BLOG.JMHAMILTONPUBLISHING.COM: Monthly Archives for September 2011

"To paraphrase the late Leona Helmsley, only little people will pay bank fees."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/30/2011 5:15 AM | Add Comment

FOR SALE: F-22 Raptor, Slightly Used...

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/30/2011 5:12 AM | Add Comment

But good politics can be very bad policy.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/30/2011 5:09 AM | Add Comment

Bank of America’s debit fee is steeper than most of its competitors’, reflecting the broader challenges the bank is facing after the financial crisis.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/30/2011 5:05 AM | Add Comment

That would serve mostly to shift the debt from European banks to taxpayers.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/30/2011 5:03 AM | Add Comment

Mr. McCarthy was awarded a severance package worth about $6.3 million — and was reimbursed for up to $10,000 of legal fees associated with his termination. Beazer did not respond to a request for comment.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/30/2011 5:00 AM | Add Comment

For Republicans, the reality of those changing demographics tempers their heightened hopes for beating Mr. Obama.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/30/2011 4:58 AM | Add Comment

“We condemn this unwarranted attack in the strongest possible terms,” Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said in a statement.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/30/2011 4:57 AM | Add Comment

This suggests that seasonal mood changes are due more to a diminishing of positive emotions in anticipation of short days, the authors say.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/30/2011 4:55 AM | Add Comment

"Full Tilt reported balances that had been seized or restrained by United States authorities as liquid funds, and gave unauthorized loans and failed to report material events."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/30/2011 4:53 AM | Add Comment

"Why is this happening? It looks like some kind of liquidity squeeze is under way in China," he continues. The sharp widening in credit spreads for China implies as much.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/29/2011 6:02 PM | Add Comment

Wall Street lost steam in the afternoon.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/29/2011 6:00 PM | Add Comment

Republican politicians in Texas have long thrived on lashing out against federal regulation, but critics say Mr. Perry has taken it to new levels...

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/29/2011 5:57 PM | Add Comment

“The chancellor’s path is extremely contentious, with the public plainly opposed because it is unclear what limit there is to how far Germany has to jump in to cover Greece’s debt.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/29/2011 5:54 PM | Add Comment

"We never really emerged from the last recession," Carlyle Group co-founder David Rubenstein said

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/29/2011 5:32 PM | Add Comment

It said Goldman also bet against the product by buying billions of dollars in credit default swaps that insured Goldman against the collapse of the mortgage securities collateral it sold to Landesbank.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/29/2011 5:30 PM | Add Comment

Popularly known as a poison pill, it limits the amount of shares an individual investor can buy.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/29/2011 5:29 PM | Add Comment

BP had acquired a 30 percent stake in 23 oil and gas blocks in India from Reliance earlier this year

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/29/2011 5:27 PM | Add Comment

And last week, the company’s chairman, Eric Schmidt, fielded tough questions from lawmakers as he defended Google in a Senate antitrust hearing.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/29/2011 5:24 PM | Add Comment

And these domestic banks are being aided by the Chinese government, which often pushes local companies to include Chinese investment banks for its international offerings.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/29/2011 5:20 PM | Add Comment

Banks like Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley are chasing the potential payoff abroad.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/29/2011 5:19 PM | Add Comment

“They recognize they have deep problems, and they recognize they need to do something about it.” Even so, “let’s not underestimate both the political challenges and the engineering challenges.” - Mohamed El-Erian

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/29/2011 5:50 AM | Add Comment

“There’s a huge backlog of companies that want to go public.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/29/2011 5:48 AM | Add Comment

"His wide-eyed, almost shell-shocked look said it all."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/29/2011 5:46 AM | Add Comment

"There can be no illusions about who Mr. Putin really is."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/29/2011 5:43 AM | Add Comment

Gearing Up for the Next War???

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/29/2011 5:41 AM | Add Comment

“If the government is going to ask for sacrifices, they should be the first to give an example.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/29/2011 5:40 AM | Add Comment

"If some bankers complain and work hard to overturn these rules, they are the ones being anti-American."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/29/2011 5:38 AM | Add Comment

“Throughout history, there have been similar challenges to other landmark legislation, such as the Social Security Act, the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act, and all of those challenges failed.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/29/2011 5:34 AM | Add Comment

“These big global companies, in relation to specific activities, are more powerful than the governments they’re dealing with.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/29/2011 5:31 AM | Add Comment

VOLCKER RULE!

