Liquidity Crisis

Execs At Former Mortgage Giant Charged With Fraud

AP | MARCY GORDON | Posted 03.14.2012

Read More: Housing Market, Kpmg, CEO Larry Goldstone, Thornburg Mortgage Inc., Federal Regulators, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Mortgage Company, Goldman Sachs, Chief Financial Officer Clarence Simmons, Video, Financial Crisis, Restitution, Securities and Exchange Commission, Liquidity Crisis, Citigroup, Chief Accounting Officer Jane Starrett, Business News

WASHINGTON -- Federal regulators have charged three executives of what was once the nation's second-largest mortgage company with civil accounting fra...

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Bank's Bold Program Not Working, Raising Credit Crunch Concerns

The Huffington Post | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 01.05.2012

Read More: European Debt Crisis, Eurozone, Liquidity, Bank Deposits, Lending, Eurozone Crisis, Societe Generale, Eurozone Debt Crisis, Liquidity Crisis, European Central Bank, Video, Business News

The European Central Bank's generous lending to banks is not boosting liquidity in the European economy as much as intended, according to a leading Fr...

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Fed, ECB, Other Central Banks Act To Ease Financial System Strain

AP | DAVID McHUGH and PAUL WISEMAN | Posted 01.30.2012

Read More: Bank of England, Video, Bank of Japan, Bank of Canada, Liquidity-Trap, Business News, Federal Reserve, Central Banks, Liquidity Crisis, European Central Bank, Business News

FRANKFURT, Germany — The central banks of the wealthiest countries, trying to prevent a debt crisis in Europe from exploding into a global panic...

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Fed Officials: Recent Lack Of Job Growth Of 'Particular Concern'

AP | MARTIN CRUTSINGER | Posted 09.11.2011

Read More: 2008 Financial Crisis, Unemployment, Unemployment Rate, John Boehner, Great Recession, 112th Congress, Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, Liquidity Crisis, Barack Obama, Business News

WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve officials at their last meeting expressed concerns that the weakening job market might hold back the recovery. But ...

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AIG Plans To Switch Banks

Posted 09.10.2011

Read More: Bank of America, AIG Bailout, Deutsche Bank, Aig, 2008 Financial Crisis, Goldman Sachs, American International Group, Liquidity Crisis, Robert Benmosche, Video, Business News

PHILADELPHIA (Jessica Hall) - American International Group (AIG.N) plans to replace one or more Wall Street banks in its next sale of shares from ...

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DeLong: Economy Is In A Liquidity Trap

Bloomberg | Brad DeLong | Posted 09.04.2011

Read More: Keynesian Economics, Bill Clinton, Paul Krugman, Deflation, Liquidity, John Maynard Keynes, Liquidity-Trap, Liquidity Crisis, George W. Bush, Business News

There is only one real law of economics: the law of supply and demand. If the quantity supplied goes up, the price goes down....

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DK Matai | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Human Intervention, Illiquidity, Dark Pools, Regulators, Flash Crash, Proprietary Trading, Financial Meltdown, Algo Trading, Technology, New York Stock Exchange, Computer Models, Bugs, Stock Market, Derivatives, Data Center, New York, Proprietary Trading Systems, Systems Thinking, Banks, Systemic-Crisis, High-Frequency-Algorithmic-Trading, Volume Trading, The Great Depression, Wall Street Bailout, Liquidity, Financial Reform, Nasdaq, Innovation, Speed-Traders, S&P 500, Algorithm, Stock Market Crash, Data, Finance, High-Speed-Trading, S&P 500 Futures Trading, Synthetics, Wall-Street-Speed-Traders, Financial Crisis, Global Financial Crisis, Electronic-Exchange, Shadow Banking, Liquidity Crisis, Financial Regulation, High-Frequency Trading, Casinos, Nyse, The Financial Fix, European Union, Casino Trades, Euro, Electronic-Stock-Exchanges, Dow Jones, Wall Street Crisis, Wall Street, FInancial Markets, Trade, Dow Jones Industrial Average, Casino, Systemic Risk Regulator, Europe, S&P, Shadow Trading, Systemic Risk, Business News
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DK Matai | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Financial Crisis Is Not Over Yet for America's Top Colleges and Universities

Hilda Ochoa-Brillembourg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Market Volatility, University Endowments, Diversifying Portfolio Risk, Financial Regulation, Liquidity Crisis, University Financial Issues, College Financial Issues, College News
Hilda Ochoa-Brillembourg

The future of private, world-class education is at risk, unless colleges and universities find a constructive escape without destroying significant value in their remaining portfolios.

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DK Matai | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wall Street Bailout, The Great Depression, Liquidity, Financial Reform, Dark Pools, Innovation, S&P 500, Algorithm, Financial Meltdown, Finance, Algo Trading, S&P 500 Futures Trading, Financial Crisis, Global Financial Crisis, Technology, Liquidity Crisis, Financial Regulation, High-Frequency Trading, European Union, Euro, Dow Jones, Wall Street Crisis, Wall Street, Systems Thinking, FInancial Markets, Dow Jones Industrial Average, Systemic Risk Regulator, Europe, Systemic Risk, S&P, High-Frequency-Algorithmic-Trading, Systemic-Crisis, Nasdaq, Regulators, Stock Market Crash, Synthetics, New York Stock Exchange, Casinos, Computer Models, Nyse, Derivatives, Stock Market, Casino Trades, New York, Casino, Volume Trading, Human Intervention, Proprietary Trading, Data, Illiquidity, Bugs, Data Center, Proprietary Trading Systems, Trade, Speed-Traders, Flash Crash, High-Speed-Trading, Wall-Street-Speed-Traders, Electronic-Exchange, Electronic-Stock-Exchanges, Banks, The Financial Fix, Shadow Banking, Shadow Trading, Business News
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Throwing in the Towel

David Kotok | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Central Banks, Ben Bernanke, Wall Street Crisis, Bailout, Liquidity Crisis, Cumberland Advisor Market, Economy, Business News
David Kotok

A communication problem is not a policy problem. When it comes to policy, the central banks are acting.

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Lack of Disclosure the Root Cause of the Financial Crisis

Peter Scheer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Transparency, Federal Reserve, Financial Crisis, Ben Bernanke, Disclosure, Liquidity Crisis, FInancial Markets, Mortgages, Depression, Housing, Credit Default Swaps, Business News
Peter Scheer

The market did not understand that families buying homes would have an incentive to default on their mortgage obligations if housing prices stopped rising or actually declined.

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Hank Paulson Should Call John Doerr

Adam Hanft | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Government, Mortgages, Paulson, Bailout, Equity Positions, Equity, Economy, Cdos, Bernanke, Credit Default Swaps, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Subprime, Free Market, Liquidity Crisis, Google, Doerr, Business News
Adam Hanft

More than Paulson, more than Bernanke, more than pretty much anyone in Washington I'd trust venture capitalist John Doerr to negotiate my stake in the bailout.

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It's the Liquidity, Stupid: Why Not Put the $700B Into Good Banks?

Paul Abrams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Henry Paulson, Banks, Liquidity Crisis, Economy, Financial Crisis, Wall Street Crisis, Wall Street, Business News
Paul Abrams

By improving the capital positions of the good banks, they will extend more credit and facilitate transactions. That is the liquidity crisis that is to be resolved.

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