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Orin Kerr The Volokh Conspiracy 2/4/2013 The New York Times Dealbook blog has news of an important new case likely to be filed soon: The Justice Department, along with state prosecutors, plans to file civil charges against Standard & Poor’s Ratings Service, accusing the firm of fraudulently rating mortgage bonds that led to the financial […] February 6th, 2013 | Tags: housing bubble, McGraw-Hill Company, mortgage bonds, Rep. Barney Frank, Standard & Poor (S&P), subprime crisis | Category: Department of Justice, Video | Comments are closed
The New York Times 8/10/2010 WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve acknowledged on Tuesday that its confidence in the economic recovery had dimmed, and announced that it would use the proceeds from its huge mortgage-bond portfolio to buy long-term Treasury securities. Saying it would buy relatively modest amounts of government debt, analysts said the Fed signaled […] August 10th, 2010 | Tags: Ben Bernanke, monetizing national debt, mortgage bonds | Category: Economy, Federal Reserve, Federal spending | Comments are closed
Officials to Consider Putting More Money Into Bond Market as Recovery Wavers Jon Hilsenrath The Wall Street Journal 8/3/2010 Federal Reserve officials will consider a modest but symbolically important change in the management of their massive securities portfolio when they meet next week to ponder an economy that seems to be losing momentum. The issue: […] August 5th, 2010 | Tags: mortgage bonds, Treasury bonds | Category: Economy, Federal Reserve | Comments are closed
Louise Story and Gretchen Morgenson The New York Times 4/16/2010 Goldman Sachs, which emerged relatively unscathed from the financial crisis, was accused of securities fraud in a civil suit filed Friday by the Securities and Exchange Commission, which claims the bank created and sold a mortgage investment that was secretly devised to fail. The […] April 16th, 2010 | Tags: housing bubble, John A. Paulson, mortgage bonds | Category: Goldman Sachs, SEC | Comments are closed
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