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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. I think what you say makes sense, but implementation of your idea requires quite an re-allocation of industry resources. Productivity. (6).

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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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Bulls and Bears Debate China: Property Bubble Expands Again; GDP Growth Picks Up; Economic Recovery Underway? No Says Michael Pettis

MishTalk

A series of land sales have set record prices since August, with real estate developers ramping up their competition for the best plots in the biggest cities. Part of it may simply be that few Chinese see any real alternative to real estate as a way of saving. China Rich in Reserves. Pettis Replies.

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Pettis Proposes Savings Glut and Income Inequality are Source of Global Imbalances; Mish vs. Pettis: I Respectfully Disagree

MishTalk

This model rests on an understanding of how distortions in the savings rates of different countries have driven the great trade and balance-sheet distortions with which we are wrestling today, just as they have in most previous global crises, including those of the 1870s, the 1930s, and the 1970s. It does so in two ways.

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The Cantillon Effect

Tom Spencer

In 2020, the Fed has galloped over the precipice, increasing its balance sheet by around $2.8 Rising prices over time create an incentive for production to move abroad, and the resulting decrease in productive capacity causes a society to decline. This inadvertently fuels asset bubbles and financial instability.

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