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Consumer Credit Plunges By Record $21.6 Billion As The Main Driver For GDP Growth Says "Enough"

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A record plunge in consumer credit, and the American middle class has just given the new and improved Obama-endorsed "spend spend spend" recovery and confidence plan the middle finger.

$6.1 billion decline in revolving credit, and a $15.4 billion drop in non revolving credit, on a $4 billion expected decline! June's decline was revised downward to a $15.6 billion reduction in credit.

Someone please spin how a record consumer retrenching is in any way benficial to America's GDP.

Yet TradeBot and HAL9000 have largely priced in this $17 billion miss to consensus.

And here is what a consumerless recovery (another term to add to the growing -less list) looks like:




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Tue, 09/08/2009 - 15:13 | Link to Comment TumblingDice
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If only our government can be as wise as the consumer.

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 16:23 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Tue, 09/08/2009 - 19:24 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Tue, 09/08/2009 - 15:16 | Link to Comment Steak
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Consumer to Fed...sit and spin

 

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Tue, 09/08/2009 - 15:19 | Link to Comment molecool
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If you don't mind I'm going to use that on ES :-)

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 15:51 | Link to Comment Steak
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Please do :-)

If anyone had asked if I thought retailers would surge on very weak back-to-school sales I would say shennanigans.  Yet that is exactly what happened.  Who has the guts to say now that retail stocks would react poorly to a bad holiday season?  Sure intuition, logic, common sense and firing synapses would lead one to that conclusion, but thats not the market we're in now.

Not Looking Good So Far for Back-to-School Sales: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/04/business/04shop.html?hp

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 16:56 | Link to Comment zarrmax
Tue, 09/08/2009 - 16:59 | Link to Comment Steak
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ohhhhhh snap, fun will definitely be had...thanks a ton!

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 15:19 | Link to Comment Dixie Normous
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The daily chart of the SPX?

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 15:22 | Link to Comment Sardonicus
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Tue, 09/08/2009 - 15:39 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Tue, 09/08/2009 - 16:31 | Link to Comment Bubby BankenStein
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Perfection!

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 15:16 | Link to Comment Sardonicus
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holiday sales should just be spectacular!

I suppose the merch is passing right by the retailers and going straight to the liquidators...or the dumpster.

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 17:11 | Link to Comment JohnKing
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Santa Obama will probably do a cash for presents stimulus, trade in your old Chinese junk and get new Chinese junk. The old Chinese junk will be recycled into lead batteries to make the program seem "green". All will be well.

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 15:18 | Link to Comment Cognitive Dissonance
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In a strange way, these "end of the earth as we know it" screen shots are becoming common and even blase.

IMHO it actually allows some people to feel calm because it looks like disaster is here but the world hasn't ended and the government says things are getting better.

At least that's what some of my clients are telling me. Just goes to show, if you tell someone the sky is green enough times, they will begin to actually believe it.

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 15:27 | Link to Comment Dixie Normous
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Exactly, the ultimate goal of the financial media, wall st and the government is to project an image that even though times are difficult, they will eventually get better because smart men and women who understand the complexities of the problem are on the job, and if they aren't running around screaming "FIRE" then maybe it will get better soon.

So fry up another can of cat food America, help is on the way!

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 15:38 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Tue, 09/08/2009 - 15:39 | Link to Comment George the baby...
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Has anybody noticed the strange shade of green the sky has taken on lately?

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 15:57 | Link to Comment Miles Kendig
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bwaaahaaa.  post of the day!

folks in Madhatten may not know what that indicates, but living in Memphis I sure do.

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 16:01 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Wed, 09/09/2009 - 05:26 | Link to Comment Rusty Shorts
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...well I built me a raft and she's ready for float..

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7JZfJ8q81A

Wed, 09/09/2009 - 09:30 | Link to Comment MinnesotaNice
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Taking me back... thanks... the best song they ever performed imho...

