Collaterized Debt Obligations

Citigroup's Toxic Assets Obscured By Rising Stock Price: Reuters

Reuters | Matthew Goldstein | Posted 09.13.2009 | Business


Hard as it may be to believe, shares of beleaguered Citigroup are on fire. The stock of the de facto U.S. government-owned bank is up some 300 percen...

Wall Street's Collateral Damage (Before You Take Public Transportation, Ask Your Banker)

Les Leopold | Posted 08.09.2009 | Business


Les Leopold

As soon as anyone calls for tight controls on Wall Street, pundits and politicians rush to the defense of "financial innovation."

Morgan Stanley Turns Downgraded CDOs Into AAA Securities

bloomberg.com | Posted 08.09.2009 | Business


July 8 (Bloomberg) -- Morgan Stanley plans to repackage a downgraded collateralized debt obligation backed by leveraged loans into new securities with...

The Retreat of the Shadow Lenders: Why Deflation, not Inflation, Is the Order of the Day

Ellen Brown | Posted 07.17.2009 | Business


Ellen Brown

The true path to economic recovery is to reclaim money and credit as public resources. Money needs to be transformed from private master to public servant.

Who Are the Best and the Brightest?

B. Jeffrey Madoff | Posted 05.14.2009 | Business


B. Jeffrey Madoff

If these people were "the best and the brightest," why did the financial crisis happen?

Rising Transparency -- One Way to Avoid Massive Market Failure

Andrew Winston | Posted 05.03.2009 | Business


Andrew Winston

A renewed transparency drive may be fueled by the latest emotional issue of the day -- executive pay and bonuses. Let's list everyone who got these bonuses and let the court of public opinion be the judge.

Econ 101: Credit Crunch For Dummies

ABC News | SCOTT MAYEROWITZ | Posted 03.29.2008 | Business


Is your head spinning these days trying follow what is going on with the economy? Subprime. Collateralized Debt Obligations. Liquidity. Every day it...

Citi CEO Spins Foreign Bailout Money

New York Post | Paul Tharp | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Vikram Pandit's winding up his 100-day, globetrotting honeymoon as Citigroup's would-be savior by yesterday writing a love note to all employees to as...