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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”

 

• JP Morgan: They’re gambling with YOUR money

  
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  Why is gambling illegal? Because the lure of easy money is a powerful inducement to do things that are stupid. We saw that in spades earlier this month, as JP Morgan ‘fessed up to the banking equivalent of dropping $2 billion dollars on stupid bets at the racetrack. The siren song of easy money can lure in ...
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• Financial meltdown: What’s the Volker rule?

  
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  Once again, we’re seeing the fundamental truth: The banks and businessmen who insist we can’t afford to build a clean-energy green economy are perfectly happy to blow tens or hundreds of billions of dollars on stupid bets… We’ll be writing a lot this week about the impending meltdown at JP Morgan, which two ...
  3 days ago

• Does a Bill that Calls for the Breakup of the Big Banks Actually Stand a Chance?

  
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  USDA/flickr source Earlier this month, Senator Sherrod Brown, Democrat from Ohio, introduced a bill that calls for the breakup of the nation’s six largest banks. It’s called The Safe, Accountable, Fair & Excellent (SAFE) Banking Act of 2012. The bill was read and referred to the Committee on Banking, ...
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• Regulatory Capital: Size And How You Use It Both Matter

  
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  Via Peter Tchir of TF Market Advisors,   Bank Regulatory Capital has been in the news a lot recently.  The Spanish banks have their own set of capital issues. (Read more…)  There has been a lot of discussion about Too Big To Fail (“TBTF”) in the U.S. with regulators demanding more and banks fighting it.  ...
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• Regulatory Capital: Size And How You Use It Both Matter

  
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  Via Peter Tchir of TF Market Advisors ,   Bank Regulatory Capital has been in the news a lot recently.  The Spanish banks have their own set of capital issues.  There has been a lot of discussion about Too Big To Fail (“TBTF”) in the U.S. with regulators demanding more and banks fighting it.  After JPMs ...
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• Talk About Inheriting a Mess!

  
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  The next president is going to have one big mess on his hands, thanks to President Obama and the Democrats. We always hear them complaining about the mess they inherited (which they helped create when they controlled both houses of Congress) but they don’t talk about what they’re leaving for the next to deal with. ...
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• Two senators want bank executives banned from Fed boards

  
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  U.S. senators Barbara Boxer and Bernie Sanders proposed a bill Tuesday that would block employees of banks regulated by the Federal Reserve from serving on the Feds board of governors. read more
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• The Problems With Limiting Large Banks

  
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  If the SAFE Banking Act becomes law, it would, at best, result in more banks "going on welfare" during the inevitable next banking crisis, writes Richard Farley, a lawyer specializing in finance deals.
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• Paul Craig Roberts: Financial deregulation is likely to prove to be the mistake that destroys Western civilization

  
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  whether or not roberts is right, i just wish the house of cards would go ahead and collapse... from counterpunch ... The enormous cost of the financial crisis has one single source–financial deregulation. Financial deregulation is likely to prove to be the mistake that destroys Western civilization. While ...
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• Volcker Rule Tightening Just the Beginning of a Financial Reform Strategy

  
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  Hint to Tim: If regulators dont know whether the "whale trade" would have violated your rule, youve written it wrong The Fail Whale trades showed that massive, as-yet unregulated risk still exists in our financial system, with the potential to bring down the economy once again and trigger massive taxpayer ...
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• Revived focus on regulation after JPMorgan loss

  
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  Federal regulators and lawmakers are renewing the focus on financial regulation in the wake of a multibillion-dollar trading loss at JPMorgan Chase & Co. News of the surprise loss at JPMorgan, the biggest U.S. bank by assets, has revived calls by Obama administration officials and Democratic lawmakers for tougher ...
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  Banks Amass $211 Trillion In Derivatives, JP Morgan Loses $2 Billion And Volcher Rule Debates Continue The goal of the Volcker Rule, which became law under the Dodd-Frank Act was to restrict speculative trading activity in risky derivatives by the Too Big To Fail Banks.  The ban on proprietary bank trading was ...
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• Bipartisan Congressional Bill Would Authorize the Use of Propaganda On Americans Living Inside America

  
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    Because Banning Propaganda “Ties the Hands of America’s Diplomatic Officials, Military, and Others by Inhibiting Our Ability to Effectively Communicate In a Credible Way” Michael Hastings reports: An amendment that would legalize the use of propaganda on American audiences is being inserted into the latest ...
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• Bipartisan Congressional Bill Would Authorize the Use of Propaganda On Americans Living Inside America

  
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    Because Banning Propaganda “Ties the Hands of America’s Diplomatic Officials, Military, and Others by Inhibiting Our Ability to Effectively Communicate In a Credible Way” Michael Hastings reports : An amendment that would legalize the use of propaganda on American audiences is being inserted into ...
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• JPMorgan suspends stock repurchase plans

  
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  JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon says the bank is suspending plans to buy back its own stock. Dimon said Monday the bank will continue to pay a dividend despite the $2 billion trading loss disclosed on May 10. “It’s an embarrassment, it’s a black mark,” Dimon said of the trading loss. He also said the [...]
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• Guest Post: Feedback, Unintended Consequences And Global Markets

  
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  Submitted by Charles Hugh Smith from Of Two Minds Feedback, Unintended Consequences and Global Markets We cannot know that unintended consequences will always be destructive. Neither models nor projections have accurate track records in predicting the future. It seems an appropriate time to re-examine why ...
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• JPMorgan and Central Banking

  
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  Whenever I struggle with an issue, such as banking regulation and the JPM situation, I find that the eminent Dr. Frank Shostak has already solved the problem. I’ve been thinking a lot about the current banking system and how it perpetuates Too Big To Fail banks. There is a free market solution to the banking ...
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• Chorus of Voices Calling For End of Too-Big-To-Fail Grows Louder

  
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  St. Louis Fed President James Bullard Calls for Break-up of Big Banks. Thanks to Dave Dayen of Firedoglake.com , I have learned this morning that St. Louis Fed President James Bullard recently endorsed breaking up the too-big-to-fail banks.  He was quoted in an American Banker article as saying: “We do not ...
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• Investigating JPMorgan Chase

  
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  Since the company operates with implicit government backing, its recent trading losses demand an independent inquiry on five specific questions, an economist writes.
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• Is the Stock Market Wildly Overoptimistic?

  
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  Despite the Dow’s losses over the past few trading days, stocks are still close to their highest levels since the recession ended. Blue chips have almost doubled, in fact, from their 2009 lows. Given the extraordinary risks that the U.S. economy faces over the next 12 months, you have to wonder whether stock ...
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