Sentences with phrase «street financial houses»

For decades, Wall Street financial houses accelerated growth by directing vast American capital to new and innovative products, and improving the efficiency of established enterprises.

Not exact matches

In January 2009, both The Wall Street Journal and Forbes cited Paul as one of the few who identified early on the formation of the housing bubble and the economic and financial market havoc that would ensue after the bubble inevitably burst.

The backbone of the housing market overhaul is the so - called Dodd - Frank law, a bill passed by Congress in 2010 that also sets out the general principles for shaking up Wall Street and the financial sector.

Finally, there is none of the wild financial engineering that Wall Street undertook to profit off America's housing mania at the turn of the millennium.

When Congress crafted the Dodd - Frank bill of 2010 to overhaul the financial system it had Wall Street in mind, not the thousands of small and medium banks that help Average Joes across America — and especially in rural areas — pay for a car, a house or a new investment for their local business.

Rep. Maxine Waters of Los Angeles, the top Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee, said Monday that Trump's campaign rhetoric about being tough on Wall Street amounted to «a pack of lies.»

His research on the economics of technology has been discussed in White House reports, Congressional testimony, European Commission documents, the Economist, the Globe and Mail, the National Post, CBC Radio, National Public Radio, Forbes, Fortune, the Atlantic, the New York Times, the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, and elsewhere.

«Wall Street is looking at the fact that a businessman in the White House will look to deregulate and lower taxes on businesses,» says Ralph Grauso, founder of ASC Financial Group in Pennsylvania.

Now, according to a recent report in the Wall Street Journal, the U.S. Department of Justice believes that Deutsche Bank owes American taxpayers $ 14 billion for selling toxic mortgage backed securities that helped to collapse the U.S. housing market during the financial crisis.

RYE, NEW HAMPSHIRE, U.S.A., Monday, Feb. 8, 1999 — The Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee has formally incorporated itself in Delaware and has begun negotiating with law firms interested in undertaking its lawsuit against the Wall Street investment houses it accuses of illegal collusion to control the price and supply of gold, other commodities, and certain related financial securities.

On February 14, the week after the Dow Jones Industrial Average experienced two separate days of more than 1,000 - point losses, the House Financial Services» Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Securities and Investment convened a hearing to discuss various legislative proposals to return to the wild west era of derivatives trading on Wall Street.

After returning to Manhattan, Melville achieved some financial security by becoming a customs inspector in 1866, transferring in 1878 from the Battery's Custom House to an office on the East River at 76th Street.

The House Financial Services Committee is expected to vote today on a Republican bill to uproot the Dodd - Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.

The 73 - year - old financial information industry billionaire, who earned a reputation as a social liberal with strong Wall Street ties during his time as New York City mayor, has considered a White House run for years.

During the financial meltdown Wall Street speculators scooped up homes at a discount rate and created new companies that now own hundreds of thousands of houses with under 6 units.

Downing Street will on Tuesday outline plans for a «rapid review» that will examine ways to guarantee that the House of Commons always has supremacy on financial matters, after the prime minister accused peers of breaking a constitutional convention.

«It is very worrying for people who are expected to know better (especially if some happen to be leading members of the august House of Parliament) to conveniently join the streets wagon in pursuit of petty partisan parochial interests to churn out deliberate falsehood to perpetuate the fallacy that access to the President has to be secured with financial inducements»

The House Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) this month sent letters to officials on K Street requesting detailed information on the lawmakers, all of whom sit on the Financial Services Committee or the Ways and Means Committee.

It is very worrying for people who are expected to know better (especially if some happen to be leading members of the august House of Parliament) to conveniently join the streets wagon in pursuit of petty partisan parochial interests to churn out deliberate falsehood to perpetuate the fallacy that access to the President has to be secured with financial inducements,» excerpts of the statement said.

Ben Stiller is starring as the overworked manager of a luxury tower building, who, along with his staff, plots to get financial revenge on the crooked Wall Street fat cat (Alda) who swindled them out of their life savings with a Ponzi scheme, and now happens to be under house arrest in their building with his ill - gotten gains.

