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The Return of Gordon Gekko

Dan Dorfman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Dan Dorfman

Wall Street speculation has it that some investors may have been privy to government actions involving a number of these banks at the outset of the financial crisis or to their financial results.

Small Texas Firm Makes Millions Selling Bad Assets To Wall Street

econbrowser.com | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

There was a wonderful story in today's WSJ about how some big banks managed to lose some of their hard-earned TARP money. Let me begin with a littl...

BofA, JPMorgan, Others Raise $19 billion

Yahoo! News | Steve Eder and Jonathan Stempel | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

NEW YORK (Reuters) -- Bank of America Corp (BAC.N), JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N) and several other banks said they have raised more than $19 billion as...

Why Hiring is Paradoxically Harder in a Downturn

Auren Hoffman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Auren Hoffman

Great people are often first to leave sinking ships -- they don't feel they need to stick around for a severance because they are confident they can always get another job.

Stress Test for U.S. Banks Is a Complete Fraud

Sheldon Filger | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Sheldon Filger

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.

Correcting Credit Abuses by Banks are a Number One National Priority

Ray Hanania | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Ray Hanania

What do we have when a banking tyrant like J.P. Morgan Chase decides on its own to jack up the interest rates?

Banks Declare War on America

Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Robert S. McElvaine

These rate increases -- some to as high as 29 percent -- are exactly the opposite of what the bad economy needs for recovery.

We Are So Angry That We've Lost Our Minds

Larry Gellman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Larry Gellman

President Obama says we should stay angry but express our outrage in productive ways. I say we should get rid of the anger altogether.

Wall Street CEOs Push Back On Bonus Tax: "Terribly Unfair"

Wall Street Journal | JOE BEL BRUNO and MATTHIAS RIEKER | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

The chief executives of the nation's three largest banks on Friday pushed back against legislation that would heavily tax Wall Street bonuses. Citigr...

Gene Saffold: JP Morgan Exec Named Chicago's Chief Financial Officer

Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago

A municipal finance expert who works with Mayor Daley's brother and spent 10 years on the Chicago Board of Education was chosen Thursday to become the...

Buddy, Can You Spare $250,000,000,000?

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
<i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing

Today we can add another group to the list of those who require intercession by We the People: Big Banks that have mismanaged the deposits entrusted to them by their customers.

Bankers vow to build trust with increased lending

AP | JIM KUHNHENN | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

WASHINGTON — The nation's top bankers came to account for themselves Wednesday to a wary public, displaying a blend of financial might and humil...

Bailed Out Bankers Testify: Live Video, Quotes

Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

The eight chief executives from bailed out Wall Street banks are testifying today before Congress. The CEOS will be quizzed aggressively on how they ...

Bankers on the Hill

James Warren | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
James Warren

Rarely in the rich history of congressional stonings have the victims been so crisply-attired, so contrite, so deferential, and so tolerant of their grandstanding captors.

Wall Street Gives Obama Thumbs Down

Dan Dorfman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Dan Dorfman

Europe, Japan and the United States are all in the midst of a recession and the world's fastest growing emerging markets, among them China and India, are slowing markedly.

Wall Streeters' New Status As Social Outcasts

New York Times | David Segal | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

Monday was the last day of Iris Chau's 11-year career at JPMorgan Chase and she says there's a lot she'll miss about the job, including her colleagues...

Transparency, Justice and Clarity in the Economic Crisis

David Calhoun Mendelsohn | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
David Calhoun Mendelsohn

Why are the banks not fulfilling their end of the understanding that if US taxpayers provide the blank check, they will open the liquidity tap so that the economy can operate?

Stiffed: Why Are Bailed-Out Banks Helping Pfizer Buy Wyeth?

Paul Loeb | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Paul Loeb

Pfizer, Viagra's daddy, is using money from taxpayer-bailed-out banks to help buy major pharmaceutical competitor Wyeth. That won't help taxpayers or consumers. Nor is it designed to.

Jamie Dimon "In The Hot Seat," May Be Next To Fall: Charlie Gasparino

The Daily Beast | Charlie Gasparino | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

Jamie Dimon is in the hot seat. You wouldn't know from the endless glowing press accounts he's received for steering JP Morgan Chase fairly clear of t...

Republic Workers Continue Protest As New Creditor Emerges

AP | MICHAEL TARM | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago

CHICAGO — Workers have approved a $1.75 million agreement, ending a sit-in that lasted six days at a Chicago window and door factory. U.S. Rep....

Analyst Argues JP Morgan Chase Might Need More Money Than Citigroup

Silicon Alley Insider | John Carney | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

Market fear reached such a high last week that JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon found he could not get on a plane to Saudi Arabia without arousing suspicions...

The Wall Street Journal Helps to Find Your Inner Scrooge

Yvette Kantrow | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Yvette Kantrow

How many Wall Street Journal readers don't know how to make a budget, even if they don't or won't stick to one?

Bonus Time: You Give, Wall St. Takes

Robert Reed | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago
Robert Reed

Yuletide Cheer is rare, except on Wall Street, which is licking its collective chops in anticipation of yet another round of big annual payouts.

10 Chase Banks Hit With Letter Threats, Some With White Powder

Reuters | Keith Coffman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

DENVER, Oct 20 (Reuters) - Ten branches of Chase (JPM.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) bank in Colorado and Oklahoma received threatening let...

Financial Crisis Hurting Office Market

Crain's Chicago Business | Thomas A. Corfman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago

(Crain's) -- J. P. Morgan Chase & Co. has terminated a 52,100-square-foot lease of a former Bear Stearns Cos. office in the Central Loop, as Wall Stre...