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baselinescenario.com - 3/29/2009
Structured Finance for Beginners
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For a complete list of Beginners posts, see Financial Crisis for Beginners . This is more of an advanced beginners topic - I already covered CDOs (collateralized debt obligations) in my first Beginners article - but I imagine that most of our readers are already familiar with structured ...
DOUBLE-DIPPERS - New York Post
nypost.com - 3/25/2009
DOUBLE-DIPPERS - New York Post
— nypost.com — Last updated: 1:11 am March 25, 2009 Posted: 1:00 am March 25, 2009 As Treasury Secretary Tim... Geithner orchestrated a plan to help the nation's largest banks purge themselves of toxic mortgage assets, Citigroup and Bank of America have been ... (more) DOUBLE-DIPPERS - New York Post

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Why Was March So Bad For The Banks?
businessinsider.com - 3/31/2009
Why Was March So Bad For The Banks?
— businessinsider.com — jamiedimon-closeup_tbi.jpg What happened in March that business at the major banks slid backwards? Remember, on Friday JPMorgan... (JPM) CEO Jamie Dimon made some noises about March not being as good as January or February. Others have said the exact ... (more) Why Was March So Bad For The Banks?

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ritholtz.com - 3/26/2009
Buying Toxic Assets with Bailout Money
— ritholtz.com — The NYPost reports the two biggest banking wrecks, CitiGroup amnd Bank of America, have been aggressively buying... toxic assets with bailout money, and goosing the MBS auctions. You can imagine why this might get people upset. I suspect its rather ... (more) Buying Toxic Assets with Bailout Money

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FT Alphaville — Principal content Further reading Posted by Gwen Robinson on Mar 31 08:13. Elsewhere on Tuesday: - Why size matters - The safest job in America - Manning the barricades - The G20 and fudged language - Barack Obama  as Herbert Hoover - Bear-bottoming - Time to pick up some hot brics - Structured finance for beginners - More lessons from Japan - Bouncing stocks - On the urgency of restructuring bank and mortgage debt - The curious moves of GM bondholders - Oil prices - ...

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