Entries tagged "credit crisis"

Bankers should reap what they sow

Perhaps taking from the old Biblical adage 'as you sow, you shall reap' comes the suggestion that bankers should be paid in the toxic assets they created.

The return of the Tobin tax?

The chatter about the Tobin tax, a 38-year-old proposition, has reached a crescendo again after being dismissed in the 1980s and 1990s as being quaint.

Benjamin Friedman on overmighty finance

Harvard economist Benjamin Friedman asks a few questions in Thursday's Financial Times that are amazingly basic and unsettlingly unanswerable.

David Wessel on the failure of Lehman Brothers

The Wall Street Journal's David Wessel's 'In Fed We Trust' is now on bookstore shelves, and The Deal's Robert Teitelman offers some preliminary thoughts as he reads the book.

A few simple lessons of the fall of Lehman

'A Collosal Failure in Common Sense' is the first in a series of books about the collapse of Lehman Brothers.

FDIC data shows no CRA, failure correlation

Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. data shows that over the last decade most banks have complied with the controversial Community Reinvestment Act with no rise in failures.

Recycling bank executives

Although Sir Win Bischoff sat on Citigroup's board during the run-up to the credit crisis, the fact seems to be of little concern to Lloyds Banking Group.

CRA stuck in Carney's craw

Clusterstock's John Carney has touted a Federal Reserve study to support his CRA conspiracy theory, when in fact the report may help debunk it.

More thoughts on CRA and the crisis

The debate over the Community Reinvestment Act's role in the credit crisis continues in the blogosphere as Barry Ritholtz challenges opponents to a real debate not via blogs.

CRA boogeyman returns

Fingers are pointing at the Community Reinvestment Act as the main culprit for the credit crisis, even though this tired meme has been debunked over and over again.

Lewis and Cohan call for the revolution

Thoughts on Sunday's New York Times column where Sandy Lewis and William Cohan call for a financial revolution.

What's missing in the bank regulatory debate

Breakingviews in the New York Times Wednesday mulls over the debate surrounding a single versus multiple bank regulators, but doesn't address regulatory capture.

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