Level 3 assets, the "difficult to trade/value/sell junk" have created the following environment per Marc Faber (hat tip Credit Writedowns):
A lot of banks are already bankrupt. A lot of monoline insurance companies are bankrupt and financial institutions hide their rotten assets in level three asset categories where you don’t really need to value them.
Source: Bloomberg
Hey Jake, I know you sourced Bloomberg, but could you tell me the dates on the sources you used for this level 3 asset chart?
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ReplyDeleteAny interest in updating this chart? We just saw Hartford lose 50% of its residual market cap today based on assumptions it was still cooking the books on its exposure and viability. But Hartford looks in great shape in the chart, "as a percent of total assets." Where is this data from, and how would you dig deeper?