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THE FINANCIAL CRISIS INQUIRY REPORT INDEX

Abacus –, ,  Adverse market conditions, liquidity failure, –
Abacus –, –,  – liquidity puts, 
ABS East conference,  Affordable housing, –, Merrill Lynch’s CDO
ABX index, –, , , –, – tranches, 
, , ,  African Americans: jobless rate, over-the-counter
ACA Capital, ,   derivatives, xxvi
Accountability Agosta, Jeff,  payment to AIG
increasing sloppiness in Aguero, Jeremy,  counterparties, (fig.)
mortgage paperwork,  AIG Financial Products, – risk management, xix
mortgage lending fraud,   systemic risk after Bear
systemic breakdown in, xxii Alex Brown & Sons,  Stearns collapse, –
Accountant firms,  Alix, Michael, , ,  
Accounting practices Allianz,  TARP, 
AIG valuation, – Ally Financial,  Ameriquest, , –, , ,
AIG-Goldman dispute over Alt-A securitization, –, 
CDO, – –, , , , Andrukonis, David, –
collapse of subprime  Antoncic, Madelyn, –
lenders,  Alvarez, Scott, , , , , Appraisals, inflated, –
GSEs’ capital shortfall,   Arbitrage, –
Lehman Brothers, – Alwaleed bin Talal,  Archstone Smith trust, –
mark-to-market rules, , Ambac,  Arizona: mortgage delinquency,
–, , , , American Bankers Association, , 
, ,  ,  Arthur Andersen, 
Adams, Stella,  American Home Mortgage,  Ashcraft, Adam, 
Adelson, Mark,  American International Group Ashley, Stephen, 
Adjustable-rate mortgages (AIG) Asset-backed commercial paper
(ARMs), , , ,  bailout, –, – (ABCP) programs
delinquency,  CDO structuring, , BNP Paribas SA loss,
hybrids, – –, – –
increasing popularity of, – credit default swaps,  Countrywide, –
,  failure triggering crisis, xvi expanding use of, –
mechanism of,  financial crisis and bailout, IKB as casualty, –
mortgage-securities – latent subprime exposure,
entanglement,  Goldman dispute over 
option ARMs, – subprime losses, – money market funds,
savings and loan crisis,  government rescue,  –
Wachovia’s liquidity lack of concern over SIVs, –
concerns,  subprime-mortgage Asset-backed securities, (fig.)
See also Option ARM loans failure, – Associates First, 


 INDEX

Athan, Tom, , – mortgage-backed securities synthetic CDOs, 


Auction rate securities (ARS), market losses,  See also Investment banks
– nontraditional loans,  Bear Stearns Asset
Australia See also Investment banks Management (BSAM),
house price appreciation, Bank runs, , –,  –, –, ,
–, (fig.) Bankers Trust, ,  –
housing bubble, – Banking “Bear Stearns Light” liquidity
Automobile manufacturers,  bank failure affecting scenario, 
Automotive Industry Financing commercial real estate “Bear Stearns” liquidity
Program,  market,  scenario, 
big bank bets and bank Beneficial Mortgage, 
Bacon, Kenneth,  failures, – Bensinger, Steven, , 
dismantling Glass-Steagall, Bernanke, Ben
Bailey, Kevin, 
– acknowledging housing
Bailouts
failure numbers,  market drop, 
AIG, –, 
financial fallout from Bear Stearns’ collapse, –
controversy over Lehman
recession, – 
Brothers collapse,
savings and loan crisis, Bear Stearns’ toxic hedge
–
– funds, 
Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac,
See also Commercial banks; BofA-Merrill Lynch merger,
–
Investment banks 
savings and loan crisis,
Barber, Mark, – concerns over Lehman’s
–
Barclays, 
”too big to fail” principle, liquidity, 
Barker, Randolph, 
, – consumer advocates’
Barnes, Murray, –
Bair, Sheila C., , , , , concerns about mortgage
Basel International Capital
, – lending, 
Accords, , , –
Baker, Dean, – credit rating agencies’ role in

Bakersfield, California, ,  CDO structuring, 
Basis Yield Alpha Fund, 
Balloon mortgages,  delinking Fed interest rate
Bass, J. Kyle, –, , 
Bank of America hikes and real estate
Baxter, Tom, , –, ,
acquisition of Countrywide, bubble, 

 BBB-rated securities, –, Fed-Lite, 
agencies’ peer group study ,  Fed’s failure of housing
of mortgage practices, Beal, Vicki,  regulation, 
 Bear Stearns financial crisis of , 
Bear Stearns toxic hedge BSAM role in CDO global capital flows, 
funds,  business, – housing bubble, 
consolidation and growth of commercial real estate,  housing prices leading to
banks,  CSE oversight,  nontraditional lending
Countrywide’s ABCP loss, fall of, – products, 
 financial sector growth,  lack of concern over
CRA-qualifying portfolio, government response to housing bubble, xxi
 collapse of, xxi Lehman collapse, –,
credit default swaps, ,  hedge fund creation,  –
financial crisis, – JP Morgan purchase of, , measuring investment bank
financial sector growth,   liquidity risk, 
GSE delinquent loans,  mortgage-backed securities monetary policy
Lehman Brothers collapse, market losses,  contributing to credit
,  regulators’ concerns over bubble, 
litigation over failure of, – mortgage fraud, –
delinquencies,  risk concentration,  predatory lending practices,
money market funds,  risk exposure of hedge 
mortgage fraud,  funds, – recession of , 
INDEX 

refusal to believe in housing government response to Chau, Wing, , –, ,
market crash spillover, economic shortfalls,  
 mortgage delinquency,  Checks and balances, 
run on Goldman Sachs,  SIV losses,  Cheyne Capital Management,
small businesses’ losses underwater mortgages, –
during recession,  (fig.) Chicago Board of Trade, 
TARP, – California Reinvestment Chicago CRA Coalition, 
underestimating magnitude Coalition (CRC), ,  Children, housing foreclosures
of systemic risk, ,  Callahan, Jim, ,  and, 
underestimating the Callan, Erin,  China
housing bust,  Canada: housing bubble,  credit bubble, 
See also Federal Reserve CanagaRetna, Sujit, – global capital flows,
Bies, Susan, –, – Canavan, Sheila,  –
Bisenius, Donald,  Capital flows GSE securities, 
Black, Dennis J., – insufficient capital leading Christie, Chris, 
Black, William K., , –, to bank failure,  Cioffi, Ralph, –, –,
 mortgage-backed securities –
Blankfein, Lloyd, , , –, losses,  Cisneros, Henry, 
,  Capital Markets Approval CIT Group Inc., 
Blinder, Alan,  Committee (Citigroup), Citibank
Blow up risk,   Fannie Mae involvement in
BNP Paribas SA, , – Capital Purchase Program,  housing bubble, 
BNY Mellon, –, , Cardwell, J. Thomas, – Maiden Lane payments,
, – Carter, Carolyn,  –
Bookstaber, Richard,  Case, Karl,  Citicorp: deregulation of bank
Born, Brooksley, – Case-Shiller Index,  consolidation, 
Bowen, Richard, , , Cash management accounts,  CitiFinancial, , , 
– Cash reserves, , ,  Citigroup
Braunstein, Sandra, ,  Cassano, Joseph, –, – agencies’ peer group study
 of mortgage practices,
Breaking the buck, , 
Cattani, Arnold, ,  
Breeden, Richard, , 
Causes of the crisis, xv Ameriquest acquisition, 
Brendsel, Leland, 
big bank bets and bank Bear Stearns’ toxic hedge
Broderick, Craig, , ,
failure, – funds, –
–
credit bubble, – CDO losses, , –
Brown, Lloyd, 
differing theories of, – CDO structuring, –
Brown, Richard, 
 commercial banks’ 
Bruce, Kenneth, 
housing bubble, – downturn, –
Bubbles. See Credit bubble;
mortgage securitization, consolidation and growth of
Housing bubble;
– banks, 
Mortgage bubble
systemic failure through credit default swaps, 
Buffett, Warren, , , –,
common shock, – deregulating bank
 systemic failure through consolidation, 
Burks, Gail, ,  contagion, – due diligence and
Burry, Michael,  ten essential causes, – disclosure, –
Bush, George W., , –  expansion of, –
Bushnell, David, ,  Cayne, Jimmy, –,  failure to control excesses,
Bynum, Gregory,  Cecala, Guy,  xviii
Center for Responsible failure to heed warning
Calhoun, Michael,  Lending,  signs, 
California Century Financial,  financial crisis, –
delinquency, ,  Chanos, Jim,  financial sector growth, 
fallout from the crisis,  Charles Schwab,  lending violations, 
foreclosures,  Chase Home Financial,  liquidity puts, –, 
 INDEX

