Big Banks

Bill Clinton's Blind Spot

Mike Lux | Posted 06.04.2012

Read More: Bill Clinton, Wall Street, Bain Capital, Economy, Middle Class, Mitt Romney, Big Banks, Barack Obama, Obama Campaign, 2012 Election, Elections 2012, Bill Clinton Bain Capital, Politics News
Mike Lux

President Clinton, I hope you will see the error of your ways on this fundamental issue. Those middle-class people who work hard and play by the rules want you back on their side where you once were, not the side of the big banks.

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Pity the Poor Billionaires

Bill Moyers | Posted 06.01.2012

Read More: Howard Milstein, Richard Wald, Citizens United, Politico, Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Rolling Stone, Frank Vandersloot, Emigrant Bank, Adam Bonica, Paul Waldman, Super Pac, Banks, Big Banks, Wall Street, Politics News
Bill Moyers

So-called "mega donors" are upset that their campaign contributions are being exposed to public view, ignoring our right to know who is giving money to candidates -- and the opportunity to try to figure out why. The sound you hear is the world's smallest violin, say, a teeny-tiny Stradivarius insured for millions.

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What Did Banks Learn From The Financial Crisis? Not Very Much, New Report Shows

The Huffington Post | Emily Peck | Posted 05.31.2012

Read More: Video, Whistleblowers, Sherry-Hunt-Citigroup-Whistleblower, Bailout, Whistleblower Protection, Mortgage Crisis, Financial Crisis, Big Banks, Citigroup Big Banks Financial Crisis, Citigroup, Business News

What did big banks learn after the mammoth bailouts of the financial crisis? Why, not that much it seems. That's one powerful takeaway from Bloombe...

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Here's How Much Closing A Bank Account Will Cost You

AP | PALLAVI GOGOI | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: JP Morgan Chase, Consumers Union, Bank Fees, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Closing a Bank Account, Citibank, Big Banks, Bank Account Closure, Money News

Want to close your bank account? It could cost you as much as $55. In a survey of the practices of the 10 largest banks in the country – includ...

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Facebook IPO Fiasco Cost Major Bank Millions

Reuters | Posted 05.26.2012

Read More: Facebook IPO 2012, Ubs, Morgan Stanley, Facebook IPO, Reuters, Nasdaq, Business News, Facebook Ipo Ubs, Big Banks, Business News

NEW YORK (Reuters) - UBS AG had trading losses of around $30 million stemming from Facebook Inc's botched initial public offering on Nasdaq OMX Group ...

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Banking Industry Reaps Biggest Earnings Since Before Crisis

Reuters | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: U.S. Banks, 2008 Financial Crisis, u.s. Banking Industry Earnings 1q 2012, Video, u.s. Banking Industry, Reuters, Business News, Banking Crisis, Financial Crisis, Bank Earnings, Big Banks, Business News

WASHINGTON, May 24 (Reuters) - The U.S. banking industry for the first quarter reported its highest quarterly earnings since the first half of 2007,...

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Man Buys Puppy, Car With Thousands Wells Fargo Accidentally Dumped In His Account

Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Michael H, Wells Fargo, Joseph Bucci Wells Fargo, Slideexpand, Big Banks, Video, Accidental Bank Account, Wells Fargo Account, Business News, Accidental Millionaires, Shopping Spree, Joseph Bucci, Business News

One man is facing possible jail time after he allegedly spent tens of thousands of dollars that Wells Fargo accidentally deposited into his account. ...

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This Guy Is Probably The Nicest Banker In America

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Small Businesses, Local Businesses, Video, Wall Street, Community Banks, New York State, Patrick Cullen, Cattaraugus, Local Banks, Big Banks, Small Banks, Credit Unions, Money News

If you were going to sit down and design the opposite of a Wall Street banker, you would probably come up with someone like Patrick Cullen. Cullen ...

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Progressives Do NOT Hate Wealth -- a #PPSA

Sally Kohn | Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: Humor, Money, Mark Zuckerberg, Economy, Jobs, Facebook IPO, Big Banks, Wall St, Income, Ows, Shareholder Protests, Politics, Video, Wealth, Eduardo Saverin, Tarp, Occupy Wall St, Inequality, Economic Justice, Politics News
Sally Kohn

In the first in a series of POLITICAL Public Service Announcements (#PPSA), I take on the conservative myth that liberals hate wealth and success. Not...

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Fed Up With Big Banks

Gordon Whitman | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Foreclosure, Big Banks, Los Angeles, New York City, Banking, Move Your Money, Banks, Bankers, Get Money Out, Credit Unions, Business News
Gordon Whitman

When individuals, religious institutions and local and state governments decide to move their money, it puts direct pressure on banks and on the federal government to change their policies. Cities and states have incredible leverage if they chose to use it.

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Romney: Big Banks Can Fail

The Huffington Post | Luke Johnson | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Video, Tbtf, Election 2012 Blog, 2012 Election, Mitt Romney 2012, Too Big to Fail, Mitt Romney, Elections 2012, Big Banks, Politics News

Mitt Romney said Wednesday that he believes a big bank should be allowed to fail if it runs into financial difficulty. "My own view is that if a la...

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Wall Street, Romney, and Obama

Mike Lux | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: JPMorgan Chase, Economy, Mitt Romney, Mortgage Crisis, Jamie Dimon, Business, Big Banks, Barack Obama, Obama Wall Street, Wall Street, Romney Bain Capital, Politics News
Mike Lux

Bain Capital was Wall Street at its worst. But the Obama team, in the White House and in the campaign, in order to win on the Bain attack, needs to face -- and turn around -- the perception that the administration has been weak on Wall Street.

