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...country. Already, President-elect Barack Obama has moved swiftly to address the worsening economic and financial crisis. Now, a key question is how, or if, President-elect Obama delivers on his campaign proposal to require companies that don't offer employee retirement plans to enroll workers in a direct-deposit IRA account, which may help many low- and middle-income people participate in retirement programs for the first time. "You can't have companies going from a position of broad stability 12 months ago to having a hole of $280 billion in their pension plans," says Adrian Hartshorn, a lead...
...Justin Fox and Massimo Calabresi make clear in their smart piece in this week's issue about Barack Obama's economic plan. Speaking of economics, TIME and FORTUNE will present the Fortune 500 Forum in Washington Dec. 1-3, featuring, among others, U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation chair Sheila Bair. The conference will bring high-ranking executives of America's leading companies together with top policymakers, including former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and Pennsylvania governor Ed Rendell, to talk about the intersection between the government and the economy. As we have been reporting week...
...Citi getting? Specifically, the government will back a $306 billion pool of troubled loans and securities largely related to the foundering residential and commercial real estate markets. After Citi absorbs the first $29 billion in losses on these securities, the government - first the Treasury Department and then the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) - will step in and bear 90% of any further losses. In return, the government gets up to $7 billion in preferred Citi stock and the right to buy more shares at $10.61 - not a bargain these days, with Citi trading in the single digits, but perhaps worth...
...government allowed the creation of a massive shadow banking system run by investment banks, hedge funds and brokerage firms over the last 30 years that rivaled the traditional system in size but lacked every one of the stabilizing pillars that had been erected beneath it after the Great Depression: deposit insurance, access to a lender of last resort, a system for orderly failure, and reasonable constraints on risk and leverage. With near bottomless funds from money-market investments and sky-high leveraging limits, the shadow system financed the bubble that is now bursting. (See "Four Steps to Ending the Foreclosure...
...little is likely to be done inside the Beltway - Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation chairwoman Sheila Bair is still pushing for a homeowner-relief plan - local leaders are looking for makeshift solutions at the grass roots. One notion is to let cities use NSP money to leverage lenders into helping more borrowers avoid foreclosure. Since lender banks naturally want foreclosed properties taken off their hands in the NSP buyout - and since reckless and even predatory lending was so often at play in the subprime mess - perhaps they in return ought to be required to show some level of commitment to homeowner...