My dear Hi Q readers, thank god you and I and perhaps more importantly our leaders in Washington have full understanding of CDOs, CDSs, TALFs, TARPs, etc. With all the discussion of a "bad bank", you can feel comforted that they understand the difference between Real Assets (managed under RTC) vesus derivatives. Here's some data.
My omission... the numbers are in millions so read the tables as trillions.
ReplyDeleteOMG... where did you get this data? I was doing something similar following the SEC filings of these banks but didn't have time to complete the analysis.
ReplyDeleteM Tillwin