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Less Talk, More Action Needed by Fed
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The Fed gets tougher on "too big to fail" but how tough? Does it have the guts to go after this problem asks Peter Eavis. If he does Bernake would go down in history as a hero says Eavis. Meanwhile Fed Governor Tarullo clearly point to the utterly inconceivable fact that after a crisis of these proportions with large banks being bailed out, the remaining banks and financial institutions are larger than before the crisis. And the banking lobby has stalled regulation to control the problems in derivatives trading and other areas. Splitting up or downsizing the banks and separating their social function as deposit takers in the economy from their trading desks and investment activity, is being advocated by central bankers from Volcker to Mervyn King. See links.
2008 global financial crisis and the incomprehensible- Are the old faces that put the whole financial system at risk, now the new faces trying to fix it?
01/15/2009
Sir James Crosby is the old face of HBOS bank which needed $17 billion of British government money, he has also been Deputy Chairman of the Financial Services Authorty since 2006. Has part of the problem been that regulatory agencies have been run by the very people they were supposed to regulate. In the process has the regulatory mindset which is supposed to have conservative instincts and to be skeptical of newly contrived schemes and ever vigilant, been destroyed or replaced with something foreign to the task of regulation.
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Obama's Pick to Head SEC Has Record Of Being a Regulator With a Light Touch
Wall Street Journal 01/15/2009
Schapiro Pledges Vigilance as SEC Chief
Wall Street Journal 01/16/2009
SEC Chief Pledges Effort To Bolster Enforcement
Wall Street Journal 02/07/2009
SEC Expected to Name Khuzami Enforcement Director
Wall Street Journal 02/09/2009
Top Enforcer at the S.E.C. Steps Down
New York Times 02/10/2009
British Regulator Quits as Accusations Mount in Banking Crisis
New York Times 02/12/2009
Nationalization of banks in the U.S. in 2009
01/16/2009
As the crisis deepens and more banks become insolvent, nationalization has become a serious option for the government.
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Irreversible Damage: Why Little Action on Banking Can Do Great Harm.
New York Times 04/30/2010
New York Times 03/06/2009
New York Times 04/01/2009
Rescue of Banks Hints at Nationalization
New York Times 01/16/2009
U.K. Boosts Its Bailout As Bank Losses Rise
Wall Street Journal 01/20/2009
New York Times 01/21/2009
The lack of action in the "too big to fail" and systemically important financial institutions area one year into the Obama administration.
04/21/2009
Regulatory reform proposals and other actions taken in the first 6 months still leave many banking and financial nstitutions that are too big to fail. Consolidations of banks have actually increasd their size. The dangers in additional bailout assistance if banks suffer huge losses.
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GE Capital, AIG to Get More Government Oversight
Wall Street Journal 07/09/2013
Weâre All Still Hostages to the Big Banks
New York Times 08/25/2013
Wall Street Journal 05/01/2013
Economists Seek Breakup of Big Banks
Wall Street Journal 04/21/2009
Banks Need Fewer Carrots and More Sticks
Wall Street Journal 05/07/2009
What Does the Market Focus on After the Stress Tests?
Wall Street Journal 05/07/2009
Challenging the embedded thinking on Wall Street and in the City of London.
09/24/2009
The unregulated functioning of free markets is a result of regulators and the banking community both believing that the uninhibited operation of free markets is the best way to generate economic growth. This makes it easy for regulators to be coopted and falling asleep on the job. Turner Adair of Britain's FSA, and other leaders, who are trying to bring fresh thinking to regulatory reforms.
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On Wall St., A Culture of Greed Won't Let Go
New York Times 07/15/2013
New York Times 12/27/2011
Britain’s Top Financial Regulator Takes On Banks
New York Times 09/24/2009
British Banks Will Face Tougher Liquidity Rules
New York Times 10/06/2009
The U.K.'s Tough Line on Liquidity
Wall Street Journal 10/07/2009
A Lack of Fiscal Fitness Is Weighing on the Pound
Wall Street Journal 10/14/2009
The bailout and the Federal Reserve's infusion of cheap money are having unintended effects.
01/20/2009
One impact is that a few securties firms are making large profits even as the smaller banks are failing, banks like Citigroup and Bank of America are suffering losses, and the banks that were "too big to fail" are actually becoming larger. The Fed's infusion of money is not helping small and medium sized businesses with credit, as the smaller banks that lend to these businesses -as Ms. Lee points out- are not getting credit and are laying off people. This is setting off a vicious cycle of shrinking employment and shriking consumer demand.
