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...compared to the same period a year ago. Bloomberg, reports that "about $500 billion of prime-jumbo mortgages are bundled into bonds, according to Memphis, Tennessee-based FTN Financial." The default rate on those bonds may rise as high as 10%, leaving banks with yet another set of substantial write-offs...
...points to the recent IMF report that estimated $2.7 trillion in U.S. loan and security losses, and his own estimate of $3.6 trillion for the same potential losses. "The financial system is currently near insolvency," he concluded. Bernanke disputes the numbers, saying banks have "taken significant write-downs, they have reserves and there are substantial earning capacities." But Roubini is not alone in questioning whether the government used appropriately pessimistic assumptions in conducting the stress tests, especially as the financial sector faces a potential flood of commercial real estate losses that could mirror the residential market's recent woes...
...shit happens, bra” but cooler.Now bear with me, because I think that this phrase has deep meaning for us as Harvard students as well. You know what? You’re going to have to bear with me, because I’m the one writing this Endpaper, and if you don’t, you won’t have anything to read and you’ll look unpopular if you’re in the dining hall by yourself right now. BURNED!!!Anywho, I think one of the most important things...
...audience: A whole fucking lot. Harvard professors lost to the Obama Administration: 13 professors Yale professors lost to the Obama Administration: 1 professor Yardfest attendance: 7,100 people Number of songs students could sing along to: 1 (“I’m not going to write you a love song...”) Members of the Harvard Class of 2013 Facebook.com group: 1,208 members Number of posts under “Trying on APs?... Is it worth it anymore?”: 25 Number of trees planted for the Dalai Lama: 1 tree Number of student...
Politicians in Washington often speak with their own vocabulary. If they're Republicans, Frank Luntz helped write their dictionary. The influential GOP pollster and language guru has had a hand in framing the party's message since 1994's Contract with America, persuading Republicans to drop terms like "estate tax" and "oil drilling" in favor of the far more message-friendly "death tax" and "energy exploration" among other rebrandings. His latest project: the health-care debate. Relying on polling and "instant response dial sessions," Luntz penned a 28-page memo, leaked to Politico, giving Republicans the soundbites designed to spin...