[TigerLikesRooster]

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[The Comedian]

This will let the Fed know exactly how much more tax money each of the giant banking polyps will receive in QE2, and how much they will need to absorb the smaller, responsible banks that will be driven out of business by higher Fed fees.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[RicocheT]

Another “stress test” will cause more uncertainty, more delays in getting loans out to businesses of all sizes for materials and order fulfillment and further delays in hiring American workers to do production.

Omama & crew are clueless on how to restart the economy, they just are repeating their prior mistakes. I don’t care if our banks are tweaking balance sheets, I just want them to again make loans necessary for businesses to get going. A coming repeat stress test just makes banks borrow cheap money from the Fed and sit on it, instead of making loans.

[Montfort]

Is it possible that an announcement of new stress tests is a suggestion to banks to buy more US government debt?

[A Strict Constructionist]

Ginning up for a bank takeover. You have to find some kind of excuse. Anyone believe the results from these tests?

[GOPJ]

The last ‘stress tests’ were a joke. These will be too unless the politics have changed.