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August 19th, 2008, 07:30 PM #1
Large U.S. bank collapse ahead, says ex-IMF economist
I hope history proves this guy to be a clown and the guys in the white coats are after him for taking off his tin foil hat, because IF he right, the tax payers are going to get screwed again.....BIG TIME.
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsO...21695020080819
Large U.S. bank collapse ahead, says ex-IMF economist
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The worst of the global financial crisis is yet to come and a large U.S. bank will fail in the next few months as the world's biggest economy hits further troubles, former IMF chief economist Kenneth Rogoff said on Tuesday.
"The U.S. is not out of the woods. I think the financial crisis is at the halfway point, perhaps. I would even go further to say 'the worst is to come'," he told a financial conference.
"We're not just going to see mid-sized banks go under in the next few months, we're going to see a whopper, we're going to see a big one, one of the big investment banks or big banks," said Rogoff, who is an economics professor at Harvard University and was the International Monetary Fund's chief economist from 2001 to 2004.
"We have to see more consolidation in the financial sector before this is over," he said, when asked for early signs of an end to the crisis.
"Probably Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac -- despite what U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson said -- these giant mortgage guarantee agencies are not going to exist in their present form in a few years."
Rogoff's comments come as investors dumped shares of the largest U.S. home funding companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac on Monday after a newspaper report said government officials may have no choice but to effectively nationalize the U.S. housing finance titans.
A government move to recapitalize the two companies by injecting funds could wipe out existing common stock holders, the weekend Barron's story said. Preferred shareholders and even holders of the two government-sponsored entities' $19 billion of subordinated debt would also suffer losses.
Rogoff said multi-billion dollar investments by sovereign wealth funds from Asia and the Middle East in western financial firms may not necessarily result in large profits because they had not taken into account the broader market conditions that the industry faces.
"There was this view early on in the crisis that sovereign wealth funds could save everybody. Investment banks did something stupid, they lost money in the sub-prime, they're great buys, sovereign wealth funds come in and make a lot of money by buying them.
"That view neglects the point that the financial system has become very bloated in size and needed to shrink," Rogoff told the conference in Singapore, whose wealth funds GIC and Temasek have invested billions in Merrill Lynch and Citigroup
In response to the sharp U.S. housing retrenchment and turmoil in credit markets, the U.S. Federal Reserve has reduced interest rates by a cumulative 3.25 percentage points to 2 percent since mid-September.
Rogoff said the U.S. Federal Reserve was wrong to cut interest rates as "dramatically" as it did.
"Cutting interest rates is going to lead to a lot of inflation in the next few years in the United States."
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August 19th, 2008, 07:41 PM #2Banned
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Re: Large U.S. bank collapse ahead, says ex-IMF economist
Ah Hell's Bells .. you beat me to the post, dammit dammit dammit, that's what I get for going out for a few hours.
Anyway, let face it folks no one but an IDIOT would think this mess is over, the worst is still in front of us, personally I think this fall / winter is going to be the "bottom" I just don't know how deep that bottom may be!
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August 19th, 2008, 10:08 PM #3Junior Member
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Re: Large U.S. bank collapse ahead, says ex-IMF economist
I am thinkingit will be much like a bottomless pit , we will be at the bottom and all the sewer sludge will bedropped on us.
Did someone say lower than whale shit.
Ed
I am hoping that my IRA is not F"ed up.
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August 20th, 2008, 09:45 AM #4Banned
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Re: Large U.S. bank collapse ahead, says ex-IMF economist
Another take on the same topic, an interview with one of THE smartest investors in the world, Jim Rogers .... great read:
http://seekingalpha.com/article/9164...al-shocks-loom
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August 20th, 2008, 11:16 AM #5
Re: Large U.S. bank collapse ahead, says ex-IMF economist
Oh boy, here it comes... self-destruct!
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August 20th, 2008, 12:09 PM #6
Re: Large U.S. bank collapse ahead, says ex-IMF economist
Ron Paul has been saying similar things for years.....but hes crazy who would listen to a crazy person....right
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