MIB: Got Credit Cards? You’re Probably Using the Wrong Ones
If you are an American who uses credit, you walk around with an average of 3.7 credit cards in your wallet. You’re probably using them...
Mortgage Debt Hits Record: So What?
Source: WSJ File this one under more “denominator blindness:” Every now and again, a data point comes along...
How to fix the Credit Ratings Agencies
The Bond Raters Still Need to Be Fixed The reforms adopted after the financial crisis didn’t resolve the industry’s inherent...
BBRG: The Bond Raters Still Need to Be Fixed
The Bond Raters Still Need to Be Fixed The reforms adopted after the financial crisis didn’t resolve the industry’s inherent...
Blame the Credit Rating Agencies
I was away last week when this monster piece came out in the WSJ. This issue has intrigued me since 2007, but for those of you not up to...
The Bifurcated Economic Recovery Continues
The Economy Is Booming. So Is Financial Stress. Even after a decade of recovery, family balance sheets show that gains in security have...
BBRG: The Economy Is Booming. So Is Financial Stress.
The Economy Is Booming. So Is Financial Stress. Even after a decade of recovery, family balance sheets show that gains in security have...
A Geographic Perspective of Financial Distress
There is a fascinating research piece by the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank: The Unequal Recovery: Measuring Financial Distress by ZIP...
Why No Deleveraging ?
Great collection of charts by John Authers and Lauren Leatherby looking at “The Decade of Deleveraging Didn’t Quite Turn Out That...
500% Loans and Confession of Judgment
If you’re running a small business in America and you need to borrow money, you may be forced to sign a “Confession of...