Sunday, November 23, 2008

Citigroup Saw No Red Flags Even as It Made Bolder Bets

Eric Dash and Julie Creswell
New York Times
November 22, 2008

“Our job is to set a tone at the top to incent people to do the right thing and to set up safety nets to catch people who make mistakes or do the wrong thing and correct those as quickly as possible. And it is working. It is working.”

Charles O. Prince III, Citigroup’s chief executive, in 2006

In September 2007, with Wall Street confronting a crisis caused by too many souring mortgages, Citigroup executives gathered in a wood-paneled library to assess their own well-being.

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