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Apr 22, 2010 · The value of the payout depends on the performance of the CDO's collateral, the obligation to pay the debt of the investor. Goldman Sachs. Investors in the ABACUS CDO would lose their...
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Jul 15, 2010 · Goldman Sachs to Pay Record $550 Million to Settle SEC Charges Related to Subprime Mortgage CDO. Firm Acknowledges CDO Marketing Materials Were Incomplete and Should Have Revealed Paulson's Role. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. 2010-123. High-Res Photo.
- Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson
- Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke
- N.Y. Fed Chair Timothy Geithner
- Lehman Brothers CEO Richard Fuld
- Morgan Stanley CEO John Mack
- Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein
- JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon
- Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis
- President of S&P Kathleen Corbet
- President George W. Bush
During the last year of the Bush administration, Henry "Hank" Paulson had a significant impact on economic policy. He was CEO at Goldman Sachs before his stint at the Treasury Department, which started in 2006. One of his famous decisions as secretary was to let Lehman Brothers fail, precipitating a stock market drop of nearly five percent. In his ...
At the helm of the country's leading monetary policy-making body during the financial crisis, Bernanke was the face of quantitative easing. This policy involved reducing interest rates and injecting more money into the economy to encourage banks to lend and consumers to spend. While many politicians and economists were worried quantitative easing w...
When Lehman collapsed, Geithner was in charge of the most powerful branch of the Federal Reserve. A few months later, he became Treasury Secretary under President Barack Obama. On one hand, Wall Street decried him as someone who over-regulated. On the other hand, progressive activists viewed him as a tool of the banks. During his time at Treasury, ...
As the last CEO of Lehman Brothers, Richard "Dick" Fuld's name was synonymous with the financial crisis. He steered Lehman into subprime mortgages and made the investment bank one of the leaders in packaging the debt into bonds that were then sold to investors. While other banks were bailed out, Lehman was allowed to fail despite Fuld's pleas to po...
After Lehman Brothers collapsed, Mack feared Morgan Stanley would be next, and he fought with Paulson, Bernanke, and Geithner to secure a bailout while trying to get financing from investors in Japan and China. In the end, he stood up to the policymakers, and Morgan Stanley was allowed to become a banking holding company, opening the way for increa...
Another investment bank that participated in packaging toxic mortgage debt into securities, Goldman Sachs, led by Lloyd Blankfein, was allowed to convert to a banking holding company and received $10 billion in government funds, which it eventually repaid. In 2009, Blankfein even apologized for the firm's role in the meltdown. Blankfein is one of t...
Under the leadership of Dimon, JPMorgan bought Bear Stearns and Washington Mutual in an attempt to stem the rising tide of economic instability. JPMorgan Chase took millions from the Fed's TARP program. However, in later years Dimon insisted that the company didn't need it, and they only agreed to move forward under duress from policymakers. Like B...
Shortly after claiming Bank of America wasn't interested in major acquisitions, Lewis presided over its crisis-era takeovers of Countrywide Financial and Merrill Lynch. In the following months, Lewis was transformed from one of the saviors of the crisis—even receiving Banker of the Year in 2008—into one of its villains. Bank of America almost buckl...
While other rating agencies followed similar practices to Standard & Poor's in the run-up to the crisis, Corbet was the most high-profile of the agency leaders. Time Magazine named herone of the top 25 people to blame for the financial crisis. Critics contend that Standard & Poor's had a conflict of interest in taking payment from companies to rate...
It's debatable how much power a president has over the economy and the markets. However, the fact that Bush was president during the lead-up to the financial crisis and the Great Recession makes him a major player. The tax cuts and deficit spending favored by his administration didn't help the country's situation. There is a case to be made, though...
Paulson earned an estimated $480 million in total compensation from Goldman Sachs. Paulson has personally built close relations with China during his career.
Jun 2, 2006 · Paulson is no different: The Goldman Sachs boss will see his annual paycheck shrink from last year's $38 million to a paltry $183,500 once he takes over the job of Treasury secretary. But don't...
Jul 15, 2010 · Goldman Sachs has agreed to pay $550 million to the Securities and Exchange Commission, one of the largest penalties ever paid by a Wall Street firm, to settle charges of securities fraud...
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Jul 15, 2010 · The Securities and Exchange Commission has reached a $550 million settlement with Goldman Sachs in its case accusing the company of misleading investors in mortgage-backed securities, the...