Citigroup (continued) Bear Stearns toxic hedge See also Citigroup;


mortgage securitization, , funds, – Wachovia; Washington
 Citigroup liquidity puts, Mutual
mortgage-backed securities – Commercial Paper Funding
market losses,  Citigroup’s synthetic CDOs, Facility, 
raising capital after Bear – Commercial paper market,
Stearns collapse,  Consolidated Supervised –, –, –
reducing subprime exposure Entity program, – AIG liquidity failure, –
through CDS,  creating demand for lower- , 
 subprime exposure rated tranches, – Citigroup involvement,
level, – creation and expansion of, –
Wachovia acquisition, – Lehman decline, 
– downgrading, – money market funds, 
warehouse lending, – due diligence and post-recession financing,
Civil rights,  disclosure,  
Clark, Timothy, ,  end of the boom,  stopping mortgage lender
Clarke, Vaughn,  Goldman Sachs, , funding, 
Clarkson, Brian, , –, – Commercial real estate,
 housing boom repackaging, –, –
Clawback provisions,   Commodification of the
Clayton Holdings, – housing entanglement in housing industry, –
Clearing banks, – securities market, – Commodities, 
Cleveland Ohio: predatory leverage,  Commodity Exchange Act
lending practices, – managers’ response to the (), 
“Climbing the Wall of madness, – Commodity Futures
Subprime Worry” report, mechanism of, (fig.) Modernization Act
– Merrill Lynch, – (CFMA; ), 
Clinton, Bill,  Moody’s  downgrade, Commodity Futures Trading
affordable housing, – – Commission (CFTC),
Commodity Futures Moody’s role in, –, –
Modernization Act,  – Common shock, , –
CRA lending,  mortgage-backed securities Community
Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, market losses,  fallout from the crisis, 
 reducing subprime exposure housing industry links to,
HOEPA,  through CDS,  –
Cloutier, C.R.,  regulators’ missed mortgage fraud, –
CMLTI -NC, , , opportunity, – Community Reinvestment Act
(fig.), , (fig.), self-fueling machine, (CRA), xxvii, –,
, –, ,  – –, –, 
Coffey, Kevin,  See also Credit default swaps Community-lending pledges,
Cohen, H. Rodgin, , – Collateralized loan obligations –
Cohn, Gary,  (CLOs), –,  Compensation controls, 
Cole, Roger, , ,  Commercial banks and thrifts Compensation packages
Collateral call,  buying and selling home Bear Stearns’ hedge fund
Collateralized debt obligations loans,  collapse, 
(CDOs), xxiv, – crisis and recession fallout, Bear Stearns preceding the
AIG dispute with Goldman  fall, 
over, – decline after Bear Stearns CDO machine breakdown,
AIG involvement, –, collapse, – 
– securitizing prime changes in the financial
Bear Stearns’ asset mortgages,  industry, –
management business, shadow banks and, – Citigroup’s CDO business,
– subprime origination and 
Bear Stearns’ collapse,  securitization,  GSE executives, –
INDEX 

GSE penetration into Consumer protection groups, Crabtree, Gary, –, 


subprime market,   Credit bubble, –, 
ignoring long-term Consumer spending, , – causes of the crisis, –,
consequences, xix  
Merrill’s O’Neal’s severance Contagion, risk of, , – global capital flows,
package,  Continental Illinois, – –
mortgage brokers,  CoreLogic,  monetary policy, –
Congress, U.S. Corporate governance repricing of risk, 
closing state shortfalls,  AIG failure,  See also Housing bubble;
Community Reinvestment big bank failure, – Housing bust; Mortgage
Act,  Citigroup’s CDO business, bubble
Depository Institutions – Credit card loans, 
Deregulation and condoning mortgage fraud, Credit default swaps (CDS),
Monetary Control Act,  – xxiv–xxv, 
dismantling Glass-Steagall, failure to control reckless AIG dispute with Goldman,
 practices, xviii–xix –, –
Economic Stimulus Act,  FHFA criticism of GSE AIG failure, 
Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac management, – AIG liability, –
debt,  GSEs’ capital shortfall,  AIG’s international business,
Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac ignoring risks of housing 
mission,  bubble, – CDO machine, –
homeownership incentives,  international credit bubble, consumer advocates’
Housing and Economic  concerns over mortgage
Recovery Act,  response to CDO madness, industry, 
increasing deregulation,  – economists’ concerns over
moratorium on OTC response to recession and stability of, 
regulation,  loss of credit, – Goldman Sachs collapse,
mortgage underwriting Corrigan, E. Gerald, ,  , 
standards, – Counterparty Risk Greenspan’s concerns over,
regulating subprime Management Policy –
mortgage lending,  Group,  housing entanglement in
regulating thrifts,  Countrywide, xxiii securities market, 
Resolution Trust agencies’ peer group study mechanism of, 
Corporation,  of mortgage practices, reducing subprime exposure
savings and loan crisis,  – through, 
shadow banking,  BofA acquisition,  regulators’ reaction to the
TARP, ,  commercial paper casualty, CDO madness, 
”too big to fail” principle,  – synthetic CDO growth,
Congressional Budget Office, expanding mortgage –
,  originations,  systemic risk after Bear
Congressional Oversight Panel, GSE delinquent loans,  Stearns collapse, –
xii, ,  GSE penetration into 
Conover, C. Todd,  subprime markets,  See also Collateralized debt
Conseco,  improper foreclosures,  obligations
Consolidated Supervised Entity mortgage fraud,  Credit expansion, –
(CSE) program, – mortgage originations,  Credit markets, xvi, –
,  nontraditional loans,  Credit ratings/credit rating
Consumer Advisory Council of option ARMs, – agencies, xxv, 
the Federal Reserve recognition of long-term AIG CDO involvement
Board,  vulnerability, xxii relying on, –
Consumer and Community single-cause theories,  AIG downgrade, 
Affairs Division (Federal Cox, Christopher, xxi, , , AIG valuation, 
Reserve),  , , , – as securitization watchdogs,
Consumer confidence,  Cox, Prentiss, – 
 INDEX

