Posts Tagged ‘financial crisis’

Jobs Report + Stress Tests = More Zombie Banks

Posted by on May 8th, 2009
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Check out this entry from Calculated Risk if you’d like a shot of cold, hard reality about the value of the happy Stress Test predictions. So far, unemployment is exceeding the “more adverse” stress test scenario and already higher than the peak unemployment rate in the baseline scenario. That rough beast slouching towards Bethlehem not to be born, but to die, is Bank of America.
Calculated Risk: Employment Report: 539K Jobs Lost, 8.9% Unemployment Rate

A flawed second draft of history

Posted by on April 23rd, 2009
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In “A flawed first draft of history“, FT editor Lionel Barber gets history wrong (again). He claims the origins of the financial crisis were too hard to spot even for financial reporters, because they were to be found “in the credit markets, coverage of which in most news organizations counted as a backwater.” All those derivatives and such were the root of the problem. Actually, as some read more >