Embattled Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner looms large in John Heilemann's New York magazine piece detailing the Obama administration's increasingly st...

Two Republicans on the Senate Banking Committee presented starkly different messages Wednesday on a key provision in the financial reform bill making ...

Whatever the reasons, the Geithner Treasury Department has suddenly come out swinging. They're pugilists in pinstripes now. But while the rhetoric's encouraging, Geithner's record is cloudy at best.

The U.S. financial system is tilted in favor of the biggest banks, compromising the "very foundation of the economic system" and putting the nation at...

If government had allowed markets to operate as Bear and Lehman went down, all of the big financial institutions would also have collapsed. As Bernanke now apparently realizes, that would have been a good thing.

The Dodd bill raced out of the Senate Banking Committee last night but, even in its current incarnation, it's a bit unclear how it might affect large ...

We agree completely with the administration's approach -- actually, with Elizabeth Warren's approach -- to consumer protection. (We make this clear i...

[Alan] Greenspan the bank buster crops up near the end of "13 Bankers," Simon Johnson and James Kwak's reasoned look at how Wall Street became what th...

When recovery does come lawmakers must avoid the temptation to slip back into the old ways of doing business. They must focus on building an operation that can be sustained in any economic environment.

Thursday night's passage of Wall Street reform is an event to be celebrated, but several key issues remain in play as the House and Senate iron out differences between their respective versions of the legislation.

Our entire economy almost collapsed a year-and-a-half ago because there were no referees on Wall Street. And sadly, hardworking, honest taxpayers paid the price. Our bill will prevent that from happening again.

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul A. Volcker criticized bank regulators Wednesday, saying Congress needs to specifically act to rein in Wall Street...

Given a self-styled stock market "psychic"'s track record, shouldn't the SEC place some constraints on members of the securities industry who purport to be able to predict the future?

Today, Sen. Christopher Dodd will unveil his financial regulatory reform legislation to the Senate Banking Committee. Based on some predictions, the b...

Where are the emails from Fed and Treasury/ To Goldman, Lehman and AIG?/ Until we know who knew what and when/ How can we trust a single one of them?

How have big banks preserved their "Too Big To Fail" status? With giant bags of money and an army of lobbyists who used to work in government, says a ...

A senator is calling for the break-up of megabanks and a firmer separation between Main Street banking and Wall Street trading, joining the ranks of l...

The most important fight from here on out is protecting the surviving elements of the derivatives bill crafted by Sen. Blanche Lincoln. Lincoln's bill would force big banks who deal derivatives to spin off those operations into separate companies.

Despite declarations from President Obama, his top aides and Democratic leadership that the pending financial reform bill in the Senate will forever e...