Joe Cassano AIGFP SEC DOJ New York Attorney General’s office 2010 0722 – WSJ – A Set of Scribbled Notes Helped Scuttle AIG Probe, By Thomas Catan And Amir Efrati – [link] AIG – People – FCIC Interviews – mp3s Steve Benzinger – {Negative Basis – Cassano told us, we just didn’t know what it meant}…

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2008 – Financial Crisis – International 2008 – OECD – Impact of the Financial Turmoil – 25p Company Investments, Increased Surrenders 2009 – OECD – Insurance Companies and the Financial Crisis, Sebastian Schich – 31p 2009 0623 – UK House of Commons – US Congressional debates on the financial crisis: key players, policy and future regulation, Research Paper 09/58 – 57p

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Bagehot YPFS: If someone else held your position in a future crisis, what are a couple lessons that you learned through this crisis or things you wish you had at the time that others should be aware of? Baxter: I believe in the classic Bagehot dictum, that in a financial crisis you should lend freely,…

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Thomas Baxter 2018 1120 – Lessons Learned Oral History Project Interview: Thomas Baxter – 19p YPFS: Since AIG is an insurance company, what was the role of the insurance regulators and their interaction with the Fed during this time? Baxter: The insurance commissioners really didn’t help the rescue of AIG, but they didn’t harm it…

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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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2008 – Top 10 FCIC Interviews – mp3 2010-04-21 FCIC staff audiotape of interview with Gary Witt, Moody’s Investors Service.mp3 2010-05-19 FCIC staff audiotape of interview with Martin Mayer, Brookings Institution.mp3 2010-06-19 FCIC staff audiotape of interview with Scott Polakoff, Office of Thrift Supervision.mp3 2010-06-22 FCIC staff audiotape of interview with Mark Hutchings, American International…

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2010 0127 – GOV (House-OGR) – The Federal Bailout AIG 2010 0127 – GOV (House-OGR) – The Federal Bailout AIG, Edolphus Towns (D-NY)  —  [BonkNote]  [PDF-652p] Panel 1 – Tim Geithner – [VIDEO-CSPAN]  —  [VIDEO-YouTube] Panel 2 – Hank Paulson – [VIDEO-CSPAN]  —  [VIDEO-YouTube] Panel 3 – Neil M. Barofsky – (SIGTARP), Thomas Baxter (FRB),…

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