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The Baseline Scenario (Free subscription) | yesterday
As everyone knows by now, Neil Barofsky, special inspector general for TARP, has a new report out on the decision by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York last Fall to make various AIG counterparties (primarily some very big banks with names you know) whole on the the CDS protection they had bought from AIG [...]
CJR Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday
I wrote twice on Tuesday about the bizarre Tim Geithner quote that "the financial condition of the counterparties was not a relevant factor" in his decision to bail out AIG. I called it a "stunner" and said it ought to be "second-day-story number one." Now we're to the fourth day and it's just us and now The Wall...
AMERICAblog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Absolutely . Clearly there is a danger in politicizing Federal Reserve decisions but looking at how the Fed handled the bailout of AIG and Wall Street, it's difficult to see how much worse it could have been. To date, Congress or the White House (either the current or the former) have hardly been impressive with taking control of the issue though the Federal Reserve does look like a black hole, accountable...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
CARMEL, Ind., Nov. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Conseco, Inc. (NYSE: CNO) today announced a new agreement under which its Bankers Life and Casualty Company subsidiary ("Bankers Life") will coinsure, with an effective date of October 1, 2009, about 237,000 life insurance policies with Wilton Reassurance Company ("Wilton Re"). Wilton Re will pay a ceding commission of approximately...
I cite (Free subscription) | yesterday
About the A.I.G. affair: During the bubble years, many financial companies created the illusion of financial soundness by buying credit-default swaps from A.I.G. — basically, insurance policies in which A.I.G. promised to make up the difference if borrowers defaulted on their debts. It was an illusion because the insurer didn’t have remotely enough money to make good on its promises if...
Dialog International (Free subscription) | yesterday
Members of Congress are calling for the resignation of US Secretary of Treasury Timothy Geithner over his handling of the AIG rescue last year. Geithner, as head of the New York Federal Reserve Bank at the time, authorized the transfer...
The Business Insider (Free subscription) | yesterday
Will we ever know why AIG was bailed out and why its credit default swap counterparties were made whole? When AIG first began to ask for a bridge loan from the Federal Reserve, the public was told that AIG wanted additional "liquidity" to avoid a ratings downgrade. This implied that AIG's problem was relatively modest, related only to a temporary gap between funding for liquidity and its...
Market Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
NEW DELHI, INDIA (MARKET WIRE) Disappointing forecast from tech companies and an unexpected drop in home construction data added to worries about the economy and sent stocks modestly lower than the previous closing. This drove us to do research on the following 6 stocks Barclays PLC (NYSE: BCS), Gol Linhas Aereas Inteligentes S.A (NYSE: GOL), Invesco Ltd (NYSE: IVZ), Hertz Global Holdings Inc. (NYSE:...
Vox Verax (Free subscription) | yesterday
by Jeff Madrick Daily Beast Tim Geithner hotly defended his job Thursday in front of angry Republican congressmen who asked him to step down. "What I can't take responsibility is for the legacy of crises you've bequeathed this country," he shot back. It is not easy being the secretary of the Treasury in the midst of so much economic turmoil. But even under current conditions, Tim Geithner’s...
Boots and Sabers (Free subscription) | yesterday
Their own jobs, I suspect. Growing discontent over the economy and frustration with efforts to speed its recovery boiled over Thursday on Capitol Hill in a wave of criticism and outright anger directed at the Obama administration. Episodes in both houses of Congress exposed the raw nerves of lawmakers flooded with stories of unemployment and economic hardship back home. They also underscored the stiff...
SeekingAlpha.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
If Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner doesn’t know how to get appropriately compensated for the loans / bailouts that he keeps approving on behalf of the United States Government then he shouldn’t be giving out these loans at all. His mismanagement of these negotiations is wasting our money. For instance last year, when Geithner, then operating through the New York Fed, decided to bailout...
Vox Verax (Free subscription) | yesterday
By PAUL KRUGMAN NYT Earlier this week, the inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, a k a, the bank bailout fund, released his report on the 2008 rescue of the American International Group, the insurer. The gist of the report is that government officials made no serious attempt to extract concessions from bankers, even though these bankers received huge benefits from the rescue. And...
SeekingAlpha.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Edward Harrison submits: I have written extensively about how I believe the bank bailouts were the worst of all possible solutions – fixes that perpetuate too big to fail, moral hazard and crony capitalism. That ship has sailed, but the questions still linger – in large part because the fix has not trickled down to common folk to better their lot. Rising unemployment is but one demonstration...
France24 (Free subscription) | yesterday
Taiwan will probe if the buyer of the local unit of American International Group has violated a long-term investment commitment by speedily selling on part of the company, an official said Friday. In October, AIG announced a Hong Kong-based consortium including China Strategic Holdings had agreed to buy Taiwan-based Nan Shan Life for 2.15 billion US dollars, pending regulatory approval.
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | yesterday
The U.S. House of Representatives will likely pass Rep. Paul Kanjorski's (D., Pa.) break-'em-up bill, which calls for regulators to split dangerously big and financially complex companies into safer pieces, so they don't have to be bailed out like American International Group Inc. or General Motors Corp.
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