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NCAA: Mixed Messages
The phrase “student-athlete” has been used for a number of years, but recently it seems unsuitable for college athletics. In this series, a number of issues are spotlighted and they include “academics, the arms race, television money, the use of likenesses and images, and the myth of the four-year scholarship”. The main purpose of this series was to display the recent activities of college athletics and let you decide if the phrase “student-athlete” still applies.
Tags: athletic department; FOIA; Florida State; Rutgers University; sports; networks; money; grades; classroom; education
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"Tennessee Municipal Bond Fund"
For over 20 years, The Tennessee Municipal Bond Fund has built up a "powerful political network" throughout the state that provided financial perks to its leader and employees. The fund marketed itself as a "nonprofit," a claim that the Tennessean proved false.
Tags: Charles "Bones" Seivers; Metro Finance; Murfreesboro; Morristown; Rich Riebeling; Bank of America; campaign donations
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Inside the Financial Fiasco
In this series, it describes the underlying causes of the economic crisis. At the center of the problem were "stated-income loans, mortgages where the lenders never bothered to verify borrowers' incomes". Another cause to the crisis is the country's extraordinary amount of consumer debt. Also, now that we are in tough economic times scams are put together to target those in financial trouble and scamming them out of more money.
Tags: crisis; economy; financial; mortgage industry; investment banks; debt; banking; families; interest rates; credit; business
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USA Inc.: The State of Capitalism
The investigation delves into the hidden details surrounding the government's unprecedented intervention into business and the economy, specifically in regards to conflicts of interest at the New York Federal Reserve Bank and drastic actions taken by government officials to persuade and reward banks.
Tags: federal reserve; new york; banking; capitalism; bailout; government; united states; industry; intervention; regulation;
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Goldman Sachs: Low Road to High Finance
After the collapse of the financial market in the United States, there were many key components which played a large role in the devastation to many Americans. These key components mainly focus on major financial institutions, which played a large role in manipulating the mortgage and mortgage security markets. Furthermore, the institutions that should be keeping them honest, failed to do so.
Tags: Nation's financial sector; financial institutions; mortgage; market; American International Group (AIG); Federal Reserve Bank of New York; Moody's; Securities and Exchange Commission; Citigroup, Inc.; Bank of America Corp.
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"Dodik/RS Development Bank"
CIN reporters investigated a Bosnia-Herzegovina SIPA report that accused Republika Sprska Prime Minister Milorad Dodik of abusing his power by awarding financial "tenders" to friends. The CIN found flaws in the initial SIPA report. Reporters also reveal Dodik's control of the Investment-Development Bank of RS and detail their questionable loan distributions.
Tags: Bosnia-Herzegovina; SIPA; State Investigation and Protection Agency; Milorad Dodik; Investment-Development Bank of RS; Republika Sprska Prime Minister
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Banktracker
Banktracker is a project built to assess the financial health of every bank and credit union in the United States, and to disclose the information. The Troubled Asset Ratio serves as a measurement for bank safety.
Tags: banks; credit unions; safety; troubled assets; United States; financial health; benchmark; banktracker;
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Mortgage Meltdown: The Watchdogs Who Warned Us
"State, city, and local officials had warned of the coming subprime lending crisis since the late 1990s, but were thwarted by aggressive banking industry lobbying, sometimes with the support of federal bank regulators."
Tags: attorney; lawsuit; currency; mortgage; interest rate;
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Early on the Case: Identity Theft
A person's identity is stolen in the United States every three seconds. The investigation examined the underground world of identity theft and the online chat rooms where scammers buy and sell social security numbers, credit card information, bank account numbers and more. The series also investigated medical identity theft.
Tags: identity theft; scam; credit card; social security number; medical identity theft; chat room
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Way Ahead of the Curve
This is a series of three stories by senior writer David Evans that ran in the February, July and November issues of Bloomberg Markets magazine. In "The Risk Nightmare," (July 2008), Evans pierced the opacity and complexity of credit default swaps, unregulated securities that were supposed to act as a form of insurance and protect investors against risk. He found that CDS had built up so many interconnections that one player could jeopardize the entire financial system. In "Banks on the Edge" (November 2008), Evans reported that scores of regional banks across the U.S. would fail within a year because they hadn't yet realized their losses on defaulting mortgages. In "Peddling Tainted Debt to Florida," (February 2008), he reported that Lehman Brothers was both advising and selling toxic debt to Florida's "money market pool." This disclosure prompted a run on the pool, and it was then shut down as the state investigated its holding and worked to restore its creditworthiness.
Tags: Lehman Brothers; Bear Stearns; Florida; Charlie Crist; bank collapse; Wells Fargo; Washington Mutual; bailout