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 15:22 | Link to Comment SDRII
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you cant eat denial

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 15:28 | Link to Comment Joe Sixpack
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Are you attacking denial bugs?

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 15:31 | Link to Comment mule65
Tue, 09/08/2009 - 15:42 | Link to Comment George the baby...
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Germany? I'm so going to kick my geography teachers posterior. Egypt, he said Egypt.

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 15:43 | Link to Comment Anonymous
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Tue, 09/08/2009 - 16:11 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Tue, 09/08/2009 - 15:26 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Tue, 09/08/2009 - 15:33 | Link to Comment nope-1004
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Economy in trouble.

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 15:26 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Tue, 09/08/2009 - 15:58 | Link to Comment Miles Kendig
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is the same true for a nice game of Go or Chess?

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 15:26 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Tue, 09/08/2009 - 18:52 | Link to Comment Translational Lift
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American consumers are not maturing.....they're in shock....it's called Bunker Mentality.....

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 15:29 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Tue, 09/08/2009 - 15:37 | Link to Comment CD
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Why don't the relatively larger declines of March '09 (-32.6) and April (-27.1) show up on the over-time charts? Also, where is the credit expansion from May '09 (+15.6)? Assuming the BB terminal graphs are correct, there may be a mistake in the Consumer Credit table above -- or is that not supposed to be the numeric representation of actual consumer credit change from Sept. '08 through July '09?

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 15:33 | Link to Comment Bearish Spirits
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I know I should not be surprised, but it's almost funny to see the ramp job happen at 2:30 so soon after this news came out.

And by the way, it happens as the dollar is being driven down again.

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 15:33 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Tue, 09/08/2009 - 15:45 | Link to Comment Tyler Durden
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Historical numbers were all revised. Will adjust table shortly.

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 15:59 | Link to Comment Ivanovich
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Of course they were all revised.  You don't think they're going to tell you how it is on the day of the data release, do you?  Like NFP where numbers are revised down by tens of thousands the next month.

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 15:33 | Link to Comment BM (not verified)
Tue, 09/08/2009 - 15:59 | Link to Comment straightershooter
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Both.

Banks are UNWILLING to lend to credit-un-worthy  and Credit-worthing are unwilling to borrow. Worse, credit-worthing are willing to de-load at any way they can since banks are charging rate exceeding 20% for credit-worthy.

Expect a crash Christmas this year and a torrent of bankruptcy filings early 2010.

 

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 16:43 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Tue, 09/08/2009 - 15:33 | Link to Comment Tomified
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Government rate of spending is off the chart, however. Instead of trying to persuade us to spend, they are just spending our money for us.

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 15:34 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Tue, 09/08/2009 - 15:35 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Tue, 09/08/2009 - 16:01 | Link to Comment straightershooter
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CAsh for clunkers were not in force during July.

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 15:36 | Link to Comment dza
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You guys are missing the big picture.

This is a recovery-less recovery. The lack of any future economic growth is already priced in to the fraudulent, profitless, consumer-less, Jobless, and moneyless, recovery.

 

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 15:47 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Tue, 09/08/2009 - 18:25 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Tue, 09/08/2009 - 15:38 | Link to Comment Sardonicus
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correct.  The only way to make money is to buy and sell  the market

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 15:40 | Link to Comment Sancho Ponzi
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AMD was the pump of the day. Hilarious.

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 15:41 | Link to Comment Sardonicus
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Tue, 09/08/2009 - 15:41 | Link to Comment walküre
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Robotrader, can we have a chart on ORH today please?

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 15:41 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Tue, 09/08/2009 - 15:52 | Link to Comment Bankster T Cubed
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less debt does not equal more savings (only in econometric models of the Fed scumbags)

it means consumer spending is contracting rapidly - more rapidly now than before

there is no gdmf "recovery"

there is only a grossly manipulated stock market

the real deal is NOT that people are choosing to save instead of consume

the real deal is that PEOPLE HAVE LESS MONEY TO SPEND

 

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 15:59 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Tue, 09/08/2009 - 17:01 | Link to Comment Bankster T Cubed
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what it means here and now is that consumers are reducing spending and doing so much more than "estimated".  It does not mean that they are paying off debt, though that is theoretically possible.  

