Report card is in/Fed’s flow of funds REVISED
REVISED: The Q1 flow of funds report from the Fed is out and the report card is in on the US consumer. Due to a rise in disposable income...
The report card is in/Fed’s flow of funds
The Q1 flow of funds report from the Fed is out and the report card is in on the US consumer. Due to a rise in disposable income from Q4...
Foreclosures Up 18%
> US Foreclosure filings (default notices, scheduled auctions and bank repos) were 321,480 U.S. properties during May 2009. Total...
Inside Look – Investor Psychology
Changing Attitudes of Investors – Roundtable Discussion, Featuring Peter Boockvar of Miller Tabak, Steven Leeb of Leeb Capital...
Compensation Is the Symptom, Not the Problem
Over the past few days, the compensation issue of senior execs art big finance firms has been front page news. The Obama administration...
Business Inventories
April Business Inventories fell 1.1%, about in line with expectations and March was revised down by .2% to a decline of 1.3%. It’s...
Auditing the Federal Reserve
A bill has even been proposed to Congress requiring an audit of the Federal Reserve. Yesterday on CNBC, Jim Grant offered some insight...
Excerpts: Nasty Fed Emails
Last night, we mentioned the Fed’s emails trashing BofA CEO Ken Lewis. This morning, the WSJ released excerpts — you can find...
Report card day for the US consumer
Over the past few weeks we’ve seen a differentiation developing in the stock market with outperformance of those name’s that...
Can Credit Markets Thaw Without Toxic Assets Buyout?
With banks raising capital, is there still a need for a government-orchestrated effort to get toxic assets off bank books? WSJ economics...