This morning, Ms. Warren fell off the pedestal on which I had placed her.
Jill Schlesinger | Posted 07.10.2009 | Business
For those who think that the government bailed out Wall Street, you're right and you're wrong. Yes, taxpayers extended a lifeline to ensure that the system didn't collapse, but in the case of these yet-to-be named players, taxpayers made out quite nicely.
AP | ANNE FLAHERTY | Posted 07.09.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — A government test of whether 19 major banks could survive a further downturn in the economy may have relied on too rosy a scenario ...
Sheldon Filger | Posted 06.12.2009 | Business
It is the fear of the derivatives toxin that has frozen credit markets, leading to the Global Economic Crisis. Geithner's stress test can't fix the calamitous state of the U.S. banking sector.
Financial Times | Francesco Guerrera, Anuj Gangahar and Saskia Scholtes | Posted 06.12.2009 | Business
The completion of US banking "stress tests" has unleashed a fee bonanza for Wall Street, with financial institutions set to earn more than $500m in ju...
Sam Chandan | Posted 06.08.2009 | Business
Neither investors nor the public should accept policy makers' and regulators' assertions that the tests of commercial real estate have been undertaken carefully.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.08.2009 | Media
I have got to tell you all, I am LOVING THESE STRESS TESTS. For real. Who'd have thought that you could have a test in which the testees could negot...
Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 06.08.2009 | Business
The majority of our banks have flunked their stress tests. Are we worried? Not at all. Because while they are stressed, they are not stressed as badly as we might have feared.
Huffington Post | Julie Satow | Posted 06.08.2009 | Business
A simple guide to why the stress tests weren't stressful enough: 1. The stress test allows for a debt-to-net capital ratio of 25 to 1. That is far hi...
New York Times | Posted 06.07.2009 | Business
For America's regional banks, it's merger time. With the results of the stress tests now public, it's clear that none of the country's largest financi...
Washington Post | David Cho and Brady Dennis | Posted 06.07.2009 | Home
Some major banks managed to wrest concessions from the government in closed-door negotiations over their stress tests that helped them put the best fa...
Huff TV | Posted 06.07.2009 | Business
Arianna joined CNBC's Squawk Box team Thursday morning to discuss the much-anticipated results of the stress tests and the impact on the financial sec...
Huff TV | Posted 06.07.2009 | Business
Arianna joined CNBC's Squawk Box crew including Steve Liesman Thursday morning to discuss stress tests results, which banks need more capital, and how...
Huff TV | Posted 06.07.2009 | Business
Arianna joined CNBC's Squawk Box team and Harvard University professor of law Elizabeth Warren to discuss details from a report on TARP's impact for s...
Huff TV | Posted 06.07.2009 | Business
Arianna joined CNBC's Squawk Box crew and former New York governor Eliot Spitzer Thursday morning to discuss stress tests results, which banks need mo...
Huff TV | Posted 06.07.2009 | Business
Arianna joined CNBC's Squawk Box crew and Yale University economics professor Robert Shiller Thursday morning to discuss confidence in the current mar...
HuffingtonPost.com | Julie Satow | Posted 06.07.2009 | Business
Citigroup needs another $5 billion in capital according to stress test results leaked this week. But it might not have needed that money if it hadn't ...
Douglas J. Elliott | Posted 06.06.2009 | Business
Look to see what the result of the stress tests is because it will say a lot about the health of our nation's financial institutions, as well as the politics of very unpopular bailouts.
Financial Times | Posted 06.06.2009 | Business
Joseph Schumpeter famously argued that the essence of capitalism was creative destruction, by which new economic structures are born from the rubble o...
Anthony Citrano | Posted 06.06.2009 | Business
The stress tests mostly overlook derivatives -- the $50 trillion elephant in the room -- by effectively letting banks apply their prior calculus in valuing them.
New York Times | ERIC LIPTON | Posted 06.05.2009 | Business
CAINSVILLE, Mo. -- No one seems to want to own a business in this dusty, windswept corner of rural America, population 370, with its crumbling sidewal...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 06.05.2009 | Business
The results of the government's stress tests of 19 large financial institutions are supposed to be a secret until Thursday. The banks have been given ...
The Hill | Posted 06.05.2009 | Politics
Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.), the top ranking Republican on the Senate Banking Committee, thinks the government should keep the results of bank "stres...
Wall Street Journal | DAMIAN PALETTA and DEBORAH SOLOMON | Posted 06.04.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. is expected to direct about 10 of the 19 banks undergoing government stress tests to boost their capital, according to several ...
Arianna Huffington | Posted 06.04.2009 | Business
The results of the much-anticipated bank stress tests are finally set to be released on Thursday. But we can already give the Obama economic team a grade for the way the tests have been handled: F.
Jill Schlesinger | Posted 07.11.2009 | Business