Bank Stress Tests

Bernanke: These Are Not The Zombie Banks You're Looking For

The Huffington Post | Mark Gongloff | Posted 03.21.2012

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When it comes to making the markets feel confident in banks, Ben Bernanke is a Jedi master. On Wednesday the Fed chairman, who shares facial-hair c...

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Giving Up Your Bank for Lent

Michael Winship | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Citigroup, Stress Tests, Community Banks, Move Your Money, Wells Fargo, Bank Stress Tests, Bank of America, Mortgage Crisis, Federal Reserve, Bank Transfer Day, Occupy Wall Street, Dodd-Frank, Business, Mortgages, Banking, Banks, Credit Unions, Money News

On Ash Wednesday, churches in San Francisco announced they were removing $10 million from Wells Fargo and called on the bank "to put an immediate freeze on its foreclosures and repent for their misconduct." The effort is part of several national campaigns to get consumers and community groups to remove their money from the big banks and transfer accounts to credit unions and smaller financial institutions. We're told that the banks, desperate when thrown a lifeline by taxpayers in 2008, are now stronger and better able to weather a crisis than they were. And yet, they continue to scream in protest and lobby on Capitol Hill against the ignominy of reform. Simple greed -- hey banks, how about giving that up for Lent?

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Secret Deals, Foreclosure Settlements, Stress Tests and Vampire Squid Whistleblowers

L. Randall Wray | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Foreclosure Crisis, Wall Street, Robo-Signing, Bank Stress Tests, Banking, Bank of America, Banks, Bankers, Foreclosure, Mortgage Crisis, Business News

A new report documents widespread abusive practices at the biggest banks. It shows the potentially illegal activities were not only known by top management, but also encouraged by management.

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Stress Tests You Haven't Read About

Jared Bernstein | Posted 05.15.2012

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Given the success of the Fed's stress tests on assessing the health of the nation's largest banks, various other institutions decided to embrace the model. Here are some early results.

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There's No Need To Panic...

Reuters | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: JP Morgan, Stress Tests, Liquidity, Lending, Loans, Ally Financial, Bank Stress Tests, Reuters, Citibank, Bank Customers, Citigroup, Money News

By Lauren Young NEW YORK, March 14 (Reuters) - Bank customers shouldn't stress out over the latest U.S. bank stress test results. ...

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Fixing the Economic Mess: It's Time to Stop Crowding Out Main Street

Dennis Santiago | Posted 10.05.2011

Read More: Economic Recovery, Institutional Risk Analytics, Bank Stress Tests, Banking, Economy, Business News

It's not like the United States doesn't have wealth. It's what we've done with all this money that's gotten us to the edge of a zombie apocalypse.

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New 'Stress Tests' Coming For Banks

AP | JEANNINE AVERSA | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — The nation's largest banks must undergo new stress tests to show they can weather another recession, and the Federal Reserve said those...

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Simon Johnson: Foreclosure Scandal Shows Banks Need New Stress Tests

New York Times | SIMON JOHNSON | Posted 05.25.2011

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How much damage to the financial system should we expect from what is now commonly called the foreclosure morass, the developing scandal involving doc...

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Feds Watching Colorado Banks With Increased Scrutiny

The Denver Post | Aldo Svaldi | Posted 05.25.2011

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Colorado's homegrown banks and thrifts are finding themselves under regulatory scrutiny at double the national rate. Colorado has 34 institutions i...

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Gold Hits Record High

AP | SANDY SHORE | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: IG Markets, India, New York Mercantile Exchange, Commodities, Global Economy, Europe Debt Crisis, Bank Stress Tests, Gold, Grains, India Fall Festival, Investing, European Banks, Wheat, Financial TImes, Business News

Gold prices settled at a record high Tuesday following renewed worries about European banks and the global economy. Gold for December delivery added ...

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EU Bank "Stress Tests": Only 7.6% Fail

AP | PAN PYLAS | Posted 05.25.2011

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LONDON — The results are in: Only seven of 91 European banks flunked the "stress tests" aimed at clearing up market fears about the strength of ...

