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Ford’s Worst Quarter Ever

Homes in Some Stage of Foreclosure Increase 121%, 25 Million U.S. Homeowners About to Go Upside Down 

FDIC SEIZES TWO MORE BANKS: 1ST NATIONAL BANK OF NEVADA AND FIRST HERITAGE BANK

And here the ultimate bad news (and a bit late ;) ->

The overall US Bank Losses of 450 Billion USD are just the beggining.

I assume they will quadruple and more very soon!

National Australia Bank Writes Off 90% of Its U.S. AAA Rated Debt

The National Australia Bank’s decision to write off 90 per cent of its US conduit loans will have dramatic repercussions around the world. Wall Street will be deeply shocked when they understand the repercussions of what NAB has done. It is clear global banks have nowhere near provided for their exposures to US housing loans which in the words of John Stewart are experiencing a “meltdown”.

We are now way beyond sub-prime. NAB says that it is suffering a 55 per cent loss on American housing loans – an event that has never happened in the history of a developed country in recent memory. This is an unprecedented event and means that the cost of bailing out the US financial system is now far beyond the highest estimates. A US recession is now locked in, but more alarmingly, 55 per cent loan losses point to the possibility of a depression.

It means the cost of bailing out housing exposures to the two mortgage insurers will be so great that it will leave no room to bail out anything else and there are several US banks that are now in big trouble. NAB says that the dislocation in the residential market is separate from the corporate market, but the flow on is inevitable.

While global banks have been writing down their balance sheet assets, few have tackled their conduit exposures which are off balance sheet but to which they are ultimately liable.

This morning at around 6am I wrote that we had been experiencing a ‘dead cat bounce’. I had no idea that NAB would trigger the downturn and confirm what I had written. And of course Wall Street will receive a deep shock when it wakes up.