RE: European bank failures

2008-11-24 Thread Dan M
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Williams Sent: Friday, November 21, 2008 2:16 PM To: Killer Bs (David Brin et al) Discussion Subject: Re: European bank failures Actually, no. What balances on the balance sheet is assets

Re: European bank failures

2008-11-24 Thread John Williams
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Dan M [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah, I'm very tired of me doing virtually all the leg work in this discussion. I try hard to look up data, you typically list articles (with little more data that I provide personally) of libertarian economists. That's why I

Re: European bank failures

2008-11-24 Thread Rceeberger
On 11/24/2008 2:37:47 PM, John Williams ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Dan M [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah, I'm very tired of me doing virtually all the leg work in this discussion. I try hard to look up data, you typically list articles (with little more

RE: European bank failures

2008-11-21 Thread Dan M
I've waited until I was able to get hard numbers on the ratio between total liabilities and deposits. If we make the assumption (as is true with all balance sheets) that total assets = total liabilities (equity is counted as a liability to get this balance...I guess that's why it's called a

Re: European bank failures

2008-11-21 Thread John Williams
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 11:24 AM, Dan M [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've waited until I was able to get hard numbers on the ratio between total liabilities and deposits. If we make the assumption (as is true with all balance sheets) that total assets = total liabilities (equity is counted as a

European bank failures

2008-11-08 Thread Dan M
John Williams wrote Dan wrote: I assume you were referring to subordinate debt. No, I was referring to all debt, subordinate to senior. OK. Let me pull up a couple of different types of balance sheets for Deutsche Bank to illustrate what I mean. The first one is given at

Re: European bank failures

2008-11-08 Thread John Williams
On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 9:53 AM, Dan M [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I looked on this balance sheet, and didn't see that. Further, isn't senior debt a debt, not an asset? What I think you mean is that it's big enough to absorb all the loss involved in liquidating assets. So, to look at

Re: European bank failures

2008-11-08 Thread John Williams
On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 5:56 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hopefully these things are not made up An expert's expert! :-) ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: European bank failures

2008-11-08 Thread jamespv
Do you make these things up, are you just remarkably ignorant, or are you just going on blind faith in government? If none of the above, please list how the $700B bailout slush fund has been spent so far. Hopefully “these things” are not made up and the generation of youth including these on