“Crucially, China and rising Asia have reached the point where they can no longer keep holding down their currencies to boost exports because this is causing mayhem to their own economies, stoking asset bubbles.
September 23rd, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 10 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "HSBC"
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
A Depression With A Capital ‘D’
Thus saith Mr. Michael Geoghegan, head of HSBC, the world’s biggest bank. HSBC bought America’s “Household Finance” for $15 billion in 2003. Now, it wishes it hadn’t. The U.S. unit ‘destroyed’ $10 billion in capital, says the bank.
March 4th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 5 comments | Continued
