Confidence Game - Christine Richard [173]
Crum and Forster
C-SPAN
Cumming, Ian
Cunningham, Lawrence
CUSIP (Committee for
Uniform Security
Identification
Procedures)
Debevoise & Plimpton
Delgadillo, Rocky
Deloitte & Touche
Deutsche Bank
housing projections
IKB and
de Walque, Xavier
Dexia SA
Diamond, Greg
Dimon, Jamie
Dinallo, Eric
congressional hearings on bond ratings and
rescue proposals for bond insurers and
Dinneen, Shane
District of Columbia water and sewer authority bonds
DiPiazza, Samuel
Dodd, David
Donaldson, William
Don Quixote (Cervantes)
Dorer, Jack
Dow Jones
Newswires
Dow Jones Industrial Average
Dumas, Alexandre
Dunn, Geoffrey
Dunton, Gary
background of
Capital Asset Research Management and
compensation arrangements
MBIA annual reports
Economist
Edelman, Henry
888 Tactical Fund Limited
Einhorn, David
Eisman, Steven
Elliott, David
Emperor’s Club
Enron Corporation
Epstein, Lee
Ernst & Young LLP
Essays of Warren Buffett,
The (Cunningham)
European Central Bank
Evercore Asset Management
Exxon Mobil
Fabian, Matt
Fabrikant, Geraldine
Fair Isaac Corporation
Fannie Mae
government conservatorship for
Pershing Square / Ackman and
SEC and
Farm Credit Banks
Farmer, David
Farmer Mac (Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation)
business described
CDSs and
credit rating
delinquent loans
GAO and
Gotham Partners / Ackman and
leverage and
“long-term stand-by purchase commitment,”
New York Times and
NYS attorney general’s office and
Pershing Square / Ackman and
SEC and
Wall Street Journal and
FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation)
Spitzer and
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Federal Reserve
AIG bailout by
Bear Stearns bailout by
Bernanke, Ben
Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank
coordinated intervention by central banks
Federal Open Market Committee
Greenspan, Alan
New York Federal Reserve Bank
Pershing Square / Ackman and
rate cuts
rescue proposals for bond insurers and
Ferguson, Scott
Ferreri, Nicholas
FICO scores
Financial Guarantors on the Knife’s Edge (Morgan Stanley / Zerbe)
Financial Guaranty Insurance
Company (FGIC)
CDOs and
CDSs and
Congress and
downgraded
Fitch Ratings and
Moody’s and
mortgage crisis and
rescue proposals for bond insurers and
Standard & Poor’s and
triple-A rating
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority
Financial Security Assurance (FSA)
CDOs and
CDSs and
GICs and
Moody’s and
mortgage crisis and
Pershing Square / Ackman and
triple-A rating
Financial Stability Review
Financial Times
Finer, Hampton
Fireman’s Fund Insurance
First Franklin
First Union Real Estate
Equity and Mortgage
Trust
Fitch Ratings
Ambac and
ARS and
bond-default study
business described
CDOs and
congressional hearings on bond ratings and
FGIC and
Gotham Partners / Ackman and
MBIA and
mortgage crisis and
Pershing Square / Ackman and
rescue proposals for bond insurers and
review of bond insurers announced (November 2007)
Security Capital Assurance and
Forbes
Fortune
Fotheringham, James
Fraidin, Stephen
Frank, Barney
Franklin National Bank
Fraser, Russ
Freddie Mac
government conservatorship for
Pershing Square / Ackman and
SEC and
Frederico, Domenic
Fremont General Corporation
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson
Friedlander, George
Frontpoint Partners
FSA. See Financial Security Assurance
Fuller, Robert
Furman Selz
Gabriel Capital
Galbraith, John Kenneth
GAO. See Government Accountability Office
Gasparino, Charlie
GEICO
Geithner, Timothy
Genader, Robert
Gendelman, Robert
General Electric
Georgetown University
GICs. See guaranteed-investment contracts
GimmeCredit
Glauber, Robert
Global Crossing
Goggins, John
Gold, Mark
Goldberg, Lawrence
Goldman Sachs
ARS and
“Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval” for bond insurers
Gotham Partners, Bill Ackman and
AHERF and
Allied Capital and
Brown meeting (August 2002)
Brown meeting (November 2002)
“Buying the Farm,”
CDSs and
Farmer Mac and
First Union and
Fitch Ratings and
founding the firm (1993)
GAO and
Gotham Capital
Gotham Credit Partners