Federal Reserve
The Federal Reserve started a rate-cutting cycle on Sept. 18, 2025, lowering its benchmark interest rate by 50 basis points (bps) to a range of 4.75% to 5%. The cut was the first since March 2020 after the Fed raised interest rates to a 23-year high point to cool the economy and quell inflation. The Fed cut rates two more times in 2024, each by 25 basis points. It has not cut interest rates so far in 2025.
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Downey Raises the Red Flag
Nov 12, 2008It’s been called the “kiss of death” by more than a few auditors and accountants I know, not to mention investors who have spent any amount of time investing in financials. It’s the dreaded “going-concern” warning — no bank ever wants to put such a phrase into its quarterly report, and in fact will rarely ever mention it in the actual earnings release, either. Such dirty details are often relegated to the bowels of a 10-Q, where the hope is that the damage of disclosure will be somehow more limited.
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Transparency, Now
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American Express Latest to Become Bank
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Kashkari: Treasury’s TARP Faces Long Road Ahead
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AIG Posts Loss, Gets Additional Treasury Aid
Nov 10, 2008 -
Fed’s Fisher: Fed Assets May Top $3 Trillion by Next Year
Nov 05, 2008 -
Lacker: Credit Turmoil Fueled by Economy, Not Financial Markets
Nov 04, 2008 -
History Warns Against Foreclosure Moratoria: Study
Nov 04, 2008 -
Banks Tighten Belts Further on Mortgages Amid Credit-Freeze
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Bernanke Pushes Covered Bonds as GSE Alternative
Nov 03, 2008
