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Diana B. Henriques dianabhenriques.com/ nytimes.com/by/diana-b-henriques pulitzer.org/finalists/diana-b-henriques Finalist: Diana B. Henriques of The New York Times For her revelations that thousands of vulnerable American soldiers were exploited by some insurance companies, investment firms and lenders. Primerica 1990 0930 – NYT – Stubbing a Toe on Primerica, by Diana B. Henriques — [BonkNote] Military – Mid-2000s -…
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Press Media Media – Index Press Releases Financial regulators did not identify the problems occurring with sales to military members until they were brought to light by press reports for various reasons. (p11) 2005 11 – GAO – Financial Product Sales: Actions Needed to Better Protect Military Members, Government Accountability Office – 88p Linda M.…
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Websites ethicaledgeconsulting.com/ glenndaily.com/ kitces.com/ Morningstar PBS thekomisarscoop.com/ 2004 1117 – Cooking the Insurance Books: A Decade of Lax Regulation Lays Groundwork for Scandal, By Lucy Komisar CorpWatch – corpwatch.org/article/cooking-insurance-books White Coat Investor Youtube 2016 0316 – KITCES.com – How Life Insurance Loans Really Work And Why It’s Problematic To “Bank On Yourself” – [link]
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1950s – Newspapers 1950 1208 – NYT – Life Concerns Gird Against Atom Risk – [link] 1958 0422 – Ocala Star Banner – Boom in Life Insurance – [link]
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Magazines BusinessInsider Businessweek Changing Times Consumers Union Consumer Reports InsuranceJournal National Underwriter ThinkAdvisor 1982 05 – Compute: The Journal of Progressive Computing – 196p 2008 1123 – The New Yorker – Anatomy of a Meltdown: Ben Bernanke and the financial crisis, By John Cassidy 2009 0914 – The New Yorker – Eight Days the…
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Press Releases – Federal Reserve 2008 0916 – FRB – Federal Reserve Board, with full support of the Treasury Department, authorizes the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to lend up to $85 billion to the American International Group (AIG) – [link] The Board determined that, in current circumstances, a disorderly failure of AIG could…
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CNN 2008 0917 – CNN – AIG bailout upsets Republican lawmakers – [link] 2009 0324 – CNN – AIG changes story on state payments. The insurer now says $9.5 billion of bailout funds went to municipalities — down from an estimate of $12.1 billion a week ago. – [link] AIG now says that municipalities holding guaranteed investment…
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Press Releases Press Releases – AIG Press Releases – Federal Reserve Board Press Releases – NAIC Press Releases – New York 2008 0528 – AM Best – A.M. Best Removes Ratings of AIG’s Property/Casualty and Life Subsidiaries From Under Review; Affirms, Assigns Negative Outlook – [link] The holding company downgrade reflects AM Best’s viewpoint of the…
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Washington Post 1995 0322 – Washington Post – Web of Contacts Gave Brown Lucrative Deal with District – [link] 1998 0918 – Washington Post – Pentagon Bars Life Insurance Firm Because of ‘Deceptive’ Practices – [link] A series of articles 24 years ago published by the Army/Navy/Air Force Times documented many of the same practices that Defense…
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