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Entries tagged "Treasury"

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.

Bulking up at Treasury

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner began 2009 with a skeleton crew to help him oversee the federal government's bailout until May when his chief lieutenants joined him.

Strong wingman

Meet Timothy Geithner's deputy: Neal Wolin, veteran of the national security apparatus, the Treasury Department and the insurance industry.

Reorganization man

Jeffrey Goldstein, formerly of the World Bank, can use his skills with broken economies to help address problems in the United States.

An eye out for ordinary people

Confirmed in May to be the Treasury Department's assistant secretary for financial institutions, Barr has spent most of his academic career examining how the financial services industry can better reach the poor and other underserved segments of society.

Telephone tag

Revealed! Tim Geithner spends a lot of time on the phone. But while we know the names of his callers, we utterly lack the context

Alpha male eats crow

Geithner yells at bank regulators, but they keep opposing the administration's overhaul plans anyway.

Condo corus

A Chicago bank sings the blues under a ton of foreclosed mortgages, but it's not alone.

In search of the uber-mensch

AIG chairman Edward Liddy takes his lumps testifying before Congress.

Through the back door

The Sept. 11 attacks couldn't generate enough political heat to melt the privacy protections that some state governments offer corporate owners, but the financial crisis just might.

Fleshing it out

Four suggestions to put meat on the bones of Treasury's Financial Stability Plan.

TALF to the rescue

The program should be expanded to address existing troubled assets.

Movers & shakers: Feb. 25, 2009

Steven Rattner, managing principal of Quadrangle Group LLC, the private equity firm he co-founded nine years ago, will leave the firm to join the Treasury...

A year unlike any other

Turmoil. Chaos. Bailouts. Conventional deals in 2008 were rare. Many of those that mattered, like Bear Stearns and J.P. Morgan Chase, involved the government.

You break it, we own it

A day after Lehman collapsed, the Federal Reserve rushed to save AIG. So far the de facto nationalization hasn't been a bargain.

Dead, temporarily

The media's decided that Wall Street is definitely kaput. Trying to figure what's there instead is more of a problem.

The Trouble with TARP

Geithner is sticking with Paulson's flawed remedy. Or maybe he isn't. Stay tuned for details.

Full disclosure

A prescription for reforming the U.S.'s accounting mess.

Geithner got it right

Can the financial industry rise to the opportunity?

Influence muddling

Geithner has issued guidelines curtailing lobbying for TARP money. What they mean is anyone's guess.

A matter of interpretation

Did fair-value accounting deepen the crisis or provide the remedy? Does the market provide a rational view of true value or a procyclical blast of emotion? The debate roars on, with no end in sight.

Let's look at the numbers

Bailout sums are huge. How huge? Bigger than NASA, bigger than the wars. But that's not the whole picture.

Seamless transition

The president-elect's new economic team is to hit the ground running and act in close coordination with the Bush administration.

Alive and kicking

Thomas Weisel Partners president Lionel Conacher sees reason for hope amid the wreckage.

Truglia speaks

Economist Vincent Truglia lands at NewOak Capital.

Transactions: Dec. 1, 2008

As we move forward, replacing our old experts with new, how much of the old do we abandon and how much do we keep? Consider the case of the Federal Reserve.

So much for all that

Remember the emergency, three-page bailout plan to buy toxic securities? Well, never mind.

Beneath the TARP

Whatever happened to Treasury buying toxic assets? Maybe the feds figured consolidation is a faster road to stability.

Paulson tries Plan B

Treasury is now considering how to revive the market for asset-backed securities.

Pay scale justice

With the bailout come strings, but will limits on executive pay work?

The ownership society

Now that taxpayers have taken stakes in at least some of the nation's banks, the leash should begin to tighten. Right?

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.

Finally, a plan that will work

Unlike the bailout bill, we now have a plan that deals with the two fundamental issues crippling the world's financial system: fear and deficient bank capital.

Remember the bailout?

Examining the implementation of the deal that was supposed to re-energize the credit markets.

Enter the giants

As bank consolidation accelerates, large questions await the day the crisis begins to recede.

Big, big and beyond

America's banking giants may face more rule-making zeal, but the crisis so far has produced only more deregulation.

Transactions: Oct. 6, 2008

Wall Street may be dead but delveraging looks very much alive. How long, however, after the crisis passes will Americans restrain their inner Wall Street?

Fundamentals on steroids

Henry Paulson: The Man, the Myth, the tween pop sensation.

Taxpayers to the rescue

The Fed and Treasury race to put out fires in high finance. But don't expect big ideas to fix the regulatory apparatus anytime soon.

Out of order

The regulatory system that oversees America's stressed-out financial industry needs an overhaul, but don't expect any big changes soon.

Transactions

So far the debate over financial regulation consists of some papers fluttering out of Treasury. The public is snoozing, Congress distracted and SEC chief Christopher Cox seems ready to give up the ghost. This'll be great.