jeudi 13 mai 2010
Comment arrêter ce pillage?
Bloomberg via ZH:
In a feat that would seem to defy the odds, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America this week each said its trading desk made money every day of the first quarter. Goldman said its daily net trading revenue topped $100 million 35 times last quarter out of 63 trading days. JPMorgan and Bank of America disclosed similar eye-popping stats. Citigroup, too, recorded a profit on each trading day, Bloomberg News reported, citing unnamed people who knew the results. The intrigue is high. If a too-big-to-fail bank’s traders were able to make money every day of a quarter, were they really trading in any normal sense of the word? Or would vacuuming be a more accurate term? What kinds of risks do such incredible profits entail, for the banks and the rest of us taxpayers? And are results such as these too good to be true?
Jonathan Weil, Bloomberg
In a feat that would seem to defy the odds, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America this week each said its trading desk made money every day of the first quarter. Goldman said its daily net trading revenue topped $100 million 35 times last quarter out of 63 trading days. JPMorgan and Bank of America disclosed similar eye-popping stats. Citigroup, too, recorded a profit on each trading day, Bloomberg News reported, citing unnamed people who knew the results. The intrigue is high. If a too-big-to-fail bank’s traders were able to make money every day of a quarter, were they really trading in any normal sense of the word? Or would vacuuming be a more accurate term? What kinds of risks do such incredible profits entail, for the banks and the rest of us taxpayers? And are results such as these too good to be true?
Jonathan Weil, Bloomberg
"60 minutes" interviewe les propriétaires qui désertent leurs maisons
Emission de 60 minutes sur les gens qui rendent les clés de leurs maisons aux banques après que la valeur de celles-ci ait baissée considérablement. Je trouve leur insistance sur le dilemme supposément moral qui se pose aux particuliers dans cette situation de très mauvais goût. Pourquoi les particuliers seraient-ils les seuls à connaître des obligations morales en plus de leurs obligations légales? Les médias américains n'appliquent clairement pas ce standard aux banques. D'ailleurs, la plupart des gens interviewés expliquent qu'ils dorment sur leurs deux oreilles. Evidemment. Ce reportage rend néanmoins tangible ce que l'on sait abstraitement de l'immobilier US.
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