Credit ratings/credit rating risky assets combined with, Dugan, John, , , ,
agencies (continued) xx –
Bear Stearns Asset small businesses’ hesitancy Duke, Elizabeth, 
Management business, to take on new debt,  Duke, Ellen, 
 Defaults, mortgage, –, Dunhill CDO, 
Bear Stearns’ collapse, –, , –
– DEFCON calls, – Early payment defaults, 
CDO benefits, – Delinquencies, mortgage, – Economic crisis, 
CDO structuring, – , –, – AIG-Goldman dispute over
Citigroup,  Deposit insurance, . See also valuation, –
failure of subprime Federal Deposit AIG’s lack of concern over,
mortgage-backed Insurance Corporation –
securities, – Depository Institutions assessing liquidity risk
Lehman Brothers’ F rating, Deregulation and through repo markets,
 Monetary Control Act, –
Merrill Lynch’s   assessing systemic risk after
subprime exposure Deregulation of financial Bear Stearns collapse,
levels,  markets, xviii, , , –
role in the crisis,  – asset-backed commercial
shorting CDOs, – Derivatives, , – paper, 
structured finance,  assessing systemic risk after Bear Stearns’ collapse,
See also Moody’s; Standard Bear Stearns collapse, –
& Poor’s – BNP Paribas SA loss,
Credit scoring, ,  mortgage securitization,  –
Credit spreads,  OCC expansion of allowed Citigroup’s  subprime
Credit squeeze,  activities,  exposure level, –
Credit Suisse,  single-cause theories,  commercial banks’ decline,
Credit Suisse Institutional See also Over-the-counter –
Money Market Prime Countrywide’s ABCP loss,
(OTC) derivatives
Fund,  –
Desert Community Bank, 
Crittenden, Gary, ,  credit rating agencies’ lack
Dickerson, Chris, 
Cruise, Christopher, – of concern over, –
Dimon, Jamie, , , , ,
Cuomo, Andrew, –, ,  financial losses of ,
, , 
–
Dinallo, Eric, , 
financial market fallout, 
Dahlgren, Sarah,  Disclosure, –, 
IKB ABCP loss, –
Dallavechia, Enrico, – Disintermediation,  Merrill Lynch’s massive 
Darling, Alistair, ,  Ditech,  losses, –
Davidson, Andrew,  Documentation on mortgage money market funds,
Davilman, Andrew, –, loans, – –
– Dodd, Christopher, ,  monoline insurers, –
Dean Witter,  Dominguez, Nestor, –, mounting subprime losses
Debt levels, xvii ,  stressing the economy,
defaults on national debt,  Dot-com crash, –, –, 
Fannie Mae borrowing,   post-housing bust indicators
household debt after the Dow Jones average, , , of impending crisis,
recession,  , , – –
increase in household debt Drexel Burnham Lambert, , structured-investment
after , – – vehicles, –
increase in mortgage Dreyfus fund,  See also Financial crisis
indebtedness,  Drysdale,  Economic growth, 
s and s levels,  Dudley, William C., , , Economic Growth and
recession causing cutbacks, , ,  Regulatory Paperwork
– Due diligence, –,  Reduction Act (), 
INDEX 

Economic Stimulus Act,  leverage ratio, xx Mac). See Fannie


Economist magazine, ,  mission versus safety, Mae/Freddie Mac
Edwards, Jeffrey, – – Federal Housing Association
Ehrnman, Roger,  mortgage fraud,  (FHA), 
Eichel, Scott,  mortgage securitization, – Federal Housing Enterprises
Eichner, Matthew, , , , ,  Financial Safety and
,  mortgage-backed securities Soundness Act (),
Einhorn, David,  market, – –
Eisman, Steve,  OCC discovery of capital Federal Housing Finance
Emerging markets,  shortfall, – Agency (FHFA),
Enhanced cash funds,  originate-to-distribute –, 
Enron, , , , – mortgages,  Federal National Mortgage
Equity borrowing, – portfolio cap relief, – Association (Fannie
Ernst & Young (E&Y), – regulators’ critical concerns Mae). See Fannie
Ethics, xxii, – over, – Mae/Freddie Mac
European American Bank, role in crisis,  Federal Open Market
– sellers’ repurchasing Committee (FOMC)
European markets guaranteed loans, – AIG bailout, 
credit bubble, –
 Bear Stearns hedge funds,
EU requirement of U.S.
shadow banking,  
consolidated supervisor,
single-cause theories,  Countrywide’s ABCP
–
See also Government- casualty, –
single-cause theories,
sponsored enterprises declining housing prices in
–
Farrell, Mike,  , 
See also specific countries
Fass, Lloyd,  housing bubble
Excess liquidity, xxv–xxvi
Exchange-traded futures and Federal Bureau of Investigation presentation, –,
options,  (FBI), ,  
Federal Deposit Insurance restricting access to credit
Corporation (FDIC) after recession, 
Fair Isaac Corporation, 
AIG bailout,  Wachovia acquisition, 
Falcon, Armando, Jr., , ,
bank bailouts,  Federal Reserve

cash management accounts, allowing bank-ineligible
Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac, xix,
 activities, 
xxv–xxvi
Citigroup’s TARP funds,  assessing systemic risk after
bolstering the struggling
CRA lending,  Bear Stearns collapse,
housing market, –
capital increase, – creation of,  –
choice of meeting the deregulation,  Bank of America-Merrill
booming housing shutting down lending,  Lynch merger, 
market, – Wachovia acquisition,  Bear Stearns’ collapse,
conservatorship, ,  Washington Mutual’s –
credit scoring,  impending collapse, Citigroup ban, 
dual missions,  – Citigroup’s CDO business,
FHFA criticism of Washington Mutual’s  –
management, – decline,  Commercial Paper Funding
financial sector growth,  Federal Deposit Insurance Facility, 
foreclosure donations,  Corporation community development
foreign investment flows, Improvement Act commitments, 
– (FDICIA),  concerns after Bear Stearns
government backing despite Federal Home Loan Bank of collapse, –
declining performance, Chicago,  Countrywide’s ABCP
– Federal Home Loan Banks,  casualty, 
history and development of, Federal Home Loan Mortgage CSE program, 
– Corporation (Freddie dot-com crash, 
 INDEX

