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University of Chicago
University of Chicago Five Years Later: A Financial Crisis Symposium youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkFZB_XMYMJYRm-A1fp3uW8jn9THMK0Yf 1954 Ins. L.J. 151 (1954) Forces Shaping the Insurance Contract
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Bethany McLean c-span.org///BethanyMcLean 2005 0516 – FORTUNE / CNN – The Mystery of the $890 Billion Insurer: MBIA guarantees the safety of bonds that fund everything from the Eurotunnel to commercial aircraft to cities across America. A relentless short-seller charges that its business model isn’t sound. Can he be right?, Bethany McLean – <Ackman, Monolines>…
Read MoreSandbox – Video – CSPAN
Sandbox – VIDEO – CSPAN 2006 – Shelby – our job vs states John D Johns – Impossible Task – Consumer Protection Sununu – New York Regulator – 1871 2005 1117 – GOV (Senate) – A Review of the GAO Report on the Sale of Financial Products to Military Personnel, Richard Shelby (R-AL) — [BonkNote]…
Read MoreLessons Learned – 2008 Financial Crisis
2008 Financial Crisis Lessons YPFS Lessons Learned Oral History Project – [link] One important lesson of the recent crisis is that as financial products and services proliferate and become more complex, they often fall through the regulatory cracks. (p16) — Testimony of Ann Yerger, Executive Director – Council of Institutional Investors – 106p 2009 0729 -…
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Project – Mis-selling
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Runs – Project –Testimony of Martin Neil Baily and Robert E. Litan (Brookings Institute) Large troubled life insurers can also generate systemic risks if policyholders run to cash out their life insurance policies…. (p93) 2009 0506 – GOV (Senate) – Regulation and Resolving Institutions Considered “Too Big to Fail”- PDF-121p Moreover, if you look at…
Read MoreGlass-Steagall Act
Glass-Steagall Act Carter Glass (R-VA) Henry B. Steagall (D-AL) 2016 0119 (Updated) – CRS – The Glass-Steagall Act: Legal and Policy Analysis – 28p (p10-11) – By the time you got to the point where Glass-Steagall was rescinded, there were no restrictions — you probably know all this, but Glass-Steagall started to get reinterpreted in…
Read MoreFCIC – Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission – Testimony
FCIC – Testimony 2010 0113 – Mark Zandi (Moody’s) – Written Testimony – Before the FCIC on The Causes and Current State of the Financial Crisis – 17p 2010 0114 – FDIC FCIC – Sheila Bair, FDIC – 54p 2010 0407 – FRB FCIC – Alan Greenspan, Former Chair of the Federal Reserve and Private…
Read MoreACLI – Testimony
ACLI – Testimony 1979 0710 and 1017 – GOV (Senate) – FTC Study of Life Insurance Cost Disclosure – Senator Cannon – [PDF-592p] — John Filer, chairman of the Aetna Life & Casualty Co. …spokesman for the life insurance industry and its major trade association, the American Council of Life Insurance (ACLI) We have served countless…
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Minimum Deposit Plan 1959 – SOA – Report on the Regulation of Minimum Deposit Plan, Society of Actuaries – 3p 1983 – SOA – Individual Life Insurance, Society of Actuaries – 22p 2021 0202 – Joseph Belth – No. 408: A Recent Change in the Federal Income Tax Law Designed to Benefit Wealthy Life Insurance…
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