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...Under the current plan being hawked by Paulson and the Bush administration, that astronomical sum would be used to buy up bad debt from ailing institutions in order to clean up their balance sheets. The criticisms of the plan are legion, but one irksome feature is that the banks that made the worst mistakes are in line to get the most help, providing little incentive for future managers to mend their ways. And all taxpayers would get for their rescue money is a mountain of toxic loans of highly dubious value...
...Most importantly, the government stipulated that in order to become eligible for government funding, banks would have to give up something - namely equity - in return. In the case of one leading bank, the mere prospect of the government taking a stake was enough to persuade shareholders to dig deeper and raise money on their own. For the rest, the government was able, once the markets rebounded, to sell off the stakes it had acquired, making a profit that was effectively returned to taxpayers' coffers. At one point the government controlled more than 20% of the entire banking system...
...Think carefully before you answer. The question is from the password retrieval system for Virgin America's Elevate frequent-flyer program, one of several a user may be prompted to answer in order to verify his or her identity. But it's not just Richard Branson's own quirky take on the standard "What's your mother's maiden name?" query, widely used for verification purposes by many banks and e-mail services. These days, security questions are getting more creative because they have to. As we make more and more personal information freely available online via our blogs, Facebook...
...source of capital dried up, Bear was forced to attempt to sell off assets in order to increase its own capital and meet prescribed liquidity ratios. Ultimately, JP Morgan purchased Bear...
Track, Willow, Trig, Bristol, Piper. Meet the Palin brood! Apparently liberal Hollywood celebrities are not the only ones who like to give their children offbeat names (in order: a thing you run on, an 80's George Lucas film, a field of mathematics, a town in Connecticut, and a type of plane...