Bagehot YPFS: If someone else held your position in a future crisis, what are a couple lessons that you learned through this crisis or things you wish you had at the time that others should be aware of? Baxter: I believe in the classic Bagehot dictum, that in a financial crisis you should lend freely,…

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Thomas Baxter 2018 1120 – Lessons Learned Oral History Project Interview: Thomas Baxter – 19p YPFS: Since AIG is an insurance company, what was the role of the insurance regulators and their interaction with the Fed during this time? Baxter: The insurance commissioners really didn’t help the rescue of AIG, but they didn’t harm it…

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2008 Financial Crisis – Books 2009 – Book – Fool’s Gold, by Gilliam Tett JP Morgan, Jamie Dimon, Credit Derivatives, Shadow Banking, Housing 2009 – Book – House of Cards, by William Cohan Bear Stearns 2009 – Book – Too Big to Fail, by Andrew Ross Sorkin 2010 – Book – A Colossal Failure of…

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2008 – Top 10 FCIC Interviews – mp3 2010-04-21 FCIC staff audiotape of interview with Gary Witt, Moody’s Investors Service.mp3 2010-05-19 FCIC staff audiotape of interview with Martin Mayer, Brookings Institution.mp3 2010-06-19 FCIC staff audiotape of interview with Scott Polakoff, Office of Thrift Supervision.mp3 2010-06-22 FCIC staff audiotape of interview with Mark Hutchings, American International…

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MBIA – Municipal Bond Insurance Association mbia.com/ fka Municipal Bond Insurance Association LaCrosse Financial Products LLC – affiliate National Public Finance Guarantee (NPFG) – nationalpfg.com/html/index.aspx Bond Insurers Financial Gurantors Monolines MBIA and its predecessor the Municipal Bond Insurance Association, when we were a joint underwriting association, have now insured over 10,000 bond and note issues…

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Jim Millstein 2009-2011 – U.S. Department of the Treasury – Chief Restructuring Officer 2008 Financial Crisis 2010 0526 – COP – Hearing – TARP and Other Government Assistance for AIG —  [BonkNote]  — [PDF-241p] – [VIDEO-CSPAN-Parts 4 and 5] 2010 0526 – COP – Hearing – Written Testimony – Jim Millstein (Chief Restructuring Officer U.S. Department…

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Starr International Company Hank Greenberg – AIG Legal Cases 11-0779 – Starr International Company vs United States 12-5022 – Starr International Company, Inc. v. Federal Reserve Bank of New York and American International Group 14-cv-0159 – Starr International vs United States, Counterclaim United States v Starr International 15-5103 – Starr International Company vs United States…

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