Comments on: Bank Stress Tests: The Results Are in; Now What?

By: GMAC Appeals to Treasury for Its Third Taxpayer Bailout

GMAC Appeals to Treasury for Its Third Taxpayer Bailout — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:24:30 +0000

[...] Money Morning: Bank Stress Tests: The Results Are in; Now What? [...]

By: Hot Stocks: As Wall Street Debates GE's Future, Could Turnaround Plan Cause Shares to Double?

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 10:00:40 +0000

[...] two scenarios outlined by the Fed last spring as government officials performed federally mandated stress tests on the nation’s largest banks. The scenario called for a maximum unemployment rate of 8.8% [...]

By: WSJ: Losses at Small and Midsized Banks Could Exceed $200 Billion in 2010

WSJ: Losses at Small and Midsized Banks Could Exceed $200 Billion in 2010 — Tue, 19 May 2009 18:52:03 +0000

[...] the same worst-case scenario the U.S. Federal Reserve employed in its recent stress test of the 19 largest U.S. banks, the Journal examined the health of 940 small and midsized banks that had total assets of $2.8 [...]

By: BB&T, Capital One, U.S. Bancorp and KeyCorp Planning Stock Sales to Raise Capital, Repay TARP

Mon, 11 May 2009 16:10:22 +0000

[...] Friday, the government’s stress test revealed that these banks are four of 10 that need to raise more capital if they were to survive a prolonged deterioration of the U.S. [...]

By: Bank of America Planning Stock and Asset Sales to Appease Government Requirements

Sat, 09 May 2009 13:00:29 +0000

[...] of America was one of 10 banks told by the government to raise more capital following the so-called stress test. The government concluded that BofA faces a potential $136.6 billion in losses from troubled loans [...]

By: Rick

Rick — Sat, 09 May 2009 12:15:01 +0000

Another thought came to me this morning, and I want to tell it to you:

In actuality, there is no such animal that is “independently” wealthy. Every one who thinks he or she is rich or wealthy, is entirely “dependent” upon the state which issues and sustains his or her money. Furthermore, no state in this world is forever going to sustain so-called wealth issued by a faltering foreign state.

By: Rick

Rick — Fri, 08 May 2009 13:44:06 +0000

The true “stress test” of US currency is already underway, of course, but is administered subtly from outside the US. American financial institutions cannot now heal themselves by way of debt issues that outsiders are increasingly loath to touch; nor will independent insiders, who matter, risk their loot to the hands of faulty custodians at home. Independents have already, for the most part, pushed their plunder off abroad to imaginary “safe” havens. It is clear by now, however, that debt issues not only “go” around but also “come” around.