Back-of-the-Envelope: Making Sense of TARP
…fund treats the position as if it were an in-the-money Call option for which the Fed paid the in-the-money portion; the real returns to the hedge fund of the position…
…fund treats the position as if it were an in-the-money Call option for which the Fed paid the in-the-money portion; the real returns to the hedge fund of the position…
…this money to keep shareholders happy, why not divide the money by the amount of money all people owe on their mortgages and then grant them a once off government…
By: Divorced one like Bush Yes, you read that correctly. The right is reporting there is money to be found in wind. Sacrilege in their church of oil. In an…
…From an economic, as well as a cost accounting, perspective how could anyone spend anyone else’s money without rudimentary knowledge of WHAT they could get for the MONEY? What kind…
…of costs they couldn’t justify,” he said in an interview. “Ultimately, the money that was going to KBR was money being taken away from the troops, and I wasn’t going…
Bloomberg carries an article noting that credit was tight but there appeared to be plenty of money for commodities. Here is another piece of the action. Credit is scarce but…
This is a continuation of looking at the income of the top 10% of this country. Before we go further, let’s look at what kind of a money machine we…
…in a displacement of specie by credit instruments and so-called money substitutes, and there exists, therefore, an important tendency towards a strengthening of the commodity aspect of money and of…
…intrinsically less healthy population. Conclusion We spend a lot more money on health care, both in absolute terms and as a percent of GDP. Where does the money go? We…
Or: “Dudley Makes Mock of the Monetarists.” In my post The Fed is not “Printing Money.” It’s Retiring Bonds and Issuing Reserves, I said: …when the Fed gives the banks…