While regulation comes with a significant price tag, those costs pale beside the losses that banks can incur when left to their own devices. Will regulators take the hint that the cost-benefit fight is one they can win?

Like a fat kid and chocolate cake, some things are just inseparable. And CEO Jaime Dimon of JPMorgan Chase has proven that parable with his near insatiable appetite in saying the wrong thing at the wrong time.

To Brooksley Born, JPMorgan Chase's trading blowup looks a lot like the Long-Term Capital Management debacle of 14 years ago. It's "happening all o...

One of the characters in the classic 1939 film “Stagecoach” is a banker named Gatewood who lectures his captive audience on the evils of big gover...

The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) -- Three high-ranking executives at JPMorgan Chase are expected to leave their jobs this week after a trading bl...

The United States is trying to pull out of the greatest financial tailspins in its history. Dice-rolling braggadacio by a key officer at one of the nation's largest banks is exactly the kind of thing Congress, taxpayers and voters should find scary.

NEW YORK -- JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon says he does not know whether the bank broke any laws in the surprise $2 billion loss by one of its trading...

If you thought Wall Street had learned its lesson four years after the global financial crisis, JPMorgan Chase's $2 billion trading debacle suggests y...

Somebody throw some water on the irony meter because it's burning up: JPMorgan could have been spared the embarrassment and pain of its $2 billion tra...

WASHINGTON -- The head of the Securities and Exchange Commission says the agency is focused on a surprise $2 billion trading loss by JPMorgan Chase. ...

Oh, the irony. After roundly criticizing regulations aimed at preventing banks from taking huge and unsustainable risks with their own money, Jamie...

JPMorgan Chase has suffered big, unexpected losses at a closely watched trading desk, providing fodder to supporters of a new financial regulation the...

Who is that handsome socialist from Wisconsin, and what has he done with Rep. Paul Ryan? A Bloomberg View piece on Wednesday in support of the Volc...

* Fed clarifies 2-year compliance period for Volcker rule * Fed has said may miss July deadline to finalize rule * Delay...

Apparently not every banker hates the Volcker rule. Roger Vasey, who used to be in charge of global debt markets at Merrill Lynch, penned a pro-Vol...

Big banks are formulating a host of arguments -- wild, off the mark arguments -- aimed at dismantling the Volcker Rule firewall between loan-making, customer-serving banks and high-risk hedge funds.

If the Volcker Rule is implemented as planned, that would have a major negative effect on the bond yields paid by the Muppets and other leading providers of children's entertainment. No one else will ever trade these bonds to any significant degree.

Greg Smith's recent wail of resignation made it clear that Goldman Sachs has long lost touch with these simple truths. The thing is, though, you don't have to be a client of Goldman's to lose out, you just have to be, well, a human.

* Study says exemption for market making should be broadened * Says gasoline and power costs could rise without changes ...

Amnesia is bipartisan. The one thing, apparently, that can get Democrats and Republicans working together is a desire to wreck protections for the economy and investors that were put in place not long ago.

Why haven't more lawmakers insisted on strict financial regulation? Maybe because that's not where the money is. Members of Congress who have calle...