Collateralized Debt Obligations

Ralph Cioffi: Off the Hook for a Long Time Pattern of Behavior

Janet Tavakoli | Posted 11.11.2009 | Books

Read More: Bear Stearns Asset Management, Ralph Cioffi, Bear Stearns, Collateralized Debt Obligations, Wall Street, Matthew Tannin, Derivatives, Books News
Janet Tavakoli

I worked at Bear Stearns in the late 1980s and remembered amiable newcomer Ralph Cioffi -- just acquitted -- to be Bear Stearns' most talented and successful salesman of mortgage-backed securities.

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Is Wall Street Full of Human CDOs?

Elise Coroneos | Posted 10.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Cdos, Wall Street, Derivatives, Financial Crisis, Banks, Human Cdos, Collateralized Debt Obligations, Cdo, Business News
Elise Coroneos

After the fiasco of the last year, the financial community should be getting back to the fundamentals of its job, which is to be stewards of the community's wealth.

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Wall Street Is More of a Threat to Obama's Domestic Agenda than Afghanistan

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 10.20.2009 | World

Read More: Matt Taibbi, Bill Clinton, Pecora Commission, Treasury Department, Sec, Joseph P. Kennedy, President Barack Obama, Cdos, Collateralized Debt Obligations, Larry Summers, Federal Reserve, Credit Default Swaps, Newt Gingrich, Fdr, Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, Wall Street, Vietnam, Tim Geithner, Vice President Dick Cheney, Afghanistan, Timothy Geithner, Bear Stearns, Lyndon Johnson, Alan Greenspan, Securities and Exchange Commission, Too Big to Fail, President George W. Bush, Blue Dog Democrats, World News
Joseph A. Palermo

Whatever Obama decides to do in Afghanistan is of little consequence compared to Wall Street's ongoing "plutonomy."

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Life Insurance -- Bankers' New Best Friend

Christopher Brauchli | Posted 11.24.2009 | Business

Read More: Investment Banks, Collateralized-Debt-Obligations, Banks, Credit Default Swaps, Securities, Life Insurance, Business News
Christopher Brauchli

This latest financial instrument is a guaranteed win-win almost for sure.

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Jason Linkins

Re-Remics: Wall Street's Old Bad Ideas Are Back

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.27.2009 | Business

Read More: Derivatives, Re-Remics, Financial Crisis, Collateralized Debt Obligations, Wall Street, Business News

Hey kids, remember how once upon a time, a bunch of smarty-pants Wall Street types decided that they could reap a crap-ton of magical treasure by repa...

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The Markets: Always Up, and Never Down

Rick Horowitz | Posted 03.28.2009 | Business

Read More: Hank Paulson, Stock Market, Larry Summers, Federal Reserve, Collateralized Debt Obligations, Barack Obama, Lawrence Summers, Obama Administration, Investors, Wall Street Crisis, Subprime Mortgages, Wall Street, Financial Meltdown, Hedge Funds, Tim Geithner, Financial Crisis, Henry Paulson, Ben Bernanke, Timothy Geithner, Business News
Rick Horowitz

Back when it was good, you didn't understand it and it didn't matter; the numbers kept going up anyhow. The ones who knew, knew, and you were content to go along for the ride.

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Save the Jeep; Save the Nation

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 03.25.2009 | Business

Read More: Citigroup, Washington Mutual, Gm, Economy, United Auto Workers, Sen. Harry Reed, Ford, Mitt Romney, Fannie Mae, Credit Default Swaps, Congress, Collateralized Debt Obligations, Big Three, Aig, Chrysler, Freddie Mac, Wall Street, Lehman Brothers, New York Museum of Modern Art, Jeep, Uaw, World War II, Capitol, Senate Majority Leader, Willys-Overland, Detroit Bailout, Automakers, Bailout, Automaker Bailout, The Big 3, Detroit Bailout Reaction, Detroit, Big Three Automakers, Detroit Three, Detroit Automakers, Cars, Chysler, Auto Industry, Bailout Outrage, Business News
Leo W. Gerard

Congress cannot let the Jeep die in bankruptcy. Congress must not fail the U.S. auto industry. Doing so would be abandoning the core of the American economy -- manufacturing.

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