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The belief that the whole process of testing banks and getting large stakes in them was pre-planned is nearly as preposterous as Eisenhower's military-industrial complex.
The most exciting day of the financial year should have been today because the government releases the results of its multi-month bank "stress test" program which includes thorough vetting of the health of America's 19 largest banks. That part of the drama is over. Someone leaked almost all...
No one seems to be troubled about the leaking of sensitive government data on the banks. It is unlikely that anyone will be punished for passing along information which the public should never have seen before the pre-announced release date. The information caused movement in the stocks of a...
The primary reason that news organizations gave the bank story so much space was that the public knew the tests were a fraud. Warren Buffett said so, along with a number of other financial analysts. Bank balance sheets are so complex that applying one set of measures for all of...
This conspiracy theory always had one weakness. There is no reason taxpayers would want to own troubled banks. The stocks in the companies would have to keep moving up and stay up for there to be a reasonable return. The Administration, on the other hand, might like to have the...