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The Motley Fool
March 18, 2009
Matt Koppenheffer |
AIG Bonus Outrage Is Bogus Don't buy the government's surprised anger at the AIG exec bonuses.   |
Registered Rep.
March 20, 2009
David A. Geracioti |
Populism Run Amok I guess it wins votes: Exploiting the outrage a populace who loves to hate failed Wall Street fat cats. But the vicious moralizing is revealing. |
The Motley Fool
March 26, 2009
Alyce Lomax |
Breaking Up With AIG One AIG executive's public resignation seems to ring a little hollow. |
The Motley Fool
March 16, 2009
Morgan Housel |
AIG's Bonuses Are an Absolute Joke AIG's $450 million in bonuses is going to members of the financial products division that's almost solely responsible for Big A's demise. |
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. |
CIO
September 9, 2010
Michael Overly et al. |
Offshoring: Ways to Reduce Your Risks When Congress, States Threaten Restrictions Proposed bills in Congress and in state legislatures aim to discourage offshoring, but you can use your contracts to reduce the risk to your company if such measures are enacted. |
Registered Rep.
January 15, 2010
David A. Geracioti |
Obama's Bank Tax Is Onerous, but "Banks Are Creative" Is taxing banker's bonuses and increasing taxes for financial institutions really necessary? |
The Motley Fool
September 4, 2009
Morgan Housel |
Fannie and Freddie: 1 Year Later A look at the first shots fired in the financial meltdown, and where we go from here. |
The Motley Fool
September 22, 2004
Bill Mann |
Three Financials Behaving Badly With each of these three massive financial institutions, representing the largest banking, mortgage, and insurance participants respectively, the taint of ongoing fraud ought to make minority shareholders awfully nervous. |
Registered Rep.
March 25, 2009
Kristen French |
Regionals Buying B/D Branches, It's All About AIG, BofA's Reassurances Stifel Nicolaus to buy 55 UBS wealth management branches spread across 24 states... Fallout from the AIG bonus kerfuffle continues to dominate the news... Bank of America to repay TARP money by April... |
BusinessWeek
December 17, 2009 |
The Pay Czar on His Shrinking Empire Diane Brady talks to the Obama Administration's compensation czar Ken Feinberg |
Registered Rep.
December 4, 2008
David A. Geracioti |
AIG Executives: Fat Cats or Valuable Management Worth Keeping? It can be argued that AIG CEO Edward Liddy actually had the right idea in paying retention packages to key managers. |
Registered Rep.
March 23, 2009
Christina Mucciolo |
Reverse Split? Who Cares? AIG Is the Government's New Whipping Post and TARP Bank Execs Too; Lehman's Ebay Blockbusters Vikram Pandit is making moves. They may not mean much, but he's making them nonetheless. Citigroup says it's considering a reverse split of its own stock -- a move the New York Times describes as "the market equivalent of giving investors a $10 bill in exchange for two fives." |
Finance & Development
March 2010 |
Big Bad Bonuses? Pros and cons of bankers' bonuses: one defends bankers' bonuses; one says they are a symptom of a bigger problem -- reckless risk taking by big financial players. |
Registered Rep.
July 24, 2008 |
Uncle Sam: Give Us A New Bubble The debate about government's roll in the economy just got stoked big time, what with the recent news that Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson wants to shore up Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac with taxpayer dollars. |
The Motley Fool
January 21, 2011
Rich Smith |
Quick! Everybody Out of the Pool! AIG is going public, and its stock is going down. |
The Motley Fool
June 14, 2011
Rich Smith |
Dear Congress: Please Stop Robbing Us It's time to pass the Stop Trading On Congressional Knowledge Act. |
The Motley Fool
August 31, 2010
Jennifer Schonberger |
Ron Paul: Financial Reform Solved Nothing Rep. Ron Paul discusses reforming Fannie & Freddie and financial reform. |
The Motley Fool
October 30, 2009
Morgan "Foreclosed" Housel |
World's Scariest Stocks: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac still give off the impression of being capitalistic, shareholder-owned companies. There's not. |
Insurance & Technology
February 4, 2010 |
AIG Says Pay Issue Is 'Largely' Solved U.S. insurance giant American International Group Inc. said it would reduce bonus payments by $20 million to recoup part of a pledge it failed to keep. |
The Motley Fool
November 26, 2008
Todd Wenning |
A Simple Question for the Supreme Court Your silence -- as Congress, the Federal Reserve, and the Treasury Department have mortgaged the future of our country -- is deafening. |
The Motley Fool
March 16, 2009
Rich Smith |
Oil Dinged, AIG Singed, and Bernanke Unhinged? Morning news: OPEC's Lament... AIG's plans for taxpayer's money... Bernanke on 60 Minutes... |
The Motley Fool
June 17, 2011
Morgan Housel |
Why Congress Loves Bank Stocks Little wonder that in a world where Congress can legally trade on inside information, the most faith is put in companies where Congress' actions influence most of the outcome. |
The Motley Fool
March 23, 2009
Morgan Housel |
Pros and Cons of the New Bank Plan After a long wait, the details of Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner's new plan to rid banks of toxic assets actually aren't half bad. Read on for the details. |
