Huffington Post - It’s Up to the Shareholders, Not the Government, to Demand Change at a Company
Deal Journal - AIG: Who is the Keyser Soze Behind the Hank Greenberg Dossier?
The Big Picture - SEC: Credit-Rating Agencies Require More Oversight
Calculated Risk - Mortgage Defaults Spreading to Higher Priced Areas
Huffington Post - Treasury says bank lending declined in February
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Afternoon Quickie 04/15/2009
Deal Journal - Goldman Sachs: Profits are Up. Salaries are Also Up. Take That, Treasury!
Mortgage Insider - Behind the profits at Wells Fargo
Huffington Post - FDIC: Toxic Asset Program Misrepresented By NYT
Housing Doom - Goldman Sachs vs Mike Morgan: Lese Majeste comes to Wall Street
Housing Wire - Genworth Shares Tumble After TARP Rejection
Calculated Risk - Mortgage Fraud: RICO Charges Filed Against Straw Buyers
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Afternoon Quickie 04/13/2009
Huffington Post - Time for a Grand Inquest on the Financial Crisis
Financial Times - ‘Tarp cop’ launches probes into bail-out fraud
Deal Journal - Evening Reading: Absolute Power at the Treasury?
Calculated Risk - Tiered House Price Indices
Housing Wire - Insured Mortgage Defaults Up 47 Percent: Report
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Afternoon Quickie 03/31/2009
Media Channel - Needed: A New Commission To Probe Corporate Crime
RealtyTrac - Frustrated Homeowners Take a Walk
Huffington Post - AIG NAME CHANGE
Rain City Guide - Sunday Night Stats – Snapshot of “bottom”
RealtyTrac - Will Loan Modifications Change With Washington?
Calculated Risk - “My Manhattan Project”
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Afternoon Quickie 03/30/2009
Huffington Post - JP Morgan Spending Millions On Jets: Keep Blowing The Whistle On Bailout Waste
Mish’s Global Economic Trend Analysis - Geithner’s Galling (and Dangerous) Plan For Bad Bank Assets
Calculated Risk - Existing Home Sales: Turnover Rate
Huffington Post - Take the Steering Wheel out of Geithner’s Hands
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Afternoon Quickie 03/23/2009
Counter Punch - Was the Bailout Itself a Scam?
Deal Journal - Afternoon Reading: AIG & Politicians-The Misdirection Play
Pro Publica - Conflicting Accounts About Geithner’s Involvement With AIG Bonuses
Calculated Risk - Banks Sell Some REOs in Bulk below Market Prices
Huffington Post - AIG Turns Over List Of Bonus Recipients
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Afternoon Quickie 03/19/2009
Paper Economy - Effervescent Equity: The Federal Reserve’s Household Equity Estimate Q4 2008
Huffington Post - Bernie Madoff’s Jail Cell At Metropolitan Corrections Center
Calculated Risk - S&P: Delinquencies Surge for HELOCs and Jumbo Prime Loans
Pro Publica - Bailed Out Bank Had Friends in High Places
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Afternoon Quickie 03/12/2009
Huffington Post - TARP Oversight Panel Says It’s Been Ignored By Geithner And Paulson
Mortgage Insider - Mortgage giant requests $30.9 billion in aid
Huffington Post - Eric Holder, State And Federal Prosecutors, Preparing For Surge Of Financial Fraud Cases
Calculated Risk - FDIC Collected Few Insurance Fees for a Decade
Huffington Post - How Dumb Does Alan Greenspan Think We Are? Very
ML-Implode - BREAKING NEWS: National City (PNC) and Guaranty Bank to Exit Warehouse Lending
Financial Times - Merrill ‘misled’ Congress on bonuses, says Cuomo
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Afternoon Quickie 03/11/2009
Huffington Post - Dow ends up nearly 380 on Citigroup profit news
Calculated Risk - FDIC’s Bair on “aggregator bank”
Huffington Post - Madoff To Plead Guilty To 11 Counts, Could Mean 150 Years In Prison
Mortgage Insider - Bill proposes consumer watchdog for financial products
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Afternoon Quickie 03/10/2009
Huffington Post - Tim Geithner, CNBC, and the Second Coming of Known Unknowns
Mortgage Insider - Loan workouts outpace foreclosures statewide
Calculated Risk - 60 Minutes Video: FDIC Seizing Heritage Community Bank
The Big Picture - Come on, Buffett!
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Afternoon Quickie 03/09/2009
The Big Picture - Was the ‘00-03 Crash Bush’s Fault? ‘09 Obama’s?
The Big Picture - Daily Show vs CNBC
Mish’s Global Economic Analysis - Top Secret Musings And Other Economic Insanity
Naked Capitalism - The Treasury Mortgage Mod Program: Should We Hope It Doesn’t Work?
Mortgage Insider - Wasn’t the bailout supposed to expand lending?
Calculated Risk - Fed’s Lockhart on Real Estate
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Morning Quickie 03/05/2009
Mortgage Insider - Banking industry reports first loss in 18-plus years
Huffington Post - Citigroup-Government Stake Deal Could Come As Soon As Today: Wall Street Journal
Deal Journal - The Next Jamie Dimon and Sandy Weill: ‘Saint Ossie’ at UBS vs. Dougan at Credit Suisse
Calculated Risk - Obama Budget: $250 Billion for TARP II
Housing Wire - FDIC Completes Structured Sale of Toxic Assets
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Afternoon Quickie 02/26/2009
A Bird’s Eye View - Homes for Sale vs Population Where They’re Located
The Big Picture - Bailout Hearings
Deal Journal - Mean Street: Mr. Obama, Please Return to Planet Earth
Mortgage Insider - Treasury unveils details of future bank bailouts
Calculated Risk - Stress Test House Price Scenarios
Huffington Post - A Bailout Bill For The Rest Of Us
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Afternoon Quickie 02/25/2009
Calculated Risk - KCET: The Trashout Squad
The Big Picture - Implode-o-Meter Rolls Out Campaign Against “FHA Subprime”
Mortgage Insider - U.S. doesn’t need to seize banks, Fed chief says
Huffington Post - The Hottest Recession-Proof Jobs
Financial Times - Bernanke calms nationalisation fears
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Afternoon Quickie 02/24/2009
Calculated Risk - Former Fed Governor Feels “Accountable”
Naked Capitalism - From the Banking Officialdom: So This is Meant to Reassure?
Bloomberg - AIG Seeks More Aid, May Lose $60 Billion, CNBC Says
The Big Picture - The Economy According to MC Escher
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Afternoon Quickie 02/23/2009
