Wednesday, December 30, 2009

12.30.2009 SPX & Summary of the Financial Reform Legislation




With the snow storm, online sale only rose 5% tells us a lot about the Holiday retail sales. Financial markets is painted with very rosy picture while US economy is painted with very rosy depression stain-glass US Online Holiday Spending Rose 5%: ComScore

Summary of the Financial Reform Legislation shows a very little change except more benefit for big banks (aka the Fed) as more squeeze out of small guys grabbed by balls.

Next Melt down: This is setting up for the next melt down looking like a child game of the 2007-2008 melt-down. We will face massive bankruptcies and foreclosures as the worst is not behind us in reality even though media is spinning rosy stories.
  • H.R. 4173, the financial-reform legislation
    Bankers Get $4 Trillion Gift From Barney Frank: David Reilly
    Here are some of the nuggets I gleaned from days spent reading Frank’s handiwork:

    -- For all its heft, the bill doesn’t once mention the words “too-big-to-fail,” the main issue confronting the financial system. Admitting you have a problem, as any 12- stepper knows, is the crucial first step toward recovery.

    -- Instead, it supports the biggest banks. It authorizes Federal Reserve banks to provide as much as $4 trillion in emergency funding the next time Wall Street crashes. So much for “no-more-bailouts” talk. That is more than twice what the Fed pumped into markets this time around. The size of the fund makes the bribes in the Senate’s health-care bill look minuscule.

    -- Oh, hold on, the Federal Reserve and Treasury Secretary can’t authorize these funds unless “there is at least a 99 percent likelihood that all funds and interest will be paid back.” Too bad the same models used to foresee the housing meltdown probably will be used to predict this likelihood as well.










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