This article analyzes the top 5 banks future problems with the over $4 trillion sub-investment grade derivatives maturing in the next 5 years, an amount that is greater than at the peak of the financial crisis. Part 1
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29
2010
I’m Calling a Top On Gold and Silver Trades
By: Doug Eberhardt
Category: Gold
Tags: banking crisis, buy gold, Buy Gold and Silver Safely, buy silver, calling a top on gold, Deflation, deflationary credit contraction, dollar index, Doug Eberhardt, Elliott Wave Theory, Gary North, Gold, gold overpriced, HUI, HUI double top, Jim Rogers, lew rockwell, NBER, Peter Schiff, silver, TBT, Top on gold, top on silver
I Write This Article for Three Reasons
One, is to explain my current thoughts on the gold market, and two, to recommend taking some profit in the paper stocks and ETFs invested in gold and silver mining shares. And lastly, to wait for the pullback and buy physical gold and silver, setting yourself up for the third and final stage-what I call “the investment of a lifetime.”
Read More0Feb
26
2010
The Banking Crisis Is Far From Over Revisited – FDIC Troubles and Bank Shenanigans
By: Doug Eberhardt
Category: Gold
Tags: Bailout, bank failures, banking crisis, failed bank, FDIC, foreclosures, Insolvency, U.S. banks
While we’re seeing foreclosures occurring today at a higher rate, banks are doing something today that doesn’t seem to be getting much attention. People have stopped paying their mortgages and the banks aren’t foreclosing on many of them.
Why Aren’t Banks Foreclosing on People Who Aren’t Paying Their Mortgages?
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17
2009
The Banking Crisis is Far From Over
By: Doug Eberhardt
Category: Gold
Tags: bank failures, banking crisis, Economy, FDIC, Federal Reserve, fractional reserve banking, housing bubble
“Failed banks are weighing on FDIC” is the headline in tomorrow’s Wall Street Journal. Banks are being taken over at an alarming rate thus far in 2009. Banks aren’t lending so it is difficult for them to make a profit while at the same time they are trying to resolve their past lending decisions. Individuals are finding it difficult to secure loans with the more stringent FICO requirements. Increasing unemployment is making it difficult for many more to maintain their home ownership. As people who are now or soon to owe more than their house is worth decide to bail on home ownership, the bank will be left holding an unwanted, depreciating asset. This is occurring all at a time when banks may be forced to mark to market their assets, showing their real estate holdings value based on today’s depressed prices thus revealing balance sheets that are becoming ever more weaker.
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