Wed, 09/09/2009 - 02:12 | Link to Comment Wilderman
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Some of this may be only reduction in lines of credit. 

BAC reduced my CC limit by 50% this year (that's fine, like I want 30% money?), I'm sure that shows up somewhere.  Saw much coverage, even on ZH, on this. 

Granted, it's obvious evidence of deflation in the real economy, but does it compare to the trillions being monetized?

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 16:03 | Link to Comment walküre
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+100 !

there is no gdmf "recovery"

WTF is supposed to recover?

People are growing their own foods and debate whether or not to hold chickens in their suburbs.

Consumers are cutting back on everything even more.

How exactly do the propagandists envision a recovery?

I see downsizing all around me and cut backs.

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HIGHER UNEMPLOYMENT

LOWER INCOMES

LESS CREDIT

= RECOVERY

WTF???

 

 

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 16:01 | Link to Comment Miles Kendig
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Forget to log in Phil Gramm?

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 17:29 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Tue, 09/08/2009 - 18:57 | Link to Comment Translational Lift
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maybe in 50 years.....

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 15:42 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Tue, 09/08/2009 - 15:45 | Link to Comment Bankster T Cubed
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Rigged.   Organized Fucking Crime.  May the cheerleaders eat shit in hell.

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 15:46 | Link to Comment chicagopwj (not verified)
Tue, 09/08/2009 - 15:48 | Link to Comment ghostfaceinvestah
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the Fed is still printing money?

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 23:09 | Link to Comment hardball22
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SPX was up on Friday, you see.
So Asian markets (Shanghai & HSI) were up on Monday because SPX was up on Friday.

Asian markets were up again on Tuesday because, well, they were up on Monday (momentum & a G20 multiple orgasm).

Therefore, lo and behold, SPX was up today.

That's quasi-serious, oddly enough.

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 17:25 | Link to Comment greenbacks (not verified)
Tue, 09/08/2009 - 18:56 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Tue, 09/08/2009 - 15:47 | Link to Comment ghostfaceinvestah
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21.6B in a month?

BFD.  the Fed is printing $25B a WEEK to buy agency MBS.

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 15:59 | Link to Comment Sancho Ponzi
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Ben's all in on another bubble, but there's nothing (nobody?) left to blow.

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 15:47 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Tue, 09/08/2009 - 16:12 | Link to Comment walküre
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You and thousands of Americans have experienced a market panic, a bursting bubble and have seen the naked truth. The Emperor has no clothes.

There is NO turning back to living on credit and being a slave to the bank.

Cash, gold and land are the values to hold.

The problem for THEM is that more and more people are waking up to the fact that they were screwed once and that government is in the process of screwing them yet again.

Screw me once, shame on me.

Try and screw me twice, fuck you.

 

 

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 16:28 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Tue, 09/08/2009 - 15:55 | Link to Comment AN0NYM0US
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David Tice just now on Fox Business (interrupted by Pelosi and Reid) but before they cut him off he was clear as day that this market will test and break the March lows and a fiscal crisis is upon us.

 

"Most people have three legs on their financial stool: House, Paycheck and Equities - all three are headed lower."

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 16:02 | Link to Comment Project Mayhem
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Absolutely.  This game is just being held together long enough to burn as many sucker-dupes as possible and to blame the inevitable crash on some 'external event'

 

It's really a matter of creating a bullshit historical narrative.  Now everyone believes there is a recovery (even though there is no such thing!) .  What a farce!  Unemployment is at 16.8%.  There never was any recovery.  But the lamestream media have repeated it until they made it true.  So now we have our 'recovery' and we can make it part of the 2009 lamestream historical narrative.