Federal Reserve (continued) concerns over Lehman Enforcement Act


failure to halt toxic liquidity, – (FIRREA; ), 
mortgage flows, xvii failure to control Citigroup’s Financial sector growth, –
Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac excesses, xviii Financial shock and panic, ,
mission,  GSE emergency loans,  –
Federal Open Market GSEs’ capital surcharge,  Finn, Mike, 
Committee, – housing bubble First Alliance Mortgage
financial crisis of ,  presentations, – Company, , 
financial losses of , lack of preparation for crisis, First American Bank, 
– xxi–xxii First Data Corporation, 
government housing policy measuring investment bank First Union Bank, 
contributing to liquidity risk,  Fitch Ratings, , . See also
irresponsible lending, Morgan Stanley’s stress Credit ratings/credit
xxvii during the financial rating agencies
HOEPA hearings, – crisis, – Fixed-rate mortgages, 
ignoring warning signs in OTC regulation, – Flight to quality, 
housing industry, –,  plea for mortgage lending Flipping loans, 
interest rate hikes, – rules,  Floating mortgage rate, –
JP Morgan acquisition of Federal Trade Commission Florida
Bear Stearns,  (FTC), – delinquency rate, 
lack of preparation for crisis, Federated Investors, –, foreclosure increases, 
xxi–xxii  impact of foreclosures on
Lehman Brothers collapse, Fed-Lite, ,  families and children,
, – Ferguson, Roger, –, ,  
LTCM disaster,  Ferrer, Wilfredo A.,  mortgage delinquency, 
measuring investment bank FICO score, , , – underwater mortgages,
liquidity risk, – Fidelity,  (fig.)
monetary policy Financial Accounting Standards Flowers, Christopher, –
contributing to credit Board,  Fons, Jerome, –
bubble, – Financial Control Group Fontana, Thomas, 
predatory lending practices, (Citigroup),  Foreclosure assistance
– Financial Crimes Enforcement programs, –, 
President’s Working Group Network (FinCEN), , Foreclosures
on Financial Markets,  – Bakersfield, California, 
Recourse Rule, – Financial crisis,  causes of, –
refusal to investigate fraud, AIG bailout, – CDO losses resulting from,
 Bank of America, – 
risks of innovations,  Citigroup, – figures on, xv
shadow banking,  fallout from,  impact of recession on, 
short-term interest rates impact on today’s economy, initiatives to stem, –
after  recession,   rate of, 
subprime mortgage lending money market funds, – renters as victims, 
regulation,   rising rate of and ongoing
system failure through Morgan Stanley response, damage from, –
contagion, – – systemic flaws in lending
TALF program,  OTC derivatives, – practices, –
Wachovia acquisition,  TARP, – Foreign investors
Wachovia’s  decline, Wachovia’s liquidity AIG Financial Projects
 concerns, – CDOs, 
Federal Reserve Act,  Washington Mutual, – asset-backed commercial
Federal Reserve Bank of New  paper programs
York See also Economic crisis casualties, –
AIG bailout, –,  Financial Institutions Reform, CMLTI loans, (fig.)
Citigroup decline,  Recovery, and global savings glut, –
INDEX 

Forster, Andrew, , , , GE Asset Management Trust CDO structuring, ,
 Enhanced Cash Trust, –
France  compensation, 
house price appreciation, GE Capital, –,  CSE oversight, 
–, (fig.) Geanakoplos, John,  financial sector growth, 
housing bubble, – Geithner, Timothy, xxi–xxii fraud over synthetic CDOs,
Frank, Barney, , – AIG bailout, , ,  –
Fraud Bear Stearns’ collapse, , IKB as casualty of ABCP
accounting scrutiny of  programs, –
GSEs, – Citigroup decline,  Maiden Lane payments,
AIG’s reduced credit rating Citigroup’s CDO crisis, –
over manipulated – OTC derivatives, –
concerns over Lehman’s reducing subprime
earnings, –
liquidity, ,  exposure, –
Ameriquest, –
Counterparty Risk run on the bank, 
authorities’ refusal to
Management Policy synthetic CDOs, xxvi
investigate, –
Group,  See also Investment banks
Bakersfield housing market,
housing entanglement in Goldschmid, Harvey, –
–
securities market,  Gonzales, Alberto, , 
contributing to the housing Goodman, Laurie, , 
bubble and crisis,  Lehman Brothers
bankruptcy, , – Gorton, Gary, , , 
crime-facilitative Government actions and
environments for money market funds, 
agencies
mortgage fraud, – on market disruption and
AIG bailout, 
Fannie Mae,  panic, –
Ameriquest fraud
improper foreclosures,  TARP, –
investigation, –
increases between  and Gelband, Michael, –
Bank of America-Merrill
, xxii General Accounting Office
Lynch merger, –
mortgage securitization,  (GAO), , 
closing shortfalls after
Gensler, Gary, 
OTC derivatives,  recession, –
Gibson Greeting Cards, 
selling toxic funds to concerns over Lehman
Ginnie Mae, , 
investors, – Brothers solvency,
Glass-Steagall Act (), , –
state regulation of housing,
, , –,  credit ratings’ link to
–
Glenn, David,  regulation, –
synthetic CDOs, –
Global capital flows, – critical concerns over GSEs,
underwriting standards,
Global Financial Stability –
–
Report of the IMF,  failure to challenge financial
Fraud Enforcement and
Globalization of financial industry, –
Recovery Act (), xi
markets, xvii Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac
Freezing, financial, –
Gnaizda, Bob,  lobbyists, –
Fremont Investment & Loan,
Gold rush mentality, – federal and state
, 
Golden West Savings, , government regulation
Friedman, Paul,  – of banks, 
Froeba, Mark,  Goldman Sachs federal and state response to
Frost, Alan, –, – AIG dispute over subprime the financial crisis and
Fuld, Richard, , –, exposure, – recession, –
–, ,  AIG downgrade,  GSE backing despite
Fulmer, Ann,  AIG failure, – declining liquidity,
Funded investors, (fig.) AIG’s CDO involvement,  –
Futures and options,  Bear Stearns’ collapse,  inflated housing appraisals,
Bear Stearns’ toxic hedge 
Garn-St. Germain Act (),  funds, – Lehman Brothers’
Gasvoda, Kevin,  Buffett investment,  bankruptcy, –
 INDEX

Government actions and Green Street Advisors,  Habayeb, Elias, , 
agencies (continued) Green Tree Financial,  Halloran, Michael, 
peer group study of Greenberg, Alan,  Hawke, John, , 
mortgage practices, Greenberg, Maurice “Hank,” Hayman Capital Partners,
– – –
policy makers’ lack of Greenberger, Michael,  Hedge funds
preparation for crisis, Greenspan, Alan Bear Stearns’ collapse, 
xxi–xxii accepting guidance,  Bear Stearns’ toxicity, –
refusal to acknowledge acknowledging housing 
potential crash,  market drop, – BSAM business, –
refusal to heed warning advocating deregulation,  economists’ concerns over,
signs of nontraditional CRA lending,  
loans, – defending decisions,  Fed faith in Bear Stearns, xxi
response to financial crisis, delinking Fed interest rate housing entanglement in
– hikes and real estate securities market, 
single-cause theories,  bubble,  LTCM collapse, 
system failure through deregulating bank Merrill Lynch, 
contagion, – consolidation,  shadow banking, 
TARP, – deregulation of financial surviving the financial crisis,
Wachovia’s liquidity markets, xviii,  
concerns,  dot-com crash,  See also Derivatives
See also Bailouts; Congress, economic growth and Hempstead, Todd, , 
U.S.; Federal Reserve; financial resilience, 
Hendricks, Darryll, –
Office of the Comptroller expansion of banks’ allowed
High-Grade Structured Credit
of the Currency; Office activities, 
Strategies Enhanced
of Thrift Supervision; Fed’s failure of housing
Leverage Fund, ,
Regulation/regulators; regulation, 
–
Securities and Exchange housing bubble spread, 
High-Grade Structured Credit
Commission; Treasury housing entanglement in
Strategies Fund, ,
Department, U.S. securities market, 
, –
Government housing policy, interest-rate cuts, 
High-yield mortgage securities,
xxv–xxvi, xxvii, ,  international credit bubble,
Government National  
Mortgage Association LTCM collapse,  Hockett, Ben, 
(Ginnie Mae), ,  monetary policy Home Affordable Modification
Government-sponsored contributing to credit Program (HAMP), –
enterprises (GSEs) bubble,  
conservatorship, , – OTC derivative regulation, Home Mortgage Disclosure
due diligence, – – Act, 
flawed business model, xxvi predatory lending practices, Home Ownership and Equity
housing market drop, , –, – Protection Act
 regulators’ declining (HOEPA), –, ,
mortgage delinquency, influence in the housing –, , –,
– bubble,  –
See also Fannie Mae/Freddie risks of innovations, – Home starts, 
Mac subprime mortgage lending Homebuilder Comfort Homes
Gramlich, Edward, –, , regulation,  of Florida LLC, 
– Greenspan put, – HomeKeeper Program, New
Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act Gregory, Joseph,  Jersey, 
(GLBA; ), , , , Grenadier Funding,  Homelessness, 
,  GSC Partners, – Homeownership figures, , ,
Grand Teton National Park Guidance, –,  
conference,  Gussmann, David,  Household Finance Corp., 
Grant, James,  Gutfreund, John,  Household wealth, xv–xvi
INDEX 

