The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission released its final report on the causes of the 2008 financial crisis. According to the conclusions in the report, the crisis occurred because governme…
3,930 viewsFederal Deposit Insurance Corporation Chair Sheila Bair testified before the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission about the actions of the Federal Reserve during the 2008 financial crisis and…
1,079 viewsFederal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke testified before the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission about the actions of the Federal Reserve during the 2008 financial crisis and the future of fin…
2,894 viewsWitnesses testified about actions taken by the banking industry and the federal government in the 2008 financial crisis. Among the topics they addressed were monitoring systemic risk, and th…
48,563 viewsWitnesses talked about the banking industry and the 2008 financial crisis. Among the topics they addresed were risk management, government decisions on which financial firms were considered …
1,215 viewsWitnesses testified on the role of credit rating and the 2008 financial crisis. In the first of three panels, witnesses focused on the credit rating process and potential conflicts of intere…
1,297 viewsWitnesses testified on the role of credit rating and the 2008 financial crisis. Warren Buffett and Raymond McDaniel testified about Moody’s business practices, the relationship between credi…
4,991 viewsFormer Bear Stearns executives testified about the 2008 collapse of Bear Stearns, financial markets, and the “shadow banking system.” They contended that media reports and rumors in financia…
1,490 viewsFormer officials from Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) and its successor agency in 2008, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), talked about their oversight of Fannie Mae. Ar…
1,548 viewsIn the third of three days of hearings held by the bipartisan Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC), former Fannie Mae executives Robert Levin and Daniel Mudd testified in the role of t…
1,342 viewsFormer Citigroup executives testified on the second of three days of hearings held by the bipartisan Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC). Chuck Prince apologized for the impact of th…
2,089 viewsSeveral former Citigroup officials that testified before the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission on their former company’s past mortgage lending practices. Congress formed the ten-member FC…
1,702 viewsSeveral former Citigroup officials that testified before the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission on their former company’s past mortgage lending practices. Former CitiMortgage Senior Vice Pr…
3,753 viewsWitnesses testified on the role of credit rating and the 2008 financial crisis. Former Moody’s executives talked about competition among credit rating agencies, their relationship with large…
600 viewsFormer Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan was the lead witness at the first of three days of hearings by the bipartisan Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC). Mr. Greenspan talked …
10,291 viewsThe Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission held the second of two days of hearings on the “shadow banking system.” Secretary Geithner called on the Senate to continue work on financial regulato…
781 viewsFormer federal financial regulators testified about the 2008 collapse of Bear Stearns, financial markets, and the “shadow banking system.” Among the topics they addressed were the types of …
964 viewsFormer Bear Stearns executives testified about the 2008 collapse of Bear Stearns, financial markets, and the “shadow banking system.” They contended that media reports and rumors in financi…
2,034 viewsThe current and most recent former comptrollers of the currency testifed in the second of three days of hearings held by the bipartisan Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC). John Dugan…
453 viewsState and local officials testified about the 2008 financial collapse. Among the topics they addressed were mortgage origination lawsuits, mortgage fraud prosecutions, and the relationship b…
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