The Institutional Risk Analyst

What do the US residential housing market, the stock market and the dollar all have in common? All of these markets represent bubbles...

Last week The IRA’s Chris Whalen participated in the Executive Roundtable in San Francisco, hosted by the Morrison Foerster Law firm. We...

This week provides an interesting comparison between two “financials,” Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) and Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS). The...

“Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable – as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead.” Friederich...

Since the November 2016 election, large cap financials have moved sharply higher, in the case of Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) up almost 60%....

This week brings the start of Q1 2017 earnings for many banks, large and small. In order to better inform the subsequent...

JPMorgan (NYSE:JPM) boss Jamie Dimon says there’s something wrong with the US economy and he is obviously right. Here’s our short list:...

Over the past decade we have periodically talked to our brother Michael Whalen (MW), Emmy award winning composer, film editor, and now...

David Einhorn of Greenlight Capital recently proposed that General Motors (NYSE:GM) divide its common equity into two parts, one that...

New York --- Mohamed A. El-Erian’s day job is Chief Economic Adviser at Allianz, but he is also a key indicator – a canary -- for the...

Below follows an extended soliloquy by my friend and mentor Fred Feldkamp, who was a partner at Foley & Lardner in Detroit, about how the...

This essay is part of a longer paper on the US banking system that is part of my research for a future book. What makes a bank good or...

The term mortgage servicing right or "MSR" generally describes a party's contractual rights with respect to servicing or controlling the...