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CEOs Who Risk Big for Big Paydays Research shows that incentivizing CEOs with large pay and stock-option packages doesn't always have the intended effect of aligning their interests with shareholders.   |
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June 5, 2008
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Bernanke Changes Strategy The Fed chief has taken the fight to inflation. |
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March 24, 2008
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How the Fed Rescues Markets Lower interest rates support stock prices in several ways. |
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October 5, 2009
Morgan Housel |
With Lewis Gone, Is Pandit Next? Citigroup's current CEO, Vikram Pandit, replaced Chuck Prince in 2007, so he can't be blamed for many of Citi's problems. But you can still argue that he should be replaced. |
The Motley Fool
May 23, 2008
Tom Hutchinson |
This Week in Banking Banking news: The week featured more dire economic forecasts and subprime shambles. |
BusinessWeek
November 19, 2007
Goldstein & Henry |
On the Subprime Endangered List Which CEO will be catching subprime heat next now that Citigroup's Chuck Prince is out? Bear Stearns' Jimmy Cayne may be vulnerable. |
The Motley Fool
August 25, 2009
Alex Dumortier |
Bernanke Is Sentenced to 4 More Years President Obama announced his nomination of "Helicopter" Ben Bernanke to a second term as chairman of the Fed. Bernanke is game -- but is he the right choice? |
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May 2, 2008
Tom Hutchinson |
This Week in Banking Many of the nation's banks are still coping with deteriorating balance sheets while the economy seems to be avoiding recession. |
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May 16, 2008
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This Week in Banking Banking news: Raising capital is getting tougher for banks... Countrywide faces a shareholder lawsuit... Paul Volcker warned that the Federal Reserve Bank's political independence could be compromised... etc. |
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June 2, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Bank Execs Walk the Plank After a brutal bout of losses and writedowns, another round of bank-exec demotions is shaking the financial world. |
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July 9, 2008
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Getting Burned by Bernanke His proposal to expand the Fed's power might incinerate the economy. |
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October 7, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Holding Strong at Bank of America You can look -- the quarter really wasn't that bad. Honest. |
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April 4, 2008
Tom Hutchinson |
Congress Grills Bernanke Over Bear Recent hearings debated the Fed's role in bailing out Bear Stearns. |
The Motley Fool
January 28, 2008
Matt Koppenheffer |
Bumbling Bernanke? I Don't Think So A lot of people seem to think Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke has no idea what he's doing. Does he or not? |
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November 21, 2007
Seth Jayson |
Back-Rub Ben and the Feel-Good Fed The latest Federal Reserve minutes imply the motivation for the interest rate cut was to soothe jittery markets. |
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September 10, 2009
Anand Chokkavelu |
The Market Meltdown: A Year Later Are we better off today? |
BusinessWeek
August 20, 2007
Peter Coy |
The Bernanke Agenda The Fed chairman feels the pain of subprime borrowers and the Street, but he's got his priorities. |
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April 11, 2008
Chuck Saletta |
The Next Unsustainable Asset Bubble As long as the first response to any financial stress is a quick infusion of cheap money, the formation of the next bubble is a virtual certainty. |
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January 1, 2009
Scott Leibs |
The Year That Was A look back at the lows and ultra-lows of an all-too-historic year. |
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August 25, 2011
Alex Dumortier |
Tomorrow's Market Decline Doesn't Matter Investors counting on Ben Bernanke will be disappointed. |
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January 23, 2008
Chuck Saletta |
Why Bernanke Was Wrong When the Fed fights the wrong battle, you lose. |
Registered Rep.
