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  • Why Is Bank of America So Bad at Picking Its Leaders?  [View article]
    sorry for the triple post
    Dec 03 20:31 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
  • Why Is Bank of America So Bad at Picking Its Leaders?  [View article]
    @bobbybutte
    Banks chose mark to market (available for sale portfolio) so they could book huge gains on securites from 2003-2007 as China and the middle east, flush with dollars, paid 102 or 103 of par on garbage ABS. They could have used mark to model (held to maturity) but wouldnt have recieved that one time gain as the ABS was gunned by Fed liquidity. That is why you saw a rush at commercial banks to move securites from the AFS book to HTM in q4 2007 and q1 2008. M2M caused the financial crisis in the same way my calculator did.
    Dec 03 16:58 pm |Rating: 0 -1 |Link to Comment
  • Stress Tests: Banks vs. Bond Insurers [View article]
    Great article, this is why I keep coming back to SA.
    Feb 28 16:37 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
  • Obama's TARP 2 Signals an End to Mark to Market  [View article]
    If market participants want to see beyond the current outlook, they are more than welcome to value stocks using 2006 numbers. Give me M2M and let me make my own assumptions. YMMV.
    Jan 14 21:23 pm |Rating: +1 0 |Link to Comment
  • Bank of America: Optimism Is Unwarranted [View article]
    M-P, Citigroup tried the supermarket model and proved it doesnt work. A distressed bank like BOA has even less of a chance of making it happen.
    Dec 24 00:38 am |Rating: +1 0 |Link to Comment
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