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Ambac and
Bear Stearns and
Capital Asset Research Management and
CDSs and
Fannie Mae and
Farmer Mac and
Freddie Mac and
Gotham Partners / Ackman and
Madoff and
MBIA and -
notice of discontinuance sent to Ackman
Pershing Square / Ackman and
short sales banned by
securitization, risks of See also collateralized-debt obligations; mortgage crisis
asset-backed securities (ABS), defined
Security Analysis (Graham and Dodd)
Security Capital Assurance Limited
Fitch Ratings and
Pershing Square / Ackman and
triple-A credit rating
Selz, Bernard
Semerci, Osman
Sender, Henny
shadow banking system, defined
Shanker, Joshua
Shanley, Kathy
Sharma, Deven
Sharma, Sanjay
Shell
Shulman, David
Siefert, Roger
Siffert, John
Sierra Club
Silverstein Properties
SIVs. See structured-investment vehicles
Smith, Dick
Snowball, The: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life (Schroeder)
Ira Sohn Investment Conference
Sonkin, Mitch
Soros, George
special-purpose vehicles (SPVs)
“Caulis Negris” (“Black Hole”) deal
defined
“Havenrock II,”
Loreley Purchasing Companies
market collapse of (2007)
MBIA and
orphaned transformers
Rhineland Funding
Triple-A One Funding
Speyer, Jerry
Spiegel
Spier, Guy
Spitzer, Eliot
See also New York State attorney general’s office
AHERF and
Ambac and
Congress and
Gotham Partners / Ackman and
as governor
MBIA and
Pershing Square / Ackman and
prostitution ring scandal
rescue proposals for bond insurers and
at Wall Street Hedge Fund Forum
Wall Street research and
SPVs. See special-purpose vehicles
Squawk Box, Ackman on
Stacey, Eve
Stafford, Erik
Standard & Poor’s
ACA Capital and
Ambac 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
NYC rating from
Pershing Square / Ackman and
rescue proposals for bond insurers and
review of bond insurers announced (November 2007)
S&P 500 Index
Triple-A One Funding research report
Standard Oil
St. Denis, Joseph
Steel, Robert
Stein, Mark
Steinberg, Joseph
Steingart, Bonnie
Structured Finance and
Collateralized Debt
Obligations (Tavakoli)
structured-investment vehicles (SIVs)
defined
Nightingale
Student Finance Corporation bonds
Target Corporation
Tarnoff, Jerome
Tavakoli, Janet
Teach for America
Tehrani, Juliette
Thain, John
Themis Trading LLC,
TheStreet.com
Third Avenue Management
Third Point LLC,
Thomson Financial
Thompson, Anthony
Thomsen, Linda
Thoreau, Henry David
David W. Tice & Associates
Tilley, Christopher
Tilson, Whitney
background of
NYS attorney general’s office and
Tim Hortons
Tishman Speyer
Touby, Laurel
Trinity College
Triple-A One Funding
Trump, Donald
Turner, Lynn
T2 Partners
Tyco
UBS Investment Bank / UBS Securities
ARS and
CDOs and
mortgage crisis and
rescue proposals for bond insurers and
Unger, Laura
United Airlines
University of Michigan
University of North Carolina
University of Pittsburgh
Medical Center (UPMC)
University Center for Social and Urban Research
U.S. Congress
AIG and
Ambac and
bond-ratings hearings
CDOs and
CDSs and
FGIC and
Fitch Ratings and
House Capital Markets Subcommittee
House Financial Services Committee
MBIA and
Moody’s and
mortgage crisis and
Pershing Square / Ackman and
rescue proposals for bond insurers and
Senate Agricultural Committee
Spitzer and
Standard & Poor’s and
U.S. Department of Agriculture
U.S. Department of Justice
U.S. Department of the Treasury
Pershing Square / Ackman and
rescue proposals for bond insurers and
USF&G
Value Investors Conference
Veno, David
Wachovia
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
Wako, Juichi
Waldman, Roger
Waldorf Demolition
Wallis, David
Wall Street Hedge Fund Forum
Wall Street Journal
AHERF and
Capital Asset Research Management and
Farmer Mac and
Gotham Partners / Ackman and
MBIA and
Pershing Square / Ackman and
Warburg Pincus
MBIA, investment in
Wasden, Lawrence
Washington, Wilbert
Washington Mutual
Watergate scandal
Weaver, Karen