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
May 13, 2011
Rich Smith |
AIG IPO A-OK? It looks to Wall Street like the AIG IPO is going to happen after all. |
The Motley Fool
September 2, 2009
Morgan Housel |
The Air Comes out of Financial Stocks Geez ... it was about time. |
BusinessWeek
February 3, 2011
Lorraine Woellert |
The Real Estate Lobby Is Ready to Rumble Financiers, homebuilders, and real estate agents are uniting to save mortgage subsidies |
The Motley Fool
June 4, 2009
Morgan Housel |
Rebuilding General Motors The New GM, we hear, will be a lean, mean, profitable Motown machine. Therefore, taxpayers' 60.8% ownership stake might be worth something meaningful. Maybe even enough to recoup a significant portion of their investment. |
The Motley Fool
March 20, 2009
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Socialism Will Save Capitalism It's important to break down the reasons for the current outbreaks of contagious rage over bonuses, corporate jets, and office upgrades. |
U.S. Banker
June 2008
Joseph Rosta |
The Two-Step: As Reform Ebbs, Congress Doles Out More Rope Government-sponsored enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are being given new powers by Congress in an effort to reinvigorate the jumbo-loan market. |
HBS Working Knowledge
November 12, 2014
Retsinas & Couch |
A Challenge to the New Congress: Pass Housing Finance Reform It is time for Congress to recommit itself to drafting legislation that will transform housing finance for the twenty-first century. |
The Motley Fool
May 18, 2010
Rich Smith |
Highway Robbery on Capitol Hill Could it be that some politicians are just as guilty of engaging in financial shenanigans as the bankers they love to castigate? |
CFO
May 1, 2009
Alix Stuart |
Fault Lines President Obama's first 100 days left him far more popular with the general public than with the business community. |
Registered Rep.
March 18, 2009
Halah Touryalai |
Congress Is Outraged--Again; Citi's New CEO?; Meredith Whitney Spews More Venom; and Madoff's Accountant's Life Just Got More Interesting The AIG CEO is testifying before the Inquisition -- er, Congress this morning. Liddy will be grilled about $165 million in bonuses his company doled out to executives. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
July 21, 2010
Ilan Moscovitz |
The Weekly Walk of Shame: Toothless Watchdogs And what we can (and should) do about them. Elizabeth Warren is the perfect candidate to break through the too-cozy relationship between Wall Street and toothless watchdogs. |
The Motley Fool
December 17, 2004
Bill Mann |
Fannie Mae's Institutional Arrogance Pity that Fannie's management decided to test the limits of an implied Federal guarantee. Even if the government did step in and back Fannie and Freddie paper, there's not a chance that it'd back the equity. |
Bank Systems & Technology
March 18, 2009
Orla O'Sullivan |
AIG Uproar Sees Spitzer Weigh In The real disgrace in what A.I.G. did with almost $200 billion in government bailouts was not the payment of executive bonuses, but payments to banks, Eliot Spitzer said in an interview Wednesday morning. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
May 1, 2009
Sander A. Flaum |
Compensation Overkill Congress - and the public - needs to take a deep breath before making a big mistake. |
Bank Systems & Technology
June 10, 2009
Maria Bruno-Britz |
Bonuses Still Point of Contention for Obama The President continues to push for restrictions on bonus compensation for financial executives. |
The Motley Fool
February 18, 2010
Alex Dumortier |
AIG: We Like Our Toxic Waste An outsider's take on AIG's risk. |
The Motley Fool
August 6, 2010
Jordan DiPietro |
Wall Street Bonuses Are Back! Wall Street is back on a hiring and spending spree -- does it matter? |
Bank Systems & Technology
March 20, 2009
Maria Bruno-Britz |
Proposed New Financial Authority Would Oversee Troubled Holding Companies The President's plan for a new financial agency would give that body authority to temporarily take over floundering bank holding companies in a manner similar to the FDIC's procedures for commercial banks. |
The Motley Fool
March 20, 2009
Matt Koppenheffer |
The Bonus Story You Need to Read Global retailing powerhouse Wal-Mart announces around $2 billion worth of bonuses for its hourly workers. |
Registered Rep.
March 25, 2010
Jerry Gleeson |
Don't panic. Health-care Tax Impact Years Off Your clients may fear a huge tax bite after President Obama signed historic health care legislation into law this week. You can reassure them. |
The Motley Fool
January 13, 2010
Dan Caplinger |
This Could Cause the Next Crash Higher taxes will transform the investment world. |
BusinessWeek
April 8, 2010 |
Book Excerpt: Roger Lowenstein's "The End of Wall Street" The Street isn't dead - but a certain laissez-faire idea of it is. So argues Lowenstein in his new book. |
Reason
January 2009
Michael Flynn |
Anatomy of a Breakdown Concerted government policy helped trigger the financial meltdown -- and will almost certainly extend it. |
The Motley Fool
August 31, 2009
Morgan Housel |
AIG: As Speculative as It Gets AIG is now the market's golden child, up several hundred percent for no apparent reason. |
