Our finance industry is on the attack again. The industry target now is the Volcker rule -- the proposed rule that would limit the ability of banks to trade for their own account. Leading the attack has been JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon.

Over the weekend, Tyler Cowen put up a column in The New York Times arguing a) that financial institutions should not be broken up and b) that shareho...

* Public Citizen, academics say BofA poses "grave threat" * Ask regulators to proactively reform Bank of America * Petit...

Most Americans have had it with bailouts of the big banks on Wall Street when so little has been done for Main Street.
 
Banks that are "too big to fail" are too big to exist.

I have never quite been able to understand how the decision was made to fire Richard Wagoner at GM but not Vikram Pandit at Citibank. Is running a huge bank really more complex than running a huge automobile manufacturer?

An outspoken critic of big banks and their mortgage practices leading up to the financial crisis may be tasked with making sure they comply with a lon...

This technology-driven, partly outsourced, too-big-to-fail bureaucracies of today are more difficult to maneuver than that of yesteryear. And the frustration and angst it breeds are one reason the Occupy Wall Street and Tea Party movements resonate with Americans.

Since I am an avowed capitalist, why should there be any issue with banks or those who have legitimately found a means by which to produce staggering wealth? For two reasons.

As public anger at Wall Street greed boils over in the form of protests spreading across the nation, the Federal Reserve Board is poised to allow creation of yet another "too big to fail" bank.

The challenge is how to make our banks and our banking system stronger with the right dose of regulatory medicine. Too little will be ineffectual and too much may produce more complications than benefits.

The time has come for an intelligent, independently-governed, public infrastructure bank, ideally partnering with real banks that see their public purpose as a profession, focused on productive lending in the real economy.

In implementing regulatory reforms, whether to resolve "too big to fail," minimize systemic risk, or address the multitude of other issues raised in Dodd- Frank, balance and perspective are critical.

Too-big-to-fail may be here to stay, according to one former Fed chairman. Speaking at a public event on Monday, former Federal Reserve Chairman P...

(ALEXANDRA ALPER, Reuters) - Consumer groups will try to convince the Federal Reserve this week that rubber stamping the Capital One Financial Cor...

Elizabeth Warren announced that she was running against Scott Brown for a U.S. Senate seat on the eve of the anniversary of the Lehman Brothers collapse. For many, Lehman's bankruptcy marks the day the wheels came off the bus and the U.S. economy went over a cliff.