Lehman Brothers
DVA Is Dead: Banks Will No Longer "Profit" From Collapsing
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/06/2016 13:50 -0500The debt valuation adjustment, or DVA, will no longer be included in net income, according to revisions to the fair-value measurement standard published by the Financial Accounting Standards Board Tuesday. The DVA rule increased net income when a bank’s bonds tanked, on the theory that the firm could buy back its bonds at a lower price and benefit from the decline in value.
The Big Short is a Great Movie, But...
Submitted by rcwhalen on 01/05/2016 11:00 -0500- Alan Greenspan
- Apple
- Arthur Levitt
- Bear Stearns
- Bond
- CDS
- Commodity Futures Trading Commission
- Corruption
- Countrywide
- Credit Default Swaps
- default
- Federal Reserve
- Gretchen Morgenson
- Housing Market
- Institutional Investors
- Lehman
- Lehman Brothers
- Market Share
- Meltdown
- Michael Lewis
- Morgan Stanley
- Mortgage Loans
- NASDAQ
- New Century
- New York Stock Exchange
- None
- OTC
- OTC Derivatives
- program trading
- Program Trading
- Subprime Mortgages
- Wachovia
- Washington Mutual
Derivatives like credit default swaps turned a mere bubble in the US housing market into a global financial catastrophe...
During the Next Crisis, Central Banking Itself Will Fail
Submitted by Phoenix Capital Research on 12/24/2015 15:17 -0500The situation is clear: the 2008 Crisis was the warm up. The next Crisis will be THE REAL Crisis. The Crisis in which Central Banking itself will fail.
Fed Hikes Rates, Unleashing First Tightening Cycle In Over 11 Years
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/16/2015 18:00 -0500In the end, the Fed did not surprise, and raised interest rates for the first time in almost a decade in a widely telegraphed move while signaling that the pace of subsequent increases will be “gradual” and in line with previous projections. The Federal Open Market Committee unanimously voted to set the new target range for the federal funds rate at 0.25 percent to 0.5 percent, up from zero to 0.25 percent.
The Coincidences Are Just Too Eerie: This Is The Last Time CCC Yields Were Here And Rising
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/13/2015 15:08 -0500When was the last time the same index was at precisely 17.24% and rising? The answer: the weekend Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy
The Eerie Echo Of 2007: It Really Is Bear Stearns, All Over Again
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/13/2015 10:19 -0500In a supreme twist of irony, Bear Stearns is back - maybe not the firm itself - but the people who were in charge of its distressed and junk bond trading group, and just like the summer of 2007, it is an ex "Bear"-run hedge fund that was the first to gate, just as the credit cycle is turning and the default cycle has begun, as we explained last week, just one day before everyone's attention finally focused on junk debt.
George Orwell, Edward Bernays & Perpetual War
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/07/2015 22:00 -0500George Orwell explained the cynical mechanism of Perpetual War in "1984" as a means to control the masses through terror and scarcity. Western Civilization has been embroiled in various continuous wars since Hitler invaded Poland. The Western public has passively abided Perpetual War, not because of scarcity, but because of consumer abundance, which was developed by virtually anonymous men like Edward Bernays in the 1920s. This is how men in the shadows transformed the American citizen into the American consumer, thus turning the public into a docile, unwitting accomplice in the mayhem which envelops the globe which so enriches those on high.
In NYT Op-Ed, Hillary Lays Out How She'd "Rein In Wall Street" (And No, Not By Demanding Even More Donations)
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/07/2015 10:41 -0500Overnight Hillary Clinton, in her latest populist push to present herself as "one of the people" wrote a NYT op-ed explaining "How I'd Rein In Wall Street", we were wondering if it would include draining Wall Street balance sheets with mandatory and far greater donations to her campaign by Wall Street firms - a strategy that may actually work as it hits banks where it hurts the most: their money. To our disappointment, this was not included.
The Shocking True State of the Financial System Today
Submitted by Phoenix Capital Research on 12/02/2015 15:44 -0500The global Central Banks have literally bet the financial system that their theories will work. They haven’t. All they’ve done is set the stage for an even worse crisis in which entire countries will go bankrupt.
One by One the Central Banks Are Losing Control
Submitted by Phoenix Capital Research on 11/27/2015 11:00 -0500The fact of the matter is that despite public opinion, there are problems that are so big that the Central Banks cannot fix them. We’ve seen this in Switzerland and China and now in Europe. It will be spreading to other countries in the near future.
The Next Level of John Law Type Central Planning Madness
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/07/2015 10:50 -0500- Bank of America
- Bank of America
- Bank of England
- Bank of Japan
- Bear Market
- Bill Gross
- Bond
- Capital Formation
- Central Banks
- Citigroup
- CPI
- Deficit Spending
- Enron
- European Central Bank
- Federal Reserve
- France
- Germany
- Global Economy
- Gross Domestic Product
- Hyperinflation
- India
- International Monetary Fund
- Janus Capital
- Japan
- Lehman
- Lehman Brothers
- Ludwig von Mises
- Merrill
- Merrill Lynch
- Milton Friedman
- Monetary Policy
- Monetization
- Money Supply
- Poland
- Purchasing Power
- Quantitative Easing
- Rate of Change
- Real estate
- Risk Premium
- Steven Englander
- Unemployment
- WorldCom
The cries for going totally crazy are growing louder... the lunatics are running the asylum. One shouldn’t underestimate what they are capable of. The only consolation is that the day will come when the monetary cranks will be discredited again (for the umpteenth time). Thereafter it will presumably take a few decades before these ideas will rear their head again (like an especially sturdy weed, the idea that inflationism can promote prosperity seems nigh ineradicable in the long term – it always rises from the ashes again). The bad news is that many of us will probably still be around when the bill for these idiocies will be presented.
Paul Brodsky: "Expect The Unexpected. It Might Be Time To Duck And Cover"
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 10/30/2015 18:53 -0500Most investors don’t take kindly to change. “The market” chooses to stay in the here and now; each human component vibrant and alert while the whole is passive and inert…like a herd of wildebeests, protected by its mass and collective wisdom that each one of them is statistically safe from lions as long as they stay together.
AsiaPac Calm Before BoJ Storm, Japanese Household Spending 'Unexpectedly' Drops As China Releveraging Continues
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 10/29/2015 20:27 -0500As all eyes, ears, and noses anxiously await the scantest of dovishness from Kuroda and The BoJ tonight (despite numerous hints that they will not unleash moar for now), the data that was just delivered may have helped the bad-news-is-good-news case. Most notably Japanese household spending dropped 0.4% YoY (with tax hike issues out of the way) missing expectations by a mile as the 'deflationary' mindset remains mired in Japanese heads. AsiaPac stocks are hovering at the week's lows unable to mount any bid as China fixed the Yuan notably stronger and instigated a new central pricing plan for pork prices (which suggests concerns about inflation domestically). Once again Chinese margin debt reaches a new 8-week high as 'stability' has prompted releveraging among the farmers and grandmas.
The Six Year "Grand Delusion" is Ending
Submitted by Phoenix Capital Research on 10/29/2015 11:12 -0500For six years, the world has operated under a complete delusion that Central Banks somehow fixed the 2008 Crisis.
The Calm Before The Storm
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 10/27/2015 19:17 -0500Have you noticed that things have gotten eerily quiet in the month of October? For those that don’t want to believe that hard times are on the way, they can take comfort in the eerie period of calm that we are experiencing right now. What they don’t realize is that this truly is “the calm before the storm”, and the global economic crisis that is ahead of us is going to be far beyond what most people ever dared to imagine was possible.




