How to subscribe, or post jobs on our listservs

The Project Counsel Group (of which The Posse List is a member) now has over 145,000+ members world-wide. That’s across all of our listservs: advertising, artificial intelligence, cyber security, information technology / legal technology / legal services, journalism, and the telecommunications industry.

We send out job notices to our subscribers via e-mail (for all of our information technology and legal services listservs click here ) so they don’t need to keep checking a job board. That link shows you how to subscribe.

If you would like information about posting your job, project or assignment or if you have any questions contact us by clicking here.

The Federal Reserve Bailout of AIG

September 17, 2008
/ The financial crisis: background, TARP jobs

From: D & O Diary, September 17, 2008

In a statement issued on Tuesday evening, the Federal Reserve announced that it had authorized a loan of up to $85 billion to American International Group. This move is described in detail in a September 17, 2008 Wall Street Journal article entitled “U.S. to Take Over AIG in a $85 Billion Bailout”. Bloomberg’s article describing the development can be found.

The Outlines of the Loan Facility

The loan facility, which the statement says has been extended pursuant to Section 13(3) of the Federal Reserve Act, has been “designed to protect the interests of the U.S. government and taxpayers.” According to the Real Time Economics blog, the only other time this specific Fed power has been exercised since the Depression era was in connection with the Bear Stearns bailout… Click here to read the full article.

Previous Post Financial Forensics/Legal Forensics/Digital Forensics — Jobs for Contract Attorneys and Those with Finance/Forensics Backgrounds Next Post The Current Financial Crisis, the Wall Street Law Firms and Contract Attorney Work