MOP Posted June 10, 2009 Share Posted June 10, 2009 Repeat Bank Stress Tests 'Right Now': TARP Panel ChairCNBC.com | 09 Jun 2009 | 08:23 AM ET The Congressionally-appointed panel overseeing the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) recommends running again the stress tests on US banks, as economic conditions have worsened, its chair, Harvard University professor Elizabeth Warren, told CNBC Tuesday. "We actually make recommendations to do it all over again right now," Warren told "Squawk Box." "We've already blown past the worst-case scenario on unemployment," she added. Under the tests, whose results were released in May, the Obama administration asked federal regulators to examine how financial institutions would hold up under two different economic scenarios as well as how much new capital they would need to raise to shore up their balance sheets. The tests concluded that ten banks — including some of the biggest, such as Citigroup [C 3.41 -0.01 (-0.29%) ], Bank of America [bAC 12.06 --- UNCH (0) ] and Wells Fargo [WFC 25.66 0.27 (+1.06%) ] — would need to raise almost $75 billion in capital; the firms were also required to present plans on how to do so by June 8. The government is prepared to loan money to those companies that are unable to raise capital from private sources. The oversight panel's report noted that the unemployment rate is now 9.4 percent, with a 2008 average of 8.5 percent. "If the monthly rate continues to increase during the remainder of this year, it will likely exceed the 2009 average of 8.9 percent assumed under the more adverse scenario," the report said. The report will be presented in its final form to the Joint Economic Committee of Congress Tuesday. Other reasons for concern are that the model used in the Treasury's stress tests stretches on less than two years, while many commercial mortgages are coming up in 2011, 2012 and 2013, Warren said. Although the Treasury has been more transparent on this than at any point in its history, more details are needed to boost transparency, she added. "They need to give us more information, when you've got more information, you've got confidence," Warren said. http://www.cnbc.com/id/31183773 The bank stress tests turn out to be a sham. What a suprise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrGUID Posted June 10, 2009 Share Posted June 10, 2009 And the stimulus package is also a sham: http://market-ticker.denninger.net/archive...mulus-FAIL.html We're heading for an EPIC FAIL. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patfig Posted June 10, 2009 Share Posted June 10, 2009 And the stimulus package is also a sham:http://market-ticker.denninger.net/archive...mulus-FAIL.html We're heading for an EPIC FAIL. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OnlyMe Posted June 10, 2009 Share Posted June 10, 2009 Meet the FED, with talent like this how could anything go wrong. Where's the Talf/Tarp money and what about the side bets? It would be funny if it were not so serious. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF_w2fpiwTg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
interestrateripoff Posted June 10, 2009 Share Posted June 10, 2009 I'm shocked. Yet more market manipulation the stupid or the clever who think they can make a fast buck believe it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eric pebble Posted June 10, 2009 Share Posted June 10, 2009 I'm shocked. Yet more market manipulation the stupid or the clever who think they can make a fast buck believe it. Nothing new then.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R K Posted June 10, 2009 Share Posted June 10, 2009 And the stimulus package is also a sham:http://market-ticker.denninger.net/archive...mulus-FAIL.html We're heading for an EPIC FAIL. Thanks for posting. Sharks 1 - Public 0. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Injin Posted June 10, 2009 Share Posted June 10, 2009 A centrslly commanded economy, with the orders being given not by commissar, but by numbers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikthe20 Posted June 10, 2009 Share Posted June 10, 2009 (edited) And the stimulus package is also a sham:http://market-ticker.denninger.net/archive...mulus-FAIL.html We're heading for an EPIC FAIL. Worth showing the graph from that link: (Crap - how do I get the chart smaller?) Edited June 10, 2009 by mikthe20 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Masked Tulip Posted June 10, 2009 Share Posted June 10, 2009 And the stimulus package is also a sham:http://market-ticker.denninger.net/archive...mulus-FAIL.html We're heading for an EPIC FAIL. That image on that webpage is scary... OK, mocked up but scary... I posted last night on a couple of threads that the current market bounce, IMPO, is being engineered by the banks and US/UK Governments trying to sucker in the money of savers before the banks, who have shorted the markets bigtime, stop buying, allow the markets to crash and hence 'walk away' with all the savings of the naive. It is one giant ponzi scheme. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOP Posted June 10, 2009 Author Share Posted June 10, 2009 Worth showing the graph from that link: (Crap - how do I get the chart smaller?) LOL Thanks for posting that graph. They really do think the public are stupid! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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