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President’s Working Group on Financial Markets documents

The President’s Working Group on Financial Markets met at 8:30 AM today to announce the specifics of the new policy actions described by the President in the Rose Garden earlier this morning. This note is just a collection of primary source documents from today’s announcement.  Generalists will likely be interested in the first six documents, [...]

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Subprime mortgages, part 2

This is part two (of two) of your crash course on problems and solutions in the mortgage markets.  Here’s part one.  There is also a great op-ed on the financial market impacts of these mortgage market problems.  It ran in today’s Financial Times, and was coauthored by two Administration officials:  Treasury Undersecretary for International Affairs [...]

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