The Financial Crisis Comes to TV
On Monday night, HBO will debut "Too Big to Fail," a retelling of events from the height of the financial crisis, based on the book by DealBook's Andrew Ross Sorkin.
View ArticleCommunity Banks Lobby to Limit New Regulations
The anxious community banking industry says new rules under the Dodd-Frank law could hurt their bottom line and even cause a few banks to fail.
View ArticleWhat Dimon Told Bernanke
The JPMorgan Chase chief questions whether banking regulation has gone too far and is now hurting the economy
View ArticleHow Dimon Played on Wall Street
In an exchange with Ben Bernanke of the Federal Reserve, Jamie Dimon, the chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, questioned whether regulation was too harsh. CNBC discusses whether this is the broad...
View ArticleTwo Views on Bank Rules: Salvation and Jobkillers
Remarks by Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan Chase’s chief, criticizing efforts to regulate banking highlight a contentious issue that is short on black and white arithmetic.
View ArticleIn U.S. Monetary Policy, a Boon to Banks
The federal government, in ways explicit and implicit, profoundly subsidizes and shelters the banking industry, and the protection is so well established that we barely notice it anymore.
View ArticleThe Economic Manifesto of Elliott’s Paul Singer
In his 14,000-word letter to investors, Paul Singer, founder of the $17 billion hedge fund Elliott Management, attacks government officials in the United States and Europe for fiscal recklessness.
View ArticleAnother View: Bernanke Ups the Ante
A hedge fund manager explains how his poker skills help him understand the market risks in the Federal Reserve's monetary policy.
View ArticleFederal Reserve as a Hedge Fund: Higher Profits, Lower Pay
The Federal Reserve is operating like a hedge fund, leveraging its balance sheet to earn huge profits. Yet the federal employees who manage this operation receive a relative pittance.
View ArticleBreaking Up Bank of America, in Song
The consumer advocacy group Public Citizen again calls for the bank to be broken up into smaller, less systematically important pieces. But this time, the message has a beat and you can dance to it.
View ArticleBernanke Quietly Criticizes Lack of Repo Reforms
In a speech Monday night, the Federal Reserve chairman highlighted the lack of progress in overhauling something called the tri-party repo market, through which banks and other financial firms borrow...
View ArticleAfter Barclays Scandal, Regulators Say Rates Remain Flawed
In Congressional testimony, the chairman of the Federal Reserve and the head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission expressed concern that big banks manipulated certain interest rates for their...
View ArticleLibor Scandal Shows Many Flaws in Rate-Setting
The lending benchmark, a convenient tool for the markets, has flaws that have some people even questioning its existence.
View ArticleFor Wall Street, Real Pain When the Fed Fails to Act
A lack of new stimulus moves by the Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank this week may have a direct and painful impact on the chief source of revenue at investment banks on both sides of the...
View ArticlePresidential Policy vs. Fed Policy on Jobs
Who actually has the most power to create jobs today – the president, or the Fed chairman? The answer to that question tells us whether we now live in the age of democracy, or the age of the central bank.
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