If we can't trust banks to run a foreclosure review process with some amount of precision, how in the heck do we expect them to run the world's financial systems and not take us for a deep dive again?

Just recently, Washington announced the creation of a "dream team" of financial regulators, called the Systemic Risk Council. Great idea, but here's a question: Why was the current chairwoman of the SEC, Mary Schapiro, not included?

A proposal to slash funding for a major financial regulator is being met with strong criticism. Representative Barney Frank, a Massachusetts Democr...

Most bankers are not the unethical and blindly greedy creatures that politicians and the media make them out to be; and there is no doubt that without the productive activities of the banking sector, no other industry in our nation would be able to survive or thrive. But that does not mean there isn't a ghost in the machine.

To Brooksley Born, JPMorgan Chase's trading blowup looks a lot like the Long-Term Capital Management debacle of 14 years ago. It's "happening all o...

Like efforts by good citizens to clean up a decrepit park frequented by drug dealers, it's time to pick up the trash left by the financial destruction, and challenge each other to clean up our acts.

The four Republicans appointed to the commission investigating the root causes of the financial crisis plan to bypass the bipartisan panel and release...

I hope that Inside Job is shown near and on campuses across the country. The signs of hope really lie with future generations questioning those who came before them.

Congress "ducked" on financial regulation, neglecting to solve the problems that caused the financial crisis, former SEC chairman Arthur Levitt said. ...

Goldman Sachs sent its second-highest-ranking officer to to tell the FCIC that his company is staffed by complete idiots. David Viniar claimed that his company just doesn't know how to do basic bookkeeping.

Over the last year and a half, Congressional committees and bipartisan panels like the Financial Crisis Inquiry Comission (FCIC) charged with investig...

How can we bury the Too Small To Bailout banks in style? Here are a few suggestions.

Former Goldman Partner Gary Gensler, Graham Bowley writes, is "emerging as one of the nation's archreformers, pushing to impose some of the most strin...

The SEC has been badly weakened by Congress and now Congress blames the SEC for not keeping investors safe. There were warnings during the process, but no one listened.