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RedEarth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-08 10:12 AM
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" I don’t use these words lightly " Financial & Corp. System in Cardiac Arrest: Risk of Bank Runs
This is from Nouriel Roubini(one of the few economists that predicted this financial crisis several years ago)......bottom line, we are in a very, very dangerous time financially.




Financial and Corporate System is in Cardiac Arrest: The Risk of the Mother of All Bank Runs

It is now clear that the US financial system - and now even the system of financing of the corporate sector - is now in cardiac arrest and at a risk of a systemic financial meltdown. I don’t use these words lightly but at this point we have reached the final 12th step of my February paper on “The Risk of a Systemic Financial Meltdown: 12 Steps to a Financial Disaster” (Step 9 or the collapse of the major broker dealers has already widely occurred).

Yesterday Thursday a senior market practitioner in a major financial institution wrote to me the following:

Situation Report: So far as I can tell by working the telephones this morning:

LIBOR bid only, no offer.
Commercial paper market shut down, little trading and no issuance.
Corporations have no access to long or short term credit markets -- hence they face massive rollover problems.
Brokers are increasingly not dealing with each other.
Even the inter-bank market is ceasing up.
This cannot continue for more than a few days. This is the economic equivalent to cardiac arrest. Then we debated what is necessary to restart the system.


I believe that the government will do another Hail Mary pass, with massive guarantees to the short-term commercial credit system and wide open short-term lending by the Fed (2 or 3 times expansion of the Fed balance sheet). If done on a sufficient scale this action will probably work for a while. But none of these financial measures affects the accelerating recession -- which will in turn place more pressure on the financial sector.


Another senior professional in a major global financial institution wrote to me:

Today, in our trading room, I could see the manifestations of a lending freeze, and the funding hiatus for banks and companies, with libor bid only, the commercial paper market closed in effect, and a scramble for cash - really really scary.


Do you think this is treatable without a) a massive coordinated liquidity boost and easing of monetary policy and b) widespread nationalisation of some banks, gtess to others AND a good bank/bad bank policy where some get wiped along with their investors? The Treasury Tarp plan is an irrelevance if we are at a major funding crisis.


And to confirm the near systemic collapse of the system of financing of both financial firms and corporate firms Warren Buffet declared yesterday, as reported by Bloomberg:

the U.S. economy is ``flat on the floor'' after a cardiac arrest as companies struggle to secure funding and unemployment increases.

``In my adult lifetime I don't think I've ever seen people as fearful, economically, as they are now,'' Buffett said today in an interview with Charlie Rose to be broadcast tonight on PBS. ``The economy is going to be getting worse for a while.' …The credit freeze is ``sucking blood'' from the U.S. economy, Buffett said.

We are indeed at the cardiac arrest stage and at risk of the mother of all bank and non-ban runs as:

- The run on the shadow banking system is accelerating as: even the surviving major broker dealers (Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs) are under severe pressure (Morgan losing over a third of its hedge funds clients); the run on hedge funds is accelerating via massive redemptions and a roll-off of their overnight repo lines; the money market funds are experiencing further withdrawals in spite of government blanket guarantee.

- A silent run on the commercial banks is underway. In Q2 of 2008 the FDIC reported $4462bn insured domestic deposits out of $7036bn total domestic deposits; thus, only 63% of domestic deposits are insured. Thus $ 2574bn of deposits were not insured. Given the risk that many banks – small, regional and national – may go bust (as even large ones such as WaMu and Wachovia went recently bust) there is now a silent run on parts of the banking system. Deposit insurance formally covers only deposits up to $100000. Thus any individual, small or large business and/or foreign investor or financial institution with more than $100000 in a FDIC insured bank is now legitimately concerned about the safety of its deposits. Even if as likely the deposit insurance limit will be temporarily raised to $250000 by Congress there will still be a whopping $1.9 trillion of uninsured deposits (or 73% of total deposits); thus, a huge mass of uninsured deposits will remain at risk as even small businesses have usually more than $250K of cash while medium sized and large firms as well as any domestic and foreign financial institution or investor with exposure to US banks has average exposure in the millions of dollars. Particularly at risk are the cross border mostly short term interbank lines of US banks with their foreign counterparties that are estimated to be close to $800 billion.

- A run on the short term liabilities of the corporate sector is also underway


.......more

http://www.rgemonitor.com/blog/roubini/253853/financial_and_corporate_system_is_in_cardiac_arrest_the_risk_of_the_mother_of_all_bank_runs
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Newsjock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-08 10:16 AM
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1. 'And if you don't give us every penny of the $700 billion that we demand ...'
... we will continue to make it worse so that you common people will PAY for not being subservient to us.

Just another low-grade extortionist threat. I'm getting really tired of these.
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RedEarth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-08 10:26 AM
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5. Obviously you have no idea who Roubini is
He has never been in favor of the $700 billion bailout. You might want to take some time and actually read up on Roubini and find out what he thinks should be done.
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gopbuster Donating Member (715 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-08 10:19 AM
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2. Sobering ...thanks n/t
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Union Thug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-08 10:22 AM
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3. I'll respond later. RIght now, I need to run down to the bank and withdraw all of my $98.32! ;-)
Edited on Fri Oct-03-08 10:22 AM by Union Thug
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Supersedeas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-08 10:22 AM
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4. Americans need to hear more directly from Economics instead of the Shiny Happy Mimbos and Bizbos
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blueclown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-08 10:29 AM
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6. Is there any indication that the Fed will expand its balance sheet?
And lend massive amounts of short-term liquidity to these firms?

Is this coming next?
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