CFTC Gets Derivatives Advice From Industry Insiders
Like many federal agencies contemplating reform these days, the Commodities Futures Trading Commission is hearing a lot from the industry it regulates...
Like many federal agencies contemplating reform these days, the Commodities Futures Trading Commission is hearing a lot from the industry it regulates...
Charles Gasparino | Posted 11.23.2009 | Business
What CEO bypasses shareholders in an attempt to buy off public outrage over billion dollar bonuses if such outrage isn't justified in the first place?
Wall Street Journal | DAMIAN PALETTA and MICHAEL R. CRITTENDEN | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
Democrats are advancing proposals in Congress designed to limit the size and complexity of financial companies so that any collapse wouldn't damage th...
bloomberg.com | Rich Miller | Posted 11.12.2009 | Business
While financial institutions including Citigroup Inc. and Bank of America Corp. have received more than $200 billion in capital from the government, t...
Arianna Huffington | Posted 11.10.2009 | Business
When corporate perpetrators don't have to admit they did anything wrong, it's as if the crime never happened. Which, of course, makes it much more likely that it will happen again.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.05.2009 | Business
With Reporting By Julian Hattem Twenty-five top recipients of government bailout funds spent more than $71 million on lobbying in the year since they...
David Paul | Posted 11.03.2009 | Business
With the announcement of record Wall Street bonus pools and rising credit card fees, it is time to sit back and see where we go from here.
Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 11.08.2009 | Business
It is long past time that our government take seriously and study intensely how oil prices are determined in a world of OPEC, speculation, timid oversight and failing transparency.
Robert Reich | Posted 10.27.2009 | Business
Two ideas are floating around Washington regarding how to handle 'too big to fail' banks, but only one is supported by the Treasury and the White House. Unfortunately, it's the wrong one.
Arianna Huffington | Posted 10.25.2009 | Business
This week, Obama's pay czar announced he'd be slashing executive pay at seven of the biggest recipients of bailout billions. So it's no surprise that many of Wall Street's Masters of the Universe didn't turn up at the New York fundraiser President Obama spoke at -- choosing instead to attend a party thrown to toast the release of Too Big To Fail, Andrew Ross Sorkin's blow-by-blow account of the meltdown. There, enjoying cocktails and finger food, were many of the central players, including Jamie Dimon of JP Morgan and John Mack of Morgan Stanley. Which is kind of like Hannibal Lecter showing up for the opening of Silence of the Lambs. Perhaps they take comfort in Sorkin's assessment that when it comes to reforming Wall Street "the Obama administration seems to have moved on to other priorities." I need a drink.
Anthony Tjan | Posted 10.23.2009 | Business
The trickiest part of the investment cycle is often the last part: knowing the right time to let go and sell.
Eric Schurenberg | Posted 10.19.2009 | Business
by way of putting the five-figure Dow in perspective let note some other numbers that were released since the Dow hit the 10k mark and that matter a lot more to you and your future.
Jon Younger | Posted 10.20.2009 | Business
How do you make the most of the opportunity to bind new employees to the organization through the ways you induct, orient and initially support an employee's cultural integration?
AP | SHARON THEIMER and PETE YOST | Posted 10.12.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Conservative Republicans are capitalizing on the troubles of community activist group ACORN – ranging from charges of voter r...
Robert Teitelman | Posted 10.05.2009 | Business
New York Times' reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin's excerpt microscopically examines the actions of some key regulatory and Wall Street players, in this case during the period immediately after Lehman failed.
CNNMoney.com | David Ellis | Posted 09.29.2009 | Business
Now with analysts predicting impressive third-quarter numbers from some of the nation's largest financial firms, big bonuses for top Wall Street talen...
Dan Dorfman | Posted 11.21.2009 | Business
So far this year, 94 banks have failed and another 500 to 1,000 may go belly up in the next two to three years. Let's take a look at our nation's banks.
Robert Reich | Posted 11.14.2009 | Business
Let's be clear: Wall Street today is up to the same tricks it was playing before its near-death experience. The only difference now is that its biggest banks know for sure they'll be bailed out if their bets turn sour.
The Huffington Post | Posted 11.13.2009 | Business
When poor lending practices brought the world's biggest banks and AIG to their knees, Washington delivered hundreds of billions in financial lifelines...
AP | By STEVENSON JACOBS | Posted 11.13.2009 | Business
NEW YORK (AP) -- A year after the financial system nearly collapsed, the nation's biggest banks are bigger and regaining their appetite for risk. Gol...
Marshall Auerback | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics
A broad number of polls indicate that progressive opinion, particularly in the area of health care, is much more profoundly aligned with popular opinion than the damp squib of a proposal currently being championed by the president.
Eric Schurenberg | Posted 10.17.2009 | Business
Things aren't going so well outside the pale of banks too big to fail. The FDIC faces losses of $21 billion from the 84 banks that have gone under so far this year -- more than in all of last year.
Dave Johnson | Posted 09.26.2009 | Business
This is a story we know too well: Wall Street vs. Main Street. Irresponsible behavior leads to bonuses for the former while working hard and playing by the rules leads to unemployment and foreclosure for the latter.
New York Post | Posted 09.24.2009 | Media
Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JPMorgan Chase, considered by many to be the country's most influential and successful bank executive, can add another title t...
ProPublica | Posted 09.12.2009 | Business
Judges have found that major mortgages servicers regularly mess up basic accounting, improperly credit payments and charge unwarranted fees.
HuffPost Investigative Fund | Keith Epstein And Ben Protess | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics