Senate - Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs
The Current State of Insurance Regulation, Oversight and Ways to Enhance Consumer Protection, Promote Competition and Efficiency, and to Address What Role, if any, the Federal Government should play
2008 0923 - GOV (Senate) - Turmoil in U.S. Credit Markets: Recent Actions Regarding Government-Sponsored Entities, Investment Banks and Other Financial Institutions, aka U.S. Credit Markets and Federal Rescue Plan
Nell Minow - Co-Founder and Editor, Corporate Library - I told you so
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00:24:25 - Luigi Zingales - Professor - University of Chicago - Graduate School of Business
These managers were also hoping that if a shock occurred, all their competitors would face the same problem, thereby reducing their (reputational?) costs and possibly triggering a government support. The September 19 decision to ensure all money market funds validated this gamble, forever destroying money market managers' incentives to be careful in regarding to the risks they take.
House - Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
2008 1006 - GOV (House) - The Causes and Effects of the Lehman Brothers Bankruptcy, aka Financial Market Regulation and Practices - Panel 2
House - Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
2008 1014 - GOV (Senate) - The Role of Financial Derivatives in the Current Financial Crisis, aka Hearing to Review the Role of Credit Derivatives in the U.S. Economy