Housing and Economic job and industry growth causes of foreclosure,


Recovery Act (HERA), after , – –
 Lehman’s increasing risk, correlating mortgage-
Housing and Urban – backed securities to,
Development leveraged loans and –
Department (HUD) commercial real estate, credit-induced price boom,
affordable housing goals, – –
xxvi–xxvii,  Moody’s denial of,  crisis fallout, –
Ameriquest fraud mortgage fraud, – Fed interest rate cut, 
investigation, – owning the risk, – hybrid ARMS, 
Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac policy makers’ lack of increases leading to
debt,  awareness, xxi proliferation of
foreclosure donations,  predatory lending practices, nontraditional mortgage
GSE penetration into – products, 
subprime markets, – predicting the burst, – investors’ assumptions about
 quality control in the the movement of, 
predatory lending report,  mortgage industry, – mortgage lenders’ betting on
subprime mortgage lending  rising prices, 
real estate boom generating s bubble, –
regulation, 
jobs,  peak values, 
Housing bets, –
regulators’ declining risk concentration, 
Housing bubble, xvi
influence, –  drops in, 
as warning sign, 
risky asset holdings, xx Housing starts, 
authorities’ refusal to
role in the crisis,  HUD-Treasury report, , 
acknowledge, –
single-cause theories, Hunt, Dawn, –
bank borrowing and
– Hybrid ARMS, –
mortgage interest rates, Hybrid CDOs, , 
See also Foreclosures;
(fig.)
Housing bust; Mortgage-
banks’ expansion into
backed securities market; IBGYBG (“I’ll be gone, you’ll
emerging markets, –
Subprime lending be gone”), , 
betting against CDOs, 
Housing bust IKB Deutsche Industriebank,
big bank bets and bank
CDO downgrades, – –, –
failures, – delinquencies, – Immigrants, housing fraud and,
causes of, – financial consequences,  
CDS role in ending, , impact on families and Impaired securities, (fig.)
 communities,  Independent finance
community and economic legal remedies, – companies, 
links to, – rating downgrades, – Independent mortgage lenders,
components and possible risk concentration, – –
causes, – Housing discrimination, xxvii Inflated housing appraisals,
credit-induced price boom, Housing policy. See –
– Government housing Inflation, 
economic growth and policy Initial public offerings (IPOs)
financial resilience,  Housing prices of stocks, 
Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac after  recession, – Insurance, . See also
involvement, xxvi, appreciation in selected American International
– countries, –, Group
foreign investment flows, (fig.) Interbank lending, cost of,
– Bakersfield, California,  (fig.)
government incentives for bank borrowing and Interest rates, . See also
homeownership,  mortgage interest rates, Short-term interest rates
inflated appraisals, – (fig.) Interest-only loans, , , 
international spread of, , boom and bust from  to International Monetary Fund
– , – (IMF), 
 INDEX

Internet-based trading,  system failure through risk concentration, 


Interthinx,  contagion, – Washington Mutual sale,
Investment banks ”too big to fail,” – 
as root cause of crisis,  See also Bear Stearns; Junk mortgages, 
assessing systemic risk after Goldman Sachs; Lehman Justice Department, –
Bear Stearns collapse, Brothers; Merrill Lynch;
– Morgan Stanley Kashkari, Neel, 
buying and selling home Ireland Keefe, Kirsten, 
loans,  house price appreciation, Kelly, Austin, 
community development –, (fig.) Kerr, John, –
commitments, – housing bubble, – Keystone Bank, , 
compensation packages, Kim, Dow, , –
– Jackson, Alphonso,  Kimball, Andrew, –
Consolidated Supervised Jamison, Bill,  King, Mervyn, 
Entity program, – Jobs Kirby, Mike, 
consolidation of insurance, effects of recession on, – Kirk, Alex, 
banks and securities  KKR equity firm, 
firms,  financial sector losses after Kleros Real Estate Funding III,
controversy over Lehman crisis and recession, – –
Brothers collapse, –  Klio I, II, and III, –
 housing industry growth in Klipsch, Mark, , 
dot-com crash, – , – Kohn, Daniel, 
EU demand for U.S. jobless recovery,  Kolchinsky, Eric, , ,
oversight,  real estate boom generating –
jobs,  Korea Development Bank, 
excessive borrowing, risky
See also Unemployment Kovacevich, Richard, , 
investments, and lack of
Johnson, Keith, – Krimminger, Michael, 
transparency, xix–xx
failure and loss of Jost, Jerry, –
JP Morgan Land use restrictions, housing
confidence, 
Bear Stearns’ collapse, – bubble and, 
financial losses of ,
,  Large Bank Supervision
–
Bear Stearns’ collapse Handbook, 
financial sector growth, 
leading to risk LaTorre, Alejandro, –
Lehman Brothers collapse
awareness, – Lattanzio, Dale, 
triggering financial
Bear Stearns purchase, , Lazear, Edward, 
panic, –
 Leach, Brian, –
leveraged loans and Bear Stearns’ toxic hedge Leadership Conference on Civil
commercial real estate, funds,  Rights, 
– community development Lehman Brothers
liquidity risk measures, commitments,  accounting irregularity,
– compensation,  –
LTCM leveraging strategy, consolidation and growth of AIG bailout, 
 banks,  bankruptcy, –,
mortgage fraud, – credit default swaps,  –
repo market and financial crisis,  bankruptcy versus failure,
commercial paper financial sector growth,  –
market,  GSE delinquent loans,  Bear Stearns’ toxic hedge
runs on, – Lehman Brothers’ funds, –
securitization,  bankruptcy, –, compensation, 
shadow banking, ,  – concerns after Bear Stearns
solvency and liquidity mortgage-backed securities failure, –
failure,  market losses,  controversy over failure of,
subprime origination and reducing exposure to –
securitization,  Lehman,  failure triggering crisis, xvi
INDEX 

