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Despite the blather, Glass-Steagall's origins are not as clear as you would think; its record is more ambiguous than the myth claims, and its lessons are more complex. Continue reading
Posted on August 24, 2012 4:27 PM
The op-ed in the NYT is coherent; it's just not compelling. Harrison doesn't lay out substantive arguments, offer evidence or wrestle with the most serious charges against the big banks; he dismisses them as if they were some simplistic whining of a bunch of cranks. Continue reading
Posted on August 23, 2012 1:12 PM
Henry Kaufman, Dr. Gloom from a distant age when Salomon Brothers was still King of Wall Street, penned an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal declaring that, sooner or later, the era of monstrous, too-big-to-fail banks will end. Continue reading
Posted on June 7, 2012 11:10 AM
Traditional banking is a difficult, commoditized service business, shorn of products that make fat profits. Continue reading
Posted on January 31, 2012 1:02 PM
Again, the banks. What is a big bank? Public or private; a business or a utility? Or is it a kind of hybrid? How essential are big banks to the economy? These are moss-backed questions that have recurred at least since the '30s, but increasingly since 2008. Continue reading
Posted on September 13, 2011 1:24 PM
In the August New Republic, John Judis has a longish piece that tries to get at the connection -- or lack of connection -- between the rise of Wall Street and the decline of American industry. Continue reading
Posted on July 22, 2011 3:51 PM
We may spend a few days feeling like big shots at Davos, but we have to come down to reality eventually. Continue reading
Posted on January 22, 2010 11:55 AM
Who should decide whether merging banks will be too big to fail? Continue reading
Posted on January 22, 2010 11:54 AM
Finance blogger Felix Salmon has argued that because of the blogosphere, we are better informed and much more expert about crisis issues than previous generations. Continue reading
Posted on January 8, 2010 11:50 AM
Arianna Huffington's scheme for depositors to flock to small banks seem quixotic? Only if you confuse financial substance with political optics. Continue reading
Posted on January 8, 2010 11:49 AM
The banks are too big; the banks shouldn't gamble. There are many helpful hints about how they should be broken up and their activities curtailed, but so far, Washington's response seems to be 'subsidize, and muddle through.' Continue reading
Posted on October 30, 2009 11:59 AM
Government wants the power to seize and wind down nonbank institutions. Just how that would work is still very much up in the air. Continue reading
Posted on October 30, 2009 11:56 AM
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Goldman, Sachs & Co. veteran Tracy Caliendo will join Bank of America Merrill Lynch in September as a managing director and head of Americas equity hedge fund services. For other updates launch today's Movers & shakers slideshow.
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