Jim Parrott on GSE Reform and the Road Ahead
The GSEs will never be worth more than about $250 billion regardless of how much additional taxpayer money is contributed....
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Christopher Whalen
R. Christopher Whalen
- Jan 17, 2021
- 5 min
Q4 Earnings Update: JPM, Citi & WFC
Unless the FOMC relents and eases up on its massive purchases of Treasury securities and MBS, bank earnings are likely to decline further
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R. Christopher Whalen
- Jan 10, 2021
- 8 min
Update: Square as a Bank
The evolution of fintech companies into regulated banks has implications for public market valuations...
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R. Christopher Whalen
- Dec 28, 2020
- 8 min
Outlook 2021: Financials & Credit Markets
New issue volumes in all of the major securities asset classes other than Treasury debt are trending lower as 2021 begins....
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R. Christopher Whalen
- Nov 2, 2020
- 9 min
Bank Profiles: Morgan Stanley vs Goldman Sachs
Not all AUM is created equal. Even though GS claims to have twice the AUM of MS, it makes less than half the revenue....
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R. Christopher Whalen
- Oct 26, 2020
- 7 min
Humphrey Hawkins: Inflation & Inequality
Congress needs to reconsider the dual-mandate contained in the 1978 Humphrey-Hawkins legislation...
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R. Christopher Whalen
- Oct 7, 2020
- 5 min
Negative Returns are Now in US Mortgages
Don’t get distracted by the rising rate song from the Street. We don’t look for short or medium term interest rates to rise in the near term
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R. Christopher Whalen
- Sep 28, 2020
- 11 min
Bank Profile: Ally Financial Inc
ALLY has all of the required attributes for inclusion in The IRA Bank Dead Pool....
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R. Christopher Whalen
- Sep 24, 2020
- 4 min
Asset Inflation Soars as Deflation Persists
The deflationary impact of COVID continues to ripple through the global financial system.
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R. Christopher Whalen
- Sep 22, 2020
- 12 min
Bank Profile: Citigroup
In November 2019 we published a negative risk profile for Citigroup Inc (NYSE:C). We reaffirm the negative risk profile...
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R. Christopher Whalen
- Sep 21, 2020
- 5 min
Powell Fed Embraces Monetary Relativity
The change in the FOMC’s stance also reflects a rebuke to the remaining conservatives within the decidedly left-of-center Fed system...
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R. Christopher Whalen
- Sep 14, 2020
- 4 min
Financial Repression and Inflation Targets
No matter who wins the presidential election in November, have no doubt that Chairman Powell is the most important man in town...
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R. Christopher Whalen
- Aug 31, 2020
- 12 min
The IRA Bank Book Q3 2020
Quarterly net income for all FDIC-insured commercial banks fell 70% YOY...
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R. Christopher Whalen
- Aug 24, 2020
- 4 min
Payments, Money Velocity and Bunk
There are many dimensions to the world of payments, some which are banal other that are vitally important
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R. Christopher Whalen
- Aug 21, 2020
- 4 min
LIBOR is Dead. Long Live SOFR! Really?
Why not simply fix the existing LIBOR? Well, that would require the folks at the Fed and other central banks to admit that they were wrong
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R. Christopher Whalen
- Aug 17, 2020
- 7 min
Q-3 2020 Bank/Mortgage Earnings Preview
We expect to see lending volumes slow somewhat for the balance of 2020
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R. Christopher Whalen
- Jul 27, 2020
- 6 min
Farewell to Modern Monetary Theory
Then things like #QE and #MMT will fade into memory as we embrace the reality of no longer being special...
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R. Christopher Whalen
- Jul 12, 2020
- 7 min
Banks: Value Tease or Value Trap?
The Street wants to own these bank stocks, plain and simple....
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R. Christopher Whalen
- Jul 7, 2020
- 6 min
COVID19: Picking Winners & Losers
The summer of 2020 is all about picking winners and losers in the COVID19 lottery
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R. Christopher Whalen
- Jun 22, 2020
- 3 min
Bank Earnings Q2 2020: "Dread Man, Truly Dread"
Q2 2020 bank earnings will be "dread man, truly dread"...
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