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Dodd's Banking Bill Takes The Fed Down A Notch Or Two: HELP US DIG THROUGH IT

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour and Ryan Grim | Posted 11.18.2009 | Business

Read More: Senator Chris Dodd, Consumer Financial Protection Agency, Financial Reform, Senate Banking Committee, Banking, Banks, Federal Reserve, Financial Crisis, Chris Dodd, Financial Regulation, Business News

Scroll down to see how you can help HuffPost dig through Dodd's new bill. "This is not a time for timidity," Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris ...

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Succession Planning 101: Lessons for the Bank of America

Alicia Whitaker | Posted 10.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Bank of America, Banking, Leadership, Succession Planning, Corporate Governance, Ken Lewis, Business News
Alicia Whitaker

Succession planning has moved from being a largely academic exercise to an element of corporate governance that regulators and investors demand.

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Krugman: The Banks Are Not Alright

New York Times | Paul Krugman | Posted 10.19.2009 | Business

Read More: U.S. Economy, Banking, Bank Profits, Banks, Bank Lending, Economy, Business News

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. O.K., maybe not literally the worst, but definitely bad. And the contrast between the immense goo...

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Goldman Sachs' Black Magic, Here's How They Did It

Dylan Ratigan | Posted 10.17.2009 | Business

Read More: Government, Goldman Sachs, Finance, Banking, Financial Crisis, Corporate Communism, Recession, Great Depression, Business News
Dylan Ratigan

The question is not why did we bail out the banks. The question is why did we give the banks billions so they could buy assets by the trillions and keep the profits?

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Turn Goldman Anger Into Government Action

Dylan Ratigan | Posted 10.15.2009 | Business

Read More: Banking, Financial Crisis, Finance, Recession, Corporate Communism, Great Depression, Goldman Sachs, Government, Business News
Dylan Ratigan

We don't want a government commandeered by those in our banking system who have failed and been passed over by technological advancements, innovation and flat-out smarts. But right now, that's what we've got.

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Thanks, Mr. Banker, for My Overdraft Protection!

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 10.08.2009 | Business

Read More: Bankers, Overdraft Protection, Debit Cards, Scams, Credit Cards, Banking, Overdraft Fees, Banks, Consumer Protection, Business News
<i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing

I wonder what new things the bankers will think of next to help and protect us. One thing's for sure. I know they're thinking of something.

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Paul Krugman: Fed, Banks Returning To "Status Quo Circa 2007"

nytimes.com | Paul Krugman | Posted 10.07.2009 | Business

Read More: Securitization, Debt, Banking, Banks, Paul Krugman, Talkf, Shadow Banking, Business News

This article on the continued troubles in credit markets was informative. But it raised a puzzle. Call me naive, but why does Fed policy seem to assum...

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The Cost of Corporate Communism

Dylan Ratigan | Posted 10.07.2009 | Business

Read More: Banking, Finance, Corporate Communism, Financial Crisis, Recession, Great Depression, Business News
Dylan Ratigan

The spike in unemployment, the destruction of retirement wealth, the collapse in the value of our homes, the worst recession since the Depression have all resulted directly from the abdication of proper government.

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Why B-Schools Don't Change

Pablo Triana | Posted 10.07.2009 | Business

Read More: Mckinsey, Business School Reform, Goldman Sachs, Business School, Mbas, Banking, Business School Jobs, Credit Crisis, Business Ethics, B-School, B-School Professors, Business News
Pablo Triana

The dirty little secret of B-schools is that, even if they wanted to, they may not be able to unshackle themselves from practical irrelevance.

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Want Less Risk? Hire More Women!

Dr. Sasha Galbraith | Posted 10.06.2009 | Business

Read More: Earnings, Fed, Women, Pay, Testosterone, Risk Aversion, Banking, Federal Reserve, Compensation, Occupational Sex Segregation, Gender, Risk, Gender Inequalities, Women in Finance, Women CEOs, Business News
Dr. Sasha Galbraith

The higher the amount of testosterone, the more willing people are to take risks. Women, with considerably less of the male hormone coursing through their bodies, are more risk averse.

