Comments on: The Government's Financial Crisis Fix-it Plan Sends Stocks Soaring, Though Some Argue There's no Quick Fix for this Disaster

By: Buy, Sell or Hold: Potash Corp. Revisited

Buy, Sell or Hold: Potash Corp. Revisited — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:59:43 +0000

[...] the risk of a systemic meltdown was contained. Further measures are being implemented that not only saved the day, but also are going to allow the U.S. financial system to return to a more-normal operation, which [...]

By: Dear Hank: Here's How to End the Credit Crisis at No Cost to Taxpayers

Dear Hank: Here's How to End the Credit Crisis at No Cost to Taxpayers — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:04:35 +0000

[...] I don’t see the Treasury Department’s much-needed rescue plan being effective without actually addressing the pricing of – indeed, the very existence of – credit [...]

By: JPMorgan Chase Biggest U.S. Bank With Its Purchase of Failed WaMu

JPMorgan Chase Biggest U.S. Bank With Its Purchase of Failed WaMu — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:06:38 +0000

[...] WaMu put itself on the auction block late last week, but there were no bidders for the struggling thrift and its eventual collapse became a foregone conclusion. With $300 billion in assets, WaMu is the largest bank failure to date. It easily tops the previous record held by Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Co., which had just $40 billion in assets at the time of its 1984 collapse. [...]

By: Wracked by Problems, the U.S. Economy Keeps Digging Its Way Out

Wracked by Problems, the U.S. Economy Keeps Digging Its Way Out — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 22:58:57 +0000

[...] Federal Funds Rate cuts prior to the end of the year. Additionally, late in the week, the government proposed the creation of a Resolution Trust Corp.-like entity to manage (and ultimately sell off in an orderly manner) much of the remaining underwater assets on [...]

By: The New Short-Selling Rules: A Day Late and $2 Trillion Dollars "Short?" 09-20 new-regulations

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 22:50:45 +0000

[...] and it’s not like potentially unlimited short selling was some sort of revelation after the dust settled two days ago. SEC insiders had to know this was happening. What’s more, they’ve known it was going [...]