Merkel Tells Obama To Stuff It
by ilene - June 20th, 2010 4:56 pm
Merkel Tells Obama To Stuff It
Courtesy of Karl Denninger at The Market Ticker
This ought to get interesting….
Referring to the G20 summit in Canada next weekend, Merkel said in a videotaped message that "we are going to discuss when to quit the phase of short-term measures and go on to lasting budget consolidation."
Such a move was "urgently necessary, in the view of the Europeans and particularly of Germany," she said.
Obama urged the world’s leading economies Friday to avoid scaling back government spending too quickly or risk derailing the global recovery.
Heh heh heh….
Oh Mr. President? Yes, you Mr. Obama.
Chancellor Merkel appears to have figured out the meaning of this graph:
That is, more than two years of attempting to force credit creation to expand, thereby once-again restarting the Ponzi Scheme, has failed.
All further exercises in this vein will do is make the damage worse, exactly as I said it would in 2007 initially.
"Our highest priority in Toronto must be to safeguard and strengthen the recovery," Obama said in the letter dated June 16, but released Friday amid concerns about the pace of the global recovery.
There is no recovery Mr. President. There has not been and will not be until the speculators and banksters that have taken on excessive debt, either as creditors or debtors, are forced to disgorge same.
The below chart lays forth the wasteland you are creating:
You (and you predecessor, George Bush) have replaced 11% of final demand (in the form of GDP) with deficit spending. You have no credible plan to stop doing it as final private demand has failed to rebound, just as it did not in the 2003-2007 years and thus George Bush was unable to withdraw his bogus "stimulus" measures.
You are now trapped in an exponentially-deteriorating credit picture Mr. President. The only question remaining is whether you and your idiot "advisors" will recognize this and act in time to prevent the destruction of the political system of The United States.
There is no means by which you can avoid the pain and adjustment that has to be taken. It is not possible, mathematically, to continue to increase the total systemic indebtedness, irrespective of the manipulations and games you attempt to pull on the body politic.
Angela Merkel and the rest of the EU have come to recognize that the…
Greater Than One in Four FDIC Insured Institutions are Unprofitable; Bank Problem List at 15 Year High
by ilene - August 29th, 2009 8:50 pm
Greater Than One in Four FDIC Insured Institutions are Unprofitable; Bank Problem List at 15 Year High
Courtesy of Mish
The second quarter 2009 Quarterly Banking Profile has some interesting charts and facts that inquiring minds will be interested in.
Insured Institution Performance
- Higher Loss Provisions Lead to a $3.7 Billion Net Loss
- More Than One in Four Institutions Are Unprofitable
- Charge-Offs and Noncurrent Loans Continue to Rise
- Net Interest Margins Show Modest Improvement
- Industry Assets Decline by $238 Billion
- The Industry Posts a Net Loss for the Quarter
The Industry Posts a Net Loss for the Quarter
Burdened by costs associated with rising levels of troubled loans and falling asset values, FDIC-insured commercial banks and savings institutions reported an aggregate net loss of $3.7 billion in the second quarter of 2009. Increased expenses for bad loans were chiefly responsible for the industry’s loss. Insured institutions added $66.9 billion in loan-loss provisions to their reserves during the quarter, an increase of $16.5 billion (32.8 percent) compared to the second quarter of 2008. Quarterly earnings were also adversely affected by writedowns of asset-backed commercial paper, and by higher assessments for deposit insurance.
Almost two out of every three institutions (64.4 percent) reported lower quarterly earnings than a year ago, and more than one in four (28.3 percent) reported a net loss for the quarter. A year ago, the industry reported a quarterly profit of $4.7 billion, and fewer than one in five institutions (18 percent) were unprofitable. The average return on assets (ROA) was -0.11 percent, compared to 0.14 percent in the second quarter of 2008.
Net Charge-Off Rate Sets a Quarterly Record
Net charge-offs continued to rise, propelling the quarterly net charge-off rate to a record high. Insured institutions charged-off $48.9 billion in the second quarter, compared to $26.4 billion a year earlier. The annualized net charge-off rate in the second quarter was 2.55 percent, eclipsing the previous quarterly record of 1.95 percent reached in the fourth quarter of 2008.
The $22.5 billion (85.3 percent) year-over-year increase in net charge-offs was led by loans to commercial and industrial (C&I) borrowers, which increased by $5.3 billion (165.0 percent). Net charge-offs of credit card loans were $4.6 billion (84.5 percent) higher than a year earlier, and the annualized net charge-off rate on credit card loans reached a record 9.95 percent in the second