failure triggering financial AIG, – Madness, –


panic, – Bear Stearns collapse, – Magnetar, 
financial crisis,  , (fig.) Maheras, Thomas, , , 
financial sector growth,  Citigroup,  Mai, Jamie, 
increasing risk burden, derivatives markets, – Maiden Lane LLC, , –
–  Maker, Ruhi, –
lenders’ and supervisors’ GSEs’ government backing, Mann, Karen, –, , 
concerns over liquidity, – Marano, Thomas, –,
– GSEs’ portfolio cap relief, , 
Maiden Lane payments,  – Market Risk Amendment to
management refusal to investment banks after Bear Basel rules, 
acknowledge housing Stearns collapse, – Market share, Moody’s
bubble risks, – Lehman Brothers, – emphasis on, –
Primary Fund holdings in Lehman’s lenders’ and Mark-to-market accounting,
, – supervisors’ concerns , –, , ,
regulators’ concerns over over, – , , , 
liquidity, – overdependence on short- Martin, William, 
repo market as liquidity risk term liquidity,  Martinez, Mel, 
measure, – role in the crisis,  Masters, Michael, –
See also Investment banks Litigation Mayer, Christopher, 
Leverage risk, xx Goldman Sachs,  Mayo, Michael, 
Bear Stearns Asset over delinquencies, – MBIA, , , , ,
Management business, Loan Prospector,  –
– Loan-to-value (LTV) ratios, McCarthy, Callum, 
Bear Stearns “window –,  McCleskey, Scott, 
dressing” to lower ratio, Lobbying McCoy, Patricia, 
– causes of the crisis,  McCulley, Paul, , 
CDOs,  deregulation of bank McDade, Bart, , , 
financial sector growth,  consolidation,  McDaniel, Raymond, –,
GSEs,  dismantling Glass-Steagall, , 
investment banks’ – McDermott, Jeannie, 
increasing levels from Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac, McDonough, William, 
, – – McGinn, Kevin, , 
Lehman’s stake in Archstone Lockhart, James, , , – McQuade, Eugene, 
Smith, – , –,  Medicaid, 
leveraged loans and Lombard-Wall,  Meier, Steven, 
commercial real estate, Loney, Glenn,  Memorandum of
– Long Beach Mortgage, – understanding (MOU),
LTCM, – Long Beach Savings and Loan, , 
OTC derivatives,   Mergers
role in the crisis,  Long-Term Capital Bank of America-Merrill
shadow banking, ,  Management (LTCM), Lynch, –
Levin, Robert, –, – –, –, ,  Citigroup expansion, –
, , , ,  Low-documentation loans, Merrill Lynch
Levitt, Arthur, ,  – AIG’s CDO involvement, 
Lewis, Ken, ,  Lowitt, Ian,  Bank of America merger,
Lewis, Robert,  Ludwig, Eugene,  –
Liar loans,  Lund, Thomas, –, , Bear Stearns’ toxic hedge
Lindsey, Lawrence, , , ,  – fund, 
Lippmann, Greg,  cash management accounts,
Liquidity puts, –, , M Prime model,  
, – Macciaroli, Michael, ,  CDO losses, , –
Liquidity risk/liquidity failure, Mack, John, ,  CDO structuring, 
 Madigan, Lisa, – compensation, 
 INDEX

Merrill Lynch (continued) housing bust,  impact of CDOs on, –
corporate governance mortgage-backed securities 
breakdown, xix market, – increasing homeownership
Countrywide’s ABCP loss, structured finance,  after , –
 structured-investment second mortgages, 
credit default swaps,  vehicles,  shadow banking, –
financial sector growth,  See also Credit ratings/credit state regulation, –
JP Morgan reducing rating agencies toxic financial assets
exposure to,  Moral hazard,  stemming from, –
massive  losses, – Morgan Stanley underwriting standards,
mortgage-backed securities asset growth,  –
market losses,  compensation packages, See also Foreclosures;
OTC claims,  – Housing bubble;
reducing subprime exposure CSE oversight,  Housing bust
through CDS,  due diligence,  Mortgage modification
repo market as liquidity risk financial crisis, – programs, , 
measure,  GSE review,  Mortgage-backed securities
See also Investment banks mortgage-backed securities market, –
Mewbourne, Chris,  market losses,  Bear Stearns’ collapse, –
Michalek, Richard, ,  repo market as liquidity risk 
Michigan: underwater measure,  billion-dollar losses, 
mortgages, (fig.) subprime originators,  BSAM involvement, –
Miller, Harvey, , – CDOs stimulating demand
See also Investment banks
Mills, Susan,  for, –
Morrice, Brad, 
Minimum capital standards,  collapsing lending standards
Mortgage Bankers Association,
Minow, Nell,  fueling crisis, xxiii–xxiv
, , 
Mishkin, Frederic,  commercial real estate, –
Mortgage brokers, –, 
Mission Bank, Bakersfield, 
Mortgage bubble, –
California,  credit rating agencies
Mortgage Electronic
Mital, Aseem,  enabling meltdown, xxv
Registration Systems,
Mitsubishi UFJ,  ethical breakdown in loan
Inc. (MERS), –
Monetary policy contributing behavior, xxii
to credit bubble, xxv– Mortgage fraud. See Fraud financial creativity, –
xxvi, – Mortgage Insurance Companies GSE role in, –
Money market mutual funds, of America,  GSE securities maintaining
–, –, –, Mortgage Lenders Network, value, xxvi
, –,  – high-risk products, –
The Money Store,  Mortgage lending improper foreclosures, 
Monoline insurers, –, asset-backed commercial international housing
– paper programs, – bubbles, 
Moody’s,  community development money market collateral,
AIG downgrade, – commitments, – –
AIG valuation system,  crime-facilitative Moody’s downgrading of,
asset-backed commercial environments for –
paper programs, – mortgage fraud, – Moody’s involvement in,
 four Cs of,  –
breakdown in mortgage- funding for, (fig.) mortgage modification to
related securities, xxv government regulators’ hold off foreclosure, 
CDO machine, –, failure to challenge non-GSE, 
– financial industry, – over-the-counter
commercial real estate GSE goals,  derivatives, xxiv–xxv
status,  GSEs’ increasing importance players involved in, –
early payment default in ,  policy makers’ failure to
evaluation, – housing price surge and,  control, xviii–xix
INDEX 

potential hazards of, – underwater mortgages, Office of Thrift Supervision


rating agencies’ confusion (fig.) (OTS)
over failure of, – Nevada Fair Housing, Inc., , AIG liquidity failure, ,
securitization transforming  –
mortgages into,  New Century, –, , , AIG oversight, 
subprime originators,  , –,  AIG valuation, 
synthetic CDO growth,  New York Stock Exchange Countrywide’s ABCP
toxicity of,  (NYSE),  casualty, 
value by ,  NIR Capital Management,  CRA compliance, 
See also Collateralized debt No-documentation loans, – deregulating bank
obligations; Fannie  consolidation, 
Mae/Freddie Mac; Non-agency mortgages,  early concerns about
Housing bubble; Nontraditional mortgages, . housing-securities
Housing bust; Subprime See also Subprime entanglement, 
lending lending Lehman’s increased risk, 
Mosser, Patricia,  Norma CDO,  mortgage guidance, –
Moynihan, Brian,  North Carolina: state regulation regulating subprime
Mozilo, Angelo, –, , , of predatory lending,  mortgage lending, 
–, – Notional amount of OTC state regulation of mortgage
MSCI World Index stock fund, derivatives, – lending, , , –
 Washington Mutual’s 
Mudd, Daniel, , , – Office of Federal Housing decline, 
Enterprise Oversight See also Government actions
, , , –
(OFHEO), –, and agencies
Mueller, Robert, 
–, , –, Ohio: foreclosure increases, 
Mukasey, Michael, , 
–, –, Olson, Mark, , , 
Murton, Arthur, 
– O’Neal, Stanley, , , , 
Office of the Comptroller of the Option ARM loans, xxiii, –
Najarian, Ed,  , –, 
Currency (OCC)
Naked credit default swaps,  Orange County, California, 
CDO regulation, 
National Archives and Records Orient Point CDO, 
Citigroup decline, –
Administration, xii Originate-to-distribute, 
Citigroup’s  subprime
National Association of exposure,  Originate-to-hold, 
Realtors,  Citigroup’s CDO business, Origination and securitization
National City, ,  – of subprime mortgage
National Conference of State CRA lending,  lending, –, , ,
Legislatures,  deregulating bank –
National Consumer Law Center consolidation,  Oversight
(NCLC),  expansion of banks’ Consolidated Supervised
National League of Cities,  admissible activities,  Entity program, –
National recognized statistical GSE review,  housing appraisers, 
rating organization guidance,  OTC derivatives market, 
(NRSRO),  ignoring complaints of See also
National Transportation Safety nontraditional loans,  Regulation/regulators
Board, xii mortgage guidance delay, Over-the-counter (OTC)
NationsBank, – – derivatives, xxiv–xxv, ,
Nevada regulating subprime , –, –,
commercial real estate bust, mortgage lending,  –, –
 state regulation of mortgage Ownit Mortgage Solutions, 
delinquency rate,  lending, , , –
foreclosure increases,  Wachovia’s  decline, Paine Webber, 
impact of foreclosures on  Palumbo, Michael, 
children,  See also Government actions Pandit, Vikram, , ,
mortgage delinquency,  and agencies –
 INDEX

