Showing posts with label banks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label banks. Show all posts
Monday, November 14, 2011

Business Loans Continue to Increase

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The largest twenty-five domestically chartered commercial banks in the United States continue to increase lending to businesses (Com...
Thursday, February 24, 2011

United States Loses 355 Banks in 2010

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One December 31, 2010, the FDIC reported that there were 7,657 insured depository institutions in the United States. This was 355 less than...
Monday, November 8, 2010

The Banking System Seems to be Dividing: Large Versus Small

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The last three months have seen more and more weakness in the smaller commercial banks in the United States. Last month I ask the question,...
Friday, July 9, 2010

Market Volatiltiy is Not Bad: Its the Better Alternative

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Last week the United States stock markets dropped dramatically…the Dow Jones Index fell significantly below 10,000. This week the same mark...
Tuesday, March 16, 2010

The Federal Reserve and the Smaller Banks

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The Open Market Committee of the Federal Reserve System meets today. No one is expecting that there will be any change to the Fed’s target ...
Monday, March 8, 2010

Federal Reserve Exit Watch: Part 8

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Looking at the Federal Reserve statistics these days is rather boring. As has been reported over the past month or two, the Fed has gotten ...
Thursday, March 4, 2010

The "Next Greece" Again

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The New York Times business section carries the headline, “Traders Turn Attention to the Next Greece”: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/04/bus...
Thursday, December 17, 2009

Will Bernanke Never Learn?

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The report from the Federal Reserve yesterday was positive. The headline in the Wall Street Journal was typical: “Fed More Upbeat, but Keeps...
Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Banking, Banks, and the President: Defining the Issues

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The side that wins the political battles is usually the one that presents the issues in such a way that the “public” responds to this presen...
Tuesday, December 1, 2009

The Secret No One Wants to Tell

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The one thing that seems to provide an explanation for a lot of the things going on today is the continued weakness of the banking sector. I...
Thursday, October 22, 2009

A Quick Look at Profits

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So far, two facts stand out to me in many of the current earnings releases. First, for many large financial firms, trading profits have pro...
Sunday, October 11, 2009

The Small Banks Are Not Doing Well

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This is my monthly report on bank lending. Last month I reported on the continued absence of the commercial banking industry in loan market...
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Thursday, September 10, 2009

Banks Remain on the Sidelines

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The commercial banking system is still holding onto cash rather than lending or investing. Over the thirteen weeks ending August 26, 2009 t...
Thursday, July 2, 2009

Is Treasury's TARP Debt Already Monetized? Part III

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The discussion continues for one more post. I ended the last post with these words: “The hope is that as the banking system works through i...
Sunday, June 14, 2009

What Banks Aren't Telling Us?

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I am still worried about what banks aren’t telling us. Why? Total Reserves in the banking system have increased by $857.8 billion over the t...