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Like Lottery Winners, Pro Athletes Also Blow Big Money

Don McNay | Posted 11.21.2009 | Business

Read More: National Basketball Association, Small Business, National Football League, Aerosmith, Yogi Berra, Tom Leach, Jack Whitaker, Carlito's Way, Strip Clubs, Investment Advisors, Weight Loss Counselor, Cnbc, Richmond Ky, Sports Agents, Nba, Financial Crisis, Substance Abuse, Financial Planning, Entourage, Lottery Winners, Personal Finance, McNay Settlement Group, Bankruptcy, Lotteries, Powerball, Players Unions, Kentucky, Don McNay, Nfl, Fox Business News, Clu, Structured Settlements, Dave Ramsey, Sports Illustrated, Cnn, Espn, Vanderbilt University, The American College, Major League Baseball, Banking, Million Dollar Round Table, Eastern Kentucky University, Attraction to Celebrities, University of Kentucky, Certified Structured Settlement Consultant, University of Kentucky Wildcats, Posse, Business News
Don McNay

Even as a structured settlement consultant, I was stunned to learn that within two years of retirement, 78 percent of NFL players are bankrupt or under financial stress.

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There's High Finance, Then There's Slow Finance

Rick Horowitz | Posted 11.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Personal Relations, Courtesy, Waiting in Line, Drive-Thru, Cash Machines, Road Rage, Banking, Atm, Automated Banking, Waiting on Line, Automatic Teller Machines, Living News
Rick Horowitz

So there I am, last Saturday afternoon, pulling up to the drive-thru ATM. It's a perfect late-summer day. There's only one car ahead of me -- and one pedestrian.

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Reinventing The Compensation Wheel: Frustrated That Some People Make More Than You?

Julia Moulden | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living

Read More: U.S. Navy, Open Pay, Open Year, Julia Moulden, g20, Banking, Warren Buffett, New Radicals, Ibm, Purple Haze, Salary, Compensation, Resentment, Jealousy, Jimi Hendrix, Living News
Julia Moulden

It's no secret that some people earn more than others, but the gap is huge, and getting bigger every year. There have been some cool innovations designed to try to address this imbalance, but none have caught on in a big way. And now a couple of clever guys from Silicon Valley may just have reinvented the compensation wheel.

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The Financial Identity Crisis

Schuyler Brown | Posted 11.08.2009 | Business

Read More: Banking, Branding, Banking Crisis, JPMorgan Chase, Banks, Money, Finance, Business News
Schuyler Brown

People are just not loyal to banks anymore, and why should they be? Banks leveled the first blow to the relationship by becoming estranged, unfamiliar and impersonal.

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Sheila Bair Goes on the Attack, Again

Robert Teitelman | Posted 10.18.2009 | Business

Read More: Fdic, Super-Regulator, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., Tim Geithner, Economy, Banking, Ben Bernanke, Sheila Bair, Business News
Robert Teitelman

Wouldn't you have wanted to be at Treasury on Tuesday when Geithner read FDIC head Sheila Bair's Times op-ed, in which she continues to wage war against the Treasury's plan for a super-regulator?

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Small Good News: PayPal Helps Cut College Costs, One Bank Fee At A Time

Karen Stabiner | Posted 09.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Paypal, Banking, Overdraft Fees, Debt, Credit Cards, College, Debit Cards, The Balanced Life, Living News
Karen Stabiner

It's that time of year again. All over the country, people are loading up the family car, paying airline overage for heavy suitcases, or shi...

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Islamic Finance and Mobile Banking: Could, Would, Should

Matt Herbert | Posted 08.30.2009 | Business

Read More: Banking, Mobile Financial Services, Banking Industry, Islamic Banks, Business News
Matt Herbert

Would the adoption of mobile financial service technology benefit Islamic Banks?

