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Chrysler In Chapter 11
Posted on May 01, 2009There are many, many aspects to this story. Let me mention a few. First, Obama has proposed and still seeks, through a bankruptcy trustee now, to buy a car company worth nothing for $12 B in clash, TARP money to...
The Legacy of the First 100 Days
Posted on April 24, 2009It will take some time, maybe another six months, but the full legacy of the first 100 days of the new administration will be dribbled out, story by story, local paper by local paper, in reporting on the inside corruption...
Who and Where are the AIG "Trustees"?
Posted on April 24, 2009The press has finally, finally noted that government appointed "trustees" have control of government stock positions in a variety of finanical institutions. There is now some bewildermen over who they are and what they are doing. The three trustees of...
The BofA Deal
Posted on April 24, 2009The transcript of Paulson threatening the job of CEO Lewis if he does not close the Merrill Lynch deal has re-ignited the fuse on whether, in particular, the government overplayed its hand in forcing the merger and on whether, in...
The Hunstman Case
Posted on April 13, 2009A panel in Vegas discussed the Delaware Chancery case on Apollo v Huntsman. Comments by Chancellor Lamb, if reported properly (and big it), reveal that a willingness to negotiate a settlement could affect the outcome of busted deal cases. Why?...
Stress Tests Test Disclosure Obligation
Posted on April 13, 2009The government's games with "Stress Tests" for banks show once again that disclosure to shareholders if "for others." Shareholders of banks that are evaluated want to know the results as soon as their executives learn them. Yet government and bank...
Broadcom Case
Posted on April 13, 2009When District Judge Carney threw out portions of the criminal case against Broadcom for backdating stock options, he did so on grounds that has the corporate bar taking notice. The corporate attorneys failed to tell an executive that they represented...
Broadcom Case
Posted on April 13, 2009When District Judge Carney threw out portions of the criminal case against Broadcom for backdating stock options, he did so on grounds that has the corporate bar taking notice. The corporate attorneys failed to tell an executive that they represented...
Thomsen Cashs In
Posted on April 13, 2009Linda Thomsen, the chief enforcement officer at the SEC who left (?) after a poor record of SEC enforcement (and Congressional testimony on same) during the Madoff scandal years has landed a fat job at Davis Polk when firms are...
Congress and 401(k)s: Pensioners--Invest in TARP or Else!
Posted on April 01, 2009Congressional leaders and Administration officials, frustrated with the amount of private money sitting on the sidelines in our economic crisis, will soon announce, according to unnamed sources inside the White House, a bill that requires all those who hold 401(k)...
Ex-GM CEO Wagoner Should Have Refused to Go
Posted on March 31, 2009When President Obama and his senior economic advisers decided that GM CEO Wagoner should be fired and this was communicated to Wagoner he responded incorrectly. He should have said: " You are not my board and you cannot fire me....
Geithner's Plan: They're All Fannie Now
Posted on March 27, 2009Geithner's new ambitious plan hinges on one assumption -- some financial institutions are too big to fail. Once one buys into that assumption, government intervention becomes inevitable. The banks that are too big to fail have the implicit backing of...
AIG: And Worse
Posted on March 25, 2009Now there is news that AIGs successful subsidiary businesses, real insurance companies, are suffering from the pasting taken by the holding company executives over bonuses. Moreover, competitors in the insurance business are complaining that the insurance company subs, too retain...
Geithner's Toxic Asset Plan: Can It Be Gamed??
Posted on March 23, 2009I hope Geithner has stopped all the ways to game his proposal. I am not hedge fund guy, paid millions to game the markets, but I suggest the following. A hedge fund makes an investment of $7 in a bank's...
Sweden: A Raw Capitalist Compared to the US
Posted on March 23, 2009We have been lectured by China on monetary prudence and now we are doing something that Sweden will not due, bail out car companies. Sweden refused to bail out Saab. "Let the markets decide," Sweden announced.
Government Prints Money
Posted on March 22, 2009We used to laugh at small country dictators who, once having ruined their country's economy and having borrowed beyond their country's capacity to pay, decide to inflate their currency. Their inflated currency worked for a short period of time, allowing...
AIG: It Gets Worse
Posted on March 18, 2009The scramble of politicians in response to populist outrage over the AIG bonuses gives one a sense of what it was like on the Titanic when it startedd to started to go down. Hostile folks are milling outside the AIG...
AIG: And Worse
Posted on March 18, 2009We now find out that AIG was incompetent in unwinding its problems with government money. And for these its experts get bonuses?? AIG was unwinding its credit default swap positionswith government money by buying the assets that were underlying the...
AIG Bonuses
Posted on March 16, 2009AIG executives are claiming from $165 million to $450 million, depending on who you believe, in contractually stipulated bonuses after the company lost $60 billion last quarter, the largest quarterly loss by a private corporation in modern history. The government...
Stewart Squares Off On Cramer
Posted on March 13, 2009Like a sucker I stayed up to watch the Jon Steward/Jim Cramer smack down on the Comedy Channel. Steward, angry at the refusal of Santelli to come to his show after Santelli's outburst against Obama's mortgage bailout, had run clips...
TALF Program Lacks Investors
Posted on March 11, 2009The Government's $1T TALF program is stalled. Recall that the government is offering to loan $1T at below market rates to investment funds (hedge funds) if the funds buy AAA asset backed securities. How could a fund turn down cheap...
G-20 Nations Expect More United States Cash
Posted on March 10, 2009We now hear that Germany, Japan, and France, among others (China) will not stimulate their economies by floating more debt and spending the borrowed money in "stimulus" payments. Only the United States, and to a much lesser extent the United...
Merck Buys Schering-Plough
Posted on March 10, 2009Is anyone in Justice investigating the anti-trust implications of all these huge deals in the drug industry. Moreover, the Merck deal seems to depend on whether a reverse triangular merger can beat a control change clause in a Schering-Plough agreement...
Dow Agrees to Buy Rohm & Haas
Posted on March 10, 2009Dow Chemical, on the eve of a trial, has reversed course and agreed once again to go forward with a deal to buy Rohm & Haas. Dow had balked at closing the deal after credit rating companies threatened to downgrade...
RIP GM
Posted on February 26, 2009GM lost $10B in the last quarter and $31B for the last fiscal year. The $4 B government loan went in and out immediately to pay creditors and salary. The current quarter will be worse, with sales declining further. GM...
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