historical perspectives
refinancing
repackaged
types of
Mortgage originators. See Loan originators
Motive, short-term. See also Profit motive
Mozilo, Angelo
M3 money supply
Mudd, Daniel
Municipal bond:
insurance
market
Munitions industry
Mutual funds
Mutually assured destruction (MAD)
Naked shorting
Nanotechnology
NASA, cost of
NASDAQ
NASDAQ Composite
National Banking Act
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
National chartered banks
National City
National Currency Act
National health insurance
National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA)
Nationalization. See also Bush Administration
National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)
Nationally recognized statistical rating organizations (NRSROs)
National Monetary Commission
National Recovery Administration (NRA)
National reserve system
National Youth Administration (NYA)
Natural disasters, economic impact of
Naughty Child Index
Net capital rules
Net Portfolio Maiden Lane LLC
Netscape
New Century Financial Corporation
New Deal:
components of
cost of
public acceptance of
New Economy
New products/product lines
New York Federal Bank
New York Federal Reserve Bank
New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX)
New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)
Nifty Fifty stocks
NINJA loans
Nixon, Richard
Nixon Administration
No-doc (no-documentation) loans
No-money down mortgages
No-money-down, no-income-check mortgages
Nomura Securities
Nondepository mortgage originators
Non-farm payroll reports
Nonfeasance
Notional value
Nuclear energy facilities
Obama, Barack:
advice for
economic recovery strategies
national health insurance
Obama Administration. See Geithner, Jim; Paulson, Henry (Hank)
Off-balance-sheet accounting
Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO)
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC)
Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS)
Oil embargo
Oil prices, economic impact of
O’Neal, Stan
Open market operations
Operating capital
Operating income
Options trading. See also Greenspan put; Put options
Oracle
Overcompensation
Overinvestment
Overleverage. See also Bear Stearns
Overpriced housing
Oversold market
Over-the-counter (OTC) derivative contracts
Overvalued stocks
Packard, David
Pandit, Vikram
Panic of 1907
Panics, financial
Panzner, Michael
Paradigm shift
Parry, Richard T.
Partnoy, Frank
Patriot Act
Paulson, Henry (Hank)
Penn Central
Penn Central Railroad
Pension funds
Personal liability issues. See also Liability
Pets.com
Pickard, Lee A.
Piggyback loans
PIMCO
Pitt, Harvey
Plain vanilla loans
Plunge Protection Team (PPT)
Political philosophy, impact of. See also Democratic Party ideology; Republican Party
Ponzi schemes. See also Madoff, Bernie
Poole, William
Portfolio insurance
Posen, Adam S.
Post-bailout nation:
blame
casino capitalism
foreclosure virtues
misplaced fault
Preannouncement season
Pre-bailout nation ,1860-1942
Predatory borrowing
Predatory lending
Preferred equity
Preferred stock
President’s Working Group (PWG) on Financial Markets
Press releases, market impact of
Price, generally:
competition
housing, see Housing prices
spreads
stability
Price-earnings (P/E) ratio
Price-to-rent ratio
Primary Dealer and Others (PDCF)
Prince, Chuck
Private banks, development of
Private capital
Private equity
Private partnerships
Private sector
Private trusts
Privatized gain
Profitability
Profit margin
Profit motive
Property taxes
Proxmire, William
Psychological impact. See also Investor psychology
Public-Private Investment Program (PPIP)
Public Works Administration (PWA)
Put options
Quaintance, Lee
Qualcomm
Rabobank
Radical ideology
Rail Passenger Service Act (RPSA)
Railroad bonds
Railroad industry. See also Amtrak; Penn Central Railroad
Raines, Frank
Rambus
Rate-driven economy
Rate of return
Ratigan, Dylan
Rating agencies
Rational exuberance
Rationalization, in prototypical bailout
Reagan, Ronald
Real estate agents
Real estate market:
boom and bust
bubbles
improvement strategies
influential factors
nature of
RealtyTrac
Receiverships
Recessions:
characteristics of
global
of 1953-1954
of 1990-1991
of 2001
of 2007
recovery from
response to
Recklessness
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
Reed, John
Referral fraud
Refinancing
Regional Rail Reorganization Act of 1973
Regulatory agencies/bodies
Renaissance Technology
Reorganization
Repackaged mortgages
Republican Party ideology
Rescue programs
Research in Motion
Reserve requirements
Residential mortgages (RMBSs)
Responsibility. See also Blame
Return on investment (ROI)
Reverse amortization
Risk-averse banks
Risk capital, allocation of
Risk controls, lack of
Risk event
Risk exposure
Risk management
Risk-reward balance
Risk-taking, excessive
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (FDR) . See also New Deal
Roper, Barbara
Rosenberg, David
Rothschild, Mayer
Rove, Karl
Royal Bank of Scotland
Rubber companies
Rubin, Robert E.
