tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4528146969570948529.post3148397942324453931..comments2024-03-21T22:51:03.977-04:00Comments on Models & Agents: Originate-to-distribute: The origin of it allChevellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10769905202655777736noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4528146969570948529.post-21635045959009701452014-06-10T10:57:31.060-04:002014-06-10T10:57:31.060-04:00Great post... very simple way of explaining hard s...Great post... very simple way of explaining hard stuff.. thank you for sharing!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16441043034037393197noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4528146969570948529.post-53262986966124396652013-09-29T23:46:17.597-04:002013-09-29T23:46:17.597-04:00Gorgeous!Gorgeous!Chastityhttp://coffeemakerstop.usnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4528146969570948529.post-17275048487528345922011-11-14T17:33:05.241-05:002011-11-14T17:33:05.241-05:00This is all good, provided banks can respond to th...This is all good, provided banks can respond to the higher demand for loans. But if they are forced to bring back to their balance sheets all the junk they had offloaded to the SIVs in recent years,bmpharmacyhttp://www.pharmacywiki.org/bmpharmacy.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4528146969570948529.post-19874800790749000262010-10-09T16:26:51.233-04:002010-10-09T16:26:51.233-04:00Chevell,
Beautifully, I am an Finance student fr...Chevell, <br /><br />Beautifully, I am an Finance student from University of Phoenix, started with-no clue on Finance and your postings are helping me translate words. So, you go White Girl.. keep representing the Power equal Knowledge to those like me who have no clue of these terms.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4528146969570948529.post-24779443965733407692009-11-22T17:19:52.560-05:002009-11-22T17:19:52.560-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4528146969570948529.post-19160924001508396712008-02-01T18:22:00.000-05:002008-02-01T18:22:00.000-05:00Point taken about the Bond girls. I guess you wer...Point taken about the Bond girls. I guess you were one of the few to escape the grasp... <BR/><BR/>As for the moon, well, it does have a gravitational field (which is where waves come from, after all). Not as strong as our own, of course, as it's a smaller mass, but it would pull the book down (though the book would weigh less than on earth)... See here for a primer: http://www.moonconnection.com/moon_gravity.phtml<BR/><BR/>You'd have to go to outer space beyond the moon's gravitational field for the book to escape! <BR/><BR/>Finally, I appreciate your humility on the limits of models... The agents will carry on doing their thing regardless, alas...Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00810393958447368951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4528146969570948529.post-71578777903462014812008-02-01T12:16:00.000-05:002008-02-01T12:16:00.000-05:00I hate to tell you.. If you’re up in the moon and ...I hate to tell you.. If you’re up in the moon and let go of a book, it will drift away. More importantly, there were indeed some bond girls who never made it to 007’s bed… despite his irresistibility! Tilly Masterson, Mrs Moneypenney and the uber-hot Plenty O’Toole among them. (Yes, me too in case you were about to ask!) However good our models may be, shit happens, thugs stop you from sleeping with Bond, and historic correlations between different securities break down. Economists will be the first to acknowledge that.Chevellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10769905202655777736noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4528146969570948529.post-30059199780725612762008-01-31T23:56:00.000-05:002008-01-31T23:56:00.000-05:00Chevelle,Thanks for your prompt reply! I am a bit...Chevelle,<BR/><BR/>Thanks for your prompt reply! I am a bit confused though. <BR/><BR/>What trap did I fall into? <BR/><BR/>You are a physicist and a bond girl. Surely two of the most predictable professions. I would faint were a book I let go of not to drop and even more so were a bond girl not to sleep with 007! Why can't you also predict the future?<BR/><BR/>I am hanging in there but would like some foresight, which is rare, as opposed to hindsight, which is plentiful and difficult to find credible...<BR/><BR/>Thanks,<BR/>SWMAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00810393958447368951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4528146969570948529.post-43584191198149897112008-01-31T19:17:00.000-05:002008-01-31T19:17:00.000-05:00Ha! You fell into the trap.. you’re asking an econ...Ha! You fell into the trap.. you’re asking an economist to predict the future! When our forte really lies in “right-hand-left-hand” reasoning. But I will still indulge, under my capacity as… errrr.. a single white female! <BR/><BR/>Ben’s 50bp cut was a brave move. Now whether it works will depend on how well lubricated the so-called “transmission mechanism” is: How fast the benefits of the rate cut can be “transmitted” to the rest of the economy. And with banks at the core of this mechanism, I'd say we have a problem.<BR/>This is how it should work: Rate cuts by the Fed should translate (to some degree) to rate cuts on car loans, consumer loans, etc etc, making people want to borrow more to buy more stuff… “Made in America” stuff. And so the economy recovers.<BR/>This is all good, provided banks can respond to the higher demand for loans. But if they are forced to bring back to their balance sheets all the junk they had offloaded to the SIVs in recent years, and with more losses possibly in the offing, their equity capital may be too little, so they won’t be able to lend much more. <BR/><BR/>So hang on in there because this will take some time. And as an economist I can assure you one thing: It will take longer than it does to say “bp.”Chevellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10769905202655777736noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4528146969570948529.post-195216783737822202008-01-30T19:02:00.000-05:002008-01-30T19:02:00.000-05:00Chevelle,You write very well in describing the ro...Chevelle,<BR/><BR/>You write very well in describing the roots of the economic crises plaguing the finals days of the House of Bush, but inquiring minds want to know what it all means. The world's biggest money manager, Bill Gross over at PIMCO, has estimated that there could be trillions more in crap out there (out of hundreds of trillions in derivatives). The SWFs (not single white fema1es!) would have to take over our banks (rather than throwing them a lifeline) if this is true. Oh sage philosopher and bond girl, are we turning the corner with the newest 50 basis point cut or are we heading for a cliff? Where should I put my hard earned dollars and pounds (I hold both)? I long for you wisdom...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com