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Federal stimulus spending

Federal student loans

Feldstein, Martin

FICO scores

Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB)

Financial bubble of 2001–2007

Bear Stearns

Citigroup

conduct of senior executives

financial culture and corporate governance during

Goldman Sachs

housing

Magnetar

Morgan Stanley

rating agencies

Schwab complaint

Financial Crimes Report to the Public
(FBI)

Financial criminality

auction-rate securities

Del Monte case

Enron

financial crisis as logical culmination of

Internet bubble

JPMorgan Chase

Madoff and

money laundering

rise of post-deregulation

tax evasion

Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC)

Financial crisis of 2008,

European debt crisis and

federal bailouts

knowledge of

as logical culmination of financial criminalization

post-crisis recession

of 1980s

warnings of

Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA)

Financial innovation

Financial Services Authority (FSA)

Financial services industry

academia and

extreme leverage

short-term financing

structural concentration and

systemic interdependence in

unregulated

Fines

Fink, Larry

Finland

First Boston

First Franklin

Fisher, Franklin

Fisher, Peter

Fitch

Fixed-rate mortgage terms

Flipping houses

Florida

Fons, Jerry

Ford Motor Company

Foreclosures

Forstmann, Ted

Fortune
magazine

Foster, Eileen

Foxconn

France

Frank, Barney

Freddie Mac (Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (FHLMC))

Freedom of Information Act

Freescale Semiconductor

Fremont

Friedman, Stephen

Froman, Michael

Fuld, Richard

G

Garland, John

Garn-St. Germain Act

Geithner, Tim

General Electric

GE Capital

General Motors

Gensler, Gary

Germany

Gerrymandering

Gibson Greeting Cards

Giddens, Anthony

Gilbert, Richard

Gingrich, Newt

Glass-Steagall Act of 1933,

repeal of,

Glenn, John

Global Crossing

Globalization

GMAC

Gnaizda, Robert

Golden West Financial

Goldman Sachs

Goldstein, Jeffrey

Google

Government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs)

Gramm, Phil

Gramm, Wendy

Great Britain

Great Depression

Greatest Trade Ever, The
(Zuckerman)

Greece, debt crisis and

Greenberg, Ace

Greenberg, Maurice (Hank)

Greenlining Institute

Greenmail

Greenspan, Alan

Greenwich Capital

Gregory, Joe

Grove, Andy

Gruber, Jonathan

Grubman, Jack

GSAMP Trust

H

H&R Block

Haarde, Geir

Haggerty, Mary

Halliburton

Harbinger Capital

Hard money lender

Harvard Corporation

Harvard University

“Has Financial Development Made the World Riskier?” (Rajan)

Hausman, Jerry

Health care industry

Hedge funds

Hernandez, Carlos M.

Hewlett-Packard

High-frequency trading

High school dropout rates

High school graduation rates

Hockfield, Susan

Hogan, John P.

Holbrooke, Richard

Holder, Eric

Home equity lines of credit (HELOCs)

Home equity loans

Home Ownership and Equity Protection Act (HOEPA)

Homelessness, rise in

Honest services violations

Hormats, Robert

Hostile takeovers

House Financial Services Committee

“House of Junk” (Sloan)

Household Finance

Housing and Urban Development (HUD), US Department of

Housing bubble

Housing prices

“How Capital Markets Enhance Economic Performance and Facilitate Job Creation” (Hubbard and Dudley)

HSBC

HSH Nordbank

Hubbard, Glenn

Hubler, Howie

Hudson Mezzanine Funding 2006-1

Hungary

I

IBM Corporation

Icahn, Carl

Icelandic bank debt

IKB Industrie Deutschebanke AG

Immelt, Jeffrey

Incentives

Income inequality

India

Inflation

Information technology

Infrastructure

Initial public offerings (IPOs)

Inside Job
(documentary)

Insider trading

Insurance

Intel

Interchange fees

Interest-rate swap agreements

Interest rates

Internal guideline compliance

Internal Revenue Service (IRS)

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Internet bubble

Internet revolution

Internet services

Interstate banking

Investment banking, (
see also
Banking industry; Financial bubble of 2000–2007)

auction-rate securities (ARS) and

bonuses

compensation

domination by five firms

extreme leverage and

leveraged buyouts (LBOs) and

mortgages and (
see
Mortgages)

prior to 1980s

rating agencies and

rise of predatory

Schwab lawsuit

separation between commercial banking and

short-term financing

S&Ls and

structural consolidation and

Investment Company Act of 1940

Iran, money laundering and

Iraq war

Ireland, debt crisis and

Italy

J

Jackson, Shirley

Japan

Jefferson County, Alabama

Jobs, Steve

Johnson, Simon

Joint ventures

Jones, Day, Reavis, and Pogue

JPMorgan Chase

Julius Baer

Junk bonds

“Just-in-time” production model

Justice, US Department of

K

Kabaker, Matthew

Kaye Scholer

Keating, Charles

Keating Five

Kelley, Martin

Kennedy, John F.

Khuzami, Robert

Killinger, Kerry

Kim, Dow

Kim, Richard

KKR Financial Corporation

Knapp, Charles

KPMG

Kravis, Henry

Kroft, Steve

Krugman, Paul

L

Labour productivity

Lagarde, Christine

Latvia

Lauder, Ronald S.

