Tom Spencer
NOVEMBER 17, 2018
My friends and I walked out of the Big Short several years ago feeling like a group of global financial crisis experts. Many an economics and finance course later, I see that the layers of complexities to the 2008 financial crisis are innumerable. We were shocked, how could no one have seen the collapse coming? It all seemed so clear.
MishTalk
JULY 30, 2014
exports of power plant-grade coal to Germany have more than doubled since 2008. That’s because it shifts some pollution — and the burden for cleaning it — onto another other country’s balance sheet. This is a classic case of political greenwashing,” said Dirk Jansen, a spokesman for BUND, a German environmental group.
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Consultant Ninja
MARCH 31, 2009
Heres my understanding of the current TARP/TARPII/PPIP/etc plans: The major "sick" banks wont lend to businesses, because their balance sheets are tied up with bad assets that they cant sell. It is probably much easier to diagnose and treat 4 or 5 patients than a group of 100, 200, or +1000. Posted by Consultant Ninja.
MishTalk
DECEMBER 12, 2015
Ally, whose defunct GMAC Mortgage unit was one of the biggest lenders of subprime mortgages in the run-up to the 2008 housing bust, will inch back into direct home loan originations next year, the bank’s Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Brown said this week at a Goldman Sachs Group Inc. financial conference in New York.
MishTalk
JULY 10, 2013
Participants also described their views regarding the appropriate path of the Federal Reserves balance sheet. scenario," and "left us with no clear picture as to what the group is. December 2008 (85). November 2008 (78). October 2008 (108). September 2008 (140). August 2008 (93). May 2008 (73).
MishTalk
JANUARY 28, 2014
"Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, the world''s largest bank by assets, said on Thursday that it has no plans to use its own money to repay investors in a troubled off-balance-sheet investment product that it helped to market." Investors should have taken a hit. Certainly the promised 10% yield was too good to be true.
MishTalk
FEBRUARY 2, 2015
Possible explanations for this pattern include missed warning signals about the buildup of imbalances before the crisis, overestimation of the efficacy of monetary policy following a balance-sheet recession, and the natural tendency of forecasters to extrapolate from recent data. A study by Alessi, et al.
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