 

"Oh gee wiz we were having such a wonderful recovery until ______________ happened , and now everything is falling apart once again.  Well at least our problems are the fault of this unfortunate event, rather than the combination of our malicious and inept policymakers.  Let's continue to trust them to bring us through this crisis."

 

 

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 16:06 | Link to Comment Miles Kendig
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Yep.

Just one more tired example of; "don't believe what you see, believe what they tell you".

I am with you PM.  It is all a load of crap and the powers that be are just rolling from one index of excuse to another hoping that we will behave like an abused child.

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 16:11 | Link to Comment TumblingDice
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1) Swine Flu

2) Money market drawdown by the evil communist Chinese and other creditor countries. (or a series of failed auctions, and by that I mean failed excluding the Fed.)

3) "Computer error"

4) Major conflict/terrorists/pirates

5) A bank bankruptcy

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 16:13 | Link to Comment AN0NYM0US
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6) all of the above

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 16:27 | Link to Comment SV
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Dice,  I'm going to go with #6 above for 200.

Demagoguery knows no bounds when it serves to insulate and perpetuate those in power....

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 16:43 | Link to Comment TumblingDice
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Probably right.

And only a handful of people will realize that those events are the symptoms and not the disease.

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 22:03 | Link to Comment Sam Clemons
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6) Health care "reform" doesn't pass

7) Cap and tax doesn't pass

 

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 16:10 | Link to Comment ghostfaceinvestah
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It is all just a liquidity-driven game.  Remember the market "crashed" last year because Lehman failed.

Or did it?  Lehman filed on Sept 15th.  The S&P was at 1192.  It rose to 1255 on 9/19.  On 9/26 it was still above 1200.

Or maybe there was a liquidity event.  that was blamed on Lehman.

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 16:18 | Link to Comment deadhead
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Denninger has said several times it was the Fed because they yanked hard on the slosh. 

actually, can't wait to see his post about today's consumer credit numbers and how green shoothiness these numbers are!

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 16:21 | Link to Comment Sancho Ponzi
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There was a good article on Bloomberg.com about the Lehman bust today. The Fed and banksters didn't even think about how Lehman's demise would affect commercial paper. 

OOPS!

 

 

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 22:59 | Link to Comment Gilgamesh
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This paper was put out in July and has been referenced by some heavyweights already:

 

Securitized Banking and the Run on Repo

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1440752

 

IRA has a good piece up, and talks about that paper:

http://us1.institutionalriskanalytics.com/pub/IRAMain.asp

"The current financial crisis is a system-wide bank run. What makes this bank run special is that it did not occur in the traditional-banking system, but instead took place in the "securitized-banking" system. A traditional-banking run is driven by the withdrawal of deposits, while a securitized-banking run is driven by the withdrawal of repurchase ("repo") agreements," the authors argue.

The simple explanation is that because Bear and Lehman were not part of the "bank" club, these firms failed. Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) and Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) were saved only via extraordinary efforts by the Fed and conversion into ersatz banks. But the wave of selling and demands for cash and collateral that almost destroyed all of the non-bank dealers was a function of confidence, not capital. And the same wave of selling and collateral demands would have destroyed the largest commercial banks too were it not for the extraordinary actions by the Fed to essentially float the entire rancid corpus of private label securitization.

As Gorton & Metrick argue: "What happened is analogous to the banking panics of the 19th century in which depositors en masse went to their banks seeking to withdraw cash in exchange of demand and savings deposits. The banking system could not honor these demands because the cash had been lent out and the loans were illiquid, so instead they suspended convertibility and relied on clearinghouses to issue certificates as makeshift currency. Evidence of the insolvency of the banking system in these earlier episodes is the discount on these certificates. We argue that the current crisis is similar in that contagion led to "withdrawals" in the form of unprecedented high repo haircuts and even the cessation of repo lending on many forms of collateral."

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 16:27 | Link to Comment Bankster T Cubed
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that implies that the market crashed because of lehman, not because the RE Ponzi economy itself crashed....which it did.   which is why lehman went under.

