The Institutional Risk Analyst

Could President elect Donald Trump be facing a maxi market correction before inauguration day?

The changes that are going to occur in Washington over the next four years will be dramatically different than during Trump I.

You can tell lies and damn lies about the idea of releasing Fannie and Freddie, but the SEC and FINRA cannot and will not say a word.

Last year, when a lot of people were predicting the demise of SCHW, we told our readers to calm down.

In opposing Basel III, Chopra is doing the bidding of Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) but big banks are very happy to have no rule at all.

The Basel Accord is one of the single biggest examples of a regulatory agency literally creating a new law from whole cloth.

Obviously, there should be no interest rate cuts by the FOMC without deficit reduction by Congress.

If President Trump starts talking about fixing the federal budget deficit and redeveloping moribund urban real estate, he’d win in November

Mortgage Finance: Crime & Punishment: When you have a regulator as brutal and arbitrary as the CFPB, an assortment of fixers are advisable. But no more. With the impending lobotomy of the CFPB now at hand, the street value of former CFPB regulators has fallen to a discount, says one well-placed Washington lawyer.

Goldman Sachs & the Volcker Rule

“Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable – as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead.” Friederich von Schiller Quoted by Bernard Baruch April 17, 2017 | The term "magical thinking" refers to how children believe that their thoughts have a direct effect on the rest of the world. So last week we learned that the Trump Bump is not real. Lower taxes, increased spending, these were never really serious goals, but merely political talkin