They have to borrow it…or print it. There’s a big difference between federal borrowing and private borrowing. When the private sector borrows the risk is that people won’t be able to pay back their loans.
September 9th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 11 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "bank"
The Banks Should Hold More Capital
The US system of capitalism has become a system where the capitalists have no capital. The big banks have too little in savings…not enough ‘buffers’ to protect them from unexpected crises. They made a fortune during the boom years…
September 7th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
The FDIC Is in Trouble
As we all know, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) guarantees depositors that they’ll get their money back if a bank fails, at least up to a certain amount. To fund its operations, the FDIC collects small fees from the banks…
August 6th, 2009 | Bud Conrad | 3 comments | Continued
Is There Any Wonder Americans’ Hate Bankers?
“The watchdog overseeing the federal government financial bailout says the government’s maximum exposure to financial institutions since 2007 could total nearly $24 trillion, or about $80,000 for every American.
July 22nd, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
Japan: A Morality Tale of Banks and Government Refusing to Deal With Debt?
This may puzzle some people. Wasn’t the Japanese economy roaring into a bubble in the late 1980s? Indeed it was – driven in part by the 300 basis point decline in interest rates that resulted from the soaring yen.
May 27th, 2009 | Nathan Lewis | 0 comments | Continued
Gagging on Debt
Yesterday the bank told investors its bad debt charges in the first half of the year had doubled to $1.8 billion. That bad debt charge was more than double the charge for the same period the year before. Your perception of the charge doesn’t matter. It is what it is. The good news for NAB is that its Australian operations account for two-thirds of its profit. The bad news is that it may face more losses from its U.S. and European investments…
April 29th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 6 comments | Continued
Fire Chief Bernanke
The Federal Reserve, under the leadership of Ben Bernanke, called out all the fire trucks and opened up all the hoses. Rates were cut to zero…and the Fed expanded its balance sheet – increasing the amount of credit available to the banking system – by nearly $1 trillion.
March 3rd, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 4 comments | Continued
Rate Cut of 100 Basis Points Couldn’t Cheer Up the All Ords
Well well well. Not even a bonus rate cut of 100 basis points could cheer the All Ords up yesterday. There was red in nearly every sector of the market. Stocks rallied on Wall Street overnight. The futures are up 70 points ahead of the market opening. Looks like more green here in Australia. The RBA wouldn’t have been that fussed about the action in the stock market yesterday…
December 3rd, 2008 | Dan Denning | 3 comments | Continued
Consumer Spending Falls Hard As Consumers Guard Their Wallets
As predicted in this space, many times, consumer spending is falling hard. But what else could it do? Read on…
November 3rd, 2008 | Bill Bonner | 7 comments | Continued
RBA Rate Cut Does Little to Unlock Credit Market
“Rally to me,” said Glenn Stevens. And investors did. The RBA rate cut WAS a full percentage point as we speculated yesterday. And it certainly did make a splash. Economists loved it. The critics praised it. And investors “huzzahed” the ASX 200 up nearly two percent on a day when the rest of the globe quaked in fear. What has changed? The bank has shifted from being worried about inflation to being worried about recession. A credit crunch?
October 8th, 2008 | Dan Denning | 4 comments | Continued