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Luke Mullins, “Waxman Digs Into Moody’s, S&P with Internal Docs,” U.S. News and World Report, Oct. 23, 2008.
Special Comment, “Structured Finance Rating Transitions: 1983-2008,” Moody’s Investor Service, March 2009.
Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo (New York: Bantam Dell, 2003), p. 272.
Index
ABX Index
ACA Capital
CDOs and
CDSs and
mark-to-market and
mortgage crisis and
rescue proposals for bond insurers and
Standard & Poor’s and
ACA Financial Guaranty
Ackman, Bill
See also Gotham Partners, Bill Ackman and; Pershing Square, Bill Ackman and
background of
books on investing, favorite
children of
grandmother of
Harvard and
Ackman, Jeanne
Ackman, Karen Herskovitz
background of
Ackman, Larry
Ackman Brothers & Singer
Adamson, Simon
Adelphia
Adelson, Mark
Aetna Life & Casualty Company
AHERF (Allegheny Health,
Education, and Research Foundation) bankrupty/ reinsurance
Allegheny General Hospital
Gotham Partners / Ackman and
Moody’s and
NYS attorney general’s office and-
NYS Insurance Department and
Pershing Square / Ackman and
SEC and
transaction details
Wall Street Journal and
AIG (American International Group)
CDOs and
CDSs and
Congress and
downgraded
Federal Reserve bailout of
Nightingale
NYS attorney general’s office and
AIG Financial Products (AIGFP)
Aladdin Capital Management
Allegheny General Hospital
Allegheny Health, Education, and Research Foundation. See AHERF
Allied Capital Corporation
Amazon.com
Ambac Financial Group
ARS and
business described
CDOs and
CDSs and
Citigroup proposed investment in
Congress and
downgraded
Evercore Asset Management letter to
Fitch Ratings and
mark-to-market and
MBIA and
Moody’s and
mortgage crisis and
NYS Insurance
Department and
Pershing Square / Ackman and
rescue proposals for bond insurers and
SEC and
Spitzer and
Standard & Poor’s and
triple-A credit rating
American Business Financial Services
American Home Mortgage Investment Corporation
American International Group. See AIG
American Securitization Forum
Angel, Chris
Angel, James
Arita, Darin
Armstrong, David
ARS. See auction-rate securities
asset-backed commercial paper (ABCP)
market collapse of (2007)
asset-backed securities (ABS), defined
See also collateralized-debt obligations; mortgage crisis
Association of Financial Guarantee Issuers
Assured Guaranty
CDOs and
Moody’s and
mortgage crisis and
Pershing Square / Ackman and
triple-AAA credit rating
Atkins, Paul
auction-rate securities (ARS)
Ambac and
Citigroup and
collapse of the market (February 2008)
defined
Fitch Ratings and
Goldman Sachs and
Lehman Brothers and
MBIA and
Merrill Lynch and
Piper Jaffray and
Sallie Mae and
UBS and
Aul, Adriane
AXA Re Finance S.A.
Baghdad Times
Ballinger, Michael
Banco UBS Pactual
Bank for International Settlements
Bank of America
Merrill Lynch purchased by
rescue proposals for bond insurers and
Bank of Japan
Barclay’s Capital
rescue proposals for bond insurers and
Barefield, Timothy
Barron’s
MBIA and
Pershing Square / Ackman and
BASEL II, 191
Baupost Group
Bear Stearns
black-box conduit structure
CDSs and
Federal Reserve bailout of
High-Grade Structured Credit Enhanced Leverage Fund
JPMorgan purchase of
mortgage crisis and
SEC and
Berkowitz, David
background of
Gotham Partners cofounded by
New York State attorney general’s office and
SEC and
winding down the funds
Berkowitz, David (Son of Sam serial killer)
Berkshire Hathaway
rescue proposals for bond insurers and
Bernanke, Ben
Bernstein, Jonathan
“Beware Our Shadow Banking System” (Gross)
Bianco, Jim
“BISTRO,”
“Black Hole” deal. See “Caulis Negris” deal
Blackstone Group
William Blair & Company
Blanco, Kathleen
Blaylock & Partners
Blodget, Henry
Bloomberg Markets
Bloomberg News
“Insurance Charade, The,”
“MBIA Debt Backed by Crack Houses Perpetuates Pittsburgh Blight,”
Bloomberg Television
Blumenthal, Richard
Boberski, David
Bond Buyer
Bonderman,