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Joshua Rosner is Managing Director at independent research consultancy Graham Fisher & Co and advises regulators and institutional investors on housing and mortgage finance issues. Previously he was the Managing Director of financial services research for Medley Global Advisors and was an Executive Vice President at CIBC World Markets. Mr. Rosner was among the first analysts to identify operational and accounting problems at the Government Sponsored Enterprises and one of the earliest in identifying the peak in the housing market, the likelihood of contagion in credit markets and the weaknesses in the credit rating agencies CDO assumptions.

Mr. Rosner’s work on the Government Sponsored Housing Enterprises, Credit Rating Agencies and mortgage markets has resulted in invitations to present to the Forecasters Club of New York, Professional Risk Managers International Association, ABSummit Geneva, The National Association of Business Economists, Financial Roundtable, the American Enterprise Institute, the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association, the Global Fixed Income Institute, CFA Institute, the Hudson Institute, The New America Foundation, The Chicago Fed Annual Bank Structure Conference, The Institutional Investor Legal Forum and the Fixed Income Forum. Privately, he regularly presents his research to leading global policy makers, legislators, central bankers and regulators. Mr. Rosner has authored several groundbreaking papers on housing, structured securities and rating agencies. He has been interviewed on PBS, CNBC, Bloomberg, NBC, CBS and is frequently quoted on major national press. He blogs for New Deal 2.0.

Blog Entries by Joshua Rosner

The Real Culprits of the Euro Crisis

Posted April 9, 2010 | 12:18:59 (EST)

So here we go again. To uncover the real culprits of the current euro crisis we first have to follow a common thread of this crisis -- government borrowers who need capital hire bankers. Those bankers, in an effort to help countries, like Greece, raise capital at the lowest cost,...

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Lehman Scandal: Where's the Follow Up?

Posted March 23, 2010 | 12:47:10 (EST)

It doesn't take a rocket scientist -- and certainly not an accountant -- to deduce one thing from the Lehman scandal. The misleading of regulators, investors and the public did not happen in isolation. Like Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, Wachovia, Washington Mutual, Fannie/Freddie, CDOs, Bear, AIG, bond insurers, GM, Chrysler, CIT,...

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Has the New York Fed Been Serving the Public Trust? Has Geithner?

Posted February 3, 2010 | 11:44:55 (EST)

In Geithner's AIG testimony before the House Oversight Committee, the Secretary again tried to sell the notion that 'if we didn't act then, millions more would have lost their jobs and thousands of factories would have closed.' Even if this were true, why did they have to pay...

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Congress and TBTF: Bring in the Bomb Squad

Posted October 29, 2009 | 12:10:57 (EST)

Joshua Rosner examines the House regulatory reform bill, which does not, in its current form, acknowledge that "Too Big to Fail" is too big to exist.

The House draft bill written by Rep. Barney Frank (D - MA) -- along with several former Fed attorneys and Treasury...

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PPIF and the Geithner 5

Posted April 23, 2009 | 22:44:32 (EST)

Timothy F. Geithner, the United States Treasury secretary, recently proposed a public-private partnership to rid the nation's banks of troubled assets, or what the government delicately calls "legacy securities."

The Treasury's proposal is designed to get banks lending again and that is a worthy goal. But important aspects of...

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