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The Motley Fool March 17, 2011 Housel & Moscovitz |
Bailouts: The Final Word We should be doing everything we can now to prevent the possibility of ever having to have another TARP program. |
BusinessWeek May 26, 2011 Tom Keene |
Tom Keene Talks to MIT's Simon Johnson The MIT economics professor talks about crises, central banks, and moral hazard. |
HBS Working Knowledge July 21, 2010 |
HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation What do Harvard Business School faculty experts who conduct research on financial markets and regulation and who, in many cases, have held leadership positions in the financial sector, think about the bill and its intended (and unintended) consequences? |
CFO April 1, 2011 Scott Leibs |
Bankers' Powers While the Dodd-Frank Act does not saddle CFOs with an immediate and expensive regulatory burden for which they are directly responsible, its scope and complexity may ultimately make it far more influential on companies' operations. |
Bank Systems & Technology November 21, 2008 Orla O'Sullivan |
TARP Can't Stanch Financial Crisis, Experts Say Experts agree that the U.S. government's $700 billion bank bailout program is insufficient to spur lending because banks still have far from an optimal balance of debts to assets. |
BusinessWeek September 30, 2010 |
Where Did the TARP Money Go? Love it or hate it, TARP didn't bust the bank. Here's where the money went. |
The Motley Fool November 2, 2011 |
A Brief History of Commerce Bancshares' Returns Commerce was one of only a few large banks that made it through the 2008 financial crisis without accepting TARP bailout funds. CEO David Kemper said turning down TARP "was one of the best decisions of my adult life." |
The Motley Fool October 19, 2010 Dan Caplinger |
How You Can Profit From TARP TARP warrants sold by the Treasury have a lot of appeal. |
The Motley Fool March 24, 2011 Gretchen Wilmoth |
Investing in Smaller Banking What affects will new regulations have on smaller banks? |
On Wall Street March 1, 2013 Lorie Konish |
Five Questions with Former TARP Inspector General Neil Barofsky The former TARP inspector general discusses the financial crisis and suggests advisors need to look beyond government policies for the greater truths. |
The Motley Fool October 30, 2008 Alyce Lomax |
Fool Blog: Too [Blank] to Fail, Part II For entertainment purposes only, and not meant to comment on whether these particular businesses are particularly failure-ready, there's a lot to mock in these crazy times. |
On Wall Street September 1, 2011 Barbara Rehm |
Dodd-Frank: Get Set for 1,500 More Tiny Cuts If there is a silver lining in last month's volatility it may be a renewed sense of urgency among policymakers. So it seems like a good time to ask what single rule, still to come from the regulators, will have the most impact on Dodd-Frank's effectiveness. |
The Motley Fool November 10, 2010 Morgan Housel |
A Short History of Bank Failures Why the financial system is more vulnerable now than ever before. |
U.S. Banker July 2011 Phil Angelides |
Four Steps to Reinvent the Financial Industry Have we learned the lessons of the financial crisis? The answer lies somewhere between no and not enough, says the author, who is a former chairman of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission. |
The Motley Fool May 13, 2011 Morgan Housel |
Long Live Too Big to Fail A panel of experts weighs in on big banks and the economic crisis. |
U.S. Banker December 2008 Michael Sisk |
First Niagara Articulates Its TARP Tactics With $9 billion in assets and 114 branches in the Buffalo, NY area, First Niagara Bank falls into that grey area between community bank and super-regional, exactly the size some say will be squeezed by the financial crisis and the government's intervention through the Trouble Asset Relief Program. |
Registered Rep. May 8, 2009 Kristen French |
Morgan Dresses Up For TARP Exit The firm raised $8 billion in new capital on Friday through the sale of debt and equity, over 50 percent more than it announced on Thursday. |
The Motley Fool June 29, 2011 Morgan Housel |
Too Big to Fail vs. Capitalism When intervention is pro-business. Since the passage of Dodd-Frank, there have really been two groups in the "too big to fail" debate. One says leave the banks alone. |
The Motley Fool February 22, 2011 Morgan Housel |
Pardon Me, George Soros Clearing up misconceptions about TARP. |
The Motley Fool April 27, 2009 Alyce Lomax |
Con Games Don't Build Trust In its bailout fervor, has the government lost sight of logic and abandoned the crucial concept of letting businesses reap what they sow? |
U.S. Banker March 2010 Alan Kline |
Dysfunction in D.C. The sight of Democrats cheering and Republicans sitting on their hands when the president plugged financial reform was disheartening to anyone who believes the system needs fixing. |
The Motley Fool December 15, 2009 Alex Dumortier |
Wells Fargo Goes Off the Cliff Once Bank of America and Citigroup announced that they were repaying the government's TARP investments, it was only matter of time before Wells Fargo did the same. |
The Motley Fool November 17, 2009 Morgan Housel |
TARP's Problem Children Forty-six banks not only still hold funds, but aren't paying the preferred dividends they owe. |
The Motley Fool May 13, 2009 Morgan Housel |
TARP's Next Victim: Small Banks Providing capital to banks that might simply feel left out of the party is tiptoeing dangerously close to socialized banking. |
The Motley Fool December 11, 2009 Morgan Housel |
Bailouts Gone Astray Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner has extended the $700 billion bank bailout known as TARP for another ten months because, "the recovery of our financial system remains incomplete." |
