Kotok: LOIS is Screaming
In this issue of The Institutional Risk Analyst, we feature a comment from our fellow fisherman David Kotok, Chairman & Chief Investment...
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Christopher Whalen
By: R. Christopher Whalen
- Mar 28, 2018
- 7 min
China Syndromes
First we’ve launched the first volume of The IRA Bank Book, a review of the operating and credit performance of the US banking industry...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
- Mar 20, 2018
- 4 min
Volatility, Entropy & Chairman Jay Powell
New York | Next week we launch the first paid product for The Institutional Risk Analyst, "The IRA Bank Book," which will feature our...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
- Mar 15, 2018
- 4 min
Remembering Bear Stearns & Co
New York | The failure of Bear Stearns & Co a decade ago illustrates the key lesson of financial markets, namely that non-banks are...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
- Mar 11, 2018
- 7 min
Goldman Sachs After Lloyd Blankfein
San Diego | Reports last week that Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) CEO Lloyd Blankfein was planning to retire by the end of 2018 caused a bit of...
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John R. Mouseau
- Mar 8, 2018
- 3 min
Mouseau: A Short Note on Bank Muni Holdings
In this issue of The Institutional Risk Analyst, we feature a comment by John Mouseau, Executive Vice President & Director of Fixed...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
- Mar 3, 2018
- 6 min
Q1 '18 Bank Credit Outlook: Extreme Asset Valuations & Real Estate
New York | Count the numbers of markets and economic indicators currently at extreme valuations and positive correlations. Financial...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
- Feb 26, 2018
- 4 min
Large Cap Financials & Asset Inflation
New York | None other than Warren Buffett of investment fame started off the week complaining to Becky Quick of CNBC that there’s not...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
- Feb 21, 2018
- 7 min
Wells Fargo & Co Gets No Respect
"Al", retired Wells Fargo stagecoach pony New York | Wall Street more than bounced last week as the secular shortage of stocks quickly...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
- Feb 12, 2018
- 10 min
The Interview: Kevin Tynan on Autos and Mobility
New York | In this issue of The Institutional Risk Analyst, we turn our attention to the auto sector. Kevin Tynan is the Senior...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
- Feb 4, 2018
- 7 min
Chair Yellen Spills the Punch Bowl
“Across the globe, investors have one thing in mind. How far will interest rates rise and is the great bull market in bonds finally...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
- Jan 30, 2018
- 6 min
Is it Springtime in the US Mortgage Industry?
Richard Cordray and Mick Mulvaney New York | It’s a strange time in the housing market. Home price increases have been running above the...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
- Jan 25, 2018
- 5 min
Dollars, Deficits and "Duh" in Davos
New York | With the global punditry assembled in Davos this week, the topic of the dollar seems to have bubbled to the surface again. ...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
- Jan 15, 2018
- 5 min
The Politics of Chinese Credit Risk
“To exactly solve the problem of corruption, we must hit both flies and tigers” Xi Jinping New York | In December this past year, Chinese...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
- Jan 7, 2018
- 7 min
Bank Earnings & Volatility
Tyler Durden, "Fight Club" (1999) Punta del Este | Last week our comrade at Zero Hedge astutely noted that, in the October 2012 FOMC...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
- Jan 2, 2018
- 7 min
Tax Cuts, Offshore Cash & Jobs
Justice Louis D. Brandeis Time Magazine, July 7, 1930 This week in The Institutional Risk Analyst, we feature a blog post by Christopher...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
- Dec 19, 2017
- 6 min
Housing Finance in 2018
To read our post in The American Conservative on the growing bitcoin fraud, see the link at the end of this issue. Happy holidays! The US...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
- Dec 10, 2017
- 7 min
The Interview: Bob Eisenbeis on Seeking Normal at the Fed
In this issue of The Institutional Risk Analyst, let’s first ponder last week’s revelations that the European Central Bank is taking a...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
- Dec 4, 2017
- 6 min
US Bank Performance Outlook 2018
Palm Beach | We think 2017 will be remembered as the Year of the Bubbles. Everywhere you look, whether its stocks or real estate or even...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
- Nov 30, 2017
- 5 min
Banks and the Fed's Duration Trap
Atlanta | Is a conundrum worse than a dilemma? One of the more important and least discussed factors affecting the financial markets is...
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