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“Bond Insurers: The Next S&L Crisis?” (Pershing Square / Ackman)

Borders Group Incorporated

Born, Brooksley

Brain, David

Braun, Michael

Brightpoint

Brimmer, Andy

Broderick

Brose, Aggie

Brown, David

Brown, Jay

Ackman meeting (August 2002)

Ackman meeting (November 2002)

background of

compensation arrangements

future of MBIA, comments on

Is MBIA Triple-A?, comments on

letters to shareholders

MBIA reorganization plan (2008) and

Budnick, Neil

Buffett, Warren

comments on CDOs

comments on MBIA

MBIA rumor

rescue proposals for bond insurers and

Burry, Michael J.

Butler, Jack

“Buying the Farm” (Gotham Partners / Ackman)

Cadbury PLC,

Cahn, Jordan

Caldwell and Raymond

Caliendo, Charles

Callen, Michael

Calyon

Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce

Cantor, Richard

Capital Asset Research Management

business described

“Caulis Negris” (“Black Hole”) deal

Lehman Brothers and

Moody’s and

NYS attorney general’s office and

NYS Insurance Department and

Pershing Square / Ackman and

SEC and

videotape of board meeting

Wall Street Journal and

Capital Markets Management LLC,

Capuano, Michael

Carina CDO Limited

Carpenter, Ben

Cartwright, Brian

Casey, Kathleen

Cassano, Joseph

Catholic University of America

“Caulis Negris” (“Black Hole”) deal

financial details

Pershing Square / Ackman and

properties described

CDOs. See collateralized-debt obligations

CDS Delivery Option (Boberski)

CDSs. See credit-default swaps

certificates of participation (COPS)

Chadbourne & Parke

Channel Reinsurance

Chanos, Jim

Chaplin, Chuck

MBIA’s mark-to-market explained by

“Charlie Munger on the

Psychology of Human

Misjudgment”

(Munger)

Cholnoky, Thomas

CIFG

Moody’s and

mortgage crisis and

rescue proposals for bond insurers and

triple-A rating

Citigroup

Ambac, proposed investment in

ARS and

CDOs and

CDSs and

MBIA downgraded by

mortgage crisis and

Pershing Square / Ackman and

rescue proposals for bond insurers and

Class V Funding IV,

CNBC

Mad Money

Squawk Box

CNN

collateralized-debt obligations (CDOs)

ACA Capital and

AIG and

Ambac and

Assured Guaranty and

“BISTRO,”

Broderick

Buffett comments on

Carina CDO Limited

catastrophe bonds, similiarity to

CDO-squareds

Citigroup and

Class V Funding IV,

collateral not required

commutations, defined

Congress and

defined

888 Tactical Fund Limited

FGIC and

Fitch Ratings and

FSA and

IKB and

JPMorgan Chase and

Lehman Brothers and

MBIA and

Merrill Lynch and

mezzanine

Moody’s and

Morgan Stanley and

mortgage crisis and

Octonion CDO Limited

Open Source Model (Credit Suisse) and

Pinnacle Peak CDO Limited

rating fees

Ridgeway Court Funding II Ltd.

Sagittarius trustee report

Standard & Poor’s and

super-senior

synthetic

UBS and

Wachovia and

XL Capital and

Columbia University

Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000,

Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)

commutations, defined

Conseco

Constable, Frances

contingent preferred stock put facilities, defined

Converium Reinsurance (North America) Incorporated

Coppola, Francis Ford

COPS (certificates of participation)

Coulter, David

Council of Economic Advisers

Count of Monte Cristo, The (Dumas)

Countrywide Financial Corporation

Coval, Joshua

Covington & Burling

Cowan, Alison Leigh

Cox, Christopher

Crain’s New York Business

Cramer, Jim

Creative Artists Agency

“Credit: Man’s Confidence in Man” (giant bronze frieze at Moody’s)

credit-default swaps

ACA Capital and

AIG and

Ambac and

Bear Stearns and

Calyon and

changing the rules of the bond-insurance game

Citigroup and

collateral not required

commutations, defined

Congress and

defined

elimination of, proposed

Farmer Mac and

FGIC and

FSA and

Gotham Partners / Ackman and

illiquidity of the market

MBIA and

Merrill Lynch and

Pershing Square / Ackman and

regulation of, proposed

SEC and

size of the market

synthetic CDOs and

XL Capital and

Credit Partners LLC,

CreditSights Incorporated

Credit Suisse

housing projections

Open Source Model

rescue proposals for bond insurers and