Truth To quote from Josh Billings: ” Tis better not to know so much, than to know so much that ain’t so.” If life insurance truths have not been widely disseminated and assimilated, life-insurance untruths have. Lack of knowledge as to what is so about life insurance has been offset by excess information coined and…

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Technology Computers 1988-1989 – LR – Bargaining for Justice: An Examination of the Use and Limits of Conditions by the Federal Reserve Board, Alfred C. Aman – 64p Controversy over what is or should be the business of banking challenges the rationales for banking regulations.64 Changes in data processing and communications technology have created a new…

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Government Hearings – 2022 2022 0510 – GOV (Senate) – The Financial Stability Oversight Council Annual Report to Congress, Sherrod Brown (D-OH) [PDF-? , VIDEO-YouTube] banking.senate.gov/hearings/05/03/2022/the-financial-stability-oversight-council-annual-report-to-congress 2022 0511 – GOV (House) – A Notch Above? Examining the Bond Rating Industry [PDF-not on govinfo.gov, VIDEO-YouTube] Subject: May 11, 2022, Subcommittee on Investor Protection, Entrepreneurship and Capital…

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FCIC – Documents 2008 0630 – FRBNY – FRBNY Observations on the Role of Supervision in the Current Financial Crisis – 10p (p2) –  The scale of losses relative to capital and potentially problematic exposures relative to capital, so far, are much greater for institutions where we the Fed is not the primary consolidated supervisor, including some…

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TheBlackVault https://documents3.theblackvault.com/ https://documents3.theblackvault.com/documents/jfkfiles/NARA-Oct2017/NARA-Dec15-2017/ https://documents3.theblackvault.com/documents/jfkfiles/NARA-Oct2017/NARA-Dec15-2017/ documents.theblackvault.com/documents/foia/FRB-FOIACaseLog-2014.pdf F-2014-00206 Freedom of Information Act requests to the Federal Reserve by law firms Sullivan & Cromwell LLP and Gibson Dunn & Crutcher related to the systemic risk designations of insurance companies, and the Federal Reserve System’s responses to those requests. F-2014-00011 The Federal Reserve Board’s membership application form to the…

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AIG – FOIA governmentattic.org/docs/FOIA_Logs_OfcThriftSupervision_FY2005-7.pdf 69 11/22/2005 Copy of the Application H-(e)1 for AIG Federal Savings Bank which was approved with OTS Order # 99-81.  Also most recent H-(b)11 filings for American International Group, Inc., Starr International Company, Inc., Starr & Co., Inc., and C.V. Starr & Co., Inc. Trust 222 02/07/2005 Public portions of the…

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AIG – Committees AIG – Board of Directors AIG – Audit Committee AIG – Capital Committee 2007 0611 – Office of Thrift Supervison Holding Company Report Of Examination of AIG – 52p (p6) – The Treasury Group’s plans, procedures, controls, and systems (capital management processes) assure that the conglomerate has sufficient capital resources to meet all reasonably…

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2008 Financial Crisis – Books 2009 – Book – Fool’s Gold, by Gilliam Tett JP Morgan, Jamie Dimon, Credit Derivatives, Shadow Banking, Housing 2009 – Book – House of Cards, by William Cohan Bear Stearns 2009 – Book – Too Big to Fail, by Andrew Ross Sorkin Kindle – Notes Texas Insurance Commissioner, Jamie Dimon…

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