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Gretchen C. Morgenson (born January 2, 1956 in State College, Pennsylvania) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who writes the Market Watch column for the Sunday "Money & Business" section of the New York Times newspaper.

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Fair Game: Revisiting a Fed Waltz With A.I.G.

It’s must reading for any taxpayer hoping to understand why the $182 billion “rescue” of what was once the world’s largest insurer still ranks as the most troubling episode of the financial disaster. And it couldn’t have come at a more pivotal moment. ...

From GRETCHEN MORGENSON, The New York Times,  21 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Goldman Sachs,  Merrill Lynch,  Bloomberg News

The Home Builders Get A Huge, Absurd Gift Courtesy Of You And Me

[T]ucked inside the law was another prize: a tax break that...will generate corporate refunds or relief worth about $33 billion... Among the biggest beneficiaries are home builders... To embed this post, copy the code below and paste into your website ...

From GRETCHEN MORGENSON, Clusterstock,  14 Nov 2009

Related Topics: New York Times Company,  Harvard University,  Barack Obama

Fair Game: Home Builders (You Heard That Right) Get a Gift

ON Nov. 6, President Obama signed the Worker, Homeownership and Business Assistance Act of 2009 into law, extending unemployment benefits by 20 weeks and renewing the first-time homebuyer tax credit until next April. But tucked inside the law was ...

From GRETCHEN MORGENSON, The New York Times,  14 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Pulte Homes, Inc.,  Freddie Mac,  Fannie Mae,  Hovnanian Enterprises Inc

Fair Game: A Way Out of the Deep Freeze

FOR many holders of auction-rate securities investments that Wall Street once peddled as safe, sound and as fully liquid as cash life in the frozen zone drags on. Not only are some brokerage firms still refusing to let customers redeem their ...

From GRETCHEN MORGENSON, The New York Times,  7 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Citigroup,  Barack Obama,  Financial Industry Regulatory Authority

Fair Game: When Shareholders Crack the Whip

IN a promising show of force by a company’s owners, three directors at Texas Industries, a construction materials maker with almost $850 million in sales, got the boot last week. Taking their seats at the boardroom table will be directors nominated by ...

From GRETCHEN MORGENSON, The New York Times,  31 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Texas Industries, Inc.,  Michael Eisner

Fair Game: Wall Street Follies: The Next Act

Hoping, perhaps, to persuade a dubious public that curbing reckless business practices is indeed a Washington priority, the Obama administration and Congress produced a hat trick of financial reforms last week. The outlines of a consumer financial ...

From GRETCHEN MORGENSON, The New York Times,  24 Oct 2009

Related Topics: House Financial Services Committee,  U.S. Congress,  Chrysler,  Federal Reserve,  Barack Obama

Fair Game: If Lenders Say ‘The Dog Ate Your Mortgage’

FOR decades, when troubled homeowners and banks battled over delinquent mortgages, it wasn’t a contest. Homes went into foreclosure, and lenders took control of the property. On top of that, courts rubber-stamped the array of foreclosure charges that ...

From GRETCHEN MORGENSON, The New York Times,  24 Oct 2009

Related Topics: PHH CORP,  PHH Mortgage,  U.S. Department of Justice,  Wells Fargo

Fair Game: Don’t Let Exceptions Kill the Rule

CONGRESS began the work of reforming our troubled financial system last week, and a bill aimed at regulating derivatives passed the House Financial Services Committee on Thursday. Derivatives contracts that theoretically protect buyers from unforeseen ...

From GRETCHEN MORGENSON, The New York Times,  17 Oct 2009

Related Topics: House Financial Services Committee,  U.S. Congress,  Bill Clinton,  Lawrence Summers,  Timothy F. Geithner

Fair Game: When Bond Ratings Get Stale

THE utter failings of our nation’s credit rating agencies you know the drill: repeatedly slapping triple-A ratings on piles of dubious mortgage securities were central to the financial crisis. And anything-goes ratings from Fitch, Moody’s Investors ...

From GRETCHEN MORGENSON, The New York Times,  10 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Securities and Exchange Commission,  House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

Fair Game: The Cost of Saving These Whales

AMID all the talk about systemic risk regulators, consumer protection and other fixes to our fractured financial system, there is a troubling silence on what may be the single most important reform: how to rid ourselves of banks that are so big and ...

From GRETCHEN MORGENSON, The New York Times,  3 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation,  Capital One

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