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The One Chart US Banks Don't Want You To See

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Three years ago, the government in all its glory and sound central-planning decided to provide a fully-FDIC-backed facility to allow banks to raise capital at ultra-cheap cost of funds in the middle of the crisis. The Term-Loan-Guarantee-Program (TLGP) has not been far from our thoughts but the next month or so is going to be increasingly anxiety-inducing for the banks that took advantage of that bailout. By the end of June 2012 (i.e. the next six weeks) there is almost $60 billion of TLGP debt that matures for US banks (and will need to be refinanced we assume). This $60 billion has an average cost of funds of 0.3% (that is yield NOT spread) which when compared to the 3.5% - 4% cost of funds for mid-dated US financial debt currently (average CDS around 230bps) means a more than 10x increase in funding costs for this segment of their debt. Of course there are yield-hungry ETF-buyers to be satisfied (note LQD can soak this up and few retail investors realize just how exposed LQD - the investment-grade ETF - is to US financials) and so we expect them to get this off but it can only pressure spreads wider as supply dominates demand in this risk-averse market environment.

Data: Bloomberg

 

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Mon, 05/21/2012 - 09:15 | 2447079 Taint Boil
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Ruh Roh........

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 09:55 | 2447238 MachoMan
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Why ruh roh?  Tarp got rolled into another program...  which will get rolled into another program...  which will get rolled into another program...  It's not like tarp ever got paid.  None of this shit gets paid.  Well, it does...  in smaller increments than expected and after killing any possibility of organic capital formation in the economy (suspending accounting rules, the rule of law, artificially low interest rates, etc.).

What's a few accounting entries among friends?

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 10:23 | 2447391 prodigious_idea
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"It's not like tarp ever got paid. None of this shit gets paid."

http://www.treasury.gov/press-center/press-releases/Pages/tg1096.aspx

Perhaps you were thinking of this?

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303978104577364262736412398.html

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 11:30 | 2447680 MachoMan
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Yes, but when banks are given a separate loan program (that repays the tarp money...  think GM), then it's counted as "tarp repayment."

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 13:06 | 2448047 Chuck Walla
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What's a few accounting entries among friends?

Rules make a scam into a system.

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 10:25 | 2447420 Sudden Debt
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nothing QE3 won't fix. We just got a date when it will be announced.

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 11:19 | 2447635 slaughterer
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QE 3 announcement in June 2012 is a 75% probability.  

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 09:15 | 2447081 LoneStarHog
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Boy! It is a good thing that Seseme Street teaches children the alphabet an an early age so that even the toddlers can understand the grand world of American finance.

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 10:32 | 2447452 Zero Debt
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AAA, AA, A, BBB, BB, B ..

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 09:15 | 2447082 bdc63
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There is not such thing as 'carefully' unwinding a ponzi scheme.  It's always messy and this time will be no different.

Extend & pretend, or crash & burn.  Choose your poison.

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 09:37 | 2447146 LawsofPhysics
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You are correct sir.  FYI, you have no choice when come to how it will go, you can only prepare and hedge accordingly, period.  

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 09:38 | 2447153 Rip van Wrinkle
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So you're really saying 'crash and burn'...after all extending and pretending just makes it even crashier and burnier.

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 09:45 | 2447186 CrimsonAvenger
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+1 for "crashier and burnier."

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 12:54 | 2448008 Shizzmoney
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See: Full Tilt Poker

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 20:47 | 2449337 ozzzo
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No need to choose; you will get both. E&P until it doesn't work anymore, then C&B. Be ready!

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThppEppMw5w

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 09:17 | 2447087 SheepDog-One
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They thought the had 'toxic assets' in 2008? That was just chicken scratch compared to this time.

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 09:17 | 2447090 chinaguy
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Yeah, but they had all of this time to play w/ it for free.......

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 09:24 | 2447104 hedgeless_horseman
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Ni hao ma?  Funny how banks complain about having difficulty making money when their "COGS" is near zero.

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 09:19 | 2447093 Flakmeister
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Just wait until the LGBT funding has to be rolled over...

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 09:24 | 2447105 Sandmann
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I am sure the Lesbians, Gays, BIs and Transsexuals on Wall Street will enjoy being rolled over

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 09:29 | 2447118 narapoiddyslexia
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... and over and over and over.

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 09:46 | 2447191 falak pema
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you are making it sound like fun...Facebook type funnn!

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 09:31 | 2447124 ShorTed
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Priceless!!

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 09:20 | 2447095 monopoly
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Just one more reason to stay away from all banks. YOu cannot get a real picture of their worth. Many are insolvent and on life support, even today. Why anyone would buy a bank tock is beyond any rational reasoning.

