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- TARP Audit Finds Geithner Gave Away The Farm
- Special Inspector General for TARP (aka "SIGTARP") Neil Barofsky said something we've all known for a while: the government gave away the farm when AIG failed. If you recall, AIG's failure meant that the companies on the other side of all of its contracts counterparties were going...
- Blog posts 2009-11-17
- How Healthy Are the Big Banks?
- Several of the largest U.S. financial institutions are now clamoring to repay the TARP funds. Editor-at-large Jill Schlesinger talks to financial analyst John Keefe about the status of TARP repayments -- and the ongoing health worries affecting some of the big banks.
- Videos 2009-06-11
- AIG Bailout Is Both Criticized and Justified by TARP Report
- Congress, journalists and former American International Group CEO Hank Greenberg all agree that the November 2008 deal between the New York Federal Reserve and AIG's creditors was sleazy or just plain stupid. Now the special inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, Neil Barofsky, has weighed in with his report. It both...
- Blog posts 2009-11-17
- Pay Czar: Company Comp Plans Were Flawed
- Pay "czar" Kenneth Feinberg says seven large TARP-funded companies must do more to tie executive pay to long-term corporate performance by Alain Sherter
- Blog posts 2009-10-28
- Lending Rises Among Banks That Raised Government Funds
- As the credit markets were seizing up last fall, the Treasury Department established the so-called Capital Purchase Program to stimulate bank lending. Has it worked? About as well as could be expected. In the second quarter, banks that raised money through the program made an aggregate $287...
- Blog posts 2009-10-08
- Pay Czar Ken Feinberg Set to Release Comp Rules for Major TARP Recipients
- Pay czar Ken Feinberg will release executive compensation rules in the next 30 days by Alain Sherter
- Blog posts 2009-09-17
- After Calm Year, Bank of America Faces Storms
- For Bank of America, 2009 has been a relatively stable year. Management turmoil, Troubled Asset Relief Program TARP loans, and potential earnings volatility have all been handled very much business as usual, rewarded with a gain of 21.5 percent in the firm's stock price. For America's...
- Blog posts 2009-09-17
- TARP Actally Returns Profit So Now What To Do About It?
- Some of the banks receiving TARP funds are starting to pay it back with interest. What is the Federal Government going to do with those profits? by Matthew Potter
- Blog posts 2009-09-01
- Too Early to Know if Taxpayers Will Benefit From Bank Bailout
- Update, 4:59 p.m.: Linus Wilson, the University of Louisiana at Lafayette finance professor who crunched the numbers for the NYT in its piece today about taxpayers benefiting from the bank bailout, helpfully sent me some additional data that rounds out the picture on how taxpayers are doing on their investment....
- Blog posts 2009-08-31
- Comp Romp: Obama to Appoint "Pay Czar" to Rein in TARP Recipients
- The last time I spoke about executive compensation was after the AIG bonus fiasco. The CNN interview was just about the worst experience I've ever had in front of the camera. I wasn't defending bonuses, but trying to explain the history of the bonus structure on Wall Street. ...
- Blog posts 2009-06-05
- Payback's Not a Bitch: 10 TARP Recipients Get Green Light to Repay $68 Billion to Treasury
- Whew -- that was fast! It took just eight months for ten of the nation's largest banks to repay TARP funds. That mid-September week after the collapse of Lehman Brothers seems like a lifetime ago, but it's worth recalling the intensity of that frightening period. As one...
- Blog posts 2009-06-09
- TARP Inspector General Gives Program, And Treasury, Low Marks
- In his latest quarterly report card for the TARP program, released October 21, Special Inspector General Neil Barofsky provides a discouraging record. For the program itself, progress in spurring loan growth is slow, and in spite of news tidbits to the contrary, the return on taxpayers' investment has been poor....
- Blog posts 2009-10-21
- Wall Street Bonuses: 4 Questions
- Today is the 22nd anniversary of "Black Monday," when the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 22.6% in one day. Over two decades later, people are waking up to another form of Black Monday--one where we are asked to make sense of the mind-blowing compensation that Wall Street garners, while Americans are still feeling glum about...
- Blog posts 2009-10-19
- If TARP Was So Smart, Why Are So Many Banks Failing?
- So we taxpayers actually made money on the Troubled Asset Relief Program-at least so far. Goldman Sachs GS, JP Morgan JPM and others have repaid the loans from the government, with interest, and the equity stakes that we hold in Citigroup C and Bank of America BAC have appreciated since...
- Blog posts 2009-09-01
- The US Government MADE Money?
- Last Friday, I noted that taxpayers had made money from TARP. Nobody was talking about this too much--maybe a little August-itis or attention on the Kennedy funeral. That changed yesterday, when the New York Times reported that profits from the eight banks that have fully repaid the government total nearly...
- Blog posts 2009-08-31
- Taxpayer Trading Strategy: Short FDIC Long TARP
- The FDIC insurance fund that's intended to protect over $6 trillion of depositor assets, has dropped to the lowest level since the savings and loan crisis in 1993. That's not actually surprising or all that scary. Any of us could have done the math: the fund was worth over $45B last year...
- Blog posts 2009-08-28
- Treasury Earns 12% Return on First Few TARP Banks: Is That Enough?
- Banks that took Treasury TARP funding are eager to cut their ties to the program, in order to demonstrate their self-sufficiency, and regain full control of their institutions including how much they can pay the top brass. Eleven smallish banks have completely wound up their TARP participation, and the Congressional...
- Blog posts 2009-07-12
- Unwinding the TARP: Is Treasury Leaving Money on the Table?
- The Treasury Department announced on June 10 that a select group of 10 banks are in sufficiently robust health to repay the $68 billion they received in the Capital Purchase Program CPP portion of the TARP. But for them, TARP's not over: the Treasury still holds warrants to buy the...
- Blog posts 2009-06-12
- Elizabeth Warren: TARP Repayment, More Stress Tests and a Fall off the Pedestal
- I like Elizabeth Warren, chair of the congressional oversight panel for TARP. She's smart, tough, passionate and opinionated. I met her years ago on the radio airwaves, when I interviewed her after she and her daughter co-authored "The Two Income Trap". But this morning, Ms. Warren fell...
- Blog posts 2009-06-10
- Bank Bailout: Treasury Wrestles With Making Good to Taxpayers
- Wondering how U.S. taxpayers are making out on our massive investment in financial institutions via the federal Troubled Asset Relief Program? Thus far, not so hot. The Congressional Oversight Panel, which lawmakers created last fall to monitor the progress of financial reform, said in a report released...
- Blog posts 2009-07-13
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