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18 May 2008, 10:00 am
Written by Empress Eve When I was 12, I went down to my local video store and rented the VHS tape of The Hotel New Hampshire. [read post]
7 May 2007, 7:25 am
[Previous months in review available here: March 07, Feb 07, Jan 07; Dec 06,] With the spectacular implosion of subprime lender New Century, Breaking the bank: New Century files bankruptcy, I devoted a lot of pixels to the subprime problem, starting with a primer, Subprime lending: the dramatis personae and offering some gratuitous advice in What's a delinquent borrower to do? [read post]
16 Mar 2012, 12:00 am
Once a rough trade in self-serving but criminogenic information was elevated to the more noble, although self-appointed, task of ‘holding people to account’ in ‘the news of the screws’ and the media more generally, it was inevitable that political careers, and lives generally, would be destroyed by a barely regulated industry of censure and slur. [read post]
26 Jan 2011, 12:54 am
In recent days, I have published a series of posts with analysis of and commentary on recent trends in securities class action litigation. [read post]
27 Jul 2010, 5:12 am
For the last year, at least, I’ve been telling him that there was no real estate market… that tax incentives and the Fed’s buying of mortgage backed securities, along with FHA, Fannie and Freddie were all propping things up artificially and that when that stimulus ended, housing prices would commence falling through the floor. [read post]
21 Sep 2008, 9:16 pm
Thanks to the helpful intervention of techs at Dreamhost, I managed to pull up a backup of the blog’s database and find at least 95% of the lost text for last Friday’s McCain bashing entry. [read post]
11 Oct 2011, 10:33 am
Let me see if I’ve got this straight… The Great Recession, or whatever we’re calling it, began in December 2007. [read post]
19 Jan 2008, 11:58 am
On January 31, 2002, a Federal Grand Jury in the Western District of Tennessee returned a 22-count indictment against Freddie Peters. [read post]
16 Oct 2011, 8:39 pm
Well, that’s a pretty safe statement, but when? [read post]
David Skeel’s Excellent Book, and Comparing Discretion in the Financial Crisis and National Security
7 Jan 2011, 8:29 pm
The corporatist tendency is also a founding feature of Freddie and Fannie, and the extraordinarily politicized activities of both firms as integral to their business models — both buying off Congress and yet chanelling the political will of administrations and bureaucracies — is what Skeel suggests will result from the corporatist model, quite apart from the problem of a lack of moral hazard leading to a regime of permanent bailouts. [read post]
1 Feb 2016, 11:44 am
“Isn’t it a fact that the Bank does have an injury from the property taxes and insurance that they advanced under the mortgage alone? [read post]
15 Nov 2010, 10:59 am
Okay, so you’ve heard that Federal Reserve Chairman, Ben Bernanke is at it again… he’s doing some more of that Quantitative Easing or “QE2,” if you prefer the wonky acronym the media has attached to the program. [read post]
19 Nov 2009, 6:26 am
Annette Nazareth is a partner in the Financial Institutions Group at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP. [read post]
5 Feb 2010, 6:05 am
None of the most prominent failures of the financial crisis—Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, AIG, Bear Stearns, or Lehman Brothers—were deposit-taking banks. [read post]
27 Aug 2010, 11:07 am
Securitization got its start in the 1970s, when home mortgages were pooled by U.S. government-backed agencies, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Ginnie Mae, and Sallie Mae. [read post]
2 Apr 2012, 6:15 am
So, do you remember the article I posted the other day about accounting for a pool of loans and how values are based on assumptions about the performance of the pool into the future? [read post]
8 Nov 2021, 9:42 am
The following are some discounts for veterans and service members for restaurants, retail outlets, and recreational opportunities for Veterans Day, Nov. 11. [read post]
4 Mar 2010, 6:09 am
Editor’s Note: Robert Monks is the founder of Lens Governance Advisors, a law firm that advises on corporate governance in the settlement of shareholder litigation. [read post]
12 Dec 2014, 5:06 am
My post on Wednesday morning has attracted a large number of comments, including many thoughtful contributions, and so I would like to follow up concerning the wider issue of product-by-process claims (independent of the specific Hospira v Genentech case), gathering up, and responding to, some of the comments.In the meantime, readers interested in the decision itself may care to visit the report by Katfriend Suleman Ali (Holly IP) posted on the PatLit blog here, which has a more detailed analysis of… [read post]
13 Mar 2022, 9:41 am
Recognizing the year's worst in government transparency. [read post]
