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	<title>The Swamp Report &#187; stress test for banks</title>
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	<description>Political, Economic, and Finance related commentary. J.D. Swampfox Associates report on battles for prosperity against the &#34;Tarleton&#34; of big government.</description>
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		<title>FASB may force off-balance sheet assets to be on-balance sheet in 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.swampreport.com/investments/fasb-may-force-off-balance-sheet-assets-to-be-on-balance-sheet-in-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 22:24:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. D. Swampfox</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg reports that FASB is likely to vote soon to require banks to own up to the vast bucks not currently on their balance sheets: &#8220;The Financial Accounting Standards Board will approve rules on off-balance-sheet accounting by June, forcing banks to add billions of dollars of assets to their books, Chairman Robert Herz said. Rules [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NYT: This recession is already off the charts</title>
		<link>http://www.swampreport.com/economy/nyt-this-recession-is-already-off-the-charts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.swampreport.com/economy/nyt-this-recession-is-already-off-the-charts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2009 23:49:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. D. Swampfox</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.swampreport.com/?p=1139</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A followup on Minute Man&#8217;s post: The Treasury has said that their conservative or &#8220;pessimistic&#8221; forecast, to which they assign no more than a 15% probability of occurance, includes an assumption that GDP growth will resume in the 3rd quarter of 2009.  Floyd Norris of NYT observes that this recession is, according to coincident economic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;We&#8217;ve fallen off a cliff and we&#8217;ve landed on a ledge halfway down&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.swampreport.com/economy/weve-fallen-off-a-cliff-and-weve-landed-on-a-ledge-halfway-down/</link>
		<comments>http://www.swampreport.com/economy/weve-fallen-off-a-cliff-and-weve-landed-on-a-ledge-halfway-down/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:36:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. D. Swampfox</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a great quote and ominous too.  Here&#8217;s Stephen King from HSBC to CNBC:]]></description>
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		<title>Bank Stocks soar at close yesterday</title>
		<link>http://www.swampreport.com/investments/bank-stocks-soar-at-close-yesterday/</link>
		<comments>http://www.swampreport.com/investments/bank-stocks-soar-at-close-yesterday/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:11:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. D. Swampfox</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Investments]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From WSJ: Financial stocks also helped to inspire a late burst in the S&#38;P 500-stock index, which advanced 8.37 points, or 1%, to 851.92. Credit-card issuer Capital One Financial soared 18%, and banks like Wells Fargo and PNC Financial Services, which rose 11% and 7.5%, respectively, also surged. Swamp Report figures its the advance information [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CNBC: Banks must have 3% TCE in worst case &#8230;or raise capital</title>
		<link>http://www.swampreport.com/investments/cnbc-banks-must-have-3-tce-in-worst-case-or-raise-capital/</link>
		<comments>http://www.swampreport.com/investments/cnbc-banks-must-have-3-tce-in-worst-case-or-raise-capital/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:40:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. D. Swampfox</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CNBC cites &#8220;sources&#8221; who tell them that the bank stress tests  will require banks to have risk adjusted Tangible Common Equity equal to 3% of assets.  This of course &#8220;sounds nice&#8221;.  If assets weren&#8217;t so subject to &#8220;funny accounting&#8221;, it would be meaningful.]]></description>
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		<title>FAQs on the stress tests</title>
		<link>http://www.swampreport.com/politics/faqs-on-the-stress-tests/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 10:58:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. D. Swampfox</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Reuters, the government is going to reveal the bank stress test results soon. &#8220;The Obama administration is drawing up plans to disclose the financial condition of the 19 biggest banks in the country, the New York Times said, citing senior administration officials. While all of the banks are expected to pass the tests, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Soros: love Obama, hate his zombie banks</title>
		<link>http://www.swampreport.com/economy/soros-love-obama-hate-his-zombie-banks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.swampreport.com/economy/soros-love-obama-hate-his-zombie-banks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 16:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. D. Swampfox</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Swedish solution]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.swampreport.com/?p=741</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[George Soros is quoted in an interview with Tick Ticker as supportive of President Obama&#8217;s policies generally but not of his need to reach a consensus which costs valuable time in dealing with the banks: &#8220;Essentially, Soros believes we should be following the so-called Swedish solution but fears we are heading down the same policy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Fix is in: Stress tests say &#8220;No Problem&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.swampreport.com/economy/the-fix-is-in-stress-tests-say-no-problem/</link>
