Jeff For Banks

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

They have seemed fairly nervous about their large balance sheet, so in September, 2017, they announced that they would allow bonds to mature or pay off in October- by $4 billion in Agency mortgage backed securities and $6 billion in Treasuries, for a total of $10 billion. Tax cut and tax reform proposals have been floated.

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Jeff For Banks

JUNE 2, 2023

When the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 passed, the top capital gains tax rate was lowered, providing yet another incentive for equity speculators to pour money into the fledgling internet industry. And quite frankly, I did not know there were so many tranches to mortgage-backed securities. What caused it? Let those numbers sink in a bit.

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Jeff For Banks

JANUARY 19, 2011

Congress entered the mix and extended the Bush tax cuts for two years and unexpectedly added new tax cuts for consumers and businesses. Alas, this market seems to be slipping once again; housing prices bottomed in April, 2009 and recovered until October, 2010, before resuming a decline. So what happened? What About 2011?

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Jeff For Banks

JULY 8, 2017

trillion in Agency mortgage backed securities. million in December, 2008 and the peak occurred in October, 2009 at 21.4 Physical security costs ramped up over the past 15 years; just ask the airlines and Homeland Security. Remember all of the quantitative easing, or “QE,” purchase programs? trillion in Treasuries and $1.8

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Jeff For Banks

APRIL 2, 2011

So far, about half of the positive economic impact of the surprise 2% reduction in social security taxes and small business tax cuts are gone because of higher gas prices. Actually, stock markets are up nearly 100% since the Fed was in the midst of their first quantitative easing program in early 2009. Ridiculous!

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Jeff For Banks

AUGUST 12, 2010

The stress of September, 2008 to March, 2009 was beginning to be erased by an economic recovery, as signaled by stocks that rallied over 60% from fearful lows to levels that supported growth. Existing and new home sales fell sharply in May, but this followed the unusually high months of March and April that contained the $8,000 tax credit.

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Jeff For Banks

OCTOBER 21, 2010

An August report by Challenger, Gray, and Christmas showed that layoffs have declined dramatically, to a monthly average of 56,000 since June, 2009 and have been below 100,000 for fourteen consecutive months for the first time since 1999-2000. Job openings reported by the Labor Department in July were 3.04

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