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...Also on Thursday Britain said it will ban all short selling of financial stocks until at least next January, while New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced that he was launching an investigation into complaints of short sellers spreading false rumors about targeted companies like Lehman Brothers, AIG, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley...
There's a furious argument over whether shorts hastened the demise of Lehman and AIG, cutting the off their oxygen when it was desperately needed. And some have laid the blame at the feet of SEC commissioner Cox. "Chris Cox is responsible for the largest destruction of wealth in U.S. history," hissed Mad Money maestro Jim Cramer on his CNBC show on Tuesday. "Because of Cox, the shorts won." (Republican nominee John McCain called Thursday for Cox to be fired - the same Cox some conservatives touted as a possible running mate earlier this year. President Bush said he fully supports...
...weeks for U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson, Jr. As a principal architect of America's economic policy, Paulson (known as Hank) helped orchestrate the Sept. 7 government takeover of mortgage institutions Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and the $85 billion bailout of insurance giant American International Group (AIG) on Sept. 16. By the close of business two days later, he was reportedly looking to find a long-term solution to the nation's ongoing credit crisis, buoying markets on rumors that the Treasury would create some sort of government agency to absorb banks' bad debts...
...asking because the Federal Government took over AIG? We thought so. First things first: AIG's insurance subsidiaries are solvent and continuing to pay claims. If--and this is a big if--individual insurance subsidiaries run into trouble, a state regulator will step in. That regulator might try to move policies to another carrier--"The insurance industry has a pretty good track record of taking care of itself," says Atlanta-based wealth manager Chris Dardaman--though new insurers may be allowed to adjust policy terms. If push really comes to shove and the subsidiary liquidates, you are still protected...
Money invested in a variable-rate annuity goes into mutual-fund-like sub-accounts, which are walled off from the general account the insurer uses for its other obligations. It's like having a set of mutual funds at a broker: SEC regulations apply, and AIG's creditors can't tap those assets...