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Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
One of the three trustees who oversees U.S. taxpayers' nearly 80% stake in AIG recently said he wanted to quit his post, but was persuaded to stay on. Separately, the government is seeking possible candidates to add to the insurer's board.
Politik Ditto (Free subscription) | yesterday
More trials and tribulations from the utter FAIL that is the Obama administration: Adding to lawmaker criticism of U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's performance is a new survey released on Friday showing 42 percent of Americans say he has done a "poor job" handling the credit crisis and federal bailout programs. The survey by Rasmussen Reports, a polling and electronic publishing...
The Street (Free subscription) | yesterday
Shares of insurance companies finished the week flat after some volatility over the last few days.
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Academy of Actuaries is urging senators to modify health care reform legislation released this week to contain stronger language regarding a health insurance individual coverage mandate. The actuaries said that an effective and enforceable mandate will minimize adverse selection stemming from more restrictive issue and rating rules prescribed...
The Blue Voice (Free subscription) | yesterday
Paul Krugman assesses the consequences of having done too little in the spring to combat the economic crisis in The Big Squander New York Times 11/19/09: 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...
Business Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fitch Ratings was notified of the intention to change the interest rate swap and basis swap counterparty (Novation) of Commodore CDO III Ltd./Inc (Commodore III) to Barclays Bank PLC (Barclays, rated 'AA-/F1+' with a Stable Rating Outlook by Fitch), from AIG Financial Products Corp (AIG FP, rated 'BBB/F1' with an Evolving Outlook). In reviewing the Novation documents, Fitch...
Calculated Risk (Free subscription) | yesterday
From Paul Krugman writing in the NY Times: The Big Squander 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...
Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | yesterday
An audit of the Federal Reserve Bank would "substantially castrate the Fed so it cannot do what it was set up to do," Rep. Melvin Watt (D., N.C.) said yesterday, in an effort to tamp down a congressional uprising against the Bush/Obama economic team. This devastating exchange Thursday between Secretary of the Treasury Tim Geithner and Rep. Kevin Brady (R-Texas); along with weeks of close...
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...
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:...
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