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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By: R. Christopher Whalen
- Nov 26, 2017
- 6 min
The Yellen Put
New York | The term “Greenspan Put” was coined after the stock market crash of 1987 and the subsequent bailout of Long Term Capital...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
- Nov 20, 2017
- 6 min
Is Multifamily Lending a Threat to US Banks?
Trump Pavilion from the Van Wyck Expressway New York | Q: Besides stocks, what asset class has benefitted the most from the radical...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
- Nov 12, 2017
- 7 min
The Interview: Leland Miller on China & the Coming Trade War
President Donald Trump just completed a relatively upbeat swing through Asia, but made some ominous references to future trade action in...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
- Nov 6, 2017
- 6 min
Narrative vs Debt: Tesla & GE
Writing this week in Barron’s, Harvard economist Martin Feldstein nails the proverbial issue of excessive debt square on when he notes...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
- Oct 29, 2017
- 6 min
Bitcoin, Blockchain and Bank America
New York | During our travels over the past two weeks, we tried to keep up with the financial press, particularly the growing sense of...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
- Oct 22, 2017
- 7 min
Mortgage Finance: Crime & Punishment
Tomás de Torquemada (1420-1498) “Assassins Creed” Denver | This week The Institutional Risk Analyst is in Rocky Mountain country for the...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
- Oct 16, 2017
- 6 min
Asset Prices & Monetary Policy in an Irrational World
The Hague | Almost as soon as it started, the excitement surrounding earnings for financials in Q3 2017 dissipated like air leaving a...
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