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/28/2011 6:46 PM | Add Comment

Mr. Bezos said. “We’re going to sell many millions of these.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/28/2011 6:44 PM | Add Comment

The politics has fractured along unexpected lines as well.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/28/2011 6:42 PM | Add Comment

“If we don’t move forward with more integration, we will suffer more fragmentation. This will be a baptism of fire for a whole generation.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/28/2011 6:41 PM | Add Comment

"Dimon will continue to look bipartisan, then work behind the scenes to get a Republican elected."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/28/2011 6:39 PM | Add Comment

The commission, the European Union’s executive body, opposes ideas being floated by some government officials to get banks to accept bigger so-called haircuts

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/28/2011 6:37 PM | Add Comment

And while the European Union might like the idea of tying itself to the mast, and thus pre-announcing a policy for a future debt crisis, in the sovereign context each case is new.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/28/2011 6:34 PM | Add Comment

Insiders have recently been buying the company's shares, according to U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filings.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/28/2011 6:31 PM | Add Comment

“Value creation” ?

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/28/2011 6:29 PM | Add Comment

The group, whose protests are in their second week, is calling for an end to the "monied corruption of our democracy" in the U.S. and is borrowing a page from the Arab Spring uprisings that overturned several regimes earlier this year.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/28/2011 6:26 PM | Add Comment

“M&A follows the economy almost exclusively, with a little bit of a lag.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/28/2011 6:24 PM | Add Comment

“Western businesses work wonderfully with dictators.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/28/2011 6:23 PM | Add Comment

“It does create moral hazard, no doubt about it.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/28/2011 5:27 AM | Add Comment

"The torrid two-day advance in stocks and commodities has done little to change the primary technical structure of risky assets, and we remain steadfast in our belief that the 'lows are not in.'"

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/28/2011 5:25 AM | Add Comment

The Red Sox and the Rays are deadlocked in the wild-card race...

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/28/2011 5:20 AM | Add Comment

Phones can be more vulnerable because they connect to wireless networks at the gym or the coffee shop, and hackers can surreptitiously charge consumers for a purchase.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/28/2011 5:19 AM | Add Comment

the Japanese finance minister, Jun Azumi, suggested that his government might contribute toward a bailout effort for Greece if European leaders were able to devise a reasonable plan to calm market fears.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/28/2011 5:16 AM | Add Comment

Foreign oil companies operating in Syria include Royal Dutch Shell, the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation of India, Total of France and the China National Petroleum Corporation.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/28/2011 5:13 AM | Add Comment

“We’re the first generation to say that voting is worthless.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/28/2011 5:12 AM | Add Comment

The idea of riding something all the way to the bottom and making a boatload of money, but then riding it back up to a good extent.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/27/2011 7:05 PM | Add Comment

“Why did the Pakistanis do it?”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/27/2011 7:02 PM | Add Comment

He also said that Goldman Sachs, not governments, ruled the world.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/27/2011 6:59 PM | Add Comment

Federal rules set to rein in speculative commodities trading face further delays, as regulators struggle to finalize the controversial proposal amid threats of legal challenges.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/27/2011 6:57 PM | Add Comment

But the senior examiner who questioned the deal told the inspector general’s staff that Freddie Mac’s faulty process could cost the company “billions of dollars of losses.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/27/2011 6:54 PM | Add Comment

"No ... no golden parachute."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/27/2011 6:52 PM | Add Comment

“He very quickly became a safe harbor for moderate members who wanted to make sure we corrected the abuses of Wall Street without killing the markets.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/27/2011 6:50 PM | Add Comment

They say the world's No 1 brewer AB InBev will not be deterred from making a move for SABMiller even after the No 2 brewer swallows up Australia's Foster's

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/27/2011 6:48 PM | Add Comment

Ayn Rand $$$

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/27/2011 6:47 PM | Add Comment

Goldman Sachs, bracing for what could be one of its worst quarters since it went public 12 years ago

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/27/2011 6:45 PM | Add Comment

The big attraction to high-yield bonds now is that they could come out ahead just by standing still

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/27/2011 5:32 AM | Add Comment

“It’s a waste to be wasting all of this energy.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/27/2011 5:23 AM | Add Comment

Like Google, Facebook is facing increasing questions from lawmakers about the effect of its practices on its customers.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/27/2011 5:22 AM | Add Comment

The men and women who risk their lives to keep us secure deserve decent pay while they serve and ample benefits once they retire.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/27/2011 5:21 AM | Add Comment

Professor Levine estimated that a significant majority of those arrested in 2010 had never been convicted of any crime

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/27/2011 5:19 AM | Add Comment

The Fed "is in its predicament from its past policy mistakes," which he contends "clobbered modest-income households" by raising the costs of necessities such as food and energy.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/25/2011 6:03 AM | Add Comment

Profanity defense: Competing media companies will unite to argue their First Amendment right

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/25/2011 6:02 AM | Add Comment

"Known unknowns" roiling the market include, but aren't limited to, the possible collapse of the European Union, fear the Federal Reserve is out of bullets in the fight to rescue the economy, and concern that slowdowns in America, Europe and China

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/25/2011 5:58 AM | Add Comment

“It’s a long time coming that the I.M.F. called a spade a spade when it comes to the banking sector,” says Kenneth Rogoff, a professor of economics.... “They know there’s a problem and they don’t want to acknowledge it.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/25/2011 5:55 AM | Add Comment