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 11:33 | 2447692 Vegamma
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Bank (tick) tock? Fruedian slip?

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 09:24 | 2447106 falak pema
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they say the euro banks are hocked clean as they have no equity which is not the case of US banks; but if you include the shadow banking liabilities of US banks does this not make Euro banks look better? There seems to be so much OTC fist pumping in the US that one does not get to understand how the shadow banking numbers of US/UK/EUro zone stack up. Any ideas?

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 09:42 | 2447169 Sophist Economicus
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They have ALL been technically insolvent for years now.   The only question is how long will the rules keep being changed to allow them to operate

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 09:59 | 2447257 slewie the pi-rat
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or just finally be "arranged" to kill the fuking zombies and wipe them out?

even as a memory they will be bad enuf, still

then howzabout: retrieve the purloined public purses from the putrid perps?

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 09:49 | 2447205 disabledvet
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i know i can't answer this but it sure is a good question. i would argue "Europe will buy American" and roll this thing over "lest the USA does a reverse financial Normandy" and implodes the whole euro experiment by leaving...this latter of which might happen anyways. The fact of the matter is both Wall Street and the euro-currency folks are both lashed to that mast whether they like it or not. Bad idea to begin with..."all economies are local" in my view..there will probably not be some spectacular blow up of the euro-zone--the financial tectonic plates have clearly been fissured however and "here comes the Continental drift" as the euro zone simply "goes its natural way" which is NOT together "en toto" but something more "apart but together."

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 09:24 | 2447108 slewie the pi-rat
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they "bought" some time

now, when the notes are "due" they will buy some more time by selling some more debt

what's not to like?

 

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 09:26 | 2447113 midgetrannyporn
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Nothing a few more bonuses can't fix.

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 09:28 | 2447119 chunga
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Of course they took advantage of the bailout[s].

Count the woman in the video below in to the millions of muppets who were also taken advantage of.

She worked with the JPMorgan in an effort to do something that would have been beneficial to the investors and herself.

But no, despite making her payments she got t-boned and foreclosed. The charts are great and all...but there are real people involved...not just numbers.

California Homeowner and Vietnam Widow Testifies before Legislative Committee on Foreclosure

This was just uploaded on Friday and I'm surprised it didn't get knocked down. None of the banks want anybody to see this.

 

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 12:55 | 2448014 Shizzmoney
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God bless you for posting this....I've retweeted to the heavens on twitter.

I mean, there has to be a special place in hell for these motherfuckers, right? 

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 14:21 | 2448299 chunga
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Thanks for spreading it around.

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 09:29 | 2447120 toady
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Smoke & mirrors.

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 09:32 | 2447130 slewie the pi-rat
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this is from booyah,  yesterday

Matt Taibbi's smack down.     Accidentally Released - and Incredibly Embarrassing - Documents Show How Goldman et al Engaged in 'Naked Short Selling' POSTED: It doesn’t happen often, but sometimes God smiles on us. Last week, he smiled on investigative reporters everywhere, when the lawyers for Goldman, Sachs slipped on one whopper of a legal banana peel, inadvertently delivering some of the bank’s darker secrets into the hands of the public.   The rest: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/accidentally-released-and-incredibly-embarrassing-documents-show-how-goldman-et-al-engaged-in-naked-short-selling-20120515#ixzz1uzy2WwCm   

[Paste fromTaibbi&RS}

The lawyers for Goldman and Bank of America/Merrill Lynch have been involved in a legal battle for some time – primarily with the retail giant Overstock.com, but also with Rolling Stone, the Economist, Bloomberg, and the New York Times. The banks have been fighting us to keep sealed certain documents that surfaced in the discovery process of an ultimately unsuccessful lawsuit filed by Overstock against the banks.

Last week, in response to an Overstock.com motion to unseal certain documents, the banks’ lawyers, apparently accidentally, filed an unredacted version of Overstock’s motion as an exhibit in their declaration of opposition to that motion. In doing so, they inadvertently entered into the public record a sort of greatest-hits selection of the very material they’ve been fighting for years to keep sealed. {endPaste, my emph]

this is last week's news, but pretty squiddy reading! and funny...

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 09:48 | 2447202 MachoMan
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Hope the malpractice insurance is paid up...  geez.  (of course, as between the lawyers and the bankers, the bankers are more hated by a few car lengths...  which, would likely result in a goose egg).

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 10:45 | 2447496 Deo vindice
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 A fight between lawyers and bankers. I say, "Let 'em go at it".

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 11:31 | 2447683 MachoMan
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It's ultimately the only thing that will change the system...  but, the banksters checks keep clearing... 

