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It’s a great time to start a bank

With the shadow banking system of hedge funds and non-bank financial institutions in shambles and the banking system's credit shrinking, U.S. government officials are desperate to get credit into the system any way they can. A key part of…

Creeping Nationalization

Banks do not have enough tangible common equity to make the grade on Tim Geithner's stress tests. That means the government will have to step in and bail them out. I will call this creeping nationalization. Paul Miller of FBR Capital…

Too big to rescue

After Iceland collapsed and went into Depression, there were a number of reports in the press regarding countries with outsized financial sectors. The worry was that the collapse of Iceland was not an isolated incident, but rather a…

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