The Institutional Risk Analyst

Banks | Markets | Fintech

Is JPMorgan Chase Insolvent?

The US banking industry has been rendered insolvent by the Federal Open Market Committee

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Extension Risk Threatens US Banks

There are literally dozens of banks in the US made insolvent by the policy moves of the FOMC over the past year.

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Terminal Rates & Conflicted Economists

The cult of ever falling interest rates goes back 50 years and spans the terms of Fed chairs back to Alan Greenspan and Paul Volcker...

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AOCI: The Winter of Quantitative Easing

Little attention is being paid to the collateral damage being done by the FOMC to the debt capital markets

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Inflation, Politics & Fed Chairmen

As the scale of Fed open market operations grew since 2008, volatility has increased, rendering the adjustment from QE to QT problematic

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Short Collateral & Long Tantrums

Demand for risk-free collateral and liquidity is largely a function of how JPMorgan (JPM) CEO Jamie Dimon feels about risk on any given day

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Questions for Chairman Powell

QE has created a gigantic interest rate mismatch across markets for banks, non-banks and other financial intermediaries including the GSEs

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FOMC vs TGA; PennyMac Financial & United Wholesale Mortgage

Net, net, the dynamics in the market are actually forcing interest rates down

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