Why Would Goldman Sachs and BofA Throw Gasoline on the Stock Market Fire Yesterday?
The stock market, as measured by the Dow Jones Industrial Average, had already lost a total of more than 2,000 points in the prior three days of trading; Stock futures were showing a big loss at the open of trading on Thursday; News reports had proliferated overnight...
Fed’s Stress Tests on Banks Should Have Factored in a Pandemic
Each year the Federal Reserve comes up with a hypothetical, severely adverse economic scenario against which it evaluates the ability of Wall Street’s mega banks to weather the storm. Called “stress tests,” this year’s severely adverse scenario features a severe...
Wall Street Banks, Insurers Sell Off — Dangerously Linked by Derivative Trades
If the federal government wants to quarantine the most dangerous threat to the financial health of the United States, it will impose a lockdown and decontamination of the federally-insured banks that are holding tens of trillions of dollars in derivative trades....







