businessinsider.com - 4/24/2009
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Developing... Andrew Cuomo has sent an angry letter to regulators including Mary Schapiro, Elizabeth Warren, Chris Dodd and Barney Frank regarding the behavior of Hank Paulson and Ben Bernanke over the allegation that they forced Bank of America (BAC) to complete its acquisition of Merrill ...
richard-wilson.blogspot.com - 4/21/2009
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Andrew CuomoAndrew Cuomo Attorney GeneralHere is a short
video on a teleconference that Andrew Cuomo held a...
few days ago on the middle man kickback probe currently underway. If you are viewing this video via our daily hedge fund newsletter please click here to watch the video now. To view more ...
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dailybail.com - 4/24/2009
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I remember the weekend in question last September
very clearly. Fannie and Freddie had failed. AIG was...
teetering. A meeting was called, ostensibly to find a buyer for Lehman Brothers (Barclays ultimately balked at the absence of Fed assistance-sharp Brits!), but the ...
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... A day of rare, exquisite joy as the 'he-said, he-said, he-said' romp around the Cuomo subpoena was played out before millions of smiling viewers. Cuomo, Lewis, Bernanke and Paulson. It couldn't get any better for payback junkies. ...
Control without accountability
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... no legal mechanism to make them happen. A lesson for academics is that any time the word "force" is used as a verb ("the policy should be to force banks to do X or Y"), the next sentence should set forth the section of the U.S. legal code that allows such a course of action—otherwise, the policy suggestion is of theoretical but not practical interest. Legal constraints bound in other ways as well, including with respect to modifications of loans. Today's news ( Clusterstock + source docs , WSJ Deal Journal , McArdle , Naked Capitalism , ...
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nakedcapitalism.com 4/27/2009 — Despite her longevity as a California pol, house speaker Nancy Pelosi is looking like every bit as much of a dyed-in-the-wool financial services industry backer as the Congressmen on the New York-Boston corridor. As readers will know, this blog ...