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Consultant Ninja: A Simple Question about the Credit Markets.

Consultant Ninja

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. Productivity. (6). A Simple Question about the Credit Markets. Posted by Consultant Ninja. at 7:39 PM. Labels: Analysis. Consulting. (88).

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China Cash Crunch Eases, For How Long? Three Things China Needs to Avoid; When can Beijing Truly move to Market-Determined Interest Rates?

MishTalk

It is continuing to expand at twice the rate of nominal, or money, gross domestic product, and according to official data has pushed the credit to GDP ratio up to 215 per cent in 2013, and most likely more. One impact of the shadow banking system is an implicit and hidden “reduction” in China’s real minimum reserve requirement.

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Banks – Industry Overview

Tom Spencer

Business banks: Banks that focus on mid-sized businesses and commercial real estate. Although mortgages do not necessarily pay high interest rates, they do not eat up any capital due to the safety of the financial product and implicit government guarantees. Various other products. Non-interest Income.

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