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Effect of Policy Rate on Bank System Capital

Cut below from today's nsa H.8 report showing 'Unrealized Gain (Loss) on Available for Sale Securities': You can see how Fed interest rate increases in 2018 caused a discount in the $trillions of CCAR required out-sized Tier1 quality Bank Assets to a near $50B LOSS by the time of the last December rate increase in late Q4 of 2018; and the corresponding reduction in equity share index prices where we saw those indexes off about 20% by Christmas Eve from the previous Q3 highs as this severe...

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Tucker Carlson – John Bolton Is A Bureaucratic Tapeworm!” Tucker & Glenn Greenwald

Could this be the beginning of the end of the Neocon war machine? Another awesome video from Tucker Carlson, where he even interviews Glenn Greenwald.Tucker Carlson says the Neocons are all over Washington.Well, I bet the Neocons are planning to get Tucker Carlson removed right now.Wouldn't it be great to see the whole Neocon and the military industrial complex game exposed, and Tony Blair and G. W Bush put on trail? [embedded content]

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Racism is a framework, not a theory — Andrew Gelman

I am posting this for its relevance to philosophy of logic and philosophy of science rather than specifics. It draws a useful distinction between frameworks that generate theories and which are themselves not testable (hence falsifiable) and the theories a framework is used to generate.This is obviously relevant to philosophy of science, but why philosophy of logic? In his later work, Ludwig Wittgenstein sought to show that the overarching frameworks of a culture as a way of life are deeply...

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Bank “Stress Tests!”

Fed's 2019 Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR), which the Liberal Art dialectic trained morons who cannot understand the regulatory accounting abstractions typically term the figurative "Stress Tests!", results out yesterday.CCAR is currently functioning as the control variable of effect out of the 4 separate regulatory functions that constitute US bank regulatory policy. The Board considers both quantitative and qualitative factors when evaluating a bank's capital plan....

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Keiser Report – Keiser Report: The Ponzi Lottery

Here, Max Keiser describes George Osborne's Help To Buy ponzi scheme. Only 37% of people truly qualified, but builders and the more affluent made a fortune out of it, greatly pushing up property prices for everyone else too, all paid for by the British tax payer. It did not create jobs, help the economy, or increase Britain's GDP, says Keiser, it just paid rich bums to sit about all day on couches getting bundles of money for nothing.Rather than help people who couldn't get on the property...

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