		<comments>http://www.swampreport.com/economy/the-fix-is-in-stress-tests-say-no-problem/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:16:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. D. Swampfox</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The NYT reports today that the results of the stress tests on banks are positive: &#8220;For the last eight weeks, nearly 200 federal examiners have labored inside some of the nation’s biggest banks to determine how those institutions would hold up if the recession deepened. What they are discovering may come as a relief to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fed confused between loss rate vs. recovery rate</title>
		<link>http://www.swampreport.com/investments/fed-confused-between-loss-rate-vs-recovery-rate/</link>
		<comments>http://www.swampreport.com/investments/fed-confused-between-loss-rate-vs-recovery-rate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:38:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. D. Swampfox</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Investments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bank assets]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.swampreport.com/?p=538</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In a piece designed to contrast money center banks with regional banks, Institutional risk offers their opinion on the Fed&#8217;s thinking: &#8220;No wonder that Fed Chairman Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner persist in their idiotic position that toxic subprime assets have true &#8220;values&#8221; of 80% of par. As we told the clients of IRA&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Focus on the liabilities, not the assets of banks</title>
		<link>http://www.swampreport.com/economy/focus-on-the-liabilities-not-the-assets-of-banks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.swampreport.com/economy/focus-on-the-liabilities-not-the-assets-of-banks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2009 18:59:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. D. Swampfox</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bank bond holder should not come out of a bad bank unscathed.Â  Jeremy Bulow at VOX submits a viable plan to deal with the banks: A plan that isolates the bad liabilities rather than the bad assets of the banks, and pays the owners of those claims everything they legally deserve in liquidation but does [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An example: how Geithner&#8217;s plan would work</title>
		<link>http://www.swampreport.com/politics/an-example-of-how-geithners-plan-could-work-you%e2%80%99ve-also-transmuted-a-30mm-economic-loss-into-a-3675mm-economic-loss-because-of-the-laundering-so-its-incredibly-inefficient/</link>
		<comments>http://www.swampreport.com/politics/an-example-of-how-geithners-plan-could-work-you%e2%80%99ve-also-transmuted-a-30mm-economic-loss-into-a-3675mm-economic-loss-because-of-the-laundering-so-its-incredibly-inefficient/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2009 00:23:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. D. Swampfox</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we said in a previous post, the proposed program is designed to hide the fact thatÂ  the taxpayer is paying for all the losses on the assets and the bank bondholders are unscathed.Â  But according to this comment by John C. Halasz on James Kwak&#8217;s Baseline Scenario coverage of the Geithner plan , it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Former Treasury Secretary Paul O&#8217;Neal calls for truth on banks</title>
		<link>http://www.swampreport.com/economy/former-tresury-secretary-paul-oneal-calls-for-more-truth-on-banks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.swampreport.com/economy/former-tresury-secretary-paul-oneal-calls-for-more-truth-on-banks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 22:19:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. D. Swampfox</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a guest on Fareed Zakaria&#8217;s CNN show, &#8220;GPS,&#8221; Former Treasury Secretary Paul O&#8217;Neal said &#8220;if you can&#8217;t value the assets, please don&#8217;t buy them with my money.&#8221; He calls for the banks to come clean and suggests that many are hiding the truth about their assets. The video of the interview with Mr. O&#8217;Neal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stress Test for Zombie Banks &#8211; it&#8217;s a farce</title>
		<link>http://www.swampreport.com/economy/stress-test-zombie-banks-its-a-farce/</link>
		<comments>http://www.swampreport.com/economy/stress-test-zombie-banks-its-a-farce/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:11:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. D. Swampfox</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Institutional Risk Analyst: &#8220;Apparently, banks that fail the Supervisory Capital Assessment Program stress test will not be broken up as required by law, but instead given more capital at taxpayer expense. This is the solution to the financial crisis embraced by President Barack Obama. There is no market discipline, no bad results for [...]]]></description>
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