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Deciphering the Bank Stress Tests

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 … [Read more...] about Deciphering the Bank Stress Tests

Bank bailout money goes to CEO bonuses

Mark Cuban, billionaire owner NBA team Dallas Mavericks, runs a couple of interesting web sites. In July of 2006, he started ShareSleuth, an online publication that exposes fraud in the stock market. It's surely worth checking out. More recently Cuban has launched BailoutSleuth, an online … [Read more...] about Bank bailout money goes to CEO bonuses