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Entries tagged "Ben Bernanke"

Resolution, trust, authority

Government wants the power to seize and wind down nonbank institutions. Just how that would work is still very much up in the air.

Faceoff

On one side, Judge Jed Rakoff, defending shareholders' right to know. On the other, the SEC, Bank of America and some serious regulators, defending their actions in desperate times. This clash has everything but a smoking gun.

Last rites

As the Lehman remembrance festival ends, some former insiders offer thoughts on Dick Fuld, Henry Paulson and what went wrong.

Better weather ahead for IPOs?

The fourth quarter of 2009 certainly won't resemble the market's heyday, but a degree of normalcy should be restored.

The question of Chairman Ben

Praise pours in for the renominated Bernanke even as doubts mount about the power of the central bank he runs.

Finance for dummies

Aggressive and unrepentant ignorance seems to be the order of the day. If you don't know what the Fed does, how can you blame it for anything?

Transactions: June 8, 2009

On economic metaphors and the shooting of "green shoots."

The scrap heap of history?

Amid widening dismay over the bailouts, there is a continuing chorus of economists calling for full nationalization of failing financial institutions.

Transactions: March 9, 2009

As the crisis advances, the debate over what to do gets noisier, crazier and more extreme. Makes you wonder if we're making any progress at all.

Promise, meet reality

As Obama takes the reins, the economic outlook remains as dire as ever.

Transactions: Dec. 15, 2008

We're all faced with the unsettling feeling that everything has changed while we were sleeping. But no one's been hit harder than Treasury's Henry Paulson.

Transactions: Oct. 20, 2008

Panicked markets invite intervention by the the government. But despite the escalation of state power, the response also represents a check on sovereignty in the form of global coordination.

Transactions: Oct. 13, 2008

Nobody seems to know what to do about bubbles, even as finance consolidates. Meanwhile, we're already preparing elements of the conventional wisdom for the next bubble.

The only game in town

There have been plenty of ideas for how to deal with the credit crisis, but all have been drowned out by the administration's call for Wall Street's bailout.

Cohen, Herlihy country's top banking M&A lawyers

Like Wachtell's Edward Herlihy, Sullivan & Cromwell's Rodgin Cohen has been busy, representing Fannie, AIG and Lehman Brothers amid the financial crisis.

Bailouts 101

Know whose morals you are hazarding. That's one of several lessons Paulson took from Northern Rock.

Transactions

Behind the kerfluffle over Fannie and Freddie, rumors and shorts, Congress still seems to believe that the Federal Reserve is the only answer to our woes. Doesn't anyone out there have an alternative?

Take it to the limit

PE firms are pushing to bust down the Bank Holding Company Act, but is that really necessary?

Testing Bernanke

The media is rapidly building the legend of "Bhudda" Ben Bernanke. But the crisis that threatens us, particularly Lehman Brothers' woes, eludes any textbook and resembles the plight of a different decade every week or so.