In January Blankfein presented a vigorous defense of his firm's actions before the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission.
Countrywide, the Times indicates, was put off-limits to the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission by jittery Republicans.
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It's no surprise that the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission's investigation found plenty of blame to go around.
In April 2010, appearing before the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, he denied that he had ever repudiated his ideology.
Yet this week, another committee, the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, which was actually formed last summer, finally began its investigation.
When the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission issued its reports in January, they raised significant issues about systemic accountability, oversight, governance, justice, ethics and leadership.
He was general counsel of the Treasury and White House counsel in the Reagan administration and a member of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission.
The writing is crisp and the research meticulous, drawing on reams of documents made publicly available by congressional committees and the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission.
The Congressional Oversight Panel, the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC), and the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations held no public hearings with auditors.
During a hearing Wednesday held by the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, they continued to claim that the investment bank was done in by a cabal of rumor mongers.
As Peter Wallison explained in his dissent to the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission Report, the fundamental cause of the financial crisis was U.S. government affordable housing policy, enforced by federal regulation.
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The December 2010 release of the report by the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission proved to be controversial because of the split among the members on what were the causes of the crisis.
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The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, led by former California Treasurer Phil Angelides, has already called current and former executives of Citigroup, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Goldman, JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley and Bank of America in three previous hearings this year.
However, if we take as an example the Democratic majority on the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, which was funded by Congress to tell the American people why we had a financial crisis in 2008, we can see that that the whole operation was politicized.
In testimony to the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission in February, Goldman chief executive Lloyd Blankfein said the company, in creating these products even at the same time it was developing a negative view of the mortgage market, was only acting on behalf of clients who wanted them.
That whistleblower, Richard Bowen, told the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission on Wednesday that he told his superiors as early as mid-2006 that he believed there were significant unrecognized financial losses at Citi related to its business of buying loans and bundling them into bonds to sell to investors.
In its January 2011 report, the US Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission called the agencies "essential cogs in the wheel of financial destruction" and "key enablers of the financial meltdown".
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The federal Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission in concluded in its final report two years ago that the 2007-2008 market upheaval, followed by national recession, came from a decade of "pervasive permissiveness" by regulators with expanding debt and high-risk behavior by home buyers and owners, mortgage lenders, investors and financial institutions that repackaged and resold that debt.
Today the Oracle of Omaha, Warren Buffett, was subpoenaed to testify as a witness in front of the U.S. Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC).
The U.S. media and punditariat will have a field day over the next few news cycles pointing fingers, assigning blame and pontificating about political agendas as they dig through the just-released (and previously leaked) Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission report.
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In fact, eight months after congress began its Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, there has been little, if any, insight into the meltdown.
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