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Fed Balance Sheet vs. Stock Market; Will QE Cause Inflation?

MishTalk

Get Involved The State of the Unions Finances: A Citizens Guide. Balanced Budget Ammendment Sign the Balanced Budget Petition. Fed Balance Sheet vs. Stock Market; Will QE Cause Inflation? Fed Balance Sheet vs. Stock Market. Patrick Housing Crash News Top Housing and Commercial Real Estate News.

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Rising COVID cases, falling economy

Tom Spencer

Since the start of February this year, the Fed has expanded its balance sheet by more than $2.4 To put that in context, the Fed was created in 1913, and its total balance sheet assets only reached $2.4 trillion in assets, but only 2 months to achieve the same amount of balance sheet expansion this year.

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How the Great Recession Changed Banking

Harvard Business

Just over 10 years ago, French bank BNP Paribas froze U.S. There was a run on British bank Northern Rock. Over the next year, many banks fell. Investment bank Bear Stearns collapsed. We expect investment banks to embark on an even more fundamental makeover during the next decade. The New Face of Investment Banks.

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European Banks Dump Massive Amounts of Subordinated Debt on Investors

MishTalk

The Financial Times notes a Big rise in subordinated debt issuance by EU banks Banks have taken advantage of yield-chasing investors to issue $90.7bn of subordinated debt for the year to date, a 41 per cent increase compared to the same period in 2012. It relates to bail-in procedures in the alleged European "banking union".

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The age old tale of financial crises

Tom Spencer

By distributing 100 million sesterces from the imperial bank to reliable bankers around the Empire and dropping interest rates to zero for three years, Tiberius saved Rome and the other affected nations of Egypt, Greece, and France. In the face of illiquidity a bank cannot repay current liabilities or their depositholders.

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2008 Financial Crisis – Causes and historical context

Tom Spencer

Many an economics and finance course later, I see that the layers of complexities to the 2008 financial crisis are innumerable. This is because the initial trigger for the crisis was reliance by major banks, particularly those in the United States, on mortgage backed securities as collateral. It all seemed so clear.

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Austria "Bad Bank" Goes Bad, $8.5 Billion "Bail-In" Underway

MishTalk

This entire notion that you can take bad assets from a bank and put them in a "bad bank" to make everything well, is ridiculous. The step, allowed by new legislation that gives banking supervisors more power to intervene, followed an outside audit of Heta''s balance sheet that exposed a capital hole of up to 7.6

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