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Children in the Candy Store
The bad news keeps piling in: $150 billion commitment to a non-bank, AIG GE Capital (which is not a bank) gets FDIC Insurance backup for $139 billion American Express and CIT Group are now banks – I guess everyone is … Continue reading
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Tagged AIG, American Express, Campbell Harvey, CIT Group, Financial Crisis '08, Ford, GE, GM, TARP, Wachovia, Wells Fargo
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The Hurdles the New President Faces
President-elect Obama wants to avoid the Herbert Hoover scenario. In this scenario, many economic initiatives are tried but fail to bring the U.S. out of recession. The high expectations are not met. The result: a single term. Of course, there … Continue reading
Who deserves to be bailed out?
I appeared on Business News Network to discuss: the missteps in implementing TARP, who should be bailed out, alternative plans to regenerate credit and the implications for the real economy. View the clip here.
Bank Earnings Are Impossible to Interpret
It is earnings season and many banks will be reporting their earnings. What are we to make of these earnings? In usual circumstances, it is hard to decode earnings. Today, it is next to impossible. By the way, why did … Continue reading
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Tagged Bank Earnings, Cam Harvey, Campbell Harvey, Fair Value Accounting, FASB 115, FASB 157, Financial Crisis '08, Mark to Market
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The Fall of the House of TARP: Time for Plan B
I am not surprised that the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) failed. The paper that I put out on Friday detailed the numerous problems with the TARP. My paper argued that the TARP had at least three major flaws.
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Tagged Cam Harvey, Campbell Harvey, Equity Injection, Financial Crisis '08, Harvey Proposal, TARP
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My Proposal to End the Credit Crisis and Minimize Damage to the Real Economy
We have been trying to put out one fire after another and it is time to get ahead of the problem. One day it is money market funds, the next is Washington Mutual, and TARP over the weekend. We need … Continue reading
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Tagged Cam Harvey, Campbell Harvey, Equity Injection, Financial Crisis '08, Harvey Proposal
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Contagious Systemic Risk: My Warning in 2005
Durham , NC — In late January 2005, Fuqua finance professor Cam Harvey traveled to Davos, Switzerland, for the world’s most important annual economic forum. From his panel discussion on corporate earnings to his encounters with senators and celebrities, Harvey … Continue reading
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Tagged Cam Harvey, Campbell Harvey, Financial Crisis '08, Systemic Risk, World Economic Forum
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