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What’s the difference between regulation and supervision?

Under Dodd/Frank mandated that mortgage lenders must now

What is the inherent conflict of interest in how Fannie and Freddie were structured before being put into conservatorship by the federal government in 2008?

How does a classic Ponzi scheme work?

A spike in interest rates ignited the S&L industry’s troubles, which were fanned into a bad-asset problem with easy credit, including an increase in the deposit insurance limit, FSLIC notes and other forbearance, junk bonds and brokered deposits (a.k.a. hot money.) What was the main source of easy credit in the mortgage crisis besides the SEC’s decision to allow Wall Street investment firms to hold less capital as a cushion against potential losses on money they borrowed?

Because Reagan didn’t want to openly increase the budget deficit or raise taxes, his administration had a two-pronged approach to solving the S&L crisis.

Main provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley law passed in the wake of Enron, WorldCom et al. that all publically traded firms must abide by do NOT include:

When Wall Street’s major investment banks sat together in the offices of the New York Federal Reserve to cobble together a bailout of LTCM, what basic fact did they each learn about each other, remarkably, for the first time?

What does it mean for a company to have a negative net worth?

What are the two main measures companies use to evaluate whether a business action is ethical?