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More Evidence That Eurobank Stress Tests Are a Garbage-In, Garbage-Out Exercise

By Implode-Explode Heavy Industries

"The stress tests conducted on 19 large American banks by the US Treasury in 2009 were an amazingly effective exercise in salesmanship and sleight of hand. Banking industry experts, including Bill Black, Chris Whalen, and Josh Rosner, dismissed the process as mere theatrics: too little staffing and not enough ?stress? in the economic forecasts and loss assumptions (particularly on second mortgage). My pet peeve was that the banks ran the tests on their trading books using their own risk models, the very ones that had performed so well in preparing them for them in the runup to the crisis."

Full post as published by Mortgage Lender Implode-o-Meter on July 03, 2010 (boomark / email).