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 [...]

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 [...]

Banking Links - February 21, 2010
Plunging Commercial Real Estate Values Not Reflected On Banks Balance Sheets- WP
Does Foreclosure Assistance For The Long Term Unemployed Make Sense? - Bloomberg
Discount Rate Hike Meaningless To Savers As Rates Stay Low - Bloomberg
Insurers Of Municipal Debt May Face Huge Claims - Bloomberg
Pros Ponder Merit Of  Citigroup Stock - Barrons
Yield [...]

Banking Links - February 19, 2010
Frightened Banks Hoard Cash - The Economist
Second Mortgage Writedowns Next Big Problem For Banks - NMN
“Council of Regulators” To Protect Against Systemic Financial Risks - Yahoo News
Debts That Cannot Be Repaid Will Not Be Repaid - Munis At Risk - WSJ
Fed Hikes Discount Rate - Bloomberg
Struggling Bank Objects To “Rigid” [...]

Banking Links - February 18, 2010
Is Your Bank On The “Do Not Trust” List? - Yahoo Finance
With Fiscal Policy Options Exhausted Japan Looks To Central Bank For Salvation - Bloomberg
Banks Take Blame For Collapse of Greece - FT
With Economy In “Recovery” Question Of How To Shrink Fed Balance Sheet Debated - Bloomberg
PIGS Risk Pushing Europe’s [...]