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Enron Europe
Enron Oil
EnronOnline
Equitable Resources
Equity derivatives
Equity Funding
Equity Group Holdings
Erickson, Joseph
Ernst & Young
Evans, Donald
Exchange Stabilization Fund
Factoring
Fair-disclosure rule (Reg FD)
Faircloth, Lauch
Fama, Eugene
Fannie Mae
Fastow, Andrew
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC)
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Federal Home Loan Bank
Federal Paper Board
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Federal Reserve Bank of New York Economic Policy Review
Federal Reserve Board
raising of interest rates in 1994
Feikens, Judge John
Feinstein, Dianne
FELINE PRIDES
Feuerstein, Donald
Fidelity Investments
Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB)
Special Purpose Entities (SPEs) and
Financial crisis
of 2007-2008
of 2008-2009
Financial statements and earnings reports
of Enron
of Global Crossing
IRS-reported earnings
manipulation of
recommendations
restatements
See also
Off-balance sheet transactions
Financial technology
increasing sophistication of
See also
Risk models
First Alert
First Boston
See also
CS First Boston
First Call Corporation
First Data Corp.
First Executive Corp.
First Interstate Bank of Denver, Central Bank of Denver v.
First Union
Fisher, Peter
Fitch Investors Service
Fleet Financial Group
Fleischer, David
FNN
Fonkenell, Henri André
Forbes, Walter
Ford Motor Co.
Fortune
Forward curves
Forward reconstitution
Franklin Advisors
Freddie Mac
Friedenrich, John
Friedman, Thomas
Friendly, Judge Henry
Froelich, Robert
Frost, David
Fuld, Richard
Futures
G-30
Gadzoox Networks
Garnett, Katrina
Gasparino, Charles
Gatekeeper recommendations
General Accounting Office (GAO)
General Electric
credit derivatives and
earnings reports
GE Capital
Kidder Peabody and
structured notes and
General Motors
General Motors Acceptance Corporation (GMAC)
Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)
Germany
Gibson Greetings
Ginnie Mae
Glass-Steagall Act
Glaxo Holdings
Glisan, Ben
Global Capital Investment LLC
Global Crossing
Global Derivatives Study Group of the Group of Thirty
Goekjian, Chris
Goldman Sachs
Gonzales, Henry
“Good Derivatives Do, The”
Goodwill, accounting for
Gorton, James
Grabbe, J. Orlin
Gramm, Phil
Gramm, Wendy
Grant, James
Grass, Martin L.
Greenbaum, Michael D.
Greenberg, Maurice “Ace”
Greenspan, Alan
on anti-fraud rules
credit derivatives and
“infectious greed” testimony about
“irrational exuberance” speech
Long-Term Capital Management bailout and
See also
Federal Reserve Board
Gross, Bill
Groves, Ray J.
Grubman, Jack
Global Crossing and
WorldCom and
Grubman, Richard
Grundfest, Joseph
Grunwald, Michael
“Guinness Case”
Gutfreund, John
lack of control over aggressive employees
Haghani, Victor
Hamanaka, Yasuo
Hammersmith & Fulham
Harrison, Alfred
Harrison, Ken L.
Harvard Business School
Hawkins, Gregory
Hayes, Samuel
Health Management
Hedge funds
See also specific funds
Hedging versus speculation
Heisler, Ethan M.
Heller, Warren
Heterogeneous expectations theory
Heyman, William
HFS International
Hilibrand, Lawrence
Hills, Roderick
Hindery, Leo, Jr.
Home Theater Products International
Hostile takeovers
Houston Natural Gas
“How Bankers Trust Lied About $80 Million”
How to Make Your Money Make Money
(Levitt)
Hu, Henry T. C.
Hudson, Kevin
Huizenga, Peter
Huizenga, Wayne
Hungary
IBM, structured notes and
Icahn, Carl
Ideon Group, Inc.
Iguchi, Toshihide
Implied volatilities
In Search of Excess
(Crystal)
Indah Kiat
Indefeasible Rights of Use swaps (IRUs) swaps
Indocement Tunggal Prakasa
Indonesia
Inflation
InfoSpace
Initial Public Offerings.
See
IPOs (Initial Public Offerings)
Insider trading
Institutional Investor
Insurance companies
credit derivatives and
shifting risks to
Interest-rate swaps
“plain vanilla”
Interest rates
betting on the direction of
raising of short-term
Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
International financial crises
bailouts
cross-border risks
derivatives and
lack of regulation and
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
International Nederlanden Groep (ING)
International Swap Dealers Association (ISDA)
Brickell and
Internet
securities analysts and
See also
IPOs (Initial Public Offerings)
InterNorth
Interwoven, Inc.
