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U.S. Banker May 2009 Joseph Rosta |
Don't Count on the Consumers This Time The president warned G-20 leaders in early April that the age of "voracious" American consumption is over. |
U.S. Banker November 2009 Cheyenne Hopkins |
PPIP Finally Ready, But Who's Selling? Now that a government program to buy up toxic assets finally appears ready to fly, many observers are wondering if there is any need for it. |
Bank Systems & Technology November 21, 2008 Orla O'Sullivan |
TARP Can't Stanch Financial Crisis, Experts Say Experts agree that the U.S. government's $700 billion bank bailout program is insufficient to spur lending because banks still have far from an optimal balance of debts to assets. |
BusinessWeek October 14, 2010 Robert Schmidt |
Brush Up Your Beltway-Speak Acronyms are everywhere in Washington. Here's a cheat-sheet to help decipher them. |
U.S. Banker December 2008 |
Hank's Group Think The Troubled Asset Relief Program was supposed to purchase toxic securities from banks to stabilize their finances. But in short order, given the difficulty valuing those assets, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and company switched gears and chose to take equity stakes in big banks. |
BusinessWeek May 20, 2010 Schmidt & Mattingly |
A Wall Street Sheriff with Fewer Bullets The FDIC's Bair is losing out to the Fed in the regulatory overhaul |
On Wall Street December 1, 2008 Cheyenne Hopkins |
The Obama Agenda: Reforming Regulation The fight for the presidency is over, but the battle over the future of financial services has just begun. |
Bank Director 1st Quarter 2010 Jack Milligan |
A Look at the Hill and Beyond Steve Bartlett, head of a financial services lobbying group, talks about political gyrations in Congress and the concerns all banks ought to be having about the impact of banking reform on the U.S. economy. |
BusinessWeek September 30, 2010 Rebecca Christie |
TARP Didn't Bust the Bank The much-maligned bailout program made money on most Wall Street investments and cost less than expected. |
The Motley Fool March 24, 2009 Christopher Barker |
$10.2 Trillion? A Mere Drop in the Bucket The tally zooms out to include monies under serious consideration for future outlays. |
Registered Rep. May 7, 2009 David A. Geracioti |
10 Banks Need More Equity; MS To Raise Money To Close Smith Barney Deal The government releases its much-anticipated and much-leaked bad-bank, good-bank report. Here are the highlights. |
Reason July 2009 Randazzo et al. |
Turning Japanese Japan's post-bubble policies produced a "lost decade." So why is President Obama emulating them? |
The Motley Fool January 27, 2009 Liz Peek |
A Bold New Plan: Dump FAS 157 What can President Obama's financial team do to right the banking ship? One idea that should be reviewed is the elimination of mark-to-market accounting, required by FAS 157, which would go a long way toward stabilizing the banks. |
U.S. Banker February 2009 Michael Sisk |
Looking Under the TARP Government oversight panels finally get up and running and take a closer look at the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program -- and aren't happy with what they see. |
The Motley Fool February 19, 2009 Christopher Barker |
$8.6 Trillion Was a Drop in the Bucket Keeping a tally of total potential outlays puts the scale of the crisis in context. |
The Motley Fool January 21, 2009 Morgan Housel |
Return of the TARP All signs point to the new Obama administration reverting to the original purpose that TARP, or Troubled Asset Relief Program, was intended to accomplish -- dealing with troubled assets. |
BusinessWeek January 7, 2009 Der Hovanesian & Palmeri |
Why Banks Still Won't Lend Despite more than $1 trillion in federal largesse, they still may not have the capital cushions to bear the risks of making fresh loans. |
BusinessWeek December 10, 2009 |
Tim Geithner Is Starting to See Daylight Bloomberg TV's Al Hunt talks to the Treasury Secretary about TARP. |
Reason February 2009 Jacob Sullum |
The Reversals of Market Wisdom The TARP turnaround is not the only bewildering reversal of economic wisdom we've seen in recent months. Here are some of the more memorable ones. |
U.S. Banker February 2010 Rob Garver |
What Now? If Washington really wants to get credit flowing to small businesses, it could modify TARP, relax capital requirements and rethink its stance on industrial loan companies. Or it could do nothing at all. |
BusinessWeek July 29, 2010 Mark Drajem et al. |
No Lobbying Help for the Little Guys Trade groups are silent on a $30 billion fund to spur lending. |
On Wall Street March 1, 2010 |
Five Questions with Timothy Ryan Jr. Ryan held senior positions in the industry, from the vice chairman level at JPMorgan to Director of the Office of Thrift Supervision, where he helped in the S&L cleanup. He talks about today's regulatory needs. |
Bank Director 3rd Quarter 2009 John Berlau |
Overregulation Plan Won't Fix Financial Crisis Initial reports indicate that these early hopes of a more accountable regulatory structure from the Obama administration have been dashed. |
Bank Director 4th Quarter 2010 John R. Engen |
Back in the Saddle Former FDIC chairman Bill Isaac has taken the reins as the new chairman of Fifth Third Bancorp. Here, he talks about his career, growing the bank, and why, in his view, Dodd-Frank is an unmitigated disaster. |
