Regulation is the Issue in Housing Finance
Below are some thoughts for the discussion at Cato Institute in Washington, D.C., today, “Financial Crisis and Reform: Have We Done...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
- Jun 11, 2017
- 6 min
One & Done: Fed Rate Hikes End in June
“Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau." Irving Fisher October 1929 This Thursday The IRA’s Christopher...
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R. Christopher Whalen
- Jun 8, 2017
- 7 min
The Interview: John Kanas, BankUnited
In this issue of The Institutional Risk Analyst, we speak to John A. Kanas, Chairman of BankUnited (NYSE:BKU). Kanas rose to prominence...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
- Jun 6, 2017
- 6 min
The Neo-Keynesian Era Ends at the Federal Reserve Board
"[F]rom early spring throughout 2009 and until mid-year 2010, the Fed engaged in the first major quantitative easing program of purchases...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
- May 31, 2017
- 5 min
The Profile: Capital One Financial (COF)
Financials swooned this week as investors now seem to accept that much of the Trump program is in doubt – at least for 2017. No surprise...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
- May 29, 2017
- 10 min
Macro-Prudential Delusions: Bank Credit Outlook 2H 2017
In the mid 2000s, just before the financial crisis began, US banks were reporting credit metrics for all asset classes in loan portfolios...
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R. Christopher Whalen
- May 22, 2017
- 6 min
The Interview: Sanjiv Das, Caliber Home Loans
In this issue of The Institutional Risk Analyst, we speak to Sanjiv Das, CEO of Lonestar’s Caliber Home Loans, a home mortgage originator...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
- May 16, 2017
- 7 min
Buy Britain, Sell Europe
“Europe is now a continent of widespread economic misery, of financial collapse, of disappearing faith in ‘mainstream’ political parties...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
- May 9, 2017
- 5 min
Good Banks, Bad Banks
In an October 1925, speech in Birmingham, Michigan, Senator James Couzens, the business partner of Henry Ford, sketched out a vision of...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
- May 3, 2017
- 3 min
Dollar SuperCycle Ends
What do the US residential housing market, the stock market and the dollar all have in common? All of these markets represent bubbles...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
- Apr 24, 2017
- 7 min
Ocwen, JPMorgan & the Politics of Mortgage Finance
Last week The IRA’s Chris Whalen participated in the Executive Roundtable in San Francisco, hosted by the Morrison Foerster Law firm. We...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
- Apr 19, 2017
- 4 min
A Tale of Two Banks: Goldman Sachs & Bank America
This week provides an interesting comparison between two “financials,” Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) and Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS). The...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
- Apr 17, 2017
- 4 min
Trump and the Age of Magical Thinking
“Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable – as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead.” Friederich...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
- Apr 12, 2017
- 4 min
How Much Lower Will Bank Stocks Fall?
Since the November 2016 election, large cap financials have moved sharply higher, in the case of Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) up almost 60%....
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
- Apr 9, 2017
- 9 min
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...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
- Apr 6, 2017
- 6 min
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:...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
- Apr 3, 2017
- 6 min
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...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
- Mar 31, 2017
- 4 min
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...
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By: R. Christopher Whalen
- Mar 27, 2017
- 8 min
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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By: R. Christopher Whalen
- Mar 25, 2017
- 5 min
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...
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