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At Last, One Government Agency Considers Cutting Mortgage Principal For Distressed Homeowners

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 12.04.2009 | Business

Read More: Foreclosure Crisis, Fdic, Making Home Affordable, John Geanakoplos, Mha, Homeowners, FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair, Barack Obama, Hamp, Failed Banks, Wilbur Ross, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, Homeownership, Underwater, Financial Crisis, Loss-Share, Foreclosure, Sheila Bair, Negative Equity, Business News

FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair indicated Thursday that she is exploring the idea of reducing the principal on as much as $45 billion in mortgages her agenc...

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FDIC's Bair Takes Her Home Off The Market

wsj.com | SIMMI AUJLA and SARA LIN | Posted 07.27.2009 | Business

Read More: Fdic, FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair, Sheila Bair, Sheila Bair Home, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, Business News

The property slump is hitting home for Sheila Bair, chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. -- one of the few regulators who saw trouble in th...

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FDIC: U.S. 'Problem' Banks Rise to 305

bloomberg.com | Margaret Chadbourn and Alison Vekshin | Posted 06.27.2009 | Business

Read More: Fdic, 305 Problem Banks, Bailout, Community Banks, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, Small Banks, Financial Crisis, Banking Crisis, FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair, Problem Banks, Business News

May 27 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. "problem" banks climbed 21 percent to the highest total in 15 years in the first quarter, and provisions set aside for loan...

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Banks Earned $7.6 Billion In First Quarter Profits

AP | MARCY GORDON | Posted 06.27.2009 | Business

Read More: Investment Banks, Fdic, Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, Bank of America, Banks, Banking Crisis, Sheila Bair, FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair, Gmac, Citigroup, Business News

WASHINGTON — The nation's banks turned a profit in the first quarter, but the number of problem banks jumped to the highest level in 15 years an...

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Profiles in Financial Courage

Robert Kuttner | Posted 06.17.2009 | Business

Read More: Wall Street Crisis, Brooksley Born, Tim Geithner, Economic Crisis, Profiles in Courage, Financial Crisis, Larry Summers, Sheila Bair, FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair, Business News
Robert Kuttner

The JFK Presidential Library gives a Profile in Courage Award to public officials who took a stand that took a lot of integrity and nerve.

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FDIC Bair: Banks Lost $32.1 Billion In Fourth Quarter

AP | MARCY GORDON | Posted 04.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Fourth Quarter Banks, Fdic, FDIC Banks, Fdic Banks Fourth Quarter, FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair, Sheila Bair, Business News

WASHINGTON — Federal regulators now say the nation's banks lost $32.1 billion in the final quarter of last year, even worse than the $26.2 billi...

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Stop the Financial Services "Super Czar" (Updated)

Don McNay | Posted 04.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Fiddler on the Roof, Wall Street Bailout, Populism, Hank Paulson, Shelia Bair, Main Street, Regulation, Bailout, Insurance, Obama Average Americans, Washington, Kentucky, Constitution, Wall Street Bonuses, Lexington KY, National-Association-of-Insurance-Commissioners, Personal Finance, State-Insurance-Regulators, Fdic, Financial Services, Systemic-Risk, Aig, Don McNay, Representative-Government, Insurance Companies, FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair, Barack Obama, Wall Street Regulators, Tim Geithner, Deregulation, Car Czar, Banking Crisis, Ben Bernanke, Systemic Risk Regulator, House Financial Services Committee, Bailout Outrage, Business News
Don McNay

There has been talk about appointing a new "Systemic Risk Regulator." This "Super Czar" would oversee all of the financial services industry. We had a "Super Czar" last year. His name was Henry Paulson.

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FDIC: As Rock Solid As Social Security

Michael Pento | Posted 04.16.2009 | Business

Read More: Fdic, Social Security, Sheila Bair, FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair, Business News
Michael Pento

We all should be painfully aware by now that there is nothing held inside the Social Security and Medicare trust funds but a bunch of IOUs. But the FDIC's Deposit Insurance Fund as well?

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60 Minutes: Bank Failures And The FDIC

Huffington Post | Posted 04.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Failing Banks, Bank Failures, Fdic, FDIC Banks, FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair, Banks Being Seized, FDIC Funds, Seizing Failed Banks, Business News

Television news magazine 60 Minutes went behind-the-scenes to show viewers what happens when a bank fails. 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley fol...

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FDIC's Bair: Insolvency A Possibility

Bloomberg | Alison Vekshin | Posted 04.04.2009 | Business

Read More: Fdic, Sheila Bair Insolvent, Sheila Bair FDIC, FDIC Increase, FDIC Banks, FDIC Insolvent, FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair, FDIC Funds, FDIC Insurance, Business News

March 4 (Bloomberg) -- Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Sheila Bair said the deposit insurance fund could dry up amid a surge in bank failures...

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Obama To Keep Bair At FDIC

Wall Street Journal | Posted 02.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair, Sheila Bair, Obama Appointments, Politics News

The Obama administration intends to keep Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Sheila Bair in her post, Democrat officials said Wednesday. Ms. Bai...

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Hope for Homeowners? Not So Much

William Fisher | Posted 01.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Henry Paulson, 2008 Recession, Subprime Mortgages, FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair, Economy, Mortgage Crisis, Financial Crisis, Chris Dodd, Sheila Bair, Politics News
William Fisher

According to the Mortgage Bankers Association, some 1.2 million homes were in foreclosure during the second quarter of 2008, and that number is expected to increase.

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Advice To Team Obama: Keep FDIC's Bair

Robert Reed | Posted 01.05.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Fdic, Citigroup Wachovia, Obama's Cabinet, Geithner Bair, Wells Fargo Wachovia, Indymac, Henry Paulson, Timothy Geithner, Sheila Bair, FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair, Barack Obama, Chicago News
Robert Reed

Some infighting is considered good sport, even in the Obama era. But pushing out Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Sheila Bair is not a wise, nor politically astute, decision.

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Housing Relief Plan Delayed By Disagreements

Wall Street Journal | Posted 12.04.2008 | Business

Read More: Sheila Bair, FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair, FDIC Disagreement, Federal Foreclosure-Prevention Program, Housing Crisis, Business News

WASHINGTON -- Disagreements over how to structure a federal foreclosure-prevention program are complicating and potentially delaying what is likely to...

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