Panic: systemic freezing in Political action committees. See jobs and house prices, –
financial markets, – Lobbying 
, , – Pontell, Henry N.,  Reconstruction Finance
Park, Gene, , –, Pooling loans,  Corporation, 
– Population growth, housing Recourse Rule, –
Parker, Ed, ,  bubble and,  Redlining, xxvii
Parkinson, Patrick, , , Porter, Katherine,  Reed, John, , –, 
, , – Portfolio cap relief, – Refinancing, , –
Parmer, Darcy,  Predatory lending practices, – Regulation Z, 
Pastine, Armand,  , , –. See also Regulation/regulators
Patterson, Scott,  Subprime lending AIG liquidity failure,
Paulson, Henry President’s Working Group on –
Bear Stearns’ collapse,  Financial Markets, ,  asset-backed commercial
BofA-Merrill Lynch merger, Price, Joe,  paper programs, 
 Price, Mike,  Bear Stearns collapse,
Goldman Sachs collapse, PricewaterhouseCoopers, , –
– , ,  CDO structuring, –
GSE, concerns over Primary Dealer Credit Facility checks and balances of
potential failure of, , (PDCF), –, , banking regulation, 
,  ,  Citigroup expansion, –
GSE capital increase,  Prince, Charles, , , , Citigroup’s CDO business,
GSE receivership, – , , , , 
lack of concern over – commercial banks’ 
housing bubble, xxi Private mortgage insurance downturn, –
Lehman collapse, , , (PMI) companies,  concerns over Lehman’s
, – Private-label securities, ,  liquidity, –
Recourse Rule,  Procter & Gamble, – Consolidated Supervised
response to financial crisis, Property taxes,  Entity program, –
– Public Employees Retirement CRA lending, 
subprime exposure as Association plan credit ratings’ link to,
indicator of impending (Colorado),  –
crisis,  Putnam, Tom,  dual banking system, 
synthetic CDOs, – Putnam Investments,  failures in regulation and
TARP, – supervision aiding crisis,
underestimating the xviii
Qualified purchasers, 
housing bust,  futures and options
Quality standards, 
Pay-as-you-go CDSs, – exchange, 
Payment shock loans,  Quants (quantitative analysts), Glass-Steagall Act, , ,
Payment-option ARMS,   , –, 
Penn Central Transportation Quick Flip, Operation, – Goldman Sachs’s CDO
Company,  structuring, 
Pension funds: credit ratings Raines, Franklin,  government obstacles to
reliance,  Rajan, Raghuram,  regulating unfair lending
Pension plans, economic Ranieri, Lewis, , –, practices, 
fallout,  –,  GSE review, –
Performance index, – Real estate credit bubble,  GSEs’ capital increase,
Peterson, Warren, ,  Recession (),  –
Piggyback lending,  Recession (–),  housing bubble, –
PIMCO, –,  commercial real estate, inflated housing appraisals,
Pinto, Ed,  – 
Plepler, Andrew,  governments’ struggle to international credit bubble,
Poethig, Erika,  close shortfalls, – 
Policymaking. See Government impact on small businesses mortgage securitization, –
actions and agencies and families, – , 
INDEX 

OCC expansion of allowed Ricciardi, Chris, ,  Rosner, Joshua, 
activities,  Riegle-Neal Interstate Banking Rubin, Robert, , , , ,
OTC derivatives,  and Branching Efficiency , 
over-the-counter Act,  Russian debt crisis, , 
derivatives, xxiv–xxv “Risk Governance Diagnostic:
predatory lending practices, Recommendations and St. Denis, Joseph, 
– Case for Economic Salaries. See Compensation
reaction to the CDO Capital Development” packages
madness,  (Bear Stearns report), Salomon Brothers, , 
Recourse Rule, – – Sambol, David, –, 
shadow banking, – Risk management Sand states. See Arizona;
single-cause theories,  assessing systemic risk after California; Florida;
state regulation of mortgage Bear Stearns collapse,
Nevada
lending, , –, –
Sandler, Herb, , , , 
– bank failure, –
Sarbanes, Paul, 
subprime mortgage lending, big bank failure, 
Savings and loan crisis, –
– commercial banks’ 
Savitt, Marc S., 
synthetic CDOs,  downturn, –
Schapiro, Mary, 
TARP, – compensation structures,
Schwartz, Alan, , , ,
”too big to fail” principle,  –
–, 
See also Deregulation of concentration in largest
Schwartz, Faith, 
financial markets; firms, 
Schwartz, Laura, , 
Federal Reserve corporate governance’s
Scion Capital, –
Reich, John, –,  failure to control, xviii–
Sebring Capital, 
Reinhart, Vincent,  xix
Rejected loans, – derivatives, – Second mortgages, 
Renters,  emerging markets, – Securities and Exchange
Repo market, –, – GSE penetration into Commission (SEC)
assessing systemic risk after subprime market, – AIG valuation, 
Bear Stearns collapse,  Bear Stearns’ collapse, –
– high-risk products mortgage , , 
Bear Stearns’ collapse, , products, – CDO regulation, 
–,  housing bust resulting from, Citigroup’s CDO business,
Bear Stearns hedge funds, – 
– housing industry,  Consolidated Supervised
BNP Paribas ABCP loss,  Lehman’s stake in Archstone Entity program, –
borrowing levels, (fig.) Smith, – deregulating bank
BSAM involvement,  LTCM collapse,  consolidation, 
JP Morgan’s systemic risk mortgage lending,  dismantling Glass-Steagall,
concerns,  option ARMs,  
liquidity risk measures, regulators’ declining due diligence and
– influence on the housing disclosure, , –
regulators’ concerns over industry,  failure to protect financial
Bear Stearns failure,  repricing of risk, – system, xviii
regulatory changes boosting role in the crisis,  fixed commissions on stock
growth,  structured finance, – trades, –
shutting down lending,  See also Liquidity Lehman Brothers’ decline
Reserve Primary Fund, , risk/liquidity failure and collapse, , –
– Risk-focused approach to 
Residential mortgage-backed regulation, – Lehman’s disregard of risk
securities, (fig.) Robo-signers,  management, 
Resolution Trust Corporation Roeder, Douglas,  LTCM collapse, 
(RTC), – Rokakis, James, ,  Merrill Lynch’s 
Rhineland program, – Roseman, Alan, ,  subprime exposure, 
 INDEX

