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IberiaBank Corp. (NASDAQ: IBKC) is a small regional bank which we have hardly ever covered. But we wanted to take…
Whatever stock options Vikram Pandit, his management team and board have are almost certainly worthless now. News that the federal…
Citigroup (C) may not have picked up much in its deal with the federal government. It shareholders will get crammed…
It has begun to occur to the financial industry and the central banks of the G7 and a number of smaller…
It is a corporate governance issue as much as anything else. Can one shareholder essentially “fire” most of a public…
Once a quarter, the FDIC does something which seems to have little purpose. It releases its list of “problem” banks.…
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation has released its list of troubled banking institutions. As you would have guessed, it is…
The Williams Companies, Inc. (NYSE:WMB) announced this morning that it was “initiating a private debt issuance to certain institutional investors.”…
It seems like a devilishly clever plan. The US government already owns 80% of AIG (AIG). Why not break the…
As the US government goes though the process of stress testing banks, it may want to be instructed by the…
The latest way for the government to decide what it should do with troubled banks is to put them though…
If you look on the surface, it looks like E*TRADE Financial (NASDAQ: ETFC) is still trying to shrink its operations…
The largest systematic example of inertia since the planets began to orbit stars is the US economy. Its gigantic weight…
BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE: BLK) is launching a new fund that is designed to essentially be a vulture in fixed income…
Management at AIG (AIG) has calculated exactly how much money the Treasury and Fed will have access to after all…
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