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By Jesse Hamilton, Bloomberg |
September 19, 2012
If big U.S. banks are not forced to sever their investment arms from traditional banking, they will return to behavior that led to the 2008 credit crisis, said FDIC's Hoenig.
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By Jody Shenn, Zachary Tracer and Noah Buhayar, Bloomberg |
May 16, 2012
American International Group Inc., the insurer that needed a $182.3 billion bailout from the U.S. government in 2008 after failed mortgage investments, is betting this time it’s different.
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By Jane Wollman Rusoff |
May 15, 2012
Through her independent research into the global financial crisis, Janet Tavakoli uncovered what she calls massive, widespread fraud committed by a network of mortgage originators, securitizers, and rating and regulatory agencies, among others.
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By Michael McFarlin |
January 26, 2012
It only took four years, but S&P finally is being sued over the high ratings it gave to mortgage-backed securities leading up to the nation's ...
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By Daniel P. Collins |
October 1, 2011
As a trader at Lehman, Larry McDonald saw the risk the bank was exposing itself to. He's written a book about that time and discusses it here
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By Michael J. McFarlin |
October 1, 2011
As the three-year anniversary of the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy filing passed
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By Michael McFarlin |
September 29, 2011
Economists can be an interesting group of people. Although they don't like to be wrong, occasionally they will fess up when they've been way off ...
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By Daniel P. Collins |
August 31, 2011
Two weeks ago we wrote about how Warren Buffett asked the government to “Stop Coddling the Rich,” in an op ed piece in the New ...
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By Ginger Szala |
August 12, 2011
A large majority of companies holding U.S. Treasuries had "no intention of changing their holdings as a result of the S&P move [to downgrade U.S. credit rating to ...
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By Daniel P. Collins |
August 10, 2011
The Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Markets Committee (FOMC) shook up the markets with its statement on Tuesday that it would likely keep rates exceptionally low through ...
