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Bank of America: Ready to De-TARP

The author need to think more and write less.

Too Big to Survive?

What blather.

Banking Won't Be Fun for a While

Almost trivially funny but not quite, just trivial. Why bother with this silliness when the big issue is the economy and its impact on the banks along with everyone else.

Why Banks Want to Return TARP Money

Yes indeed. Someone who understands the need for facts in one of these posts is rare, but someone who also knows how to interpret the facts is rare indeed.

Lack of effective demand is the problem as the Obama team fully understands. The Fed, the actions of which can only be described as heroic since 2007, understands this. Clearly they think caution by the banks is constraining the recovery.

Wells Fargo and US Bancorp - Hitch a Ride with These Two

Nice perspective, thanks.

An Evaluation of the SEC’s Prohibition on Naked Short Selling

Faults and shortcomings in the manipulation and selection of the data used to support negative conclusions about the SEC ban on naked shortselling abound. These assessments are by an large either rubbish or self-serving.