February 2, 2009 |
BofA's Lewis In Dissidents' Sights Just months ago, he was heralded as banker of the year. Now he's the target of a group of angry shareholders. |
U.S. Banker
September 2008
John Engen |
Future Shock Where to start when trying to figure out how the banking industry got into the mess it's in today? And where, exactly, do we go from here? |
The Motley Fool
June 13, 2008
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Bank Bloopers Banking news: Bank stocks have had another awful week. Several banks are at or near their 52-week lows. |
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October 9, 2008
Chuck Saletta |
How the Federal Reserve Lost Its War Every battle is won or lost before it is fought. |
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April 28, 2008
Morgan Housel |
R.I.P., Countrywide Bank of America plans on ditching the Countrywide name in favor of its own less-tarnished label. |
BusinessWeek
August 6, 2009
Roben Farzad |
Bernanke, Flying by the Seat of His Pants In Fed We Trust: Ben Bernanke's War on the Great Panic, by David Wessel, is an engrossing look at the central bank's swift reaction to the crisis, and how it is wielding its power. |
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March 20, 2008
Chuck Saletta |
Ben Bernanke Is Destroying Our Financial System Lost amidst all of Bernanke's heavy-handed government intervention is the fact that, if left alone, the markets still work. |
BusinessWeek
September 10, 2007
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The Heat On Countrywide Embattled Countrywide CEO Angelo Mozilo answers critics who claim the lender helped bring on the housing crisis. |
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March 10, 2008
Rich Duprey |
Mozilo's a Pretty Sorry Guy Countrywide's CEO fails to apologize for the right thing to the wrong crowd. |
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April 30, 2008
Dan Caplinger |
Bernanke's Done, Finally Stocks and the economy shouldn't expect any more help from the Fed. |
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April 23, 2009
Matt Koppenheffer |
Conspiracy at Bank of America? News breaks that Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis was supposedly strong-armed by the government to keep mum on the losses at Merrill Lynch. |
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March 14, 2008
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Quick Take: Stop the Presses, Ben! The Federal Reserve surprised equity markets by launching a new weapon against the mortgage meltdown and the resulting credit crisis, but the dollar suffers. |
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May 20, 2008
Chuck Saletta |
Which Companies Are Swimming Naked Right Now? Sometimes, things are even uglier than they appear in the banking sector. |
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January 14, 2010
Alex Dumortier |
The Riskiest, Most Profitable Bank of All While the Fed won't suffer the same fate as Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers or Northern Rock, a run on the dollar (or even just an orderly decline) could turn out to be the direct equivalent of a run on the (central) bank. |
U.S. Banker
March 2008
Michael Sisk |
Recession or Not, BofA Deal Recommits to Consumer Just weeks after BofA agreed to purchase Countrywide Financial for a price that deeply discounted the value of its mortgage holdings, the Federal Reserve stepped up its aggressive rate cutting, taking some pressure off adjustable-rate mortgages and spurring a refinancing mini boom. |
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September 16, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Bernanke Doesn't Budge Bernanke holds rates steady. Here's why that was a good idea. |
InternetNews
November 26, 2007
Paul Shread |
Credit Woes Send Stocks Skidding Again A better than expected start to the holiday shopping season was good for all of a 30-minute rally Monday before credit and housing market concerns sent stocks plunging once again... VMware lost on negative comments... Shanda Interactive posted gains... etc. |
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June 11, 2008
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Can Bernanke Talk the Talk and Walk the Walk? Ben Bernanke is getting down to business to combat inflation. |
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April 23, 2008
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We've Got Your Back, Bernanke There are several irresponsible assumptions in the recent criticism of Fed chief Ben Bernanke. |
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June 17, 2009
Matt Koppenheffer |
Will Obama's Plan Lead to Financial Failure? Only time will tell if Obama's plan will lead to a better system or just a bureaucratic mess. |
BusinessWeek
July 30, 2009
Michael Mandel |
Behind Bernanke's Charm Offensive The Fed's New Worry: Popularity. For a central bank dependent on Congress for bailout funds, approval ratings matter. And they're not good |
Registered Rep.
January 22, 2009 |
Thain Departs BofA--An $87,000 Rug? Say It Ain't So, John! Client AUMs Fall By 30 Percent In 2008 John Thain, former CEO of Merrill Lynch and the man who engineered the sales of the storied Wall Street firm to Bank of America in September, is leaving the combined firm immediately. |
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December 16, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Bernanke's Out of Bullets Ben Bernanke has spent the past year and a half firing as many bullets as possible to prop up the economy. After lowering the target on the Fed funds rate to a range of zero to 0.25%, he's finally out of ammunition. |
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March 20, 2008
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Bear Bails Out Bernanke The Fed Chairman can't win. If he slashes rates, Bernanke is a bum. If he bails out an iconic investment banker, he's destroying our financial system. |
Financial Advisor
May 2008
Evan Simonoff |
After The Storm As the mushrooming subprime loan crisis enters its tenth month, a growing list of questions begs answers. |
InternetNews
January 8, 2008
Paul Shread |
Ma Bell Crushes Stocks Rumors of a Countrywide Financial bankruptcy and comments from AT&T that raised slowdown fears sent stocks plunging on Tuesday... Leap Wireless gained on strong subscriber growth... Oracle was down... etc. |
The Motley Fool
February 26, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Bernanke's Quiet Bailout By using the term auction facility, Ben Bernanke was able prevent panic and simultaneously keep the banking system sound. Did he do the right thing? |
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Live Blog: Bernanke's First Press Conference The Fed speaks. |
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March 25, 2008
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Ben Bernanke Got Punk'd Yesterday's five-fold increase in JPMorgan's bidding price for Bear Stearns is a slap in the face to the Fed-fueled buyout that Ben Bernanke helped orchestrate. |