“I am convinced that it is in the best interests of UBS to approach the future with a new leader.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/25/2011 5:53 AM | Add Comment

The response from the C.F.T.C. “is a horrifically weak rule.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/25/2011 5:52 AM | Add Comment

Tourists stopped to take pictures; cops smiled, and the insidiously favorable tax treatment of private equity and hedge-fund managers was looking as though it would endure.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/25/2011 5:48 AM | Add Comment

“Everyone knows that Putin runs Russia”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/25/2011 5:45 AM | Add Comment

“It won’t be us. We’re going to leave, and those guys know it.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/25/2011 5:41 AM | Add Comment

"Operation Tangle"

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/24/2011 8:20 AM | Add Comment

"Banks are not expected to be willing to restructure their balance sheets to take on a large number of long-term, low-yielding loans. Therefore, these policies become another major impediment to bank lending."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/24/2011 6:09 AM | Add Comment

"Wall Street is diving deeper into the $600 trillion industry."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/23/2011 6:06 PM | Add Comment

There is widespread agreement among outside observers, including Americans like Mr. Goolsbee, that the current bailout fund of 440 billion euros — about $600 billion — is not large enough.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/23/2011 6:04 PM | Add Comment

The right-wing Swiss People's Party has called for UBS and Credit Suisse to be forced to split their investment banks from their core wealth management businesses.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/23/2011 6:03 PM | Add Comment

The regulator, the Financial Services Authority, said last week that it would start an investigation together with the Swiss financial watchdog to establish how a trader was able to lose the bank $2.3 billion.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/23/2011 5:59 PM | Add Comment

The regulator, the Financial Services Authority, said last week that it would start an investigation together with the Swiss financial watchdog to establish how a trader was able to lose the bank $2.3 billion.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/23/2011 5:59 PM | Add Comment

“They've got to do two things -- reduce riskier assets and continue to reallocate capital to other businesses.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/23/2011 5:51 PM | Add Comment

"It's the revolving door of Washington," Gavil said. "One of the things that attracts lawyers to public service is the ability to sell their expertise when they leave."

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/23/2011 5:48 PM | Add Comment

“The market is pricing in a recession.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/23/2011 5:35 AM | Add Comment

At the end of March, French financial firms had $672 billion in public and private debt in Greece, Portugal, Ireland, Italy and Spain, according to Basel...

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/23/2011 5:33 AM | Add Comment

Japanese Finance Minister Jun Azumi said in Washington yesterday that while his nation can buy European Financial Stability Facility bonds if needed, there is no blank check.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/23/2011 5:31 AM | Add Comment

"So do the wealthy look to you like the victims of class warfare?"

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/23/2011 5:28 AM | Add Comment

“With ISI support, Haqqani operatives planned and conducted that truck bomb attack, as well as the assault on our embassy,” Admiral Mullen said

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/23/2011 5:26 AM | Add Comment

The tensions only grew as the night wore on...

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/23/2011 5:25 AM | Add Comment

Rick Santorum said he would respond to the threat of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons falling into the wrong hands by cultivating closer relations with its former president Pervez Musharraf.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/23/2011 5:20 AM | Add Comment

There is no economic sense or logic to their position, which makes it look as if they want to stall the economy for the 2012 election.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/23/2011 5:15 AM | Add Comment

The rivals’ rebuttal: Google increasingly tilts search results in favor of its own online commerce offerings like travel and shopping

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/23/2011 5:13 AM | Add Comment

In other words: you’ve become a human hyperlink.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/23/2011 5:12 AM | Add Comment

You could have seen this coming.... Had you read J.M. Hamilton!

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/22/2011 5:00 PM | Add Comment

Always cutting edge... often prescient... J.M. Hamilton!

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/22/2011 4:59 PM | Add Comment

“Banks certainly do not have enough capital in relation to their government bonds,” said Dorothea Schäfer, an expert in financial markets at the German Institute for Economic Research in Berlin.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/22/2011 4:59 PM | Add Comment

As usual, Mr. Ahmadinejad talked a lot about the domestic economy of the United States while barely mentioning his own country, nor the current turmoil in the Middle East.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/22/2011 4:57 PM | Add Comment

B of A and MERS under fire: “This case is scary because if Dallas wins then there are a lot of other counties around the country that are going to follow.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/22/2011 4:41 PM | Add Comment

In the updated filing, Zynga said it conducted a third-party analysis that estimated the probability of Zynga's IPO at 75 percent, down from the 80 percent estimate in the company's last filing.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/22/2011 4:38 PM | Add Comment

“The markets are blackmailing us and the circumstances are humiliating us.”

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/22/2011 4:37 PM | Add Comment

"If you are in China or Russia and looking for dramatic European expansion you can sit and wait with your gun loaded. Things aren't going to get any better for a while," the banker said.

Posted by J.M. Hamilton Blog at 9/22/2011 4:32 PM | Add Comment

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