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Ghosts of Enron

Mike Lux | Posted 05.03.2013 | Politics
Read More: JP Morgan Chase, Sec, Occ, Arthur Andersen, Sherrod Brown, Ferc, Libor, Terminating Bailouts for Taxpayer Fairness Act, George W. Bush, TBTF Banks, Enron, Jamie Dimon, Eric Holder, Dick Cheney, Dailyenron, Politics News
Mike Lux

The ghosts of the Enron Corporation are haunting us still, and they are a lot scarier than any horror movie ghosts because, unlike the Hollywood variety, these ghosts still have enough substance to cause an economic nightmare.

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The Central Economic Fights of Our Time, Part 1

Mike Lux | Posted 04.29.2013 | Politics
Read More: TBTF Banks, Wal-Mart Unions, Sherrod Brown, Too Big to Jail, Terminating Bailouts for Taxpayer Fairness Act, David Vitter, Too Big to Fail, Politics News
Mike Lux

Taking on the big banks is not just another issue. These TBTF banks have the capacity to crash our economy any time they get greedy and make a bad decision, and they suck trillions of dollars out of productive investment in Main Street businesses.

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Is New Technology Destroying Jobs?

Mary Manning Cleveland | Posted 04.07.2013 | Business
Read More: TBTF Banks, Big Business, Monopoly, Scientist-Andrew-Mcafee, Automation, Labor-Saving Technology, Inequality, Reagan Revolution, Technology Destroying Jobs, Business News
Mary Manning Cleveland

Big corporations, especially big monopolistic corporations, tend to carry labor-saving technology too far. They automate too soon and too much. The reasons are pretty obvious once you think about it.

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Too Big to Fail Banks Are Stopping You From Getting 5 Percent on Your Savings

Max Keiser | Posted 09.08.2012 | Business
Read More: TBTF Banks, Dave Fishwick, Interest Rates, Quantitative Easing, Tbtf, Burnley Savings and Loans, Libor, Big Banks, Too Big to Fail, Video, Business News
Max Keiser

The banking lobby misrepresents the situation in two ways. First, they foster the belief that the economy needs lower rates to 'get going.' Second, the banking lobby likes to pretend that there is no alternative.

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The Dallas Fed and Too-Big-to-Fail

Robert Teitelman | Posted 05.30.2012 | Business
Read More: Federal Reserve, Economics, Dallas, Too Big to Fail, TBTF Banks, Texas History, Economic Critique, The Fed, Business News
Robert Teitelman

Texas survived and again prospered, but in politicians like Rick Perry and Ron Paul it still displays a broad populist streak that includes enthusiastically bashing the Fed.

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Bury Our Banks in Style!

Iris Mack | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: New Orleans, Finance Bloggers, Dr. Paul Wilmott, Bank Failures, TSTB Banks, Sweet Freedom, Bank Regulations, Too Big to Fail, Move Your Money Campaign, TBTF Banks, Larry Summers, Repealed, Wall Street Journal, Jazz Funerals, Fdic, Jazz, Financial TImes, Too Small to Bailout, Glass-Steagall Act, Secondline Dance, Bob Rubin, Finance, Correct Predictions, Economy, CQF Blog, Trading, London, Dr. Emanuel Derman, Dr. Satyajit Das, Certificate of Quantitative Finance Programme, Financial Engineering, Derivatives, Dr. Nassim Taleb, Cqf, Global Economic Recession, The Warning, Pbs, Brooksley Born, Consumer Finance Protection, Casinos, Congress, Frontline, wilmott.com, cqf.com, Business News
Iris Mack

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

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