Last Friday a bank in Kansas was the ninth bank to fail this year in the U.S.. We know a couple German banks and a U.K. bank failed early in the crisis. We also know a couple bigger Swedish banks are on the rocks…
Watch the failures spread…
Danish Central Bank to Take Control of Roskilde Bank (Update3): “The Danish Central Bank will take control of Roskilde Bank A/S to avert a financial “contagion” after mounting loan losses drove the lender into insolvency and a private purchaser couldn't be found.
The central bank and a group of Danish financial companies will provide Roskilde 4.5 billion kroner ($890 million) in cash and assume 37.3 billion kroner of debt, Roskilde said in a statement yesterday. The bank was suspended in Copenhagen trading today, after falling 88 percent from a peak in April 2007.
“We wanted to secure financial stability in Denmark,” central bank Governor Nils Bernstein said at a press conference in Copenhagen today. “The alternative would have been that Roskilde went bankrupt and that would have resulted in a considerable contagion throughout the financial sector.””
Central banks all over the world seem to operate out of the same damn play book. In trading, we call this averaging down into a LOSER. This is the fastest and most efficient way to blow your account.
This nervous whining about systemic risk and ‘financial contagion’ is insane. Absolutely insane. By bailing out retarded banks you guarantee an immediate increase in systemic risk and the longer run, permanent increase in systemic risk.
Anybody out there want to start a bank with me? The plan would be to act really really recklessly. When our bets pay off, we can give ourselves the kind of bonuses that would make even gods blush. When our bets blow up we can just claim ‘market failure’ and ‘regulatory failure’. We then threaten the world with financial Armageddon and demand an immediate bailout, preferably the kind that doesn’t wipe out the value of our common shares…
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Ok Ben,
You can run the bank -- I'll just sit on the board, collect my $200k salary and $1MM in restricted stock and options for showing up to 8 meetings a year so that I can pat you on the back for doing a heckuva job. Meanwhile, I'll place a yes-man stamp of approval on all your comp packages and make sure that your parachute is made of 24k gold (hmmm . . . maybe you would prefer platinum?). Sound like a deal (racket)?
Oh to be a good ol' boy.
-Mike J
Additionally, two high-ranking people in the bank cashed out their options shortly before the stock tanked. An investigation into insider trading and other criminal conduct by bank management has been started by the financial committee under the parliament.
Ben -
I'm having some trouble identifying which european banks are in dire straits - any thoughts on blogs/info sites that would assist a put buyer? I'm thinking HBSC and DB might be prime candidates...
"""We then threaten the world with financial Armageddon and demand an immediate bailout, preferably the kind that doesn’t wipe out the value of our common shares…"""
Actually you *want* the shares to wipe for two reasons:
First off, the holders of the shares will not be able to pay the legal fees to sue you.
Second, having sold your shares already you are now short the stock (or - even better - holding an amount of Out-of-the-money PUT's who's In-the-money-value is equivalent to the entire reserve of the major bank holding the other side of the option trade. You are short that bank too ...)
PS: I live in Denmark, BTW.
فني تركيب غرف نوم بالرياض
شركة تركيب غرف نوم بالرياض
أسعار تركيب غرف النوم بالرياض
معلم تركيب غرف نوم بالرياض
تركيب غرفة نوم بالرياض
تركيب غرف ايكيا بالرياض
شركة تركيب عفش بالرياض
ارخص نجار بالرياض
افضل نجار بالرياض
افضل ورشة نجارة بالرياض
نجار غرف نوم بالرياض
نجار خشب بالرياض
تفصيل طاولات خشب بالرياض
نجار جنوب الرياض
نجار شرق الرياض
رقم نجار شمال الرياض
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