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 10:06 | 2447316 boiltherich
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"...when the lawyers for Goldman, Sachs slipped on one whopper of a legal banana peel, inadvertently delivering some of the bank’s darker secrets into the hands of the public. "

 

If indeed it was inadvertent, by now it should be obvious that GS et al do what they want to for reasons that we will never know except that it ends up with more power in their hands and more money out of our pockets. As to the chart and health of the banking system, we have not had a banking system in at least four years now, what we have is a small group of oligarchs at the head of a global theft ring and your continued freedoms such as they are rest upon your willingness to quietly accept the marriage between government and corporate power of, by, and for the one percent.

Sad to say that resistance is really futile, there is no number of actual people they cannot eliminate should those people get too noisy or unruly.

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 15:38 | 2448573 silverserfer
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One only needs to realize GS is an arm of the CIA and is acheiving objectives in regards to financial matters. There are global implications to dealing in the US and foreign $ that they would deem national securiy.

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 11:16 | 2447617 imaginalis
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I wonder if SlimVirgin will "edit" these factual discoveries into the wikipedia page on overstock.com

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 09:32 | 2447131 shutupnsing
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Didn't they just find another planet like earth...?

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 09:35 | 2447132 LouisDega
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Gee, The nice bank teller lady at my Chase branch didn't mention this. She offered me a cookie.

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 10:00 | 2447273 Bastiat
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I hope you didn't eat it.

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 09:33 | 2447136 francis_sawyer
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Banks just love blowing up in July (and in the 6 weeks prior to full elections)... You could set your sundial by it...

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 09:34 | 2447137 Miffed Microbio...
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Oh my those poor banks! Why I must gird my loins, get a second job, pay more taxes and help them out! It's our patriotic duty! Eh, forget it I think I'll just buy more gold.

Miffed:-)

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 09:36 | 2447143 Dorky
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10x increase in funding cost?

Does that mean it requires at least almost $600 billion for the next QE3?

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 10:49 | 2447514 Deo vindice
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Not as I understand it. That is the increased funding cost of the loan. The loan is still $60 billion.

Of course, what's an extra zero between friends?

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 09:38 | 2447151 willien1derland
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Bennie & The Timms to the Rescue - QE 3 will set sail but let's not forget to throw in another $775-800 billion for additional mortgage purchases from the GSEs (FHLMC, FNMA, & FHA)....but what about the Student Loan issue - I mean what about Sallie Mae? she is gonna need some cash too - I say go for the kewl $1 Trillion because America is all about convenience for the DNC/RNC & the empathy we all feel for the hard working' campaigners who do not give a damn about America nor its future.....America by Goldman Sachs

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 09:40 | 2447162 sudzee
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Don't wnow why credit card interest is never discussed here:

0.3% for the banks,

0.3% x 100 for credit cards.

I'm thinking there is quite a bit of profit margin in there somewhere.

Just sayin.

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 10:51 | 2447518 Deo vindice
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I pay 0% on my credit card.

I almost never use it.

And when I did, I paid it off in full at month's end.

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 16:28 | 2448727 BooMushroom
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And a $39 late fee for missing a $25 payment by a day.

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 09:47 | 2447195 firstdivision
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Soon the yield on the 10Y will be 0.3%

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 10:09 | 2447334 FreeNewEnergy
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AFAIC, the banks and capital markets can go piss up a rope. After them, the taxing authorities can foreclose on the remaining inventory of homes, until the weight becomes too great and property tax moratoria are announced.

As I have enjoyed saying over the past three years or so,

Free houses for everybody!

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 10:19 | 2447380 orangegeek
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More crap to add to the odorous pile.

 

And the markets are climbing because the economy is on the road to recovery.

 

PS:  How's those FB shares doing?

 

 

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 10:30 | 2447441 haskelslocal
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A Chart Tyler shouldn't want me to see either.

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 10:31 | 2447448 Bartanist
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Pretty sure what he is saying is that those connected banks that can, borrow money under another name and pay off TARP, while their actual exposure does not decline. The money does not get paid, just shifted from one pocket to another.

And then the Bozo's claim victory for the scam.

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 11:03 | 2447562 onebir
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So the chart is aggregate TGLP maturing debt, with about $15bn due in May, $45bn in June etc?

Is this actual capital for regulatory purposes (ie counted in BIS ratio etc)?

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 11:55 | 2447817 Dan Conway
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Tyler,

Not to be a nit-picker but your headline is misleading on this article.  This is one of MANY charts the banks don't want us to see.  I understand you want to grab people with your catchy headlines but you got us anyway. 

Keep up the good work because this is usually the only sane place on the internet. 

Dan

Mon, 05/21/2012 - 15:43 | 2448593 silverserfer
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Notice how the chart goes parabloic in Dec. 100 years after the FED was created. Its going to be a cold winter.

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