Gretchen Morgenson

Gretchen Morgenson

• ?-1997-? – Forbes
• ?-2008-? – NYT – nytimes.com/by/gretchen-morgenson?inline=nyt-per
• Index Funds
• 2008 Financial Crisis
• CDS – Credit Default Swaps
• MBIA
• PE – Private Equity
• ELIC – Executive Life Insurance Company

• 2023 – Book – These Are the Plunderers: How Private Equity Runs-and Wrecks-America, by Gretchen Morgenson and Joshua Rosner
  • Executive Life – Lawsuit – Document Destruction

• 1997 04-05-06 – Forbes – 2002p – dn790009.ca.archive.org/0/items/forbes159aprforb/forbes159aprforb.pdf
  • 1997 0407 – Forbes
    • Cover –  Index Funds – Riskier Than You Think
    • p90-96 – What the Sales Brochure Didn’t Tell You. Stock index funds: taking a closer look S&P 500 index funds are all the rage. Are they as safe as you think. Can there be too much of a good thing? Better read on., By Gretchen Morgenson 

• 2008 0618 – NYT – MBIA Debt is Setting Up Standoff with Regulators, By Gretchen Morgenson and Vikas Bajaj – [link]
  • The risks associated with the vast, unregulated market for credit default swaps played a crucial role in the bailout of Bear Stearns.
  • Now these financial instruments are taking center stage in another Wall Street drama: whether regulators will let MBIA, the big bond insurance company, renege on a promise to shore up a crucial unit with $900 million in capital.
• 2008 0809 – NYT – Naked Came the Speculators, By Gretchen Morgenson – [link]
  • Still, Mr. Dinallo said, the valuations of C.D.S.’s remain absurdly optimistic on both the books of the bond insurers who wrote them and the companies who bought them.
    • As regulator in this particular poker game, he gets to see both parties’ hands.