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Obama Administration propaganda on prosecuting elite financial frauds

William Black — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:00:47 +0000

The Obama administration’s record of prosecuting elite financial frauds is worse than the Bush administration’s record, which is a very large statement. Neither administration has prosecuted any elite CEO for the epidemic of mortgage fraud that drove the ongoing crisis. This contrasts with over 1,000 elite felony convictions arising from the S&L debacle. The ongoing crisis caused losses more than 70 times greater than the S&L debacle and the amount of elite fraud driving this crisis is also vastly greater than during the S&L debacle

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More on Banks Making Shed Loads But Fannie And Freddie “Losing Money as a Matter of Policy”

Edward Harrison — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:30:01 +0000

Fannie and Freddie have already been nationalized and the government is already on the hook for hundreds of billions of dollars of losses as a result. Clearly, this makes it a lot easier to use the GSEs as vehicles to pump money into the economy because any incremental loss is completely obscured by the existing gargantuan losses. Fannie and Freddie can essentially become a giant stimulus slush fund for the Obama Administration as we head into the 2012 election

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The Fetish for Liquidity (and Reform of the Financial System)

Randall Wray — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:00:03 +0000

So here’s the deal. What happened is that the financial sector taken as a whole moved into extremely short-term finance of positions in assets. This is a huge topic and is related to the transformation of investment banking partnerships that had a long-term interest in the well-being of their clients to publicly-held, pump-and-dump enterprises whose only interest was the well-being of top management. It also is related to the rise of shadow banks that appeared to offer deposit-like liabilities but without the protection of FDIC. And it is related to the Greenspan “put” and the Bernanke “great moderation” that appeared to guarantee that all financial practices—no matter how crazily risky—would be backstopped by Uncle Sam. And it is related to very low overnight interest rate targets by the Fed (through to 2004) that made short-term finance extremely cheap relative to longer-term finance. All of this encouraged financial institutions to rely on insanely short short-term finance

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I repeat: The Fed’s Permanent Zero rate policy is toxic

Edward Harrison — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:20:05 +0000

Permanent zero can work over the medium-term but the economy is dependent on employment growth and monetary policy doesn't drive that

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The stark contrast between European economic policy and US economic policy

Edward Harrison — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:00:10 +0000

I was on CNBC yesterday ahead of Ben Bernanke's speech explaining the FOMC's recent decision to add an explicit inflation target to its decision to extend its rate easing/permanent zero policy. My conclusion: the Obama mortgage plan and Bernanke easing campaign are bullish for the US economy

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[PREMIUM] The Fed’s Rate easing and Obama’s Mortgage refi plan are bullish

Edward Harrison — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:30:41 +0000

Investors must still be worried about the fallout from the European meltdown. However, the situation in the US is looking much better than it did last week because of this aggressive policy response

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It’s Timmy Time

Edward Harrison — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:24:51 +0000

This is a sing along in honor of the US Treasury Secretary

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Real Financial Regulators Love Prosecutions of Fraudulent Bank CEOs

William Black — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:00:57 +0000

Senior former regulators are willing to be quoted by name asserting that Obama’s (not Bush’s) financial regulatory leaders are blocking lawsuits against fraudulent financial elites and their anti-regulatory co-conspirators because they fear embarrassment

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Edward Harrison’s Ten Surprises for 2012

Edward Harrison — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 14:12:47 +0000

Welcome to Credit Writedowns Pro. This is the first post in a series here. Let me start this Byron Wien-style and make a predictions list. Wien defines his surprises as events to which investors assign 1-in-3 odds of happening but which he believes have a more than 50 percent likelihood of occurring in 2012. That's how I am playing it too

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Barack Obama circa 1991

Edward Harrison — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 14:00:02 +0000

Here is a video clip of US President Obama from February 1991 in which he narrates a PBS ode to Charles Hamilton Houston during Black history month

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Solyndra: Liar’s Loans

William Black — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 12:00:00 +0000

This column comments on Joe Nocera’s September 23, 2011 column entitled: The Phony Solyndra Scandal. Nocera’s column compares the statements of Solyndra’s controlling managers to Dick Fuld’s statements to the public about Lehman’s conditions and asserts with minimal explanation that neither could have been criminal. I have testified before the House Financial Services Committee at some length as to why Lehman was a “control fraud” so I disagree with Nocera

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