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By Daniel P. Collins |
July 15, 2011
Credit ratings agency Standard & Poor’s roiled the markets yesterday with a pronouncement that it has placed the United States of America’s “'AAA' long-term and ...
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By Daniel P. Collins |
March 31, 2011
Last night while channel surfing I came across CSPAN and saw Neil M. Barofsky, the special inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), ...
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By Michael McFarlin |
February 4, 2011
There has been a lot written to try and explain the banking bailouts, especially the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). Recently, a lot has been ...
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By Daniel P. Collins |
January 28, 2011
Yesterday Bloomberg reported that Goldman Sachs profited $2.9 billion for its own account thanks to the taxpayer bailout of American International Group Inc (AIG) according ...
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By Daniel P. Collins |
December 14, 2010
In a somewhat strange comment letter, a group of financial trade groups have asked financial regulatory agencies to slow down the pace of its rule ...
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By Daniel P. Collins |
December 3, 2010
The Financial Times reported yesterday that non-U.S. banks were among the biggest users of the $3.3 trillion in emergency lending facilities and programs created to ...
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By Daniel P. Collins |
October 26, 2010
Former President Bill Clinton spoke at the CME Group Global Financial Leadership Conference last week and had an interesting take on the Dodd-Frank Act and what ...
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By Daniel P. Collins |
October 5, 2010
The Financial Times published a commentary on Monday talking about the success of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). The basic premise of the story ...
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By Daniel P. Collins |
September 21, 2010
With all the speculation of the U.S. economy entering into a double dip recession it is appropriate to note that it is now possible because ...
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By Daniel P. Collins |
August 26, 2010
The economic crisis we are in started with housing so it would only make sense that a recovery in the housing sector is what is ...
