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Before the subprime mess began, no one talked about the danger that mortgage derivatives posed to banks. Now, there is not much talk about what could bring the banking industry to its knees again. That talk has gone away and been replaced by a childish hopefulness that decades of overleveraging...
Is the IMF number right? Probably not. When looking at a market as large as mortgage-backed securities, once the magnitude becomes too great, it is impossible to be precise to the last dime. But, the figure is almost certainly within a narrow range of the actual problem big banks...
The plan is intended to relieve banks of their toxic assets - including such securities as subprime mortgage bonds - through purchases by a public-private investment fund, heavily backed by government money. But versions of the plan have faced challenges from the start. Last year, when he was head of the...
In 1909, John Moody became the first financial analyst to assign letter grades to railroad bonds, giving investors an easier way to evaluate the rail companies' debt. It was the beginning of one of the most powerful forces in modern capitalism. Today a small club of bond-rating agencies, led...
Meanwhile, the agencies' business model morphed from one in which investors paid for ratings to one in which bond issuers did. That generated more revenue, but it also created a massive conflict of interest, often cited in the current mortgage mess. In 2006, the SEC took regulatory authority over the...