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Big Losses in Commercial Real Estate & PE in 2025?
Private equity portfolio companies are about 10 times as likely to go bankrupt as non-PE-owned companies.
R. Christopher Whalen
Jan 136 min read
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Taxing Crypto? And Just Where Is That Consumer Recession?
Yes, net loss rates in percentage terms post default are back up to 2010 levels, but the dollar volume of net charge-offs remains very low.
R. Christopher Whalen
Jan 58 min read
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Update: Top Bank Asset Managers
As and when GS can exit the loss leading credit card relationship with AAPL, the performance of the business should improve significantly.
R. Christopher Whalen
Dec 30, 20248 min read
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Update: Citigroup, Bank America and Goldman Sachs
How is Goldman going to extricate itself from this profoundly unattractive business with AAPL without destroying Apple Card?
R. Christopher Whalen
Oct 18, 20247 min read
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Update: Flying Fintechs & Zombie Banks
COIN has been helped by a groundswell of positive comment about crypto in 2023...
R. Christopher Whalen
Nov 29, 20236 min read
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Markets Affirm the Unbearable Lightness of Fintech
When you are in a big crowd, nothing else matters.
R. Christopher Whalen
Sep 7, 20235 min read
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AI, Automobiles & Great Cities
If it’s artificial, then it’s not intelligent.
R. Christopher Whalen
Jun 6, 20236 min read
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Profile: Silvergate Capital Corp (SI)
SI’s management team is taking advantage of the narrative in Washington, which is that stable coins will be a bank only product
R. Christopher Whalen
Feb 16, 20226 min read
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Trade Warrior: Dan Caprio on the EU, China and Global Trade
A nation of 1.5 billion souls is being held hostage by a criminal gang called the Chinese Communist Party.
R. Christopher Whalen
Oct 4, 20217 min read
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Update: Square as a Bank
The evolution of fintech companies into regulated banks has implications for public market valuations...
R. Christopher Whalen
Jan 10, 20218 min read
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