Intraware
Investment banks
conflicts of interest
derivative subsidiaries
Glass-Steagall Act and
insulation from private lawsuits
IPOs and undisclosed kickbacks to
subsidiaries of commercial banks
See also individual banks
; Securities analysts
Investment Dealers' Digest
Investor recommendations
IPOs (Initial Public Offerings)
client fees for
lock up restrictions
pricing of
undisclosed kickbacks to investment banks
IRUs (Indefeasible Rights of Use swaps)
ISDA (International Swap Dealers Association)
Italy
J. P. Morgan
J. P. Morgan Chase
Jackson, Peter
Jaedicke, Robert K.
Japanese banks, swaps used by
Japanese convertible bond market
Japanese insurance companies
Japanese regulators
JEDI (Joint Energy Development-Investments Limited Partnership)
Jefferson Smurfit
Jett, Orlando Joseph
Johnsen, Jim
Johnson, Edward C.
Jonas, Stan
Junk bonds
Collateralized Bond Obligations (CBOs)
Justice Department, U.S.
Kahneman, Daniel
Kaplan, Clifford
Kashima Oil
Keker, John W.
Kennedy, Justice Anthony
Kerr-McGee
Keynes, John Maynard
Kharmala group
Kickbacks to investment banks, IPOs and
Kidder Peabody
Collateralized Mortgage Obligations (CMOs) sold by
Jett and
money-market funds
Kindleberger, Charles P.
Kingdon, Bruce J.
Kitchen, Louise
Kleinwort Benson
Kmart
Knight, Phil
Knock-out option
Kopper, Michael
Korea, Republic of
Korus, David
Kozlowski. Dennis
KPMG
Kramer, Howard
Krieger, Andy
at Bankers Trust
misdirection strategy
Krugman, Paul
LaFalce, John
Lane Drug
Lavin, Jack
Lavorato, John
Law of One Price
Lawler, Edward
Lay, Kenneth
Leach, Jim
Leeson, Nick
Legere, John J.
Lehman Brothers
Lerach, Bill
Lernout & Hauspie
Leval, Judge Pierre
Leverage
Leveraged buyouts
Levin, Carl
Levitt, Arthur, Jr.
accounting for stock options, position on
background of
confirmation hearings
nomination as SEC chairman
SEC and
“The Numbers Game” speech
Levy, Leon
Lewis, Michael
Lieberman, Joseph
Liebowitz, Michael
Lindsey, Richard
Livent
LivePerson
LJM and LJM2 (Enron partnerships)
Long, Perrin
Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM)
bailout of
collapse of
convergence trades
directional trades
emerging markets and
relative-value trades
takeovers, betting of
Value-at-Risk computer models
Loomis, Carol
Los Angeles Business Journal
Los Angeles Times
Lowenstein, Roger
Lucent
Lux, Hal
Lynch, Gary
Lynch, Peter
MacArthur Foundation, John D. and Catherine T.
Macey, Jonathan
Mack, Connie
Mack, John
Mackay, Charles
Madoff, Bernard L.
Madrick Jeff
Mahoney, James M.
Mahonia
Mains, Raymond
Malaysia
Malkiel, Burton
Marcos family
Margin calls
Mark, Rebecca
Markey, Edward
Markham, Jerry W.
Marking to market
FASB proposal for derivative contracts
Martignoni, James
Mastroeni, Thomas
Mattel
Max Phillips & Son
Mayer, Martin
McAuliffe, Terry
McConnell, Mike
McGrath, Matt
McGraw-Hill Companies
MCI Communications
McKesson HBOC
McLucas, William
McMahon, Jeffrey
MCN Energy Group Inc.
MCN Financing III
McTeer, Robert
Mead Corporation
Meeker, Mary
Mello, Antonio
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
(Mackay)
Mendelsohn, John
Mercury Asset Management
Mergers and acquisitions
merger reserves, manipulation of expense for
Meriwether, John
Arbitrage Group
Long-Term Capital Management and
Mozer's trading activities and
Merrill Lynch
FELINE PRIDES
mortgage bond losses
PRIDES
securities analysts at
structured notes sold to Orange County
Merton, Robert
Metallgesellschaft
Mexican peso
Michels, Antony
Microsoft
Microsoft Excel
MicroStrategy Inc.
Milberg Weiss
Milken, Michael
Miller, Merton
Miniscripe
MIPS
Missner, Gary
Money-market funds
Moneyline
Moody, John
Moody's Investment Services
See also
Credit-rating agencies
Moorlach, John
Moral hazard
Mordaunt, Kristina
Morgan Guaranty Trust
Morgan Stanley
PERCS and
Morgenson, Gretchen
Morningstar
Mortgage bonds
interest-rate risk of
negative convexity of
tranches
See also
Collateralized Mortgage Obligations (CMOs)
Mozer, Paul
bonuses at Salomon Brothers and
tax-avoidance trades for Salomon Brothers
Treasury-bond auctions and
Mriant
Muehlemann, Lukas
Mullin, Melvin
Mullins, David W.
Mullins, David W., Jr.
Murphy, Kevin J.

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