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On Financial Genius and Banking Boo-boos

Robert Teitelman | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Andrew Ross Sorkin, Meet the Press, Jamie Dimon, JP Morgan, Joe Nocera, Big Banks, Hedge Funds, Business News
Robert Teitelman

The columns, blogs, tweets and sober cud-chewing over the J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. trading debacle continues. What have we learned? Well, not as much as you'd think, given the notion that the Internet is the greatest investigative reporter since Woodward and Bernstein.

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Occupy Jail, Occupy Big Banks

Reverend Billy | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: JPMorgan Chase, Carbon Emissions, Bank of America, Big Banks, Police State, Occupy Wall Street, Business News
Reverend Billy

To shout "You put billions into C02 emitting industries!" in a bank lobby -- oh the echo comes back as the Devil's bad gas. Come with us behind the lines. Nothing -- nothing is scarier than a big bank lobby. Revolujah!

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A Dimon in the Rough

D. Sidney Potter | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Foreclosures, Citigroup, Volcker Rule, Wells Fargo, Derivative Fiasco Loss, Big Banks, Alley, Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Mortgage, The London Whale, $2 Billion Loss, Occupy Wall Street, Banking, Jaime Dimon, Real Estate, Business News
D. Sidney Potter

Like a fat kid and chocolate cake, some things are just inseparable. And CEO Jaime Dimon of JPMorgan Chase has proven that parable with his near insatiable appetite in saying the wrong thing at the wrong time.

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Why Jamie Dimon Has Egg On His Face

Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: JPMorgan Chase, Video, Proprietary Trading, Jamie Dimon Volcker Rule, Business News, Jamie Dimon, Jpmorgan Chase Huge Loss, Great White Whale, Big Banks, Volcker Rule, Business News

Oh, the irony. After roundly criticizing regulations aimed at preventing banks from taking huge and unsustainable risks with their own money, Jamie...

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The SAFE Banking Act Will Do What Financial Regulators Thus Far Have Not

Micah Hauptman | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Congress, Dodd-Frank, Public Citizen, Financial Reform, Too Big to Fail, Federal Reserve, Shirley Sherrod, Banks, Financial Crisis, Big Banks, Bank Reform, SAFE Banking Act, Wall Street Reform, Bankers, Banking, Wall Street, Business News
Micah Hauptman

Preventing banks from becoming so large, complex, and interconnected that their failure would ravage the economy is the safest guarantee against a future "too big to fail"-driven financial crisis.

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Mark Gongloff

Regulator Outlines Strategy To Avoid Future Wall Street Bailouts

HuffingtonPost.com | Mark Gongloff | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Video, Fdic, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Martin Gruenberg, Too Big to Fail, Financial Crisis, Banks, Financial System, Wall Street Banks, 2010 Financial Overhaul Law, Big Banks, Business News

The problem with banks being too big to fail is not necessarily their bigness, but their failure. Like a runaway train plowing through a city block, a...

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The Only Way to Fix the World Economy

Mike Lux | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: European Union, Banks, Europe, France, Big Banks, Economy, Banking, Global Financial Crisis, Wall Street, World Economy, Austerity, Politics News
Mike Lux

We need to not only take back our economic fate from Wall Street, we need to cleanse our values system of their culture as well.

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How BofA Is Trying To Change Its Image

Reuters | Posted 05.04.2012

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By Rick Rothacker CHARLOTTE, N.C., May 3 (Reuters) - Bank of America Corp said on Thursday it has selected a team at ...

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Investor: 'Big Banker Pay Hasn't Been Tamed At All'

Reuters | Posted 05.03.2012

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By Katharina Bart ZURICH, May 3 (Reuters) - UBS became the latest bank to face the anger of its shareholders over exec...

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Goldman: This Regulation Will Kill 300,000 Jobs

Mark Gongloff | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Big Banks, Goldman Sachs, Regulations, Banks, Wall Street, Financial Reform, Too Big to Fail, Federal Reserve, Christopher Moltisanti, Dodd-Frank, Financial Regulation, Christopher Moltisanti Award for Anti-Regulatory Excellence, Business News
Mark Gongloff

By now, we're almost as sick of writing about Wall Street fighting new regulation as you are of reading it. It's always the same thing: Wah, we're big...

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'Too Big to Fail' Banks Less Profitable and More Risky Than Sustainability-Focused Banks

R. Paul Herman | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Too Big to Fail, Financial Crisis, Bank Investors, Sustainability Banks, Big Banks, Profitable Banks, Credit Unions, Business News
R. Paul Herman

Successful banking in the 21st century will focus on these new fundamentals so that those banks following this approach can truly become "too sustainable to fail."

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Banking Wars

Mike Lux | Posted 04.27.2012

Read More: Elections 2012, Mortgage Crisis, Big Banks, Eric Schneiderman, Economy, Politics News
Mike Lux

One of the biggest unresolved issues in the 2012 election will be whether President Obama can convince the swing voters who are both angry at Wall Street and skeptical of government that he will actually hold Wall Street accountable.

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Clergy To Wells Fargo: Time For Deep Soul Searching

Ryan J. Bell | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: Easter, John Stumpf, Pico, Big Banks, Wells Fargo, Occupy Faith, Religion News
Ryan J. Bell

It is high time that Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf address our communities and put his "hand in the wounds" of our families. It's time for him to see and feel the mental and financial toll experienced by the millions of homeowners.

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