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A lot of people are saying that proprietary trading didn't cause the financial crisis. So why focus on that? Proprietary investing certainly played a big role in the financial crisis. Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers, UBS and Citigroup all had large amounts of mortgage bonds or real estate...
The AIG bailout has become one of the most enduring controversies from the financial crisis. On Wednesday, a congressional hearing again probed the moves and possible mistakes the government made when it rescued the insurer. At the center of the hearing, which was held by the House Committee on Oversight...
What's more, the deals the banks wanted to strike with AIG would have involved the insurer and the government giving up their right to reclaim the underlying bonds. Some have argued that would have led to a worse deal for AIG. Instead, the Federal Reserve decided to give AIG...
Now that Bernanke has gotten us past the crisis, inflation hawks and doves alike are trashing him for unbalancing the Fed's "dual mandate" to stabilize prices and maximize employment. The mostly right-leaning hawks rail about Helicopter Ben, Zimbabwe Ben and the Villain of the Year, whose cheap printed...
Anger over the financial crisis got perhaps its most prominent outlet yet as a federally appointed panel grilled top bankers about their firms' roles in the economic downturn. On Jan. 13, the panel questioned the chiefs of Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley and Bank of America. The 10-member...