There's a lot of rhetoric out there that blames the LEH collapse on the Fed/Treasury refusal to rescue them, and that the market crash is therefore the fault of a failure of the feds to rescue a failing firm.   And this line of reasoning is TOTAL BULLSHIT.

Lehman failed because it was overlevered in too many bad investments.  Period.  All the other banks should have failed as well.

The markets crashed because the ponzi credit bubble DIED, as it was certain to do.

"Liquidity Driven Markets" is a term I despise.  Every single day of my professional trading career since 1995 has had as a feature "SO much cash on the sidelines!" and "there's just sooooo much money out there."   It has never meant shit.

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 16:34 | Link to Comment Sancho Ponzi
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You may be right. My point was the narrow, self-serving focus of the participants, and the total lack of concern for the best interests of this country or its citizenry.

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 17:30 | Link to Comment Verbal Kint
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LEH failed because it didn't have enough friends left after refusing to participate in LTCM bailout. Most other banks should have failed too, especially GS...

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 19:57 | Link to Comment Verbal Kint
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well put Andy

Wed, 09/09/2009 - 02:26 | Link to Comment Wilderman
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And reiterated on Bloomberg this morning

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 16:13 | Link to Comment AN0NYM0US
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PM

+1

that explanation fits like a glove

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 16:19 | Link to Comment djchill2
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Trust = Mossberg 12 gauge Persuader, P229 Sigsauer 40mm, and 9mm Astra

Financial Security = 30% emerging market funds, 45% Gold, 15% Silver, and 10% cash

 

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 18:10 | Link to Comment Bubby BankenStein
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Don' t forget the other precious metal - Lead - as in Buck Shot.

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 23:26 | Link to Comment Hephasteus
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You guys need to discover the Benelli M2.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg5LcgRgRzE

Here it is in WTF mode.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGSN8fOHEX0&feature=related

 

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 16:25 | Link to Comment Oso
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oh whoa.... dude, never thought this way, but it actually makes perfect sense.......

ugh, this just added to my paranoia/anger problems.

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 17:00 | Link to Comment deadhead
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""Oh gee wiz we were having such a wonderful recovery until ______________ happened , and now everything is falling apart once again.  Well at least our problems are the fault of this unfortunate event, rather than the combination of our malicious and inept policymakers.  Let's continue to trust them to bring us through this crisis."

PM....brilliant use of the language and oh so correct.  Fortunately for the obama and fed complex, there are so many fill in the blank events. 

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 17:32 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Tue, 09/08/2009 - 18:51 | Link to Comment Printfaster
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With unemployment at 16%+++, it will take years to "recover".  How many jobs need to be created to get to 10%?  5%?

How long will it take to get to these lower unemployment numbers?  Recovery, reschmuckovy.  Even while things will be getting better, conditions will be horrible and getting worse for very many.

 

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 19:27 | Link to Comment MinnesotaNice
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I agree with you 100%... and if no crisis naturally develops... they will develop one themselves..

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 16:00 | Link to Comment Anonymous
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Tue, 09/08/2009 - 16:16 | Link to Comment deadhead
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I don't think anyone has mentioned it in this thread yet but I am shocked, shocked, shocked, that the June credit utilization numbers were revised downward....something like 10 billion reduction in June revised to 15 billion reduction...hell, that's only 50%.

consensus by analysts for July was for a reduction of 4 billion (per green shoots netwok article on their website)...instead we got a reduction to 21.4 billion.

wow....just wow.

 

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 16:19 | Link to Comment Miles Kendig
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DH - These are the reported numbers don't forget.

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 16:29 | Link to Comment deadhead
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amen to that Layne....I have lost pretty much all faith in most things (and numbers) that come from the government or Fed. 

my broker and I have this ongoing thing where we laugh like hell about the revisions because they are certainly consistent.....consistently more negative, lol!

