The [HISTORICAL] Trouble with Banks?

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“I don’t trust banks and neither should you”

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   By Erik Kobayashi-Solomon

 [intelligent option investor]

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I don’t trust banks and neither should you if you care at all about understanding the company in which you are investing.  While financial statements for all companies contain estimates, virtually every line item on a bank’s financial statement are estimates – to the extent that, taken as a whole, the statements become little more than complex, arcane works of fiction.

The Trouble with Banks

Conclusion

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Hospital Employment Declining

ARE WE SURPRISED?

By Staff Reporters

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Hospital Employment Declined 2.5% in 2020-Q2

 •  Health care employment levels declined from 22.2 million in 2019 to 21.1 million in 2020
 •  Health care employment levels rebounded to 21.8 million in 2021-Q2
 •  Dentist offices employment declined 10% in 2020-Q2
 •  Skilled nursing facility employment declined 8.4% in 2020-Q2
 •  Hospital employment declined 2.5% in 2020-Q2

Source: JAMA Health Forum, “US Health Care Workforce Changes During the First and Second Years of the COVID-19 Pandemic,” February 25, 2022

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UPDATE: The Markets, Oil and T-Notes

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MARKETS: Stocks rose for a fourth day in a row Friday, closing out their biggest weekly gain since November 2020. The S&P 500 added 1.2%, bringing its weekly gain to 6.2%. The NASDAQ climbed 2.1% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.8%. Investors have welcomed the long-expected pivot from the Federal Reserve from stimulating the economy to fighting inflation, which began this week with its first interest rate increase since 2018.

OIL: The price of oil remains above $100 a barrel as investors monitor the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine.

10 Year Treasury Note: The yield on the 10-year Treasury Note fell to 2.15%.

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WINTER: Today is the last day of winter.

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WEALTH ACCUMULATION: Temptation and Incentives

A WORKING WHITE PAPER

Orazio Attanasio

Agnes Kovacs

Patrick Moran

We propose a rich model of household behavior to study the effect of two important policies: mortgage interest tax deduction and mandatory mortgage amortization. These policies have attracted some controversy, first because they are conceived to increase overall saving, an objective that the literature does not agree they can achieve, and second because they incentivize illiquid savings and may thus increase the share of ‘wealthy hand-to-mouth’ households.

We build a life-cycle model where housing may act as a commitment device to counteract present biases arising from temptation. We show that the model matches several empirical facts, including the large share of wealthy hand-to-mouth households. We evaluate the effect of the two policies and find that they increase wealth accumulation by 7 and 10% respectively.

Our results demonstrate that these policies not only induce portfolio re-balancing, as emphasized by the previous literature, but also increase savings by making commitment more accessible.

WHITE PAPER: https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w28938/w28938.pdf

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PODCAST: Dysfunctional Employee Healthcare Benefits

By Eric Bricker MD

Article in the Journal of the American Medical Association

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