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Deciphering the Bank Stress Tests

May 20, 2009 By Jeff Nabers Leave a Comment

Here are a couple highlights for a recent post over at Daily Reckoning regarding the bank stress test results.

Banks need about $75 billion to reach “adequate capitalization”
“Adequate capitalization” is when common equity equals 4%
Common equity being at 4% means a debt-to-equity ratio of 25-to-1
The current bank needs do not factor in the potential for bank assets to lose their value
The current bank needs are based on a rosy worst case scenario of [Read more...]

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How to Cope with Your New $50k in Forced Debt This Year

March 6, 2009 By Jeff Nabers Leave a Comment

There are about 100 million non-government, non-taxpayer-paid workers in the U.S.

$3 trillion normal government spending + $2 trillion additional emergency spending = $5 trillion government spending in 2009.

That amounts to $50,000 of government spending per non-government, non-taxpayer-paid U.S. worker in a single year.

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Filed Under: Money, Personal Enjoyment, Personal Productivity, Uncategorized Tagged With: bailout, crisis, decicit, depression, economic, economics, economist, economy, government, meltdown, obama, recession, spending, stimulus

S&P Price-to-Earnings Ratio Says Market is Still 70% Overpriced

March 3, 2009 By Jeff Nabers Leave a Comment

If you are choosing to stay in the stock market right now because of any of the following reasons…

It is poised to bounce back
You don’t want to close out losing positions
Stocks are cheap right now

…then the simplicity of the following information may shock you.

Last week [Read more...]

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News Flash: World Decides Not To End

February 25, 2009 By Jeff Nabers Leave a Comment

I want to get this news flash out to you, but there’s no sense in reinventing the wheel. I think the first half of Bill Bonner’s recent blog post sums it up. See it here.