MetLife – FHLB [17] Along with many banks, MetLife and a number of other insurers involved in mortgage finance routinely obtain funding (“advances”) as Federal Home Loan Bank members.  MetLife’s outstanding FHLB balances increased significantly to approximately $15 billion in 2008 and have remained fairly stable since.  See Paulson, et al. (2014) and NAIC (2012)…

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AIG – Solvency “Conditionally Solvent” Q: Would It Have Been Illegal To Say That AIG Was Insolvent? SAP – Statutory Accounting Principles Tom Baxter 2010-07-29 FCIC staff audiotape of interview with Scott Alvarez, Bill English, Kieran Fallon and Bill Nelson, Federal Res~1.mp3 Scott Alvarez, FRB – re: AIG – They were solvent, they just couldn’t…

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OLA – Orderly Liquidation Authority 2017 0417- Financial Choice Act – 2017 – A Republican Proposal to Reform the Financial Regulatory System – 147p 2018 0221 – DOTT –  Report to The President of the United States – Orderly Liquidation Authority and Bankruptcy, Department of the Treasury – 57p Dodd-Frank Title II Dodd-Frank is thus a…

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