25 People to Blame for the Financial Crisis ~ market folly

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

25 People to Blame for the Financial Crisis

Time has an interesting list of they think is to blame for the Financial Crisis. Here's their list:

  1. 1. Angelo Mozilo – Co-founder and former head of Countrywide
    2. Phil Gramm – Chairman of the Senate Banking Committee from 1995 through 2000
    3. Alan Greenspan – Former chairman, Federal Reserve
    4. Chris Cox – Former chairman, Securities and Exchange Commission
    5. American Consumers
    6. Hank Paulson – Former Secretary of the Treasury
    7. Joe Cassano – Founding member, AIG’s financial-products unit
    8. Ian McCarthy – CEO, Beazer Homes
    9. Frank Raines - Former chairman and CEO, Fannie Mae
    10. Kathleen Corbet – Former CEO, Standard & Poor’s
    11. Dick Fuld – Former CEO, Lehman Brothers
    12. Marion and Herb Sandler – Former heads, World Savings Bank
    13. Bill Clinton – Former U.S. President
    14. George W. Bush – Former U.S. President
    15. Stan O’Neal – Former CEO, Merrill Lynch
    16. Wen Jiabao – Premier, China
    17. David Lereah – Former chief economist, National Association of Realtors
    18. John Devaney – Hedge fund manager
    19. Bernie Madoff – Ponzi scheme orchestrator
    20. Lew Ranieri – Father of mortgage-backed securities
    21. Burton Jablin – Programmer at Scripps Networks, which owns HGTV
    22. Fred Goodwin – Former chairman and CEO, Royal Bank of Scotland
    23. Sandy Weill – Former chairman and CEO, Citigroup
    24. David Oddsson – Former Prime Minister, Iceland
    25. Jimmy Cayne – Former chairman and CEO, Bear Stearns


Read the article here.


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