Showing posts with label bad assets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bad assets. Show all posts
Monday, October 17, 2011

European Bankers Balk at Big Write Downs

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In my experience there are three ways for bankers with “bad” assets to move on.   First, the bank can “work out” the bad assets, but t...
Thursday, March 17, 2011

FDIC Bill for Loan Losses at Failed Banks to Reach $30 Billion

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The good news is that the FDIC payments to those organizations and institutions buying failed banks during the present crisis are smaller th...
Tuesday, February 8, 2011

The Games Banks Play

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I would like to recommend another article on bank accounting practices. This is the article by Michael Rapoport in the Monday’s Wall Street...
Monday, September 13, 2010

Still No Life in Banking

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Over the last two months I have been hoping that the smaller banks in the United States were starting to lend a little bit again. I was eve...
Thursday, July 30, 2009

No "Green Shoots" in the Banking Sector Yet

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Although analysts have detected “Green Shoots” in the economy signaling the possibility that there may be a recovery occurring sometime soon...
Sunday, June 28, 2009

Is Treasury's TARP Debt Already Monetized?--Part Two

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My post from Friday June 26 contained the first part of this discussion. Today I would like to continue the discussion and there are two rea...
Monday, April 13, 2009

Are Banks Telling the Truth?

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On the front page of the Financial Times this morning we read the disconcerting headlines, “’Tarp cop’ to investigate whether banks have ‘co...
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