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World Banks Warn Of Looming Crunch

nytimes.com | JACK EWING | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: European Debt Crisis, Bank of England, Bank for International Settlements, Greece, Bank Stress Tests, Financial Crisis, Ireland, Banks, Spain, Imf, European Central Bank, Royal Bank of Scotland, Moody's, Business News

The sovereign debt crisis would seem to create worry enough for European banks, but there is another gathering threat that has not garnered as much no...

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Tim Geithner Saved The Economy, According To Two New Magazine Profiles

Huffington Post | Ryan McCarthy | Posted 05.25.2011

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Though it may come as a surprise to many Americans, key aspects of the policies enacted by embattled Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner have actually bee...

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Elizabeth Warren: TARP Repayment, More Stress Tests and a Fall off the Pedestal

Jill Schlesinger | Posted 05.25.2011

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This morning, Ms. Warren fell off the pedestal on which I had placed her.

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Payback's Not a Bitch: 10 TARP Recipients Get Green Light to Repay $68 Billion to Treasury

Jill Schlesinger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tarp, Taxpayer Money, Treasury Department, Cpp, Bank Bailout, Bank Stress Tests, Business News

For those who think that the government bailed out Wall Street, you're right and you're wrong. Yes, taxpayers extended a lifeline to ensure that the system didn't collapse, but in the case of these yet-to-be named players, taxpayers made out quite nicely.

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TARP Watchdog: Stress Tests Relied On Too Rosy A Scenario

AP | ANNE FLAHERTY | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — A government test of whether 19 major banks could survive a further downturn in the economy may have relied on too rosy a scenario ...

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Stress Test for U.S. Banks Is a Complete Fraud

Sheldon Filger | Posted 05.25.2011

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It is the fear of the derivatives toxin that has frozen credit markets, leading to the Global Economic Crisis. Geithner's stress test can't fix the calamitous state of the U.S. banking sector.

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Banks' Fee Bonanza From Stress Tests

Financial Times | Francesco Guerrera, Anuj Gangahar and Saskia Scholtes | Posted 05.25.2011

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The completion of US banking "stress tests" has unleashed a fee bonanza for Wall Street, with financial institutions set to earn more than $500m in ju...

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NY Mag Suggests A Post-Stress Test Checklist

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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I have got to tell you all, I am LOVING THESE STRESS TESTS. For real. Who'd have thought that you could have a test in which the testees could negot...

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Good News for the Surprisingly Not Very Stressed

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 05.25.2011

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The majority of our banks have flunked their stress tests. Are we worried? Not at all. Because while they are stressed, they are not stressed as badly as we might have feared.

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The Stress Tests and Commercial Real Estate

Sam Chandan | Posted 05.25.2011

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Neither investors nor the public should accept policy makers' and regulators' assertions that the tests of commercial real estate have been undertaken carefully.

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Five Reasons The Bank Stress Tests Are Unreliable

Huffington Post | Julie Satow | Posted 05.25.2011

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A simple guide to why the stress tests weren't stressful enough: 1. The stress test allows for a debt-to-net capital ratio of 25 to 1. That is far hi...

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Arianna And Elizabeth Warren Discuss TARP On CNBC's Squawk Box

Huff TV | Posted 05.25.2011

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Arianna joined CNBC's Squawk Box team and Harvard University professor of law Elizabeth Warren to discuss details from a report on TARP's impact for s...

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Arianna And Eliot Spitzer On How The Financial Crisis Could Have Been Avoided

Huff TV | Posted 05.25.2011

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Arianna joined CNBC's Squawk Box crew and former New York governor Eliot Spitzer Thursday morning to discuss stress tests results, which banks need mo...

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Arianna And Simon Johnson Discuss Stress Test Results On CNBC's Squawk Box

Huff TV | Posted 05.25.2011

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Arianna joined CNBC's Squawk Box team Thursday morning to discuss the much-anticipated results of the stress tests and the impact on the financial sec...

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