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...Paulson's current plan exacts no such a price from the financial institutions it proposes to bail out; the idea has not been publicly discussed by either the Congress of the Bush Administration. But it ought not be considered ideologically beyond the pale, since the U.S. government did get equity stakes when it bailed out mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, as it did last week for AIG, the world's largest insurance company...
...Since earlier this year, Cox has also come under fire for not acting more quickly to curb short sellers - investors who borrow shares and make money when a stock's price drops. After certain financial stocks started diving over the summer, and market players and attorneys began ringing alarm bells about rumor-mongering, the SEC temporarily banned a particularly aggressive form of short selling in 19 financial stocks. A new ban, which prohibits all types of short selling for some 800 financial stocks, went into effect on Sept. 19 and lasts until...
...disastrous as communism." For decades, any episode of turbulence in the U.S. stock market or speculative finance sector was bound to provoke scorn across France's political spectrum. Detractors disparaged the U.S. economic model for rewarding short-sighted greed with indecent executive compensation, for its myopic focus on share price rather than wider-view company performance, and for its recurrent bubbles and busts. "People ironically asked when American markets would stop believing in free lunches," recalls Mistral...
...Morgan had the opportunity to potentially pick up businesses that were extremely profitable,” Bergstresser added, “but the question then and now is whether it was worth the risk that was taken on as well as the price paid for Bear. That remains to be seen...
...claim that fried chicken could be part of an effective diet program in 2004, the Federal Trade Commission penalized the company, requiring it to pull the commercials and submit all advertising for FTC review for the next five years. Mendacity in commercial advertising can also carry a steep financial price. In 2007, the FTC fined four diet-pill manufacturers $25 million for making false claims about their products...