Banking Links - March 8, 2010
Volcker Says - Keep Rates Low And Spending High - Bloomberg
Local Governments Seek To Renege On Bank Interest Rate Swaps - BI
Hard Times To Follow Reckless Fed Policies And Easy Bank Lending - Telegraph
Banks Facing Huge Losses On Mortgage Buybacks - Bloomberg
The EURO Will Survive Greece - It’s What Comes [...]

Banking Links - March 1, 2010
Buffett On Housing - Why The Bad News Is Good News -Forbes
Buffett - Failed Bankers Still Live In Grand Style - TOL
The Abrupt Collapse of Empires - LAT
Many Banks Still On The Critical List - NYT
Bank of America’s $30 Million Dollar Man - Bloomberg
Banks Hire Home Builders - WSJ
Japan’s Final [...]

Banking Failures in Nevada and Washington Bring 2010 Total To 22
The weekly banking failures continue as regulators closed two more failed banks in Nevada and Washington.   The two failed banks had total assets of $769 million and total deposits of $496 million.  The cost to the FDIC Deposit Insurance Fund (DIF) for this week’s [...]

Banking Links - February 25, 2010
Banks, Like Everyone Else, Face Massive Tax Hikes - Bloomberg
‘Nascent’ Recovery Requires Low Rates - Bloomberg
Banks Bet On Greece Default - NYT
Credit Card Borrowing Becomes Road To Impoverishment - NYT
Bernanke Seeks To Preserve Fed’s Powers - WP
Citigroup To Sell Hedge Fund Business - WSJ
Banks Ease Terms On Jumbo Mortgage Lending [...]

Quarterly Banking Profile December 31, 2009
The FDIC Quarterly Banking Profile for the latest quarter ending December 31, 2009 continues to show a banking industry struggling with record levels of charge-offs and noncurrent loans.
Net Charge-offs And Noncurrent Loans At Record Levels
Net charge-offs for the fourth quarter of $53 billion increased by $14.4 billion over the same [...]

Banking Links - February 24, 2010
Sovereign Defaults - When The Impossible Becomes Inevitable - Bloomberg
Treasury To Borrow $200 Billion For The Fed - WSJ
Banks Expand Consumer Lending At 120% Interest Rates - Bloomberg
Banks Spurn Small Business Loans - Baseline Scenario
Banks Cash In On Overdraft Fees - NYT
How The Government Encourages Strategic Mortgage Defaults - FT

Banking Links - February 23, 2010
Excess Leverage Always Has A Bad Ending - Atlantic
Japan, Like Greece, Is Beyond Redemption - Bloomberg
Loan Mods Nothing More Than An Expensive Delay - Guess Who Pays? -Calculated Risk
Why Every Welfare State Will Follow Greece Into The Abyss - WP
US Banking Lending Drops At Fastest Rate In History - Telegraph
The [...]

Banking Links - February 22, 2010
Regulatory Financial Reform - All Talk, No Action - FS
Without Borrowers Or Lenders, Deflation Is Inevitable - B Prechter
Yield Starved Japanese Scoop Up US Treasury Debt - Bloomberg
Fed Shows Its Hand With Discount Rate Hike - Econobrowser
Low Borrowing Rates Meaningless Without Income - NYT
Fundamental Financial Reform Victim Of Competing Special [...]

Regulators Tell Banks To Lend - “Prudent Lending Will Not Be Criticized”
The FDIC is encouraging banks under its supervision to increase lending to small businesses.   In a recent Financial Institution Letter, the FDIC highlights reasons for the decline in lending to small businesses as well as the rationale for banks to lend more aggressively.
Some [...]

Banking Failures in Texas, California, Illinois and Florida Bring 2010 Total To 20
Regulators continued their ritual of Friday night bank closings, shuttering 4 more banks across the country.   The four failed banks had total assets of $4.2 billion and total deposits of $3.4 billion.  The cost to the FDIC Deposit Insurance Fund (DIF) for [...]