Securities and Exchange Seven deadly frictions in Stages of the crisis, 
Commission (SEC) mortgage securitization, Staley, Jes, 
(continued)  Standard & Poor’s  Index, 
Merrill Lynch’s CDO Shadow banking, –, –, Standard & Poor’s (S&P)
business,  –, ,  AIG downgrade, –
money market fund Shafran, Steve,  Bear Stearns’ collapse, –
accounting,  Shearson,  
monoline insurers,  Shelby, Richard,  mortgage securitization, 
Moody’s rating of mortgage- Shelf registration,  structured finance, 
backed securities and Sherwood, Michael, ,  See also Credit ratings/credit
CDOs, – Shiller, Robert,  rating agencies
OTC derivatives,  Shock and panic, , – State government: lending
President’s Working Group Short investors, –, regulations, , –,
on Financial Markets,  (fig.), , –, –
repo markets indicating – State Street Global Advisors,
liquidity risk,  Short-term borrowing, costs of, 
Reserve Primary Fund,  (fig.) Steel, Robert, , –,
– Short-term interest rates, , , 
shadow banking,  , ,  Stein, Kevin, , –
subprime exposure as Short-term liquidity,  Stein, Roger, 
indicator of impending Shu, Sihan, – Stephan, Jeffrey, 
crisis,  Shumer, Charles,  Stock market, xvi, 
synthetic CDOs, – Siddique, Sabeth, –,  Stock options, 
Securities Industry Association, Siegel, Jay, – Structured Credit committee,
 Sieracki, Eric,  
Securitization, , – SIGTARP, – Structured finance, , –
early concerns about Simpson, William A.,  Structured Investment Vehicles,
housing-securities Single-cause explanations, 
entanglement,  – Structured-investment vehicles
end of the boom,  Sirri, Erik, , ,  (SIVs), –
housing bust, – Sivak, Edward,  Subprime lending, (fig.)
role in the crisis,  Small businesses, , – adjustable-rate mortgages,
subprime mortgage lending, Smith Barney,  
–, – Snow, John, ,  adverse market conditions
transforming mortgages Société Générale Bank, , for lenders, –
into mortgage-backed –, – as warning sign, xvii
securities,  Solomon, Michael,  California, 
warehouse lending to Solomon, Peter J.,  Citigroup expansion, –
mortgage originators, Solvency failure,  Community Reinvestment
– Soundview Home Equity Loan Act, xxvii, –, –,
Senate Committee on Banking, Trust,  –, 
Housing, and Urban Southern Pacific Funding credit bust destabilizing
Affairs,  (SFC), – business models, –
Senate Permanent Spain delinquency, 
Subcommittee on house price appreciation, due diligence, 
Investigations, – –, (fig.) easy financing contributing
Senate Subcommittee on housing bubble, – to the housing bubble,
Economic Policy,  Spare tire theory, ,  
Senate Subcommittee on Sparks, Dan,  foreclosure causes, 
Housing, Transportation Special Inspector General for Goldman Sachs reducing
and Community TARP, xii exposure before the bust,
Development,  Spector, Warren,  –
Senderra Funding,  Spillenkothen, Richard,  increasing access to, –
Senior Loan Officer Survey,  Spitzer, Eliot, – increasing levels of, –
INDEX 

loan origination, (fig.), Technology bubble, – measuring investment bank


– Term Asset-Backed Securities liquidity risk, –
mortgage securitization, Loan Facility (TALF), mortgage fraud, , –
– ,  predatory lending report, 
OTC derivatives during the Term Auction Facility (TAF), President’s Working Group
financial crisis,   on Financial Markets, 
regulation, – Term Securities Lending savings and loan crisis, 
/ and / mortgages, Facility (TSLF), –, subprime mortgage lending,
– ,  –
See also Adjustable-rate Thain, John, ,  supporting GSEs, xxvi
mortgages; Housing Thomas, Jason,  TARP, –
bubble; Mortgage Thompson, Diane,  Trichet, Jean-Claude, 
lending; Mortgage- Thompson, Ken,  Tri-party repo market, –
backed securities market; / mortgages, – , –, –,
Predatory lending Timberwolf CDO,  , 
practices Triple-A mortgage-backed
“Too big to fail” (TBTF), ,
Subsidy: Fannie Mae/Freddie securities, 
–, –
Mac,  Troubled Asset Relief Program
Tourre, Fabrice, –
Sullivan, Martin, ,  (TARP), xii, , –
Tranches
Sumitomo Corporation,  , , , , ,
attraction of mortgage-
Summers, Lawrence, , –, , 
backed securities,
 Turner, Adair, 
– / mortgages, –
Sun, Jake, 
CDO structuring into,
Superior Bank, 
–
Super-senior tranches, xix, UBS Securities, , , –
CDOs creating demand for,
–, –, , , 
 –, (fig.)
Underemployment rate, –
Supreme Court: federal and Citigroup CDO structuring,
Underwater mortgages,
state government –
(fig.)
regulation of banks,  Citigroup liquidity puts, 
Underwriting standards, ,
Survey of Consumer Finances, Goldman Sachs’ synthetic
–
 CDOs, – Unemployment
Suspicious activity reports Moody’s ratings, – Cleveland, –
(SARs),  See also Collateralized debt during , 
SWAT teams,  obligations; Super-senior figures on, xv
Swecker, Chris, , – tranches foreclosure and, –
Synthetic CDOs, –, Tranching loans, , –, increase in metropolitan
(fig.), , , – (fig.), –, areas, 
, , . See also (fig.),  Unfettered markets, –
Collateralized debt Transparency, xix–xx United Kingdom
obligations Travelers Insurance: house price appreciation,
Synthetic securities, xvi,  deregulation of bank –, (fig.)
Syron, Richard, , –, consolidation,  housing bubble, –
–,  Treasury bills,  Lehman Brothers
Systemic failure, – Treasury bonds, – bankruptcy, –
Treasury Department, U.S. University endowments: credit
Tabe, Henry,  Citigroup TARP funds,  ratings reliance, 
Taking the name, – concerns over GSEs,  Upton, Robert, –, ,
Tannin, Matt, , – GSE emergency line of 
Taylor, John, , , ,  credit, 
Taylor rule,  lack of preparation for crisis, Value at Risk (VaR) model, ,
TCW Group, ,  xxi–xxii 
Technology: mortgage market Lehman Brothers collapse, Varley, John, 
modeling,  – Vasile, Marie, 
 INDEX

Vertical integration mortgage governance; Investment litigation over


model,  banks delinquencies, 
Veterans Administration (VA), Warehouse lending, – mortgage fraud, 
– Waring, Brad,  nontraditional loans, 
Vicente, Danielle,  Warne, Janice, ,  Wachovia acquisition, ,
Viniar, David, , ,  Warning signs, xvii, –, – –
Volcker, Paul, , – Warrack, Tom,  Westreich, Anthony, 
Warsh, Kevin, , , ,  Wilcox, Ellen, 
Washington Mutual, xxiii,  Williams, Clarence, 
Wachovia
agencies’ peer group study Williams, Julie, 
acquisition by Wells Fargo,
of mortgage practices, Willumstad, Robert, ,

 –
consolidation and growth of
financial crisis, – Wilson, David, 
banks, 
mortgage-backed securities Winer, Mark, –, –
credit default swaps,  deals, –
financial crisis, – 
nontraditional loans,  Winslow, F. Dana, –
Goldman Sachs’s CDOs, option ARMs, –
,  Witt, Gary, , , 
 decline, , – Wood, Jonathan, –
refusal to follow state Websites, xii WorldCom, 
regulation,  Weill, Nicolas, – Wyman, Oliver, –
 decline, – Weill, Sandy, , –
Wachter, Susan M.,  Wells Fargo
Wagner, Ira,  agencies’ peer group study Yield spread premiums, xxii
Wagstaff, Bruce,  of mortgage practices, Yingling, Edward, 
Waivers, mortgage loans,  Yoshizawa, Yuri, , 
– consolidation and growth of
Wall Street. See Banking; banks,  Zandi, Mark, , –
Commercial banks and financial sector growth,  Zero-loss tolerance concept,
thrifts; Corporate GSE delinquent loans,  

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