Why did the investment banks get into
trouble during the financial crisis?
Not exact matches
These firms, the Carlyle Group, Apollo Global Management and Oaktree Capital Management among them, have been raising billions of dollars
during Europe's sovereign debt
crisis to buy loan portfolios, corporate bonds and other holdings from
troubled financial institutions on the Continent.
Advising the US Department of Treasury in establishing and implementing several major programs
during the
financial crisis for the purpose of recapitalizing
financial institutions and transferring
troubled financial assets (e.g., TARP, HAMP, Hardest Hit Fund).
This is
troubling as American business attempts to recover ground lost
during the
financial crisis and reach prerecession levels of prosperity.
The company persevered after some missteps in the mid-2000s — including backing the $ 8.5 billion purchase of Station Casinos, which ended up going bankrupt, and getting crushed on Xanadu, the
trouble - plagued $ 2 billion retail and entertainment complex in New Jersey's Meadowlands,
during the
financial crisis — and Barrack now has a personal fortune that's estimated at $ 1.3 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.