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Quick on the Draw -- and the Overdraw

Rick Horowitz | Posted 08.10.2009 | Living

Read More: Checking Accounts, Banking, Banks, Overdraft Fees, Personal Finance, Overdrawn, Online Bill Paying, Overdrafts, Online Banking, Bill Paying, Living News
Rick Horowitz

I've tiptoed only so far into Techno-Dollar World. I finally started paying some of my bills online. Which was more than enough to get me into hot water.

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A Conspiracy So Vast

Yvette Kantrow | Posted 08.08.2009 | Media

Read More: Matt Taibbi, Politics, Goldman Sachs, Conspiracy Theories, Rolling Stone, Banking, Media, Business, Felix Salmon, Media News
Yvette Kantrow

Among conspiracy theories, the one about Goldman Sachs controlling the world, is as hackneyed as they come. But it was only a matter of time before somebody didn't think it was silly at all.

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Half-Time Economic Update: Are You Smoking Green Shoots?

Jill Schlesinger | Posted 08.06.2009 | Business

Read More: Banking, US Economy, Manufacturing, Green Shoots, Housing Market, Unemployment, Stock Market, Business News
Jill Schlesinger

Avoiding financial calamity is a good thing and it does appear that the global economy is past the worst point in the cycle, but a self-sustained recovery is not necessarily in the bag.

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The Bloodless Coup of the Global Financial Stability Board: From Guidelines to Rules

Ellen Brown | Posted 07.25.2009 | Business

Read More: Bank for International Settlements, Treaties, Financial-Stability-Oversight-Board, Banking, Banking Crisis, Federal Reserve, Financial Stability, g20, G20 Protests, Business News
Ellen Brown

Political colonialism is now a thing of the past, but under the new Financial Stability Board guidelines, nations can still be held in feudalistic subservience to foreign masters.

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Special Prosecutor of Iceland Bank Crash: "The Idea Most People Have of Banking Has No Basis In Reality"

Iris Erlingsdottir | Posted 06.28.2009 | World

Read More: Iceland Banks, Johanna Sigurdardottir, Iceland Economy, Iceland National Bankruptcy, Banking, Iceland Economic Crisis, Banking Crisis, Iceland Global Economic Crisis, Global Financial Crisis, Iceland Financial Crisis, Iceland Economy Collapse, Iceland Bank Crisis, Iceland, Iceland Bankrupt, Johanna Sigurdardottir Iceland, Global Economic Crisis, World News
Iris Erlingsdottir

"Perhaps things weren't illegal, but when do you cross the line from a framework of standard marketing practices and into bribery?"

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Stuff the Bankers, Starve the Kids

Robert Scheer | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Banking, Robert Scheer, Education, Poverty, California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Budget, Politics News
Robert Scheer

Bail out the banks, but not the 500,000 poor families with children served by the CalWorks program, which will be dismantled, or the 928,000 children covered by the Healthy Families program, slated for oblivion.

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Community Banks Lumped In With Big Players, Forced To Pay High Premiums

washingtonpost.com | Steven Pearlstein | Posted 06.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Banking Bailout, Community Banks, Banking, Banks, Banking Crisis, Bank Bailout, Banking Industry, Regional Banks, Business News

We're hearing a lot these days from well-run regional and community banks that feel that they are being punished for the mistakes of the Citigroups an...

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Implications of the Bank Stress Tests

Douglas J. Elliott | Posted 06.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Tarp, Stress Tests, Troubled Assets Relief Program, Banking Bailout, Troubled Asset Relief Program, Banking, Banking Crisis, Financial Crisis, Imf, Banking Industry, Banking System, Troubled Banks, Business News
Douglas J. Elliott

The financial "stress tests" on the big banks gave us good news: they "only" need $75 billion of new capital. That's a lot of money, but much less than many of us feared.

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