epicureandealmaker.blogspot.com - 8/2/2009
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Carol Connelly: "Hey, we all have these terrible stories to get over, and you—" Melvin Udall: "It's not true. Some of us have great stories, pretty stories that take place at lakes, with boats and friends and noodle salad. Just no-one in this car. But a lot of people, that's their ...
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Abnormal Returns —
... pay that was supposed to occur post-crisis. (Real Time Economics also Clusterstock, Big Picture)
“In other words, you [Andrew Cuomo] could have provided a comprehensive study of what went wrong with executive compensation on Wall Street as well as a road map to changing it. Instead, we received only jealousy-inducing numbers.” (DealBook also Epicurean Dealmaker)
Why “a little inflation ...
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Chump Change from Goldman?
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Cuomo releases ugly details on bank bonuses
hf-implode.com 7/31/2009 — " NY Attorney General Andrew Cuomo released his report on bonuses at the TARP Top 9. At these firms alone, over 800 people made north of $3 million in 2008. That’s a lot of scharole. See Appendix B for the bonus breakdown at each bank."
Making a profit off TARP bailout is a longshot - Aug. 4, 2009
money.cnn.com 8/6/2009 — NEW YORK (Fortune) -- One of the things they teach in Successful Investing 101 is to cut your losses short and let your winnings run. But when it comes to the Troubled Assets Relief Program, the government is stuck doing the opposite. Its gains are ...
TARP deadbeats
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Goldman Sachs Now Entirely Free From Treasury, On The Cheap (GS)
247wallst.com 7/22/2009 — It has only been a week since everyone was drawing that TARP repayment by Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS) as being on the cheap after the investment banking firm, a.k.a. bank holding company that is no bank, posted a monster quarter with billions ...
The Terrible Lessons of TARP
ritholtz.com 1/13/2009 — With the government now debating the release of the second half of the TARP funds, perhaps now is as good a time as any to look at how successfully spent the first $350 Billion dollars were.
The evidence is not very favorable.
What I can say ...
"They Charged you $38 Billion in Fees, and Some Still Needed a Bailout"
theconglomerate.org 8/24/2009 — This caption was part of a full page ad from USAA Bank in the Washington Post last week, and is part of a larger ad campaign emphasizing the fact that the bank did not take any TARP funds. The ad went on to note that "We believe the only banks that ...
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