Breaking Up the Big Banks, and Why Congress Won't Do It
Two ideas are floating around Washington regarding how to handle 'too big to fail' banks, but only one is supported by the Treasury and the White House. Unfortunately, it's the wrong one.
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Wall Street Is More of a Threat to Obama's Domestic Agenda than Afghanistan
Whatever Obama decides to do in Afghanistan is of little consequence compared to Wall Street's ongoing "plutonomy."
Time to Stop the Regulatory Circus and to Steer the Ship to Safe Ground
The real issue for regulators around the globe is a serious definition of the financial world we want to live in. The current focus nearly exclusively on the banking sector could cause authorities to miss the broader picture.
The Big Secret Wealthy Investors Don't Want You to Know
Wealthy investors can be enticed to buy "alternative investments" like hedge funds and private equity deals. How is that working for them? Not well.
Who Duped Rolling Stone Gonzo Reporter Matt Taibbi?
Taibbi, Rolling Stone magazine's teen heartthrob, became a sensation last month after calling Goldman Sachs "a giant vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity."
Regulating Systemic Risk and Banker Compensation Will Not Fix What Is Broken on Wall Street
The incentives to make big bets and take big risks has survived, but without the accountability. Today, the US Treasury and the Fed are trying to hold the pieces together. But why?
Two Years Later and None the Wiser
These bailouts, designed to prop up the financial institutions that caused this mess are a fool's hope.
The Mystery of the Missing Unemployed Man: On Jobs and Banks
People are speculating on derivatives and derivatives of derivatives because there's no action in the real world.
The Boston Consulting Group Caused the Recession
This ideology didn't just happen. It was four decades in the making. Sachs and Stanley refined it; private equity and financial engineers distilled it; Merril, Stearns and Joe the Plumber got drunk on it.
Bear Stearns Has Learned Nothing
We must take action to stop the greed and corruption on Wall Street.
Who Can we Bank on as Crisis Gets Worse?
Washington seems tethered at the hip to Wall Street and continues to do its bidding. Obama wants to give us confidence, but the most trenchant critics believe a total collapse is in the offing.
The Case of the Missing Stock Data
With the demolition of Wall Street firms, something important is disappearing too: their share price data from the stock exchanges.
Desperate Housewives
Scarsdale has always traded on its education system -- and hence, its values. Then what of the upsurge in thievery, crimes that make Teri Hatcher and co.'s seem petty by comparison?
Expert As Frenemy: Notes On The New Yorker Summit
Human nature leads us to turn towards expert-dependent disciplines to save us from ourselves but to what extent are experts -- and our own competence -- the frenemy in our midst?
Weekly Audit: Bank Execs Looting Customers, Shareholders and Taxpayers Economy NewsLadder
by Zach Carter, TMC MediaWire Blogger Some of the largest U.S. banks may be on the ropes these days, but the disparity between the plight of financ...
KPMG Has A $1 Billion Problem At New Century
KPMG is being sued for $1bn by the liquidators of New Century, the collapsed subprime lender, in the first big case against an auditor arising from th...
Entertainment vs. News
We don't need flash, flag-throwing or yelling at the camera. We just need honest, factual stories. And we need reporters who can give us those stories in a responsible and trustworthy manner.
Financial Crisis Goes Global, Slams into Europe
People in the EU have politicized economic issues perhaps because of a more diverse media environment as well as the expectation that governments have a duty to protect their people.
Chief Economist on Talent and the Economy
"Our recovery may take years," the economist concluded over our last cup of coffee, "But smart people who work hard will always find a place." Talent will as always, he believes, find a home.
Please Raise My Taxes President Obama
When I was at Harvard Business School, we inherited a joke that has passed from class to class. It goes something like this: the whole HBS education ...
My Ode to 2008
2008 offered quite the election, with both parties fighting to set our nation's direction. It took forever for Hillary Clinton's concession, and Reverend Wright was not a good connection.
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