Four Charts: US Bank Earnings Are Falling
New York | Even as a record 50 million Americans hit the road for Thanksgiving last week, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp released the...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
Nov 25, 20195 min read
Schwab Goes for the Big Time; HSBC Joins the Bank Dead Pool
New York | News reports suggest that The Charles Schwab Corporation (SCHW) may acquire TD Ameritrade Holding Corporation (AMTD). SCHW is...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
Nov 18, 20194 min read
Does Goldman Sachs Discriminate Against Female Borrowers?
New York | Did Goldman Sachs (GS) and Apple Inc. (AAPL) discriminate against women in the provision of credit on the new accounts for the...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
Nov 14, 20194 min read
Citigroup: Negative Assessment; FOMC: Liquidity vs the VIX
New York | Fed Chairman Jerome Powell confirmed this week that the FOMC is unlikely to make any further reductions in interest rates for...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
Nov 6, 20194 min read
The Bank Dead Pool; Goldman Sachs: Negative Assessment
New York | Last week we pondered the fate of Citigroup (C) and several other global banks that have lost their raison d'être with a group...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
Oct 31, 20195 min read
Repo Madness: The Rest of the Story
New York | The Federal Open Market Committee cut the target for short-term funds another quarter point last night, raising the question...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
Oct 29, 20194 min read
China Wags the Dollar
New York | In the last issue of The Institutional Risk Analyst, "Elizabeth Warren Wants to Crash the Global Financial Markets," we talked...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
Oct 25, 20194 min read
Elizabeth Warren Wants to Crash the Global Financial Markets
Ft. Myers | Sisyphus is a figure from Greek mythology. For sins in mortal life, he was punished by Zeus to forever roll a boulder up a...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
Oct 23, 201910 min read
The Interview: Ted Tozer on Housing Reform
New York | This week in The Institutional Risk Analyst, we feature a discussion with Ted Tozer, former President of Ginnie Mae...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
Oct 14, 20196 min read
Third Quarter Bank Earnings: 4 Charts
New York | This week in The Institutional Risk Analyst, we look at Q3 earnings for financials from 10,000 feet. We do this through four...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
Oct 6, 20193 min read
Repo Market, Liquidity & QE 4
New York | We spent a good bit of time in Washington last week, listening to very smart people talk about housing reform. Little of what...
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Robert Eisenbeis
Sep 28, 20199 min read
Eisenbeis: Repos And Reverse Repos
In this issue of The Institutional Risk Analyst, we feature a comment by Robert Eisenbeis, Vice Chairman & Chief Monetary Economist at...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
Sep 23, 20196 min read
Nationalizing the Federal Funds Market
New York | Last week's volatility in the market for fed funds gave a lot of equity managers an opportunity to brush up on their...
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Brian Wesbury
Sep 19, 20194 min read
Wesbury: Repo Madness
In this issue of The Institutional Risk Analyst, we republish a commentary by Brian Wesbury, Chief Economist at First Trust Advisors,...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
Sep 16, 20196 min read
Powell Gives Trump a Half Point Cut
New York | Updated -- Q: How much of a rate cut did Fed Chairman Jerome Powell deliver to the markets last month when he stopped the...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
Sep 11, 20195 min read
Bank Earnings: Lower for Longer
New York | This week we posted the Q3 2019 edition of The IRA Bank Book, our quarterly review of the US banking industry. And to...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
Sep 9, 20194 min read
Ricardo: China is Weak Part II
New York | In this issue of The Institutional Risk Analyst, we continue our discussion with a long-time reader and a corporate finance...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
Sep 3, 20195 min read
View from the Lake: Deflation & Debt
Grand Lake Stream | The conversations over the Labor Day weekend at Leen’s Lodge ranged from negative interest rates to the efficacy of a...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
Aug 26, 20196 min read
Self-Fulfilling Yield Curves
New York – Happy summer. Much has changed in the markets since the last meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee several weeks ago....
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
Aug 19, 20193 min read
Ricardo: China is Weak -- Part I
In this issue of The Institutional Risk Analyst, a long-time reader and occasional source emerges from the shadows of corporate silence...
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