In a year that has seen hedge funds loss about 18% on average, and investors taking back their money in mass, there are some bright spots in the industry. Be shore that those lucky enough to be investors are extremely grateful. In the end for a hedge fund manager to get paid he has to [...]

Lately we have been hearing a great deal of fuss made by financial companies who have received government bailout money, that their activities and trades are proprietary information. To release this information would put the banks at risk.
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The primary problems with the banks argument are three fold:
First – the taxpayers are the owners, [...]

This bank is too big. That company is too important. Those manufacture employee to many people.  We hear it again, and again. Yes, these are big companies. Yes these companies employee many people, and yes if these people loss there jobs, the market will get worse.
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The only question is, is it better to take [...]

When you’re forced to restructure a bailout, which was supposed to be used for restricting, it’s hard to justify even to yourself that throwing good money at a problem is the answer. In terms of AIG, the federal government really needs to take a few steps backwards and figure out how it can unwind that [...]

CNBC had an excellent program called “House of Cards” that has aired a few nights ago, and will continue to be aired on televeision a few more times (check out the schedule).  You can watch the entire program, thanks to Hulu.com. �
Let’s hope we are all wealth and retired by the time this house of [...]

I am against the Banking/Mortgage bailout, so the first part of the evening to me was a waste of time.
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Getting to the good stuff:
The second part, regarding energy, and building better infrastructure is where I agree.  I would have thrown the whole $700 billion directly into projects that create better infrastructure, which means better roads, better [...]

In trying to rap our heads around the latest government program to try and rescue the banking sector, we have become puzzled at the constantly change approach the government has.
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It seems the government has always known that it will need to take direct ownership in the banking sector. However, because the word nationalization has [...]

There is an old feeble that we read to children in the hopes of teaching them a lesson about life; A little boy scrams out that he saw a wolf, just to get everyone’s attention. After doing it a few times, and having all the towns people come to his rescue the town’s people catch [...]

When thinking of the Swiss Banking system, for most of us the only real recollection we have of the SNB is when a bad guy in a movie wants to move money around. He gets to use a numbered account in Switzerland. When I start hear that they are losing money. I wonder if the [...]

Old amusement parks had a ride (very dangerous) which was basically a room with a whole bunch of revolving platforms. The platforms would all turn in different directions. The object of the ride was to get from one side of the room to the other. Because the floor was revolving in all direction, as you [...]

When talking to a child about what it should do with its life, make sure to put Banker on the top of the list. Where can you systematically do a poor job, and continue to be paid a ridiculous amount to do it.
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It seems that Wall Street never has enough, and although most companies are [...]

Mounting additional pressure on the American, another country has started to do more to help its companies directly. “The Japanese government on Tuesday outlined a plan to inject state money into ailing companies in exchange for equity stakes, a move that echoes the partial nationalization of some troubled financial firms in the United States and [...]

After the earlier efforts to stimulate leading have mostly failed in the United States and Europe, government across Europe are trying to “forcefully assure that bailed-out banks lend more money to offset the recession that has engulfed both continents”.
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Breakdown: England
·          New £100 billion, ($147.5 billion), limit banks’ losses in exchange for pledges to increase credit  [...]

Turns out the bailout of the nations banks is not enough. We now are going to inject cash directly into the hands of, well everyone expect the people who need it.
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We at Whybanksfail have our own stimulus plan, called; Give the money back to the tax payers bill of 2009.
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In 2005 134,372,678 Individual Tax [...]

Buy low, sell high. It’s the mantra of smart investing. But how do you know something is at its bottom. In the financial crisis of 08/09, I would not want to be making those bets.
The problem is that money is getting thrown around, and good money is casing a lot of bad money around [...]