Glass Steagall

Goodbye, Gramm -- Samson, Not Pillar

John Tepper Marlin | Posted 07.19.2008 | Business

Read More: Stephen Moore, Bear Stearns, Phil Gramm, John McCain, J.P.Morgan, Investment Banks, Mccain Phil Gramm, Regulation, Glass-Steagall, Business News
John Tepper Marlin

Phil Gramm designed the 1999 takedown of the Glass-Steagall Pillar. It's just too bad, if you support Obama, to see such a juicy target removed.

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Green Banking, Good Banking

John Tepper Marlin | Posted 06.04.2008 | Green

Read More: Carter Glass, Gramm, Carbon Bank, Cdo, Vanguard, Clean Energy, Hsbc, Deutsche Bank, Barclays, Jack Brennan, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Energy Efficiency Index, Morgan Stanley, Lehman, Phil Gramm, ABN Amro, Bear Stearns, Glass-Steagall, Brennan, Ceres, Green News
John Tepper Marlin

If Ceres Climate Change ratings had been used as a proxy for long-term thinking, they would have been helpful. They would, in the context of the illiquidity of the credit markets, have been a good predictor of the Bankers Panic of 2008.

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The Bankers Panic of 2008 -- New Regulation

John Tepper Marlin | Posted 03.23.2008 | Business

Read More: Carter Glass, Sec, Economist, Cdos, Regulatory Reform, Treasury, Federal Reserve, Glass-Steagall, Gramm-Leach-Bliley, Business News
John Tepper Marlin

If we really want to modernize the American financial system, we need a single government entity in Washington to oversee it and enforce capital adequacy requirements on all financial institutions.

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Bear Stearns As Sacrifical Lamb

Vince Farrell | Posted 03.18.2008 | Business

Read More: Carlos Gutierrez, JP Morgan, Stanley Kubrick, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Secretary of Commerce, Henry Paulson, Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, Bear Stearns, Subprime Mortgages, Jimmy Cayne, Glass-Steagall, Collaterized Bonds, Business News
Vince Farrell

Maybe Bear deserved to fail, or maybe it was just bad luck to be in the cross-hairs at the wrong time. But I can see how stockholders and employees would be enraged.

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