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Brad DeLong: What Would Have Happened If We Didn't Bailout The Bankers?
Project Syndicate | Brad DeLong | Posted 11.04.2009 | Business
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It is worth stepping back and asking: What would the world economy look like today if policymakers had acceded to the populist demand of no support to...
States May Sue Banks For Fraud Over Mortgage Crisis
nytimes.com | DAVID STREITFELD and JOHN COLLINS RUDOLF | Posted 11.03.2009 | Business
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Eliot Spitzer,
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Frustrated by the banks' inability or unwillingness to stop an avalanche of foreclosures, the states are considering lawsuits over the creation and ma...
Geithner Testimony: New "Too Big To Fail" Legislation Won't Lead To More Bailouts
AP | JIM KUHNHENN and ANNE FLAHERTY | Posted 11.02.2009 | Business
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WASHINGTON — An Obama administration plan to dissolve large, struggling financial firms rather than bail them out is encountering Republican res...
Divergence, of Course
Max Fraad Wolff | Posted 10.20.2009 | Business
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Despite the excitement over the stock markets, credit markets remain ground zero. They are where defaults destroy fortunes but they are also crucial to US industrial growth.
Concerns Grow About Another Mortgage Giant
nytimes.com | LOUISE STORY | Posted 10.08.2009 | Business
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WASHINGTON -- First it was Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Now concern is growing that another government mortgage giant might teeter, just as the nation'...
Skewed Recovery
Max Fraad Wolff | Posted 09.29.2009 | Business
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Angry masses see the recession as purely financial. This is false. Policy makers have rushed to address the financial crisis. This is near sighted. We have addressed one of our afflictions and left the greater economic problems under-appreciated and unaddressed.
FHA: Federal Housing Authority Low On Cash, High On Leverage
wsj.com | Posted 09.29.2009 | Business
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The Treasury has announced new "capital cushion" requirements for financial institutions to reduce excessive risk and prevent taxpayer bailouts. Seems...
Toxic Assets: Government's New Programs Aim To Buy Buy Banks' Bad Assets, Help Home Buyers
Washington Post | Renae Merle and David Cho | Posted 09.29.2009 | Business
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The Obama administration is close to rolling out two initiatives aimed at addressing lingering problems from the financial crisis: A long-delayed effo...
401(k) Investing: 8 Zombie Stocks To Avoid
BloggingStocks | Michael Shulman | Posted 09.28.2009 | Business
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Right now there are few things scarier than the post-market report on CNBC. It's almost like watching a horror movie. And I've got some zombie stoc...
Mortgage Market: U.S. Government Still Propping Up Real Estate: Newsweek
newsweek.com | Daniel Gross | Posted 09.24.2009 | Business
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While the government has pacified the commercial finance, savings, and plain-vanilla banking sectors, it's sending reinforcements into the vast, resti...
Uncle Sam's Not-So-Graceful Exit from Real Estate
Eric Schurenberg | Posted 09.22.2009 | Business
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The Fed and the Treasury have to take the training wheels off the wobbly financial system without tipping it back into chaos.
Financial Crisis Financiers: Where Are They Now? (PHOTOS)
Posted 09.29.2009 | Business
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John Thain,
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Where Are They Now,
Stan O'Neal,
Sandy Weil,
Merrill Lynch,
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Henry Paulson,
Jimmy Cayne,
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UPDATE: AIG's Joseph Cassano is BACK in U.S. soil. Check out info on his "surprisingly modest" home here. Absence makes the heart grow fonder. Well...
Phil Angelides: Financial Crisis Panel To Begin Inquiry
AP | By ANNE FLAHERTY | Posted 09.17.2009 | Business
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The Most Damning Internal Emails Of The Financial Crisis (PHOTOS)
Posted 09.14.2009 | Business
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In case you haven't heard, emails live forever. Which may mean that the full story of the financial crisis is lying dormant somewhere on a few forgott...
Zombie Companies Haunt Stock Market Rally
Garrett Johnson | Posted 09.08.2009 | Business
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Insiders are selling and only speculators are buying. This doesn't sound like a market that the little guy should get involved with.
Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac Struggle A Year After Takeover
AP | By ALAN ZIBEL | Posted 09.08.2009 | Business
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As U.S. Government Props Up Housing, Taxpayers Are On The Hook For Billions
washingtonpost.com | Zachary A. Goldfarb and Dina ElBoghdady | Posted 10.23.2009 | Business
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In the go-go years of the U.S. housing boom, virtually anybody could get a few hundred thousand dollars to buy a home, and private lenders flooded the...
Government Faces Tough Decisions About How To Stabilize Mortgage Market
washingtonpost.com | Zachary A. Goldfarb and Dina ElBoghdady | Posted 10.22.2009 | Business
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Only one lender of consequence remains: the federal government, which undertook one of its earliest and most dramatic rescues of the financial crisis ...
NYT: Government Pays Legal Bills For Executives That Defrauded The Government
New York Times | GRETCHEN MORGENSON | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics
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As a result of the Fannie takeover, taxpayers are paying millions of dollars in legal defense bills for three top former executives, including Frankli...
Fannie, Freddie Have ‘No Underlying Value': Paul Miller, FBR Capital Markets
bloomberg.com | Dawn Kopecki | Posted 10.16.2009 | Business
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Aug. 31 (Bloomberg) -- Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac fell in New York trading after FBR Capital Market's Paul Miller said the mortgage-finance companies ...
Analysts Mystified By Fannie, Freddie's Surge In Stock Price
The Washington Post | Zachary A. Goldfarb | Posted 09.25.2009 | Business
On Monday, Fannie Mae jumped 41.7 percent, to $1.70 per share, with nearly 824 million shares bought or sold during regular trading hours. Freddie Mac...
Eastern European Cyber Criminals Prey On U.S. Businesses
washingtonpost.com | Brian Krebs | Posted 09.24.2009 | Business
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Morgan Stanley.,
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Citigroup,
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Organized cyber gangs in Eastern Europe are increasingly preying on small and mid-sized companies in the United States, setting off a multi-million do...
Mixing Public and Private Objections
Jim Randel | Posted 09.20.2009 | Politics
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Government gets into trouble when it expects private enterprise to do anything other than what its DNA requires: to make as much money as it can.
Fannie Mae Wants Another $10.7B In U.S. Aid After Posting Loss
AP | Alan Zibel, AP Real Estate Writer | Posted 09.07.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Fannie Mae plans to tap $11 billion in new government aid after posting another massive quarterly loss as the taxpayer bill from th...
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AP | ALAN ZIBEL | Posted 11.06.2009 | Business