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Shahien Nasiripour

Smaller Banks May Be Forced To Subsidize "Too Big To Fail"; Leading House Dem Wants To Change That

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 11.19.2009 | Business

Read More: Insurance Fund Too Big to Fail, Tbtf, Bank Failures, Too Big to Fail, Brad Sherman Bank Amendment, Brad Sherman, Financial Crisis, Business News

-This story has been updated- A leading House Democrat plans to introduce Thursday a provision that would require those banks deemed "too big to fai...

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Shahien Nasiripour and Ryan Grim

EXCLUSIVE: Two Leading House Dems Will Close $50 Trillion Loophole In Derivatives Reform Bills

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour and Ryan Grim | Posted 11.18.2009 | Business

Read More: Occ, Derivatives, End Users, Barney Frank, Derivatives Reform, Chris Dodd, Collin Peterson, Big Banks, Cftc, Exclusive, Tbtf, Financial Crisis, Banks, Foreign Exchange, Gary Gensler, Business News

The two House Democrats shepherding derivatives reform proposals through Congress will close an existing $50 trillion loophole for foreign currency co...

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Shahien Nasiripour

Too Big To Fail: House Proposal Would Allow Feds To Break Up Biggest Banks

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 11.18.2009 | Business

Read More: Financial Crisis, House Too Big to Fail, Tbtf, Too Big to Fail, Too Big to Fail Banks, Business News

A key House Democrat released on Wednesday his much-awaited proposal to end "too big to fail": Let the federal government break them apart. Paul Kanj...

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Shahien Nasiripour

Fed Chairman Blames Banks For Continued High Unemployment

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 11.16.2009 | Business

Read More: Ben Bernake, Too Big to Fail, John Reed, Paul Volcker, Mervyn King, Bank Lending, Tbtf, Paul Kanjorski, Bailout, Banks, Financial Crisis, Ben Bernanke, Glass-Steagall, Business News

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Monday blamed banks for slowing the recovery and keeping unemployment high. Despite hundreds of billions i...

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Shahien Nasiripour

State Regulators: Dodd's Bank Bill Creates Another 'Too Big To Fail' Problem

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 11.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Christopher Dodd, Dual Charter, Regulatory Reform, Financial Reform, Bank Charter, Financial Regulation, Conference of State Bank Supervisors, Csbs, Tbtf, Financial Crisis, Senate Banking Committee, Chris Dodd, Too Big to Fail, Transparency, Business News

State bank regulators are warning that Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd's proposal to create one monolithic federal bank regulator w...

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Shahien Nasiripour

New Bill Would Keep Public In The Dark About Threats To Financial System

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 11.06.2009 | Business

Read More: Tbtf, Financial Reform, Barney Frank, Too Big to Fail, Financial Crisis, Mel Watt, Systemic Risk Regulator, Financial Stability, Systemic Risk, Gregory Meeks, Financial Regulation, Business News

Members of Congress and the general public may not be told of "potential emerging threats to the stability of the financial system," thanks to a Thurs...

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Shahien Nasiripour

10 Years Ago Today, Congress Allowed For "Too Big To Fail"

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 11.05.2009 | Business

Read More: John S. Reed, Robert Reich, Brad Miller, Larry Summers, Paul Volcker, Lawrence Summers, Ed Perlmutter, Barney Frank, Paul Wellstone, Tbtf, Paul Kanjorski, Financial Crisis, Banks, Gramm Leach Bliley Act, Byron Dorgan, Too Big to Fail, Wall Street, Citigroup, Glass-Steagall, Business News

On the 10th anniversary of Congress voting to repeal the law that had long separated Main Street commercial banking from Wall Street investment bankin...

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Shahien Nasiripour

Federal Reserve Loses Expanded Powers Proposed By Obama Administration

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 11.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Fdic, Occ, Tbtf, Barney Frank, Too Big to Fail, John Dugan, Financial Crisis, Federal Reserve, Obama Administration, Comptroller of the Currency, Sheila Bair, Business News

The pushback against an omnipotent Federal Reserve keeps growing. A top Congressional leader said Thursday that the Fed will not have the power to ov...

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Shahien Nasiripour

New "Too Big To Fail" Bill Gives Feds Power To Freeze Derivatives Contracts

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 11.03.2009 | Business

Read More: Fdic, Derivatives, Barney Frank, Too Big to Fail, Aig, Credit Default Swaps, Michael Krimminger, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Tbtf, Lehman Brothers, Isda, Financial Crisis, Systemic Risk Regulator, Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers Bankruptcy, Systemic Risk, Business News

The "Too Big To Fail" legislation currently being debated by a House committee has been widely criticized as toothless. But one provision gives the fe...

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Dylan Ratigan Dresses As Thomas Jefferson, Warns Against "Gambling Casinos" (VIDEO)

Posted 10.30.2009 | Media

Read More: Msnbc, Tbtf, Halloween Costume, Morning Meeting, Thomas Jefferson Costume, Dylan Ratigan, Too Big to Fail, Tarp, Media News

On MSNBC's Morning Meeting on Friday, host Dylan Ratigan celebrated Halloween by donning a wig and dressing in revolutionary garb like his favorite Fo...

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Shahien Nasiripour

Frank Says "Too Big To Fail" Bill Will Be Changed

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 10.30.2009 | Business

Read More: Wall Street Bailout, Tbtf, Bailout, Tim Geithner, Barney Frank, Too Big to Fail, John Dugan, Financial Crisis, Banks, Timothy Geithner, Sheila Bair, Business News

Democrats and Republicans ripped into Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner during a Congressional hearing Thursday, as Geithner defended an administrat...

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Too Big To Fail, Too Small To Survive: Small Bank Failures Mount, While Big Banks' Profits Soar

Huffington Post | Marcus Baram and Grace Kiser | Posted 10.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Tbtf, Small Bank Failures, FDIC Bank Failures, Bank Failures, Too Big to Fail, Stiglitz Bank Failures, Joseph Stiglitz Bailout, Bailout Bank Profits, Business News

On Wall Street, they may be popping the champagne bottles over big bank profits this past quarter. But times are tough for small to mid-size banks aro...

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Congress and TBTF: Bring in the Bomb Squad

Joshua Rosner | Posted 10.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Fed, Tbtf, Finance, Regulation, Treasury, Congress, Obama, Fannie and Freddie, Contingent Capital, Business News
Joshua Rosner

This bill is one more act of sleight of hand by a Congress that, to the detriment of the public, fails to see that banks are there to serve the public good and can be regulated with such a goal.

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Happy Halloween: Pay Curbs are a Trick on the Taxpayer, Not a Treat

Marshall Auerback | Posted 10.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Halloween, Tbtf, Chrysler, Derivatives, Fed, Treasury, Citibank, Aig, Obama, Ben Bernanke, Happy Halloween, Politics News
Marshall Auerback

The new pay regulations are ostensibly designed to try to align the financial incentives of managers with the longer-term performance of their firms. This measure reeks of bogus populism.

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