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Why Sen. Dodd's Opposition to the Federal Reserve is Ill-Conceived

Georges Ugeux | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tarp, John McCain, Congress, Fdic, Hank Paulson, Liquidity, International Monetary Fund, Financial Reform, Senate Banking Committee, Ben Bernake, Federal Reserve, Monetary Policy, Chris Dodd, Democrats, European Central Bank, Frankfurt, Bank for International Settlements, Senate, Forum of Financial Stability, Treasury, Washington, Comptroller of the Currency, Central Banks, Sec, Global-Financial-Markets, Us, Sheila Bair, Republicans, Politics News
Georges Ugeux

Had Senate Banking Committee's Chairman Chris Dodd's proposal been effective before the crisis, where would we be today?

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US Treasury's Gold Valued: US Gold Reserves Total $288 Billion, But Not Really

Washington Post / Big Money | Martha C. White | Posted 11.08.2009 | Home

Read More: Taxes, Milken Institute, Fort Knox, Us Gold Reserves, Gold Reserves, Spot Gold, Liquidity, Cato Institute, Treasury, Bretton Woods, Gold, Gold Prices, Home News

Buried in the Treasury's International Reserve Position report is an intriguing bit of math. The document details the total amount, by weight, of the ...

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FDIC Expected To Ask Banks For $36B In Prepaid Insurance Fees

AP | By MARCY GORDON | Posted 11.28.2009 | Business

Read More: Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., Fdic, Liquidity, Economy, Liquid, Prepaid Bank Insurance, Recession, Bailout, Insurance, Finance, Failed Banks, Treasury, Banks, Fees, Sheila Bair, Healthy Banks, Business News

WASHINGTON (AP)-- The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. may take the unprecedented step of ordering banks to prepay about $36 billion in premiums to rep...

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FDIC Shortfall Symptom of Much Bigger Problem

Marshall Auerback | Posted 11.25.2009 | Business

Read More: Banks, Fdic, Liquidity, Sheila Bair, Business News
Marshall Auerback

Having the FDIC implement higher insurance charges on the banks is wrong on many grounds. For one thing, it's grossly unfair to force well-run banks to pay higher premiums to pay for the sins of Citi, BOA, or Wells Fargo.

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Wall Street's Mad Dash for Trash

Dan Dorfman | Posted 06.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Shareholders, Liquidity, Stock Market, Charles Biderman, Business, Livermore, Business News
Dan Dorfman

The market bottom, contrary to renewed market enthusiasm stemming from the recent rally, still remains a long way off.

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KPMG Has A $1 Billion Problem At New Century

Francine McKenna | Posted 05.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Subprime Mortgages, Liquidity, Washington Mutual, New Century Financial, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Risk Management, Bear Stearns, Securities and Exchange Commission, Kpmg, Pcaob, Lehman Bros, Bailout Bandits, Politics News
Francine McKenna

KPMG is being sued for $1bn by the liquidators of New Century, the collapsed subprime lender, in the first big case against an auditor arising from th...

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"Too Big To Fail": A Bailout Hoax

Ismael Hossein-zadeh | Posted 03.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: U.S. Economy, Wall Street Bailout, Liquidity, Economics, Money, Economy, Economic Crisis, Bank of America, Credit Crisis, US Economy, Wall Street Crisis, Economic Stimulus Package, Wall Street, Banking, Banks, Banking Crisis, Citigroup, Great Depression, Bank Nationalization, Politics News
Ismael Hossein-zadeh

If "illiquidity is the core economic problem," as policy makers argue, why is then the government's injection of enormous amounts of liquidity failing to unfreeze the credit market?

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Son of TARP: Don't Do "Bad Bank," Do Only "Good Bank"

Paul Abrams | Posted 03.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Liquidity, Bad Banks, Good Banks, Credit, Tarp, Business News
Paul Abrams

There are many good banks, most of them regional or local, that did not get snookered by the financial chicanery upon which the 'Goldilocks' economy was apparently based.

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Water: A Business Philosophy for Success in Hard Times

Peter Schwartz | Posted 01.02.2009 | Business

Read More: Cash Flow, Main Street, Small Business, Liquidity, Wall Street, Water, Recession, Business News
Peter Schwartz

Wall Street's troubles have not only filtered down to Main Street. They have crushed Main Street. With cash flow and credit lines drier than...

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Tithing is So Republican

Paula Gordon | Posted 11.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Liquidity, Wall Street, Bailout, Tithe, Henry Paulson, Financial Crisis, Solvency, Self-Regulation, Politics News
Paula Gordon

In the tradition of Republican the-business-of-government-is-business governance, Wall Street is reported to be skimming 10% off the top of the bailou...

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Positioning Your Portfolio for 2009

Richard Weiss | Posted 11.08.2008 | Business

Read More: Wall Street Crisis, Liquidity, Financial Failures, Investors, Successful Investing, Stock Market Future, Business News
Richard Weiss

The recent rapid succession of major financial failures or near failures has led to a severe liquidity crisis that is clogging the credit markets.

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Bernanke Threw the Dollar Under the Bus

Vince Farrell | Posted 07.24.2008 | Business

Read More: Frederick the Great, Mortgages, Debt, Fnm, Liquidity, Stock Market, Mortgage Crisis, Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, Fre, Defend the Dollar, Business News
Vince Farrell

I understand the pressures with the collapse of FNM and FRE, but those stocks have to sink or swim on their own. Stabilizing the multi-trillion debt market behind those companies can be done without bailing out the stockholders.

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Could Bear Stearns Have Filed For Chapter 11?

Portfolio | Felix Salmon | Posted 04.10.2008 | Business

Read More: Chapter 11, Liquidity, Federal Reserve, Bankruptcy, Bear Stearns, Ben Bernanke, Business News

Does Ben Bernanke know something the rest of us don't? Here's a little bit of today's testimony: On March 13, Bear Stearns advised the Federal Re...

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Econ 101: Credit Crunch For Dummies

ABC News | SCOTT MAYEROWITZ | Posted 03.29.2008 | Business

Read More: Liquidity, U.S. Economy, Stock Market, Collaterized Debt Obligations, Subprime, Recession, Real Estate, Credit Crunch, Economy, Business News

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

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