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In Washington, more of the same could shake status quo

The pressure to avoid the fiscal cliff will force the White House and Congress to break the policy logjam. Continue reading

Posted on November 9, 2012 4:08 PM




Reconsidering the ghost of Glass-Steagall

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




William Harrison defends the big banks

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




Sandy Weill on Glass-Steagall

If Sandy Weill was so wrong about the merits of combining investment and commercial banks, why is he so insightful now that he's changed his mind? Continue reading

Posted on July 26, 2012 2:38 PM




One more time: The break-up-the-banks debate

Do we want big banks to be essentially utilities, tightly regulated so that it's (almost) impossible for them to get into serious trouble, and small enough if they do that they can't cause harm? Continue reading

Posted on July 10, 2012 2:13 PM




The City and Robert Diamond

What is the vision of a new City of London in which the reckless, the greedy and the speculators have been banished from the temple? Continue reading

Posted on July 6, 2012 11:47 AM




Are big banks dinosaurs?

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




The complexity of the simplicity solution

In Tuesday's New York Times, Joe Nocera follows up on some recent commentary from former Bank of America Merrill Lynch executive Sallie Krawcheck about the dangers of financial complexity. Continue reading

Posted on May 29, 2012 11:33 AM




William Dudley on fixing global derivatives

New York Federal Reserve chief William Dudley pops up in the Financial Times this warm Monday to allay our fears about the risk of derivatives. Continue reading

Posted on April 16, 2012 12:10 PM




Tyler Cowen tackles the big-bank problem

We wish for simple answers, but there are none as long as we want all the good things finance showers upon us, and none of the bad. Continue reading

Posted on February 13, 2012 1:15 PM




Christopher Whalen and the bet on small banks

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




Fed proposes tougher capital requirements

The new conditions would be imposed on the largest financial firms Continue reading

Posted on December 20, 2011 5:40 PM




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