End Too Big to Fail: New Bipartisan Bill Aims to Prevent Future Bailouts,...
Apr 30 2013 - 1:50pm"Last week, Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and David Vitter (R-LA) introduced the first bipartisan legislation aimed directly at putting an end to "too big to fail" financial...
View ArticleSimon Johnson: The Case for Megabanks Fails
May 2 2013 - 5:00am"The megabank lobby has finally put its best arguments on the table. After years of silly Twitter posts, weak research papers and other forms of unimpressive public relations, those...
View ArticleThe Myth of a Perfect Orderly Liquidation Authority for Big Banks
May 16 2013 - 5:02pm"On Tuesday, with some fanfare, the Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington rolled out a report, “Too Big to Fail: The Path to a Solutionread more
View ArticleMultinational Corporations’ Support for Big Banks Is Not Persuasive
Jun 6 2013 - 12:01am“Large multinational nonfinancial companies waded into the debate over too-big-to-fail financial institutions this week, coming down strongly on the side of very large global banks....
View ArticleWhy on Earth does Goldman Sachs own a coal mine in Colombia?
Jul 22 2013 - 4:01pm"In 1913, Congress determined that a cabal of Wall Street bankers had captured control over the US economy. Having bought up large shares of railroads, utilities, and manufacturers,...
View ArticleThe Government and the Entrepreneurs
Aug 22 2013 - 10:18am"Entrepreneurship seems like the quintessential private sector activity. An individual or a small group of colleagues decide to set up a business and raise some capital. If...
View ArticleThree Unlearned Lessons From the Financial Crisis
Sep 26 2013 - 11:40am"There are three straightforward and rather obvious lessons from the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. five years ago: The financial crisis was devastating; we haven’t...
View ArticleLimiting the Fed
Nov 21 2013 - 2:31pm"In a provocative speech this week, Charles I. Plosser, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, proposed a new approach for the Federal Reserve System.read more
View ArticleBrown, Others Stoke Fears of GAO Bias in 'Too Big to Fail' Report
Jan 8 2014 - 2:23pm"Members of the Senate Banking Committee and others are raising concerns about the credibility of a pending watchdog report analyzing whether some banks are still "too big to fail,"...
View ArticleAn Open Letter to JPMorgan Chase Shareholders
Feb 13 2014 - 9:30am"Dear Shareholders:"read more
View ArticleThe End of Our Financial Illusions
Apr 17 2014 - 3:24pm“The global financial crisis that broke out following the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008 was a big shock. This is literally true in terms of the impact on investors...
View ArticleDon’t Repeal Swaps Push-Out Requirements (Section 716 of Dodd-Frank)
Dec 10 2014 - 3:52pm“Section 716 of the Dodd-Frank financial reform act requires that some derivative transactions be “pushed-out” from those part of banks that have deposit insurance (run by the...
View ArticleThe Republican Strategy To Repeal Dodd-Frank
Jan 7 2015 - 11:51am"On January 7, 2015, Day 2 of the new Congress, the House Republicans put their cards on the table with regard to the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reforms. The Republicans will chip...
View ArticleNominate A Qualified Undersecretary Of Domestic Finance Now
Jan 25 2015 - 5:49pm"The Obama administration urgently needs to nominate a qualified individual as Undersecretary for Domestic Finance at the Treasury Department. The Dodd-Frank financial reforms are...
View ArticleThe Old New Financial Risk
Apr 28 2015 - 12:20pm"The main financial risk facing the United States today looks very similar to what caused so much trouble in 2007-2008: big banks with too much debt and too little equity capital...
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