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• in Politics
  No Longer King of the Mountain
  Will the Fed ever bring forth a policy that works as well for Main Street as it does for Wall Street?
  by aldussault / on Nov 6, 2010

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “too big to fail”

 

• Too Early to Tell if Dodd-Frank Ends “Too Big To Fail”

  
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  Editors Note: Bradley Sabel is partner and co-head of the Financial Institutions Advisory & Financial Regulatory practice group at Shearman & Sterling LLP. This post is based on a Shearman & Sterling client publication by Donald N. Lamson and David L. Portilla ; the full text, including footnotes, ...
  3 days ago

• NSA Swaps Information on You With Private Companies for More Information on You

  
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  Freedom isn’t free. The National Security Agency along with the CIA, FBI and other intelligence agencies of the U.S. government has been swapping information with private companies. In exchange for private companies giving the intelligence agencies information on their users, the private companies receive access ...
  4 days ago

• Don’t cry for me RBS

  
  UK News — Authority: 98
  "Dont cry for me, RBS" could certainly be the lament being sung by Stephen Hester, outgoing CEO of bailed out Royal Bank of Scotland, after the shock announcement that he will have left the bank by the end of this year. CEOs of banks come and go; however, the government stake in RBS makes this CEO particularly ...
  4 days ago

• S&P Says Government Won’t Bail Out Big Banks

  
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  Standard & Poor’s said Tuesday that most of the biggest U.S. banks are still “too big to fail.” The credit rating agency said that the U.S. government is unlikely to bail out big banks in the event of another crisis. That means the holding company creditors have to bear losses in the case of a collapse. ...
  6 days ago

• Fred Feldkamp: The End of Off Balance Sheet Liabilities

  
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  Below is a comment by my friend and mentor Fred Feldkamp on the end of off-balance sheet liabilities ("OBSLs"), a key element in ending the problem of "too big to fail" with respect to the zombie banks.  Fred is an attorney at Foley & Lardner  i n Detroit and arguably one of the fathers of "true sales" as used ...
  1 week ago

• A Critical Missing Reform Criterion: Regulating “Systemic” Banks

  
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  Editors Note: This post comes to us from Karen Petrou , co-founder and managing partner of Federal Financial Analytics, Inc., and is based on a presentation of a paper written by Ms. Petrou; the full text, including citations, is available here . A critical policy question is the extent to which “systemic” ...
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• FSOC Proposes the First Three Nonbank SIFIs

  
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  Editors Note: The following post comes to us from Charles Horn , partner focusing on banking and financial services matters at Morrison & Foerster LLP, and is based on a Morrison & Foerster client alert by Mr. Horn and Jay G. Baris . In a June 3, 2013 closed-door meeting, the Financial Stability Oversight ...
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• High-Level American Intelligence Source: “We Hack Everyone Everywhere"

  
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  Glenn Greenwald - who broke the stories on the phone and internet spying scandals this week - has a new expose ... this time on  offensive cyber-warfare : Barack Obama has ordered his senior national security and intelligence officials to draw up a list of potential overseas targets for US ...
  1 week ago

• Henry Paulson calls on Xi, Obama to ‘reset’ relations in California meet

  
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  Chinese President Xi Jinping and United States President Barack Obama should use their meeting in California to “reset” US-China relations to focus on mutual economic benefits, advised former US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson. Paulson, who was also former head of Wall Street bank Goldman Sachs, said Xi had a ...
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• Is the Government Also Monitoring the CONTENT of Our Phone Calls?

  
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  The Obama administration has been caught spying on the Verizon phone calls of tens of millions of Americans. But the government has sought to “reassure” us that it is only tracking “metadata” such as the time and place of the calls, and not the actual content of the calls . That claim is patently ...
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• Fed’s Plosser Calls for Too-Big-to-Fail Banks to Hold More Capital

  
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  A U.S. central bank official repeated his dissatisfaction with current efforts to reduce the risk of too-big-to-fail banks, and said he instead wants these mega financial firms to hold higher levels of capital as a way of protecting the economy.
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• Has BIS Found the Solution to Too Big to Fail?

  
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  It’s a refrain you will hear from politicians, regulators, even bankers. Nearly five years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, there is still no answer to the problem of banks that are Too-Big-To-Fail.
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• Too big to jail: Can higher bank equity from Brown-Vitter help?

  
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  Under U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, large banks enjoy immunity from criminal prosecution. In Senate testimony on March 10, Holder essentially confessed to Congress that giant bank HSBC was too big to prosecute, despite laundering $200 trillion (no typo) for terrorists, tyrants and narco-traffickers.  Financial ...
  2 weeks ago

• Regulating Bank Governance: Mandating CEO-Chairman Division at Too-Big-to-Fail Banks

  
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  For a while, the battle over whether to split the JPMorgan Chase CEO and Chairman positions looked like the corporate governance battle of the year, but seems to have ended with a whimper, rather than a bang.  The media coverage of the issue, however, largely overlooked the unique, bank-specific aspects of corporate ...
  3 weeks ago

• Too big to fail

  
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  "You know what I discovered? I really like depriving myself of things. Its fun. Very monastic." - Cosmo Kramer Well, bikini season is here and if I ever want to cozy up to a woman that can really fill one out, changes need to be made. (Oh yeah, theres also the health and fitting-into-my-clothes things, too.) ...
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• When People Don’t Get It – Part Ii

  
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  As demonstrated on my previous post, as well as my post  When People Don’t Get It , many people are of the opinion that “we”, the “so-called” victimized homeowners, are just “making a mountains out of a mole hills”, and trying to get “a free house” over insignificant “so-called crimes” of ...
  3 weeks ago

• Weekend Viewing: Moyers and Morgenson

  
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  A healthy does of ‘ sense on cents ‘ in this 18 minute exchange between Bill Moyers and The New York Times’ Gretchen Morgenson. Call it what you want but from my standpoint capitalism and democracy are being compromised by cronyism and corruption. The evidence is overwhelming. The health and well being of ...
  3 weeks ago

• Revealed: Apple’s “Offshore” Cash Isn’t Even Offshore

  
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  Wolf Richter, www.testosteronepit.com , www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter No one accused Apple of having violated US tax laws. The Senate subcommittee investigation and hearings merely exposed how Apple is dodging income taxes by doing what multinationals do: taking advantage of the handouts and loopholes that ...
  3 weeks ago

• Government Without Brakes

  
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  Forget for a moment about the Orwellian Big Brother aspects of government agencies that feel nothing is wrong with targeting certain groups for harassment (for example the IRS, Justice, and even the EPA though theres no headline scandal right now). Instead, lets focus on what the underlying problem is - that which ...
  3 weeks ago

• U.S. Department of Justice: Big Banks May Be Above the Law

  
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  The Financial Times reports that lawmakers in the U.S. Congress have claimed the Department of Justice has been “too soft on big banks and their executives by failing to bring criminal cases related to the financial crisis.” In the five years following the financial crisis of 2008, no Wall Street executive was ...
  3 weeks ago

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