Author: john bougearel

John Bougearel Turns out according to soures with knowledge of the situation that Citigroup employees can sell their 2009 bonus shares in April 2009, “providing shareholders approve the scheme.”  The bonus...

John Bougearel Under normal considerations, this week the market would simply focus on the FOMC statement and adv-GDP. But this week is far from normal. The Geithner hearings on Jan 27 should be the backdrop to the Bernanke...

Pay Czar Kenneth Feinberg told Bloomberg’s Judy Woodruff in an interview that “The biggest disappointment, I think, is that under the statute my jurisdiction is so narrow, and so circumscribed, that I have no real...

From Bloomberg, “The best response to the housing bubble would have been regulatory, rather than monetary,” Bernanke said today in remarks to the American Economic Association’s annual meeting in Atlanta. The...

Former general counsel at the US Treasury Peter Wallison said that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were too powerful to regulate. The US Treasury is now going to provide unlimited support to these agencies for the next three...

This is the most sensible course of action that Americans can take in 2010. Just do it. From Huff Post Too-big-to-fail banks are profiting from bailout dollars and government guarantees, and growing bigger. Tell us which...