2008 Crisis
Government Hearings – 2009
Government Hearings – 2009 Strengthening the SEC’s Vital Enforcement Responsibilities: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Securities, Insurance, and Investment of the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, First Session, on Examining the Important Role of the Securities and Exchange Commission in Protecting Investors by Aggressively Enforcing Federal…
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2008 Financial Crisis 2008 Financial Crisis – Index The Global Economic & Financial Crisis: A Timeline, by Mauro F. Guillén – 96p the92ers.com/content/confederacy-dunces Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (P.L. 110-343): Allowed the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase and insure “troubled assets” to help promote the strength of the economy and financial system. The act established…
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Paul Volcker 1979-1987 – Federal Reserve, Chair, August 1979 to August 1987 2009-2011 – Economic Recovery Advisory Board, Chair, February 2009 until January 2011. Volcker Rule fraser.stlouisfed.org/archival-collection/paul-a-volcker-papers-5297 volckeralliance.org/profiles/paul-volcker 2015 – Volcker Alliance – Prior Proposals to Consolidate Federal Financial Regulators – 188p National Commission on the Public Service Report of the National Commission on the…
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TARP – Troubled Asset Relief Program TARP – MEDIA 2009 0408 – WSJ – U.S. to Offer Aid to Life Insurers: Firms Face Capital Crunch; How Much They Will Get From TARP Remains Unclear, By Scott Patterson, Deborah Solomon and Leslie Scism – [link] Shares of life insurers have fallen more than 40% this year. Their…
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COP – Congressional Oversight Panel COP – Index Start – 2008 1126 End – COP – Reports COP – June 2010 Report – Snippets cybercemetery.unt.edu///cop.senate.gov/ Firefox, not Chrome cybercemetery.unt.edu///frbny-documents.pdf cybercemetery.unt.edu////aig-documents.pdf congress.gov/committee/congressional-oversight-panel/jocp00 wikipedia.org///Congressional_Oversight_Panel_(COP) CSPAN – COP – Troubled Asset Relief Program Oversight Panel – [link] senate.gov/general/common/generic/COP_redirect.htm The Congressional Oversight Panel (COP) was a bipartisan organization that…
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Liquidity In contrast, many of the investment-oriented products marketed in the last decade have shorter duration and require greater liquidity than was needed in earlier … 1992 – World Bank – The Life Insurance Industry in the United States: An Analysis of Economic and Regulatory Issues, by Kenneth M. Wright – 54p (p8) – An increase in…
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Sandbox – AIG https://ypfsresourcelibrary.blob.core.windows.net/fcic/fcic-testimony/2010-0630-AIG-Risk-Management.pdf Frank P. Filipps https://www.actuaries.asn.au/Library/Events/SUM/2013/4b-Ferris.pdf FRB Coryann Stefansson – Now SIFMA 2:15:28 – Carolyn Maloney: bad regulatory decision? – Liddy: yes all life insurance companies would have been in trouble… asset prices….capital markets 2009 0318 – AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL GROUP’S IMPACT ON THE GLOBAL ECONOMY: BEFORE, DURING, AND AFTER FEDERAL INTERVENTION – aka Federal…
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Finding Aids Actuarial soa.org/ Federal Government Hearings c-span.org/ Google Play govinfo.gov COP – No Finding Aid Availabe FCIC – Finding Aid for the Records of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission
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Securities Lending Securities Lending – Index Securities Lending – AIG Securities Lending – AIG – FCIC Securities Lending – FCIC Securities Lending – FRB Securities Lending – Insurance Regulators Figure 7 illustrates our identification strategy by focusing on the differences in lending behavior between MetLife and AIG. 2019 – FRB – Over-the-Counter Market Liquidity and…
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Bernie Madoff 2008 1211 – Madoff arrested “split-strike conversion strategy” nytimes.com///projects/madoff Harry Markopolos Tremont – Massachusetts Mutual 2011 0728 – NYT – Settlement of More Than $1 Billion From Madoff-Related Funds, By Reuters – [link] Mr. Picard has said Tremont, based in Rye, N.Y., which is part of the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, was the…
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