Here are today’s gold stock screens and data, along with cycle conditions and projections for gold and HUI index, and Chart of the Day...
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UK Daily Mail link (British govt's Osbourne called this the "Most radical reform of banking in decades...", yet the NYTimes didn't think the 'news was fit to print' until a day later, and then page 2 of the business section below the fold) LOL
When Gr...
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The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) is scheduled to issue a statement at 2:15 pm. today (Tuesday), but don't expect anything other than more empty rhetoric.
Indeed, with few options remaining, the Fed is expected to produce little more than a statement designed to reassure the markets following today's...
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Despite statements to the contrary, the U.S. Federal Reserve has continued to pump money into the economy, says investing legend Jim Rogers.
The resulting low interest rates and creeping inflation, he says, are destroying the wealth of millions.
" Bernanke said last August he was keeping...
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The Eurozone debt crisis has replaced the U.S. financial crisis as the disaster du jour. But make no mistake: U.S. taxpayers will be paying the tab for the U.S. crisis for years.
That's evidently not true of the banking sector, however, whose massive financial-crisis windfall is just now coming...
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As you might imagine, I receive a lot of questions from readers around the world and right now the question I'm being asked most frequently is, "How much cash should I be holding?"
There's no right answer, but given the extraordinary times we're living in, I think the more...
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Suprised That Obama Tapped Inflation Hawk Hoenig for the FDIC? Don't Be
By Daniel Indiviglio
Oct 21 2011, 12:29 PM ET
Although he's best known for his Fed dissents, he'll be tough on the big banks
Last year, those of us who cover the Federal Reser...
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Three years ago the most-powerful instutitions in America were the nation’s largest banks and brokerages, Wall Street for short.
While millions of people were losing their homes, their jobs and their savings, the nation’s elite extracted a $700...
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Did big banks leave TARP too soon?
By Jennifer Liberto
@CNNMoney September 30, 2011: 5:35 AM ET
Former FDIC Chair Sheila Bair pushed for the big banks to be held to tougher capital standards before they exited TARP.
WASHINGTON (CNNMoney) -- Regulato...
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Do I finish my coffee and then attend the deposition, or do I grab the BOB and head for "undisclosed location"?
(On a related topic, when does the temporary extension of FDIC account coverage expire? December?)
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Imagine losing 14% of your wealth overnight - doing absolutely nothing at all.
You didn't invest in the wrong stock. Buy the wrong piece of real estate. Or gamble on the wrong outcome.
You just went to sleep...
And now your $300,000 bank account is worth...
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The U.S. government has spent more than $12 trillion to prop up large financial institutions since the 2008 financial meltdown, but more taxpayer money could still be used for U.S. bank bailouts.
A Standard & Poor's report Tuesday said that despite the government's efforts at financial...
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FDIC Loses $25 Billion in One Year
"Despite increased assets, the overwhelming majority of which are receivables from resolutions the organization has taken on (“resolutions” is the term the FDIC uses on financials to refer to the failed banks it ...
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As a consequence of the pretend approach described in my CRE “Primer” post, I would ultimately expect the FDIC to be the vehicle that will be saddled with hundreds of billions in impaired CRE. The longer they wait to resolve this issue, the worse the condition, the worse the recoveries, and the more slum like...
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I need to correct and update my recent post on the FDIC. In the last three weeks, the FDIC has ended its pretend-and-extend approach and is now more rapidly closing down banks, and bigger ones to boot. The total tab for the FDIC in April was $9.4 billion, which is a far cry from...
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The FDIC funding is again a sight to behold. They have already tapped the banking system for $45 billion for an advance payment of 2010-2012 dues. At year end, they were $20.9 billion in the hole, but with this replenishment “recapitalized” to $24 billion in which to insure a banking system with $13.1 trillion...
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Russ Winter and Lee Adler unspin the ConCon data, the Lying Economic Indicators, the Case Chiller, new house sales, and the revival of a dangerous Treasury borrowing program. Also we debate homebuilder economics, and Russ talks about the problem with inventories, and the FDIC.
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As you know well by now if you have been to either of our message boards more than a couple times, I am a stickler for respecting copyright and posting only snippets of stories from third party sources, with clear attributions and links. That’s why I was so incensed when I got the note...
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By Heritage Ray FDIC leases almost 151,000 square feet in Schaumburg (Now here’s a growth business) The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has signed a short-term office lease for almost 151,000 square feet (more than half the building) in Schaumburg, Illinois to handle receiverships and asset sales for its growing roster of failed Midwestern banks....
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Bianco Research put together a matrix of the Gumnut’s “falling into a trap” market intervention and shows the sheer scale, danger and risk for the Gumnut. Fits into the posts I rendered over the last week.
The Federal Reserve is printing money to buy Treasuries, mortgages and agencies (over $500 billion at last...
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Funders that have access to any sort of government guarantee banks with FDIC-insured deposits, large entities with commercial paper now backed by the Federal Reserve, and others who are using imaginative methods (or lobbying skills) to come under the governments umbrella have money costs that are...
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When the Fed, Treasury, and FDIC issued a statement yesterday on the Citigroup bailout, I didn’t know whether to laugh, cry, or… The potential enormity of this bailout raises the question of whether the Fed will continue to be able to recirculate the world’s existing cash, or will need to monetize. We don’t have...
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