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• Bringing Back Glass-Steagall and Other Christmas Miracles

  
  The New Ledger Features — Authority: 624
  V ia Simon Johnson at The Baseline Scenario , this conversation with Paul Volcker inspires a few thoughts. The point of retaining the post-Glass-Steagall world is to enable entities like Citigroup, BAC, and JPM to use federally-insured deposits as capital for higher-risk trading and investment activities. The ...
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• Community Bankers Go to the White House. And Thats About It

  
  Jr Deputy Accountant — Authority: 144
  WSJ : Community bankers got their first exclusive meeting Tuesday with President Barack Obama amid an intensifying fight within the industry over legislation that would tighten federal financial regulation. Mr. Obama used the White House parley with executives from smaller banks to reiterate his push for bankers to ...
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• The Fed’s regulatory errors

  
  Felix Salmon — Authority: 736
  Binyamin Appelbaum and David Cho have a very clear-eyed summary of where the Fed screwed up in terms of bank regulation over the past few years. Two things are clear: that the Fed had the power to prevent the excesses that banks got involved in over the course of the Great Moderation; and that it didn’t even come ...
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• Barron’s: Do the bailed-out banks owe a debt to society?

  
  Credit Writedowns — Authority: 672
  Barron’s: Do the bailed-out banks owe a debt to society? is a post from: Credit Writedowns Great article in this week’s Barron’s featuring commentary from a number of distinguished market observers including our own Marshall Auerback and Baseline Scenario’s Simon Johnson (hat tip Barry Ritholtz ). The ...
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• Banking Regulation Act, 1949 (As Applicable to Co-operative Societies) Section 24- Investment in Government and other approved securities by Urban Co-operative Banks (UCBs)

  
  LEGAL & FINANCIAL UPDATES FROM TAX GURU — Authority: 158
  2. With a view to disseminating information on the SLR status of a Government security, it has been decided that: (i) the SLR status of securities issued by the Government of India and the State Governments will be indicated in the Press Release... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website www.taxguru.in ...
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• Be careful what you wish for, Vikram

  
  Felix Salmon — Authority: 736
  The WSJ adds color to the story of Citigroup’s flop of a stock offering on Wednesday. Citi, it seems, is deciding to blame the government, which allowed Wells Fargo to do its own TARP-exit stock offering at the same time. Treasury, of course, is having none of it: Treasury officials said Thursday that… it ...
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• Weakening derivatives’ super-priority

  
  Felix Salmon — Authority: 736
  Thanks to Brad Miller for pointing me to Mark Roe’s excellent column on super-priority for derivatives in bankruptcy: True, somebody has to win and somebody has to lose when there is not enough money to go around. But these super-priorities warp the financial industry’s incentives to avoid problems… If ...
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• Are the Democrats Fighting the Banks?

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 520
  Are the Democrats Fighting the Banks? By Shamus Cooke How pathetic.  President Obama sat at a table surrounded by super rich bankers, pleading with them to lend money to small businesses and workers.   The media mislabeled Obama’s groveling as “encouraging,” “imploring,” and “pressing,” but a man ...
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• Bring back Glass-Steagall! John McCain (and Maria Cantwell)’s very good idea

  
  The Reid Report — Authority: 514
  TDB has a piece focusing on one way Sen. John McCain could use his trademark peevishness for good : The Obama administration is talking tough but acting tame with respect to Wall Street. But a pair of senators is coming out swinging. Today, Senators Maria Cantwell (D-WA) and John McCain (R-AZ) are taking a step ...
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• Gasparino: No woodshed for the fat cats, just a lovefest

  
  Credit Writedowns — Authority: 672
  Max Keiser and Yves Smith pointed me to an article by frequent CNBC contributor Charlie Gasparino on Obama’s fat cats meeting. I love Yves’ feigned surprise. Here are a few excerpts from Gasparino followed by a link to the full article. Definitely read the whole thing. In public, President Obama is on a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Blumenthal Versus The Banks

  
  Mike The Actuary's Musings Actuarial Musings — Authority: 131
  Seen in the Courant : This year’s massive reform by Congress of credit card industry practices was supposed to protect consumers and businesses from abusive rate increases and fees, but major issuers have jacked up rates ahead of the Feb. 22 deadline for the law. Connecticut   Attorney General ...
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• Oh, the Naiveté, Mr. Krugman

  
  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — Authority: 743
  Here we have one of those columns that might have initially been missed (yes, even by those of us who blog fastidiously about such things) that bears repeating, or re-posting, as the case may be: We submit, for your consideration, Paul Krugman’s latest column. That is all.  —KA The New York Times: When I ...
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• Citiroup (C) Close To Repaying Government, But Payment May Come Too Early

  
  24/7 Wall St. — Authority: 717
  There are more rumors that Citigroup (NYSE:C) is close to raising as much as $20 billion as the beginning of a process to pay back TARP funds and get out from under the government’s thumb on issues like pay packages and board appointments. No one knows how Citigroup will arrange for the government to convert its ...
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• How smaller banks would have helped shrink the CDO market

  
  Felix Salmon — Authority: 736
  The WSJ has new details on how banks would pass CDO risk between each other in an improbably long chain: One of Goldman’s trades with AIG involved a financial vehicle called South Coast Funding VIII. South Coast was one of many pools of bonds backed by individual homeowners’ mortgage payments that Wall Street ...
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• Opinion – Levy of VAT on Transfer of Assets

  
  LEGAL & FINANCIAL UPDATES FROM TAX GURU — Authority: 158
  The transaction involves a global acquisition of a banking business by the Purchaser from the Seller. Consequent thereto, all assets and liabilities in India will be acquired by the Purchaser from the Seller. The acquisition of the assets and... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website www.taxguru.in for ...
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• Implementation of IFRS from April 2011 government sure, industry not so sure

  
  LEGAL & FINANCIAL UPDATES FROM TAX GURU — Authority: 158
  The corporate affairs ministry and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) are confident of meeting the April 2011 deadline to shift to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). But industry says a complete transition from... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website www.taxguru.in ...
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• No Consequences

  
  Vulcan's Hammer — Authority: 124
  Since it was our government working through an aggressive "affordable housing" campaign that was mainly responsible for the housing bubble and it’s subsequent collapse, and which then led to the financial storm that followed, why does anyone really believe that any legislation that comes out of Congress will ...
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• The House OKs a sweeping overhaul of financial regulations

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 768
  Filed under: Economy The House passed the most ambitious restructuring of federal financial regulations since the New Deal on Friday, aiming to head off any replay of last years Wall Street failures that plunged the nation deep into recession. The sprawling legislation would give the government new powers to break ...
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• Bachmann once again blasts ACORN, Obama as cameras roll

  
  City Pages - The Blotter — Authority: 649
  Even members of her own party want her to pipe down, but thats not Michele Bachmanns way.
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• Republican insiders suggest Bachmann, Beck Palin pipe down

  
  City Pages - The Blotter — Authority: 649
  Maybe theyre concerned that one of her outbursts recently got tagged as a Top 10 lie of the year.
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