Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Roubini Predicts U.S. Losses May Reach $3.6 Trillion

Oops, looks like the Americans aren't that far behind the Brits.*
Also from Bloomberg:
U.S. financial losses from the credit crisis may reach $3.6 trillion, suggesting the banking system is “effectively insolvent,” said New York University Professor Nouriel Roubini, who predicted last year’s economic crisis.

“I’ve found that credit losses could peak at a level of $3.6 trillion for U.S. institutions, half of them by banks and broker dealers,” Roubini said at a conference in Dubai today. “If that’s true, it means the U.S. banking system is effectively insolvent because it starts with a capital of $1.4 trillion. This is a systemic banking crisis.”...MORE

*See below: "Pound Slumps to Record Versus Yen; Rogers Says U.K. ‘Finished’"