Bond Outlook [by bridport & cie, August 29th 2007]
Some weeks ago we attributed the problems of the US financial markets to systemic failure. That is a useful starting point to consider answers to the questions, “What will be different when this crisis is over?” Each contributor to the system will see its role changed: |
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- Fed bail-outs à la Greenspan will give way to a Bernanke approach that allows financial markets to pay the price for excessive asset inflation
- Rating agencies have already totally lost credibility and will have to be much more severe and realistic if they are to regain it
- Banks will have to return to more bread and butter lending as distinct from creating opaque structured and securitised products (which gave them large margins)
- The lobbying system in the USA, partly responsible, as Candidate Obama says, for allowing abusive mortgage practices will have to changed
- The “Mark-to-Model” and “Level 3 inputs”, or should...
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