying up toxic assets and Treasury notes and bonds. In order to get back out the door, it has to get rid of all the debt it gobbled up.
December 3rd, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "aig"
Federal Housing Administration Encourages More Bad Mortgage Loans
You’d think the feds might have learned their lesson. Their low rates…and subsidized mortgage loans…led to the biggest bubble in housing in US history.
November 26th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
Bullish On Silver
Well, maybe not all buying is drying up, as silver market analyst, Ted Butler, reports that in the last 10 months, “some 150 million ounces of silver can easily be documented to have been bought by investors.
October 6th, 2009 | Mogambo Guru | 1 comment | Continued
At a Time When We Are Drowning in Debt, We Are Also Out of Money
When a debtor is out of money, he has no ability to repay. And when a creditor has borrowers who are out of money, the creditor has no income. No earnings. No power to make better loans.
September 17th, 2009 | Bill Jenkins | 3 comments | Continued
Seems Everyone is Speculating on the Banks
“Public assistance enables the world’s largest 15 financial firms to return to the capitalization they had in September 2008,” the article continues. The largest of the largest, HSBC, is now judged to be worth $186 billion, according to the stock market.
September 2nd, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 2 comments | Continued
Begging the Question: Recovery to What?
Does it mean that American “consumers” (so-called) are awaited momentarily in the flat-screen TV sales parlors with their credit cards fanned-out like poker hands, ready for “action?” Not too likely with massive non-performance out in cardholder-land, and half the nation’s electronics inventory wending its way onto Craig’s List.
April 17th, 2009 | James Howard Kunstler | 29 comments | Continued
Traders Sell Bank Stocks Due to Goldman Sachs Surprise
What we wonder is why Goldman needed to be made whole at all if its exposure to AIG was hedged? And why did Goldman get paid US$14 billion for its securities when the market value was around $8 billion?
April 15th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 36 comments | Continued
Jim Cramer Says The Depression is Over
But as far as we can tell, the rally is still underway. The G20 meeting is widely seen as a triumph. The money is flowing. People think we’ve seen the bottom.
April 8th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 3 comments | Continued
The Law of Supply and Demand is Not Dependant Upon Congress
For us, it applies heavily to the advances of government into the field of business. It only makes sense: the occupants of the White House and the Capitol have done such a good job with their budgets over the years, they just want to help everyone else (over the cliff, that is).
April 2nd, 2009 | The Daily Reckoning | 1 comment | Continued
Cars Could be Designed by Congress
Yes, dear reader…here at The Daily Reckoning, we feel positively blessed. We are getting to see things we never thought we’d see: crash, depression, socialism, nationalizations…things that we’d read about in the history books.
April 2nd, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 1 comment | Continued