Rumors, economic impact of
Rural Electrification Administration (REA)
Russia:
as bailout lender
bond market
debt crisis
Safety nets
Salmon, Felix
Salomon Brothers
Salomon, Gene
San Francisco earthquake, economic impact of
Sand Hill Road
Sarbanes-Oxley
Saudi Arabia, as bailout lender
Savage, Tom
Savings and loan (S&L) crisis
Scholes, Myron. See also Options trading
Schumer, Chuck
Schumpeter, Joseph
Schwartz, Alan
Secondary Credit
Second Bank of the United States
Second mortgages
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
Securities Exchange Act
Securities fraud
Securities Lending Overnight
Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995
Securitization
Self-correcting economies
Self-regulating markets
Sell-offs
Shadow banking system
Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE)
Shareholder(s):
interest
liability of
Sheehan, Fred
Short sellers
Short selling
Short-term profits
Silicon Valley:
cost of failure
stock options
Smith, Adam
Smith Barney
Socialism
Social Security Act
Social Security benefits
Société Générale SA
Solar power industry
South Sea bubble
Space exploration, cost of
Spector, Warren
Speculation
Speculators
Spitzer, Eliot
Standard & Poor’s 500
Standard & Poor’s (S&P) ratings
Standard deviations
Stanford Financial Group
Stanford, Sir Allen
Start-up companies
State insurance commission, regulation by
State regulatory agencies
State Street
Steel industry
Steel, Robert
Stein, Eric
Stem cell medicine
Stiglitz, Joseph
Stimulus Package
Stock, generally:
ownership
preferred
price, impact of
purchases
repurchases
valuationsStock loan desk
Stock market:
bailouts, see Stock market bailouts
bubbles
crashes, see Stock market crashes
technology stocks
Stock market bailouts:
1987-1995
1996-1999
2000-2003
Stock market crashes:
of 1929
of 1987
of 2000-2003
Stock options
Strike price
Structured finance
Structured investment vehicles (SIVs)
Subprime bonds
Sub-prime lending
Subprime loans. See also Subprime mortgage
Subprime mortgage:
characteristics of
crisis
originators. See also Loan originators
Sullivan, Martin
Summers, Lawrence (Larry)
Swaps
Swedish solution
Syndicate deals
Syron, Richard F.
System failure
Systemic risk:
defined
implications of
1998 exposure to
preventive strategies
Taxation issues
Tax code
Taxpayer support
Teaser-rate mortgages
Technology firms
Technology sector:
boom in
bubble
Technology stocks:
characteristics of
crash of
Telecommunications Reform Act of 1996
Telecommunications stocks
Telegraph industry, development and growth of
Telephone industry
Television industry
Ten-step bailout pattern
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
Term Auction Facility (TAF)
Term Securities Lending Facility (TSLF)
Terrorist attack (9/11), economic impact of
Thai baht crisis
Thain, John
Thin trading
Thompson, G. Kennedy 30/20/10 Proposal
Thrifts
Tickle-up economic theory
Toxic debt
Toxic securities
Toyota
Trade balances
Tranches
Transparency
Transportation infrastructure
Travelers Group
TrimTabs Investment Research
Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP)
Trump, Donald
Trusts
Truth-in-Lending Disclosure Statement
Turnaround Tuesday
Ultra-cheap money
Uncertainty
Undercapitalization
Underwriters
Underwriting regulations
Unemployment rates
United Auto Workers (UAW)
United Kingdom, historical monetary problems. See also Bank of England
U.S. dollar:
devaluation of
gold, relationship with
pegged currencies
valuation of
U.S. regulatory oversight
U.S. Treasury Department:
Citigroup bailout
functions of
Lehman Brothers bailout
Uptick rule
Valuation:
currencies
metrics
stock
Venture capital
Vietnam War, cost of
Volcker, Paul
Wachovia
Wages, economic impact of
Wagner Act
Wall Street attitude
War, economic impact of:
generally
Gulf War II
Iraq invasion
Korean War
Vietnam War
World War I
World War II
Washington Mutual (WaMu)
Water infrastructure
WCI Communities
Wealth effect
WebMD
Weil, Sandy
Weitzman, Jeff
Wells Fargo
Welsh, Jim
Whitney, Meredith
Willumstad, Robert
Wilson, Woodrow
Wind energy
Winkereid, Jon
Workouts
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
World economic crisis
World economy, destabilization of. See also Global economy
World War I
World War II
Y2K bug
Yahoo!
Yield
Zelman, Ivy
Zero equity
Zillow
Zippy Cheats & Tricks