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March 26, 2009—Remember last November, when the auto companies— CEOs flew in their corporate jets to beg the Senate Banking Committee for a taxpayer-funded bailout? After that public relations fiasco, the CEOs assumed contrite tones, assured Americans that they —got it, and promised to start running their ...

March 4, 2009—We hate to pick on Bank of America (BAC). Really we do. But we couldn't help it after noticing something new and interesting buried deep in this amended 8K filed late yesterday. We'll skip right to the good part: Adjustments to ...

February 12, 2009—Inspired by yesterday's marathon hearing that saw 8 of the nation's top banking titans subjected to hours of Congressional questions, I decided to do a little wandering through some filings from a few years ago, when things were decidedly rosier. It didn't take ...

February 5, 2009—While most of my attention was focused on the remarkable Harry Markopolos hearing yesterday, which I was live blogging on Twitter, it was hard to ignore the other big story of the day: President Obama's new rules on executive compensation that ...

November 18, 2008—There's been endless stories written about executive compensation for banks participating in Treasury's Capital Purchase Program. As the rules clearly spell out, compensation for the five named executives is capped at $500K and there's additional restrictions on so-called golden parachutes. But I've yet ...

November 14, 2008—The deadline for banks to apply for the Treasury Department's Capital Purchase Program is just hours away and as we've footnoted before, banks have been busily filing both their applications with Treasury and 8Ks with the SEC announcing their applications and approvals ...

November 11, 2008—Late yesterday, after a day of headlines like this one, General Motors (GM) filed an incredibly sober 10Q. Weighing in at 337 pages, GM seems to be worried that folks might not get through the whole thing. So they started off with ...