Law and Economics Consulting Group (LECG)

Lay, Kenneth

Lee, Matthew

Lee, Thomas H.

Legal profession

Lehman Brothers

Leland, Hayne

Leverage, extreme

Leveraged buyouts (LBOs)

Levin, Carl

Levitt, Larry

Lew, Jacob

Lewis, Michael

Libertas

Libya

Liechtenstein, tax evasion and

Liechtenstein Fürsten-Bank

Liens

Linklaters

Lippmann, Greg

Lipton, David

Liquidity puts

Lloyds Bank

Loan sharks

Loan-to-value ratios (LTVs)

Lobbying

Local government spending

Loeb, David

London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR)

Long Beach Mortgage Corporation

Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM)

M

Macavoy, Paul

Mack, John

Madoff, Bernard L.

Mafia

Magnetar

Mahonia

Mail fraud statute

Malkiel, Burton

Manufacturing sector

Marijuana possession

Mark-to-market accounting

Markit

Markopolos, Harry

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

MasterCard

MBIA

McCain, John

McCormick, David

McDonald’s

MCI

McMahon, Ed

Media industry

Median household income

Medical profession

Medical research

Meeker, Mary

Mergers

Meriwether, John

Merrill Lynch

MERS

Merton, Robert

Mexico

MF Global

Microsoft

Milken, Michael

Mishkin, Frederic

Money laundering

Money market funds

Money Store

Mongelluzzo, John

Monitor Group

Montag, Tom

Moody’s

Moore, Gordon

Morgan Stanley

Morris, Charles

Mortgage Bankers Association

Mortgage banks (
see
Mortgages)

Mortgage brokers (
see
Mortgages)

Mortgages

Alt-A loans

collateralized mortgage obligation (CMO)

80/20 piggyback loans

fixed-rate

housing bubble

mortgage-backed securities (MBSs)

mortgage fraud

Option-ARMs

second-lien loans

stated income loans

subprime

teaser rates

Mozilo, Angelo

Municipal bonds

Mutual funds

N

Nasdaq stock exchange

National debt

National Economic Council

National Security Letter

National security policy

NationsBank

New Century Financial Corporation

New Deal laws

New York
magazine

New York Stock Exchange

New York Times

Nides, Thomas

Nierenberg, Michael

Nigerian power barges

Nixon, Richard

“No doc” loans

Nocera, Joe

Nomura

North Korea

North Street

Norway

Noyce, Robert

NRSRO (Nationally Recognized Statistical Ratings Organizations) ratings

Nuclear weapons

Nye, Joseph S.

O

Obama, Barack

Obama administration

Occupancy status

Occupy Wall Street movement

Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO)

Office of Management and Budget

Office of the Comptroller of the Currency

Offshore tax havens

Oil futures trading

Oil shocks

Oligarchy

O’Meara, Christopher

On the Brink
(Paulson)

O’Neal, Stan

OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries)

Option-ARMs

Option One

Oracle

Orange County, California

Organized crime

Orszag, Peter

Outsourcing and offshoring

Over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives

Ownit

P

Palin, Sarah

Pandit, Vikram

Parsons, Richard

Paterson, Mark

Patronage

Paul, Ron

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind

Paulson, Henry

Paulson, John

Pelosi, Nancy

Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC)

Pension funds

Perelman, Ronald

Perjury

Perry, Rick

Personal conduct offences

Personal spending, billing as business expense

Pharmaceutical industry

Pickens, T. Boone

Pinochet, Augusto

PMI, Inc.

Political advertising

Political corruption

Political duopoly

Political extremism

Political parties, (
see also
specific parties)

Ponzi schemes

Porter, Michael

Portes, Richard

Portfolio insurance

Portfolio management industry

Portugal, debt crisis and

Poverty rate, rise in

Pratt, Richard

Pre-trial asset seizure

Primerica

Prince, Chuck

Princeton University

Private equity industry

Procter & Gamble

Property appraisers

Property bubble

Proprietary trading accounts

ProPublica

Protectionism

Proxmire, William

Putnam, Robert

Q

Qaddafi, Muammar al-

Qaddafi, Saif

Quayle, Dan

“Quiet Coup, The” (Johnson)

R

Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO)

Raines, Franklin

Rajan, Raghuram (Raghu)

Rajaratnam, Raj

Rating agencies

Rattner, Steven

Reagan, Ronald

Reagan administration

Reilly, Gerald

Religious extremism

Repo 105 fraud

Republican Party

Residential mortgage-backed securities (RBMS)

Resolution Trust Corporation

Retirement funds, (
see also
Pension funds)

Revolving-door hiring

Rhinebridge Capital

RICO offences

Riegle, Donald

Riggs Bank

Roach, Stephen

Rogoff, Ken

Romney, Mitt

Rotella, Steve

Roubini, Nouriel

Royal Bank of Scotland

Rubin, Robert

Rubinfeld, Daniel

Rubinstein, David

Rubinstein, Mark

S

Sachs, Jeffrey

Sachs, Lewis

Sacramento, California, homelessness in

Safarha, Reza

Safe Ground

St. Denis, Joseph

Salinas, Raúl

Salinas de Gortari, Carlos

Salmon, Felix

Salomon Brothers

Salomon Smith Barney

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