Category: Legislation and policy

Who says the price is unfair? Part 2, there’s what we did

5 August, 2009 (09:22) | Banking, Capital markets, Legislation and policy, TARP, US News, Warrants | No comments

[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]
 
Some weeks back, the first banks not only repaid their TARP advances (some of which they took under intense pressure to accede) but also bought back their warrants, for cash.  You’d think that seeing banks get out of hock and giving our deficit-ballooning government free cash would be a good thing, [...]

Who says the price is unfair? Part 1, there’s what we think …

4 August, 2009 (10:23) | Banking, Capital markets, Legislation and policy, TARP, US News, Warrants | No comments

Now that the first TARP-repaying-bank warrant repurchases have been completed, how did the repurchasing banks do, and how did we American taxpayers do?
 

Are we taxpayers winning?
 
A month ago, Treasury first cleared ten banks to repay their TARP funding, creating rules to sell its glass financial menagerie:
 
Submitted for your consideration, as discussed in this Wall Street [...]

Re-engineering the LIHTC value chain: Part 3, it’s fixable

3 June, 2009 (09:45) | Capital markets, LIHTC, Legislation and policy, Policy, Tax credits, Theory, US News, Value Chain | No comments

[Continued from yesterday's Part 2 and the preceding Part 1.]

So far, in the two posts expanding upon my analytical essay Rethinking and Reengineering the LIHTC Value Chain [.pdf, and worth downloading in full – Ed.], originally published on my for-profit company’s Web site and its email distribution list, we saw that (Part 1) [...]

Re-engineering the LIHTC value chain: Part 2, it may not self-repair

2 June, 2009 (11:32) | Capital markets, LIHTC, Legislation and policy, Policy, Tax credits, Theory, US News, Value Chain | No comments

[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]

In yesterday’s post introducing my analytical essay Rethinking and Reengineering the LIHTC Value Chain [.pdf, and worth downloading in full – Ed.], originally published, via my for-profit company’s Web site and its email distribution list, we saw that the US’s multifamily rental affordable housing finance ecosystem got disrupted by [...]

Re-engineering the LIHTC value chain: Part 1, it’s broken

1 June, 2009 (13:40) | Capital markets, LIHTC, Legislation and policy, Policy, Tax credits, Theory, US News, Value Chain | 1 comment

 A little over a month ago we published, via my for-profit company’s Web site and its email distribution list, an analytical essay Rethinking and Reengineering the LIHTC Value Chain [.pdf, and worth downloading in full – Ed.] that seeks to change the US’s housing finance ecosystem for the better by sounding a wakeup call for [...]