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Level two and three assets on the rise

November 19, 2008 — 12:17pm ET | By Jim Kim
Financial Week reports that top banks are reporting a rise in level three assets. Which just might presage another round of bitter valuation haircuts. Citi, for example, has said that level three... Read more...

Government to pass on buying troubled securities

November 12, 2008 — 2:41pm ET | By Jim Kim
Not to gloat, but I have been suggesting for a while that the government might not go forward with its plans to buy up troubled securities--originally the centerpiece of bailout ambitions. The... Read more...

What to do about FAS 157?

October 16, 2008 — 11:49am ET | By Jim Kim
The issue of fair value accounting and its importance was reflected in the... Read more...

Can Morgan Stanley be allowed to fail?

October 13, 2008 — 1:36pm ET | By Jim Kim
For Morgan Stanley, it has come to this: Columnists are weighing in on whether the government should allow it to fail.... Read more...

Morgan Stanley on the ropes?

October 12, 2008 — 7:42pm ET | By Jim Kim
The world wasn't buying that all was well with Morgan Stanley's deal with Mitsubishi UFJ Group, which called for the Japanese giant to inject $9 billion in the ailing investment bank. Even as Morgan... Read more...

Is the U.S. a suspect credit risk now?

October 1, 2008 — 3:02pm ET | By Jim Kim
One good thing about the maligned credit default swaps market is that it allows people to make targeted bets--or buy specific insurance--on just about any bond that trades. It thus offers a barometer... Read more...

Talks stall, fate of bailout unknown

September 25, 2008 — 6:23pm ET | By Jim Kim
At one point, it looked there would be an agreed-upon bailout plan. But then it all fell apart, leaving the fate of the plan up in the air. The combatants will try again today. At the White House, a... Read more...

Paulson relents on exec pay

September 24, 2008 — 2:04pm ET | By Jim Kim
We've suggested that the political furor over the bailout plan has taken a populist turn. It's hardly surprising that executive pay became a sore point in all the haggling. On one side: reformers who... Read more...

The bailout runs into roadblocks

September 24, 2008 — 9:26am ET | By Jim Kim
The historic bailout proposed by the Treasury has taken a political turn, but not in a partisan fashion. There are lots of Congressional skeptics of both stripes. The issue, frankly, is well made for... Read more...

Lehman Brothers, another Bear Stearns after all

September 11, 2008 — 9:40pm ET | By Jim Kim
This wasn't supposed to happen. Some people thought it couldn't happen. Lehman Brothers couldn't be another Bear Stearns because the Fed had extended a novel credit window to it (and other investment... Read more...
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