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Bank Profile: The Goldman Sachs Group
GS is the smallest of the global investment banks but the most highly levered of the large US banking groups
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Jul 26, 202014 min read


Forward Bank Earnings & Loss Rates
Nobody in the industry yet knows what will happen with corporate exposures as the year grinds to a conclusion
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Jul 20, 20205 min read


The Surprising Present-Future of Television
Michael Whalen gives us the update on the slow and steady fragmentation of what we used to call television
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Jul 17, 20206 min read


Banks: Value Tease or Value Trap?
The Street wants to own these bank stocks, plain and simple....
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Jul 12, 20207 min read


COVID19: Picking Winners & Losers
The summer of 2020 is all about picking winners and losers in the COVID19 lottery
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Jul 7, 20206 min read


Chairman Powell Pirouettes on Bank Dividends
many years will pass before investors see such cash returns on capital again
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Jun 29, 20205 min read


Bank Earnings Q2 2020: "Dread Man, Truly Dread"
Q2 2020 bank earnings will be "dread man, truly dread"...
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Jun 22, 20203 min read


Powell Missteps on Corporate Bond Purchases
This situation creates political risk for Chairman Powell and the Federal Reserve System...
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Jun 18, 20206 min read


Quicken Loans Rides Low Rates to IPO
Low interest rates tell us all we need to know about mortgage volumes...
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Jun 15, 20206 min read


Robert Eisenbeis: Digging Deeper
That’s a big miss, to say the least....
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Jun 9, 20203 min read


Sizing the Commercial Real Estate Bust
So how big is the impending commercial real estate bust in the US?
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Jun 7, 20209 min read


Financials Climb the Wall of Worry -- For Now
Look for banks to continue to climb higher as investors cannot help but be impressed by a steepening yield curve.
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Jun 5, 20204 min read


Markets Bounce as Real Economy Staggers
Stick with dread for now. We see a second credit tsunami approaching on the horizon.
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Jun 1, 20205 min read


Social Distancing = Financial Armageddon for Commercial Real Estate and Big Cities
Just imagine if NYC files bankruptcy before Election Day...
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May 28, 20205 min read


Should Banks Stop Paying Dividends? Should Anybody Buy Goldman Sachs?
Rather than asking some bureaucrat in Washington, let’s let the market decide.
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May 18, 20206 min read


Negative Interest Rates and Mortgage Servicing
Numbers define value, enable commerce and compensate for work.
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May 14, 20206 min read


Jonathan Miller on the U.S. Real Estate Market
Jonathan a keen judge of the real estate market environment and the economy.
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May 11, 20207 min read


Amy Brandt: The Way Forward in Mortgage Finance
In this issue of The Institutional Risk Analyst, we speak with Amy Brandt, President and CEO of Docutech, which was acquired by First...
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May 6, 20206 min read


Great Lockdown Brings Global Deflation
New York | This week in The Institutional Risk Analyst, we ponder the state of the bezzle, that fluffy, frothy portion atop the political...
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May 4, 20208 min read


Robert Eisenbeis on Narrow Banks
The present primary dealer system is a relic of the past when Treasury securities were paper documents....
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Apr 30, 20206 min read
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