No More Bailout Money for Failed Banks

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The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is seeking private equity firms to buy out troubled banks so as not to put an unnecessary strain on their budget.

Many more banks are slated to fail in the coming months because of defaults on real estate loans. It will not be easy to find private equity buyers as many are reluctant to take on the losses of these failed banks.

Out of the seventy-seven banks that have been closed, sixty-nine buyers have been found. The danger of exhausting the FDIC’s fund has caused Walter Buffet to comment on the need for the U.S. to cut back on the amounts of money it has been pumping into the economy to rescue it from economic disaster.

The U.S. spent $180.7 billion in July 2009, the most it has ever spent in one month in U.S. history. If the FDIC’s funding is exhausted, the U.S. will go to taxpayers to finance the FDIC’s loan sales and short-term obligations.

In view of France’s experience in establishing a bank and making John Law the owner, the U.S. must be mindful of not repeating France’s history and putting unscrupulous individuals in charge of these banks.

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Gold, Another Economic Bubble?

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No doubt you have heard about the debate over whether we are in the midst of another economic bubble. Economists and financial experts say there are ten problem areas for us, and we need to pay attention to them.

Economic bubbles are not a new phenomenon. They have been occurring throughout history and mankind never seems to learn the lesson associated with them. It seems people are prone to looking for a “pot of gold” at the end of the rainbow only to find out it was not what they thought. This was the case in the economic collapse of France caused by John Law in the eighteenth century.

The ten problem areas are: the Chinese economy, the “Green” bubble, the Gold bubble, the Federal Reserve bubble, the Trash (junk) bond bubble, the Education bubble, the Subprime bubble, the Life Insurance securitization bubble, the Commercial Real Estate bubble and the Emerging Markets bubble.

It is interesting that the issue of increased gold prices is now an issue with the Chinese and Russian governments. The price of gold often increases when paper money is devalued by printing paper money.

It will be interesting to see how the Obama administration handles this challenge. We are fortunate that we have access to research and technology which could help us out of this problem before it gets out of control.

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