As a growing number of independent observers note, this institution is ultimately in the lending business, which is why useful reforms such as financial system transparency, the depoliticizing of banks, etc.
What does the current market look like for similar businesses (comparable sales, what banks are lending on, etc.)?
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Foreign institutional investors mainly consist of mutual funds, pension funds, endowments, sovereign wealth funds, insurance companies, banks, asset management companies etc.
In America, the taxpayers continue to pay excessive amounts out of their dwindling real incomes for energy, food, and other traded commodities (copper, cotton, coffee, livestock, cocoa, etc.) so that the Wall Street banks (yes, the very ones that the taxpayers saved only 2.5 years ago) can show record profits and pay record bonuses!
The peer group includes banks like Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, etc.
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With the big banks (JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo, etc) investing in tax lien certificates, rates that were in the low teens just 3-4 years ago are now bid down to 0-0.25% due to intense competition as your article states.
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The various parts of this system (BACs, CHAPS etc) are largely owned by the main established UK banks and effectively self regulated.
The central banks of China, India, Russia, Thailand, South Korea etc have increased their gold holdings, while hedge funds with leveraged golds positions have lightened up.
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Think appliances, furniture, banks, department stores, chocolate bars, beer, luxury goods, etc.
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The real estate overcapitalization in the United States followed by immersive equity losses could not be overcome another way, the banks had to write off the accumulating bad assets, foreclosures, draining capital, etc.
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Most modern day central banks have fiat currencies as opposed to currencies backed by precious metals (Gold, silver, animal pelt, etc.).
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This is not peculiar in that we cannot explain it (bailouts, massive banks have already gone under or have been merged to protect the system, the night is still young, etc).
Many banks on the continent - in so called "core" economies like France as well as Spain, Portugal etc - cannot really borrow on the interbank market at all at the moment.
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