crop insurance and prices

[hardnox]

Well for better or worse if it was going to happen anytime soon it was last year.

In the big game, now we're facing a $T or so of junk bond financing that went into oil and gas fracking that is going to be severely distressed going forward.

As I've said before it is near the order of magnitude of subprime mortgages ca. the mid-2000s but probably not of nearly the same degree of systemic threat. Those had been bundled, sliced, diced and rehypothecated into the equivalent of many $T more and spread throughout the global system.

Probably not so much with this but something that is going to have to be dealt with fairly soon. Politics of ethanol aside, the big game has changed for the moment.

[nwobcw]

the Community Reinvestment Act started under Jimmy Carter was a major contributor to the housing bubble

[bruce MN]

Yupper. If Reagan would have been who he is mythically remembered.to be he'd have lopped it off summarily, just like he did those horrible air traffic controllers.

[bruce MN]

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-27/biggest-global-banks-go-to-pieces-under-pressure-f...

[JCCWIS]

Bruce....very interesting read and charts !!!!!  Thanks for posting !

John

[nwobcw]

Interesting since the bulk of Obama's campaign money came from wall street.

[bruce MN]

You've heard the old one about ""being as full as", haven't you?

https://www.opensecrets.org/pres12/index.php

[nwobcw]

I should have said the 2008 campaign where goldman sachs was obama's biggest donor by 2012 wall street new obama was out to screw them

[bruce MN]

Yeah...because he oversaw the adminstration of TARP.  The **bleep**.

He did sign Dowd-Frank, written and passed  by Congress2008. That must be it.

And just look how the DOW has plummeted since 

http://money.cnn.com/2008/12/01/markets/markets_newyork/

http://money.cnn.com/data/markets/

[nwobcw]

I'm glad to see you agree with me