The Motley Fool May 21, 2009 Matt Koppenheffer |
Banks to Geithner: It's Payback Time Major banks are lining up to pay back TARP borrowings and keep the government from further mucking up their business. |
HBS Working Knowledge October 13, 2009 Martha Lagace |
7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm Leading in crisis requires a combination of skills and behaviors -- personal and professional -- that can be mastered, says HBS professor Bill George. in his book, 7 Lessons for Leading in Crisis. |
On Wall Street June 1, 2011 Lorie Konish |
Five Questions With Phil Angelides A conversation with Financial Crisis Inquiry Chairman Phil Angelides about the report's findings and how they can help shape the industry's future. |
The Motley Fool March 25, 2011 Isac Simon |
Small Banks Are Still Having a Financial Crisis Yet to recover from losses, smaller banks are adopting desperate measures to pay back federal debt. |
HBS Working Knowledge October 8, 2008 John P. Kotter |
Book Excerpt: A Sense of Urgency Our excerpt describes how leaders might skillfully transform a crisis into an organizational motivator for the better. |
Finance & Development December 1, 2008 Ingves & Lind |
Stockholm Solutions A crucial lesson from the Nordic experience is the need for prominent state involvement in crisis resolution. |
On Wall Street July 1, 2013 |
Five Questions with Judd Gregg Judd Gregg, the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association s CEO, discusses what still needs to be done to restore investor confidence in the financial markets. |
Registered Rep. January 27, 2009 Kristen French |
Citi: Suffering Some Serious "Jet Nag" The fancy corporate jet Citi ordered a few years back for 2009 has now been Cancelled. |
BusinessWeek March 24, 2011 Charlie Rose |
Charlie Rose Talks to Barney Frank The co-sponsor of the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill on death panels for banks, the GOP backlash, and Elizabeth Warren as consumer protection czar. |
The Motley Fool May 27, 2011 Williamson & Moscovitz |
Timothy Geithner on Jobs, Debt, Taxes, Bailouts, and More! (Extended Edition) The Treasury Secretary shares his thoughts. |
The Motley Fool May 11, 2009 Morgan Housel |
Banks Are Selling Stock. Should You Be Buying? With shares up this much and sentiment as high as it's been in recent memory, it's probably not time to buy bank stocks. |
The Motley Fool August 24, 2010 Ilan Moscovitz |
Treasury: The Future of Finance and the Economy The Treasury Department answers our questions. |
The Motley Fool January 21, 2010 Morgan Housel |
What's Clearly Wrong With the Bank Tax If the bank tax were presented as a way to compensate taxpayers for programs like TLGP, we'd have no problem. Instead, it's been presented as a way to recoup money that, to be fair, has already been recouped. That makes the whole thing look groundless and vengeful. |
The Motley Fool January 21, 2009 Morgan Housel |
Return of the TARP All signs point to the new Obama administration reverting to the original purpose that TARP, or Troubled Asset Relief Program, was intended to accomplish -- dealing with troubled assets. |
The Motley Fool April 14, 2010 Morgan Housel |
Bailout Cost Plummets: Good News? It seems the bailouts taxpayers ponied up to save the financial system are going to cost a lot less than we thought. |
U.S. Banker January 2009 Michael Sisk |
Lessons From the S&L Bailout It's inevitable that today's financial crisis gets compared to the nation's savings and loan bailout, which cost taxpayers about $250 billion in today's dollars. What lessons did we learn from it? |
The Motley Fool November 13, 2009 Morgan Housel |
Accountants Bail Out the Treasury Saving money that was never there. If Washington could focus on real ways to reduce the deficit -- not just saving money by not spending money that was never there -- we'd appreciate it. |
Bank Director 1st Quarter 2010 Jack Milligan |
A Look at the Hill and Beyond Steve Bartlett, head of a financial services lobbying group, talks about political gyrations in Congress and the concerns all banks ought to be having about the impact of banking reform on the U.S. economy. |
Bank Director 2nd Quarter 2009 John R. Engen |
Fear of the Unknown Receiving government funding right now is a little akin to the devil you don't know. |
Registered Rep. February 24, 2011 Diana Britton |
Investors Trust Advisors, Not Institutions Two years after many of Wall Street's biggest banks nearly collapsed in the subprime crisis, half or more of individual investors do not trust financial services firms and brokerages. |
Bank Director 1st Quarter 2011 |
FDIC Lawsuit Targets Directors at Failed Banks and Thrifts; TARP'S Uncertain Legacy In a complaint filed in November of last year, the agency is seeking at least $20 million from 11 executives and directors, including five outsiders. |
Financial Advisor July 2009 Mitch Politzer |
Managing In A Post- Economic Crisis Era As painful as the current environment is for your clients, over the next decade it will prove to have been the optimal point to invest. But it must be done on a selective basis. |
On Wall Street July 1, 2012 |
Five Questions With John Taft John Taft talks about his new book, Stewardship: Lessons Learned from the Lost Culture of Wall Street, and how advisors can help guide the industry toward rebuilding trust. |
U.S. Banker February 2011 Rachel Witkowski |
For Some, TARP Burden Drives Decision to Sell Pay close attention to Hancock Holding Co.'s takeover of Whitney Holding Corp., because there will be more like it this year. |
The Motley Fool December 30, 2008 Alyce Lomax |
2008: The Year of Moral Hazard Rewarding massive failure imperils us all. Our economic freedom is seriously endangered by current policies that prop up failing, mistake-ridden companies and industries. |