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 16:32 | Link to Comment mule65
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We all know that you can't get "better-than-expected" without lowering expectations a month early and revising (worsening) actual numbers a month later.

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 20:44 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Tue, 09/08/2009 - 16:18 | Link to Comment bpj
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You just have to go to Costco to realize that shit is fucked up. Costco is now selling USDA Prime beef, which means that restuarants are drying up and blowing away.

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 16:18 | Link to Comment deadhead
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the wsj had a big article about that approx. 4, 5, 6 weeks ago or so.

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 16:18 | Link to Comment Anonymous
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Tue, 09/08/2009 - 16:18 | Link to Comment Absolute Reserve
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It would be interesting to know how much was paid off versus walked away from.

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 16:21 | Link to Comment JR
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Our new czar system: “He has erected a multitude of new offices by a self assumed power, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.” -- T. Jefferson (original version)

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 16:22 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Tue, 09/08/2009 - 16:24 | Link to Comment Gabriel Gray
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Did you read this on the internet?

It must be some more of that disinformation going around.

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 16:27 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Tue, 09/08/2009 - 16:42 | Link to Comment TumblingDice
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You just described a perpetual motion machine that does not exist.

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 17:13 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Tue, 09/08/2009 - 17:26 | Link to Comment Ned Zeppelin
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"Consumer credit fell $21.1 billion in July, a record drop, with downwardly revised numbers for June. The decline was likely driven by outsized charge-offs at commercial banks.

Thank you for your interest in Wells Fargo's Economic Commentary by Email."  (Italics added by your correspondent).

Well, at least that explains that.  No worries, nothing to see, just move along . . .

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 17:37 | Link to Comment Verbal Kint
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Credit down, so what. As long as money is being printed the market will go up in nominal terms. In real terms the market may be down a lot already. Would you rather own a company with real tangible assets, preferably some of them outside the US or a bunch of $ notes? So face up to reality, say goodby to cash, and by SPX (or find some not quite as inflated assets elsewhere...).

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 17:38 | Link to Comment Anonymous
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Tue, 09/08/2009 - 17:48 | Link to Comment speculator
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This is big, but it doesn't look quite as scary when you look at the YOY % change, rather than the dollar value change:

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?chart_type=line&s[1][id]=TOTALSL&s[1][transformation]=pc1

Now back to scary... in this chart, it's clear the bubble is bursting, but it has probably only begun:

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/TOTALSL

 

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 21:37 | Link to Comment trillion_dollar...
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Not sure if I calculated it correctly, but a mean reversion takes us down to ~$600 billion.

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 19:02 | Link to Comment michigan independant
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Lets have this conversation after bustmas season. Im giving 50 pounds of flour to the ones in need who are being wiped not reported.

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 20:27 | Link to Comment Anonymous
Tue, 09/08/2009 - 20:51 | Link to Comment Hondo
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How much of the decline in consumer credit is do to people payoff/down loans and how much to the financial sector just writing balances off?

Wed, 09/09/2009 - 09:29 | Link to Comment Absolute Reserve
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I am trying to sort out the same question. My guess is it leans to chargeoffs as opposed to payoffs. Not sure if there is any good macro data out there.

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 21:06 | Link to Comment chindit13
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Someday, somewhere, in some country, on some planet, in some Universe, in some dimension, at a date and time to be specified at some future date, when it is least expected, there will be some signs of some sort of recovery, albeit tepid.

The market is just pricing that in.

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 23:52 | Link to Comment Arm
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TD.  Thnx.  This is a very relevant chart.  However, again, if the Fed can continue to monetize AD INFINITUM, it does not matter if consumer credit falls.  Cheque money will be replaced by a massively increased monetary base.

All the matters now is whether monetization can go on for ever.  So it seems

Wed, 09/09/2009 - 05:20 | Link to Comment George the baby...
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Until the rest of the world leaves the American Financial Casino, and the house is left with a fist full of worthless chips.

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