rdan Paul Kagan asks this question: You won’t find the names of many of these funds in the published lists of banks’ largest investors, because they’re hidden behind the names…

…forced to bear some risk, say I bear the risk that I will get sick, then I might rationally hold another portfollio including health insurance, but I can’t gain by…

…revenues depend on local real estate values. That risk can be delocalized, that is, diversified, with benefits both the the local citizens and investors who hold a diversified portfolio of…

Tanta says: If you have a servicer who is doing a lot of repayment plans, and the MBA data suggests we have that, then you’re going to see a lot…

…a standard account with no investment choice and no risk, or a flexible account with limited choice and limited risk. The standard account would be invested in one fund consisting…

…taking on market risk/reward, replacing it with absolutely nonvolatile, risk/reward-free assets (at least in nominal terms). It’s removing leverage and volatility from the banking system. (MMTers might well ask why…

…use Fair Value Accounting Estimates to account for risk and the Democrats were resisting such a move preferring to stay with the historical data collected by the Department of Education…

Worth a look. Job Losses Post-WWII Recessions (Bill McBride, Calculated Risk) Click on graph for larger image….

…and Singer the inflation truther. But then he discusses the thoughts Bernanke and Summers, which are well worth discussing. Ben Bernanke says that there is a: risk… that rates will…

…whether that law grant’s the federal government authority to determine that a financial institution is so large that its sheer size poses a systemic risk to this country’s economy. And…