The SEC commissioners conducted a brief 55 minute hearing on April 28, 2004 that set the stage for the global financial crisis (GFC) which began to unfold in early 2007 and reached full boil in September 2008. As far as […]
Bailout Too Big to Fail
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Sly and the Family Stone came out with “Let me take you higher” in 1969, it seems a sales trader at a large Wall St firm has taken those boom lacka lacka, boom lacka lacka lyrics to heart. It’s true, it […]
Before 2008 a real, real estate market did not exist. Americans are not dumb, but due to misleading information about the real estate market they made predictably bad mortgage decisions. Banks and only banks control/led leverage in two ways. The […]
The picture is a diagram of the US Shadow Banking System produced by the New York Fed in 2009/10. It is important to note, a handful of the largest, most sophisticated American banks, largely in the Federal Reserve district east […]