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For Big Banks, Profits Not Capital is the Issue

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

Q1 '17 Earnings & the Yellen Recession

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:...

The Economics of Content: Michael Whalen

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

Why Does David Einhorn Like Janet Yellen's Auto Bubble?

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

Citigroup: Canary in the Coal Mine

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...

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How the SEC killed Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM)

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

Good Banks, Bad Banks...

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...

Who's Afraid of Mortgage Servicing Rights?

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

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