Unlike the slick suits and killer sheen of Oliver Stone's Wall Street, this is a world of chaos and disorder filled with misfits who understand numbers more than people; from Christian Bale's Michael Burry, a socially awkward heavy - metal enthusiast who dreams up the credit default swaps that enable him to «short» the housing market, to Steve Carell's bereaved and fractured Mark Baum (a character inspired by the real - life Steve Eisman) who balances moral outrage and repressed self - loathing as he swims with sharks in the cesspool of the financial market.

Knowing that Wall Street bankers and government regulatory agencies has no intentions of acting to fix this certain doom, Burry invents a financial instrument called the credit default swap in order to «short» the booming housing market, much to the dismay of his hedge fund's owners and investors.

Shoba Narayan writes about food, travel, fashion, art, and culture for many publications, including Conde Nast Traveler, the Financial Times, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Town & Country, Food & Wine, Saveur, Newsweek, and House Beautiful.

Bill is a Seattle based financial advisor who created the Coffee House Portfolio for investors to build wealth, ignore Wall Street, and get on with their life.

'» In an Oct. 16 Webcast on AARP's «Inside E Street,» hosted by Sheilah Kast, Rep. Barney Frank of Massachusetts, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, dismissed Dugan's sub-prime analogy, declaring that, with reverse mortgages, the «evidence and results are different from sub-prime.»

There's no having your cake and eating it too, especially when Wall Street and life insurance company actuaries employ the smartest «financial rocket scientists» to ensure the deck is always stacked against you, and the house never loses.

The 4 1/2 Star Mantra 2 Bond Street Serviced Apartments are located in Sydney's Central Business District and prime financial district just a stroll away from the Sydney Opera House, Sydney Harbour Bridge, the Rocks and Circular Quay.

Set north of Hoan Kiem Lake is Hanoi Old Quarter, which houses charming colonial architecture, art galleries, boutique shops, street markets, and Buddhist temples, while the French Quarter on the south hosts most of Hanoi's luxury hotels, government offices, embassies, financial institutions and upmarket shopping malls.

Lincoln Financial Mural Arts Center at the Thomas Eakins House 1727 - 29 Mt. Vernon Street Philadelphia, PA 19130

Located on Lagos Island, Balogun Market sprawls from street to street under the shadow of the now - unoccupied Financial Trust House.

The title refers to a lost street that once housed everything from distillers to skinners before evolving into the financial district.

Possibly the only consolation for Street is that he has received some financial help towards his legal costs (a leader was taken in for the House of Lords) from the Small Landlords Association... who handed over # 5,000 chipped in by 296 of its members.

We know what happens when these individuals get these felony convictions — they can no longer apply for jobs, they can no longer apply for housing, and they can't really get any sort of financial aid to further their education, so what other alternative do they have than to go back out on the street doing what they were doing before?

Regulations like The Dodd - Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, the Volcker rule, and The Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 require financial institutions to secure stronger capital and liquidity positions, and have spawned new regulatory bodies like the Consumer Financial Protection Bureafinancial institutions to secure stronger capital and liquidity positions, and have spawned new regulatory bodies like the Consumer Financial Protection BureaFinancial Protection Bureau (CFPB).

The big Wall Street investment banks that survived two World Wars, the Great Depression and the Asian financial crisis were taken down by single - family housing.

RISMEDIA, December 8, 2010 — The National Association of REALTORS ® (NAR) has been working closely with the members and staffs of the House Financial Services Committee and the Senate Banking Committee to ensure that Wall Street Reform legislation did not adversely affect REALTORS ®.

Toll's financial results are closely watched by the housing market as a gauge for the high - end market, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Crofton, Maryland - based Caruso Homes Inc. used RealtyShares to build new houses in Raleigh, North Carolina, and Washington, D.C. Wall Street isn't as interested in financing single - family developments in smaller and medium - sized deals, making crowdfunding a better way to fund Caruso's projects, said Chief Financial Officer Jack Haese.

NAR, which is vocal on the Hill in vigorously opposing any changes that would limit or undermine the current Mortgage Interest Deduction, has also been working closely with the House Financial Services Committee and the Senate Banking Committee for two years to ensure that Wall Street reform legislation does not adversely affect REALTORS ® or consumers.