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Fed Sees Up to $599 Billion in Bank Losses

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The governments stress tests most adverse scenario shows that the 19 largest banks could suffer losses of upto $599 billion through the end of 2010 if the economy does wose than expected. It asked these banks to raise a total of $74.6 billion in capital in the financial markets to provide abetter cushion against these losses if they occurred. The tests measured potential losses on mortgages, commerical loans, securities and other assets. This adverse scenario covers 2 year cumulative losses of 9.1% on total loans.

The lack of action in the "too big to fail" and systemically important financial institutions area one year into the Obama administration.

04/21/2009

Regulatory reform proposals and other actions taken in the first 6 months still leave many banking and financial nstitutions that are too big to fail. Consolidations of banks have actually increasd their size. The dangers in additional bailout assistance if banks suffer huge losses.

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