Here is a sample bank stress test.
Posted on 03/13/2015 7:44:27 PM PDT by Usagi_yo
Six years after the Federal Reserve’s “stress tests” began, the biggest Wall Street banks still are straining to decipher them. ...
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
A return to basics is overdue 1. Re-institute Glass-Stegall deprecating commercial banks from investment banks 2. Break up the top five banks into smaller regional institutions 3. Remove financing competition like Fnmae Gnmae Freddie Mac and similar agencies 4. Increase the reserve requirement by 20 percent
Perhaps the tests are not of financial viability but of political reliability.
The mere existence of a “stress test” is sufficient blackmail to keep the banks in line.....oh....and pay “fines” whenever demanded.
Darn, and I thought it was our altruistic federal government actually looking out for Americans.
Here is a sample bank stress test.
I actually got to see two more lines when I clicked on the link...
Linkee is Greedee. Demands $$$!!!!!
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