The Motley Fool February 9, 2009 Morgan Housel |
We're From the Government, and We're Here to Help This week could bring the most government intervention into the economy we've ever seen. Here's what to look for. |
The Motley Fool March 17, 2011 Housel & Moscovitz |
Bailouts: The Final Word We should be doing everything we can now to prevent the possibility of ever having to have another TARP program. |
Bank Director 2nd Quarter 2009 John R. Engen |
Fear of the Unknown Receiving government funding right now is a little akin to the devil you don't know. |
U.S. Banker April 2011 Hugh Kelly |
There They Go Again? Banks opening the spigot for commercial real estate lending are not as foolhardy as some critics contend. |
The Motley Fool May 21, 2009 Matt Koppenheffer |
Should Your Bank Deposits Be at Risk? Is the FDIC's guarantee of bank deposits a benefit to the system? |
Bank Director 1st Quarter 2011 Jack Millligan |
Is the Community Bank Business Model Broken? The concept of community banking is still viable, but the model that many small institutions employ has to change. |
The Motley Fool June 14, 2010 Russ Krull |
The Government: Worst Investor Ever? Here's a closer look at the U.S. Treasury's recent investments. |
Bank Director 1st Quarter 2009 L. William Seidman |
It Will Get Better--But Not Soon The good news is that oil is under $50 a barrel. The bad news is the recession is going to get worse before it gets better. |
The Motley Fool December 3, 2008 Alex Dumortier |
GAO to Paulson: Get Your TARP in Order The Government Accountability Office chides the Treasury Department for failing to address a number of key issues with respect to the Troubled Asset Relief Program. |
National Real Estate Investor May 1, 2008 Ben Johnson |
Regulators Turn Up Heat On Local Banks Community and mid-size banks, which comprise the bulk of all commercial real estate lending in this country, are once again under the watchful eye of regulators. |
The Motley Fool November 26, 2008 Christopher Barker |
$3.9 Trillion Was a Drop in the Bucket Keeping a tally of total outlays puts the unfathomable scale of the crisis in context. |
The Motley Fool February 13, 2009 Morgan Housel |
Hurry Up and Nationalize the Banks Now that last fall's all-out panic has subsided, we need a long-term solution to getting our largest banks back on track. |
CFO March 1, 2009 Vincent Ryan |
The Big Freeze CFOs hope government intervention will soon thaw frozen credit markets. That's not likely. |
BusinessWeek September 30, 2009 Theo Francis |
The FDIC's Gift to Banks The FDIC's plan to raise roughly $45 billion to help dodge a cash crunch also offers a way for financial firms to boost capital and profits. |
Registered Rep. February 24, 2009 Halah Touryalai |
News Roundup: Obama Spends to Save, Bernanke States the Obvious and AIG says, "Help," Again. Someone should let the stock market in on the secret to economic recovery; investors clearly haven't been too psyched about Treasury's plan. |
Bank Director 2nd Quarter 2009 Deborah Scally |
Outlook for M&A: 2009 Interestingly, for some banks, M&A will be a viable -- even attractive -- strategic option. |
Wall Street & Technology November 4, 2008 Larry Tabb |
Relaxing Mark-to-Market Rules Is a Slippery Slope Mark-to-market accounting is critical to the valuation of profits, positions, net capital and, for that matter, bank solvency. |
BusinessWeek January 29, 2009 |
On the Dole Bank of America, which agreed to buy Merrill Lynch in September, has been a prime beneficiary of the bailout. |
Reason Aug/Sep 2009 Sullum et al. |
Illegal. Illiberal. Ill-Fated.: Why Washington Shouldn't Run Detroit On March 30, 2009, the president of the United States told an anxious nation: "Let me be clear: The United States government has no interest in running G.M." If only he were telling the truth. |
U.S. Banker April 2009 Michael Sisk |
The Compensation Conundrum Healthy banks that agreed to take money from the Troubled Asset Relief Program are beginning to rue their decision. |
BusinessWeek December 17, 2009 |
The Federal Dilemma Here's why it will be difficult for the Obama Administration to get banks to boost lending |
U.S. Banker March 2010 Alan Kline |
Dysfunction in D.C. The sight of Democrats cheering and Republicans sitting on their hands when the president plugged financial reform was disheartening to anyone who believes the system needs fixing. |
The Motley Fool October 2, 2008 Alex Dumortier |
Mark-to-Market Accounting: What You Should Know How does it work, and why is Congress pushing to suspend it? |
Bank Systems & Technology February 25, 2009 Maria Bruno-Britz |
Obama Says Stimulus is for Helping People, Not Banks In his speech before Congress President Obama expressed his confidence in the banking system itself, reassuring Americans that their money was safe in the nation's banks. What he said was of concern to him was the credit crisis. |
The Motley Fool May 21, 2009 Matt Koppenheffer |
Banks to Geithner: It's Payback Time Major banks are lining up to pay back TARP borrowings and keep the government from further mucking up their business. |
Bank Systems & Technology October 14, 2008 Maria Bruno-Britz |
U.S. Govt. Unveils Bank Buy-in Plan Also, Treasury announced it will apply compensation restrictions to the most highly compensated executives down the corporate ladder. |