Last week the Federal Reserve issued its annual overview of bank profits and balance sheets. The bulletin overflows with charts and data about the health of the U.S. banking system. Here are a few charts that particularly caught my eye:
The well-known collapse of the securitization market:
The exposure of mediums-sized and small banks to commercial real estate:
The rising delinquency and charge-off rates for business loans:
Donald Marron is an economist in the Washington, DC area. He currently speaks, writes, and consults about economic, budget, and financial issues.
From 2002 to early 2009, he served in various senior positions in the White House and Congress including:
* Member of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers (CEA)
* Acting Director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
* Executive Director of Congress’s Joint Economic Committee (JEC)
Before his government service, Donald had a varied career as a professor, consultant, and entrepreneur. In the mid-1990s, he taught economics and finance at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. He then spent about a year-and-a-half managing large antitrust cases (e.g., Pepsi vs. Coke) at Charles River Associates in Washington, DC. After that, he took the plunge into the world of new ventures, serving as Chief Financial Officer of a health care software start-up in Austin, TX. After that fascinating experience, he started his career in public service.
Donald received his Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his B.A. in Mathematics a couple miles down the road at Harvard.
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