I was entertaining myself early this morning by looking over a joint agency report just released entitled “An Analysis of the Impact of the Commercial Real Estate Concentration Guidance”. This report summarizes the...more
4/23/2013
- Banking Crisis CRE Portfolios Great Recession
Terrorism insurance has been boring for the past several years. It risks becoming not boring. In the lee of the terrorism attack of 9/11, the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act, or TRIA, was rapidly passed by the Congress and...more
4/3/2013
- Terrorism Insurance Terrorist Acts TRIA
Among the more technical topics we cover in this Blog, we keep an eye on Europe as we fundamentally continue to worry that Europe’s disease could infect our markets. As I write this, Cyprus is trying to sort out the terms of...more
3/26/2013
- Bailout Banking Crisis EU
I have written periodically in this Blog about my persistent concerns about the European economy and its capacity to negatively impact ours. I get wound up, then I get swayed by the majority views of the chattering class who...more
1/31/2013
- Eurozone
The election’s over and elections matter we’re told, albeit most of the denizens of Washington seem to have remained in their seats. The fiscal cliff awaits. We wait, with various levels of trepidation, for a workable...more
12/24/2012
- CFPB Dodd-Frank Mortgages Rating Agencies Volcker Rule
Our plates filled with year-end deals, Thanksgiving Week is upon us, and with it CrunchedCredit.com’s annual recognition of the stories, events and ideas that struck us as funny, outrageous or both amidst the tsunami of stuff...more
11/26/2012
