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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “AIG”

• Emergency $85bn bailout of insurer AIG was botched, says report

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 984
  The US government executed an emergency bailout of troubled AIG without sufficient planning, botching its initial $85bn (£50bn) effort to rescue the ailing business and further weakening the multinational insurers financial position, according to a critical official report into last years near collapse of the ...
  3 hours ago

• Moral Hazard Defined; Goldman’s Response To The FRBNY On AIG: "Let It Fail, We Are Insured"

  
  Bear Market Investments — Authority: 499
  Zero Hedge Courtesy of the SIGTARP’s latest report , the events on November 6 and 7th, when Wall Street lackey extraordinaire Tim Geithner decided to pay $27.1 billion to make all of AIG’s counterparties whole, have attained even more granularity. The main thing disclosed is just how willing Geithner was to ...
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• Special Inspector: AIG Counterparty VOLUNTEERED to Take a Haircut, But Geithner Refused

  
  Bear Market Investments — Authority: 499
  Zero Hedge I received an advance copy of the Special Inspector General for Tarp’s Report called “Factors Affecting Efforts to Limit Payments to AIG Counterparties”, which will be released tomorrow. (It will be posted tomorrow for your review) The report reveals that at least one counterparty indicated that ...
  3 hours ago

• Neil Barofski’s AIG Counterparty Payment Report Released; Demands Federal Reserve Transparency

  
  Bear Market Investments — Authority: 499
  Zero Hedge The full SIGTARP report on AIG and its counterparty payments has been released . It contains all you need to know about the NYFED’s bailout of Goldman Sachs. We are currently going through the report, and will post our findings as we have them. Key timeline events: AIG’s collateral ...
  3 hours ago

• Geithner Singled Out In TARP Watchdog Neil Barofsky’s Scathing Report On AIG Bailout

  
  Bear Market Investments — Authority: 499
  A brutal report issued Monday by a government watchdog holds Timothy Geithner — then the head of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and now the nation’s Treasury Secretary — responsible for overpayments that put billions of extra tax dollars in the coffers of major Wall Street firms, most notably Goldman ...
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• Tim Geithner, best bud of AIG and Sachs

  
  SocraticGadfly — Authority: 442
  An audit faults the New York Federal Reserve Bank, then led by Tim Geithner, now our Treasury Secretary, for being too kind to AIG’s trading partners when it was bailed out last year. And, of course, a huge AIG partner was Goldman Sachs. There is no god and I am his prophet.
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• Mistakes Obama Has Made

  
  Gerry Canavan — Authority: 485
  Mistakes Obama has made: Timothy Geithner.
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• Neil Barofski’s AIG Counterparty Payment Report Released; Demands Federal Reserve Transparency

  
  Wall St. Cheat Sheet — Authority: 644
  This is a guest post by Tyler Durden at Zero Hedge . The full SIGTARP report on AIG and its counterparty payments has been released . It contains all you need to know about the NYFED’s bailout of Goldman Sachs. We are currently going through the report, and will post our findings as we have them. Key timeline ...
  4 hours ago

• Moral Hazard Defined; Goldmans Response To The FRBNY On AIG: "Let It Fail, We Are Insured"

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 771
  Courtesy of the SIGTARPs latest report , the events on November 6 and 7th, when Wall Street lackey extraordinaire Tim Geithner decided to pay $27.1 billion to make all of AIGs counterparties whole, have attained even more granularity. The main thing disclosed is just how willing Geithner was to extract absolutely no ...
  5 hours ago

• TARP Watchdog: AIG bailout transferred billions from government to counterparties

  
  Politics in the Zeros — Authority: 515
  In a report (pdf) titled “Factors Affecting Efforts to Limit Payments to AIG Counterparties”, Neil Barofsky, special inspector for TARP, wrote that the “negotiating strategy to pursue concessions from [AIG] counterparties offered little opportunity for success, even in the light of the willingness of one of the ...
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• IRON MAIDENS & OUR MEDIEVAL-LIKE FINANCIAL RESCUE

  
  THE MARK MARTINEZ SHOW: Talk Radio for Liberals and Real Conservatives — Authority: 130
  Of all the "fun" things humanity has figured out the prolonged and brutal torture of each other seems to be among the most creative of our efforts. Among the many tools that weve concocted include the Iron Maiden. While there were many variants, one iron cast model, like the one shown here, was built to follow the ...
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• Report on Inquiry Faults Handling of A.I.G. Bailout

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 914
  Officials managing the multibillion-dollar bailout of the insurance giant may have overpaid other banks to wind down A.I.G.’s business relationships, a government watchdog says.
  6 hours ago

• TARP Watchdog: Officials Could Have Done More to Reduce Bailout Costs

  
  FOXNews.com — Authority: 943
  Federal Reserve officials missed opportunities to maximize taxpayer savings during the bailout of American International Group (AIG), according to the latest report by Neil Barofsky, the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program.
  7 hours ago

• Report Faults Handling of A.I.G. Bailout

  
  DealBook — Authority: 773
  Officials managing the multibillion-dollar bailout of the American International Group may have overpaid other banks to wind down the insurance giants business relationships, a government watchdog says.
  7 hours ago

• Neil Barofskis AIG Counterparty Payment Report Released; Demands Federal Reserve Transparency

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 771
  The full SIGTARP report on AIG and its counterparty payments has been released . It contains all you need to know about the NYFEDs bailout of Goldman Sachs. We are currently going through the report, and will post our findings as we have them. Key timeline events: AIGs collateral postings: Total ...
  8 hours ago

• Bernanke Signals Possible End of ‘Too Big to Fail’ Era

  
  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — Authority: 732
  Those financial institutions that took last year’s bailout as an object lesson that they can carry on as they wish so long as they’re “too big to fail” may have to adopt another approach, if Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke makes good on the words of warning to big banks that he sounded on Monday.  ...
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• Bernanke Signals Possible End to ‘Too Big to Fail’ Era

  
  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — Authority: 732
  Those financial institutions that viewed last year’s bailout as an object lesson that they can carry on as they wish so long as they’re “too big to fail” may have to adopt another approach. At least, that was the message Monday from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, if he makes good on words of warning to ...
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• Citigroup: Financial Winners & Losers

  
  TheStreet.com — Authority: 573
  Citigroup was among the winners Monday after a hedge fund disclosed a position in the bank.
  14 hours ago

• Another Cost of Too-Big-to-Fail

  
  SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page — Authority: 663
  The Baseline Scenario submits: By James Kwak A reader pointed out a quick analysis done by Dean Baker and Travis McArthur of the Center for Economic Policy and Research back in September. They estimate the value of being “too big to fail” by looking at the spread between the cost of funds for banks above ...
  15 hours ago

• GE Deals Smartly With Uncle Sam

  
  TheStreet.com — Authority: 573
  GE
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