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It is clear that the Citigroup board did not come close to performing its fiduciary responsibility related to risk and that the risk management staff within the company never understood the exotic mortgage-backed paper that the firm was holding. Or, worse, the risk managers may have known what was...
When treasury secretary Tim Geithner rolled out his long-awaited plan for buying up toxic mortgage loans and securities on March 23, reaction was split. Financial markets cheered, with the Dow Jones industrial average rocketing 497 points, or 6.8%, on the day. The chattering classes mostly grumbled, with Princeton economist...
This is - there's really no denying it, although Geithner has tried - yet another giveaway to the rich and well connected. Then again, it's supposed to be. Luring smart, informed investors, who've been on the sidelines, into currently dysfunctional markets for mortgages and mortgage securities is the whole...
Bob Shorb, Skidmore College's fast-talking director of student aid and family finance, did more reading than usual this year. And not just because the 4,000 financial-aid applications that landed on his desk made up a record 62% of the applicant pool. Shorb, who has worked in...
In the early 1980s, around the time Ronald Reagan became President and Wall Street's great modern bull market began, we started gambling (and winning!) and thinking magically. From 1980 to 2007, the median price of a new American home quadrupled. The Dow Jones industrial average climbed from 803 in...