A MUST LISTEN: Bob Chapman : Every major Bank in The US and Europe is Broke

Bob Chapman on The Sovereign Economist 16 June 2010

From The International Forecaster of the 16th June 2010 : "US banks are fighting to preserve the use of securities that help them appear better capitalized, even as their investments in each others notes perpetuate what one regulator calls a downward spiral of losses. The cross-ownership, largely unnoticed by bank supervisors who generally discourage the practice, was made possible by a Wall Street innovation like the ones that allowed subprime mortgages to flourish. Small lenders were able to sell trust-preferred securities, known as TruPS, because investment bankers packaged them with those issued by dozens of other financial institutions."