Post on 24-May-2020
Financial Crises, Real and Imagined
David P. Goldman
Director, Asia Times Holdings
March 32, 2016
Issuance of CDO’s
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Banks’ ROE Reaches New Normal
Financial Crises, Real and Imagined 3
Levering the Levered Leverage: Take highly-levered obligations, put them in a levered structure, and let the banks buy it with 1.6% capital cover (20% of
8%). Then you lever the collateral.
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Guess where Lehman invested the collateral?
“What's the point of skimming if we're being skimmed? Defeats the whole purpose of what we're doin' out there.”
Bubble Math
1. Banks target ROE of 18%-20%
2. True AAA’s swapped into floating rates pay less than banks’ cost of funds
3. Banks construct synthetic AAA’s with the connivance of rating agencies to pay LIBOR +30 basis points
4. Leverage of 62.5 * 30 bps = 18.75%
Financial Crises, Real and Imagined 5
Federal Funds Rate
Financial Crises, Real and Imagined 6
Subprime Delinquency Rate: Not as Bad As it Sounded
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AAA Bond Prices in 2009
Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities Home Equity Backed CDO’s
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Yield on Preferred Stocks (from PFF ETF)
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Financial Crises, Real and Imagined 9
China’s public debt has room to grow
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Bank Credit Growth by Country
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Rising Currency Correspondents to High Real Rates
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China Has World’s Highest Real Interest Rates
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Benchmark Rate
PPI
CPI
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Real 5-Year Interest Rates (Inflation Trackers)
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US Germany UK
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Chinese Bank Asset Exposures
Dec-15 Balance (RMB trn)
Default Rate
Recovery Loss (RMB trn)
Mortgage 10.4 5.0% 90% 0.1
Personal 16.6 5.0% 70% 0.2
Corporate 68.8 8.0% 50% 2.8
Trust 16.3 15.0% 25% 1.8
Total 112.1 4.9
NPL ratio 4.4%
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Loan Default Risk, 2700 Listed Chinese Companies
Financial Crises, Real and Imagined 16
Risky Proportion of Chinese Firms
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Italy vs. China NPL’s
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Chinese Outflows Driven by Paydown of Dollar Debt
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