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How the Fed Can Avoid the Next Bubble
Wall Street Journal 10/06/2009
Recession Spells End for Many Family Businesses
Wall Street Journal 10/06/2009
Taking the National Debt Seriously
Wall Street Journal 10/12/2009
Steven Pearlstein - Don't Reinflate the Old Bubbles
Washington Post 10/14/2009
Financial-Services Regulation Fuels Tiff
Wall Street Journal 10/14/2009
That Promised Financial Reform
New York Times 10/14/2009
Danel Tarullo's lone effort at the Federal Reserve- 2009-2010
10/01/2009
Daniel Tarullo steps in around September 2009, when Congress and the administration have already buckled under pressure from the lobbying by the banking industry to weaken essential regulatory reform in derivatives trading, and in other reforms. Volcker is 82, and rarely uses his Washington office (ignored?), Tarullo is looked at by staff at the Fed from the previous lax regime of regulation with skepticism. Mervyn King at the Bank of England is alone in calling for the breakup of big banks into smaller banks, and separating utility and investment banking, which Volcker supports. As it stands now bank regulation falls under the FSA in England, with the Conservatives under Osborne looking to give the Bank of England this authority. And all the time banking behaviours at investment banks and trading desks continue in a business as usual manner.
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The Power Behind the Throne at the Federal Reserve
New York Times 07/31/2013
Fed Boosts Pressure on Banks Over Capital Levels
Wall Street Journal 08/20/2013
Banks Ordered to Add Capital to Limit Risks
New York Times 04/08/2014
Fed’s New Bank-Regulation Tune Should Be One Direction
Wall Street Journal 12/02/2014
Washington Strips New York Fed’s Power
Wall Street Journal 03/05/2015
U.K. Banks Face Political Upheaval
Wall Street Journal 10/27/2009
U.S. Fed governor Daniel Tarullo and new capital reserve requirements for U.S. banks in 2011-2015
10/24/2009
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Wall Street Journal 05/01/2013
The Power Behind the Throne at the Federal Reserve
New York Times 07/31/2013
Fed Boosts Pressure on Banks Over Capital Levels
Wall Street Journal 08/20/2013
Banks Ordered to Add Capital to Limit Risks
New York Times 04/08/2014
Regulator Suggests End to Bank's Self-grading
New York Times 05/08/2014
Fed’s New Bank-Regulation Tune Should Be One Direction
Wall Street Journal 12/02/2014
Bank Cleanup Options of bad bank, guaranteeing assets, and nationalization reviewed in the 2008 financial crisis
01/17/2009
Economist, NYT and experts look at the options for cleaning up the bad debt at banks.
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Irreversible Damage: Why Little Action on Banking Can Do Great Harm.
New York Times 04/30/2010
New York Times 03/06/2009
New York Times 04/01/2009
New York Times 01/19/2009
Wall Street Journal 01/20/2009
New York Times 01/21/2009
Discussions for a new regulatory framework with single regulator for banks
05/28/2009
Discussions at the White House for a new financial regulatory framework.
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Single-Regulator Plan for Banks Now Close
Wall Street Journal 05/28/2009
Financial Overhaul Raises Questions
Wall Street Journal 05/29/2009
Small Banks Hold Key to Central Piece of Regulatory Revamp
Wall Street Journal 07/31/2009
A Year After a Cataclysm, Little Change on Wall St.
New York Times 09/12/2009
Summers Says More Regulators Could Join Fed to Police Risk
Wall Street Journal 09/12/2009
Britain’s Top Financial Regulator Takes On Banks
New York Times 09/24/2009
Business as usual at banks but serious operational problems says Whalen of Institutional Analytics in 2009
08/23/2009
A study of FDIC data for regional and community banks shows situation worsening in 4th quarter 2009. The stress tests for big banks use a 9% loss rate and we are already there says Whalen.
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Second-Lien Loans May Prompt New Losses for Banks
New York Times 07/16/2011
A Dubious Way to Prevent Fiscal Crisis
New York Times 06/04/2010
What the Stress Tests Didn’t Predict
New York Times 08/23/2009
How the Fed Can Avoid the Next Bubble
Wall Street Journal 10/06/2009
Recession Spells End for Many Family Businesses
Wall Street Journal 10/06/2009
The Banking System Is Still Broken
Wall Street Journal 10/16/2009
Goldman Sachs CEO Blankfein.
10/10/2009
Goldman and its CEO continue to be unpopular with a public that is unhappy with the government help to the banks. Large bonuses make the situation even worse.
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Goldman Bets Less and Takes Hit
Wall Street Journal 07/20/2011
Wall Street Journal 07/23/2013
Senior Executives at Goldman Had a Role in Mortgage Unit
New York Times 04/18/2010
Wall Street Journal 04/20/2010
Exit Shows Blankfein Still Rows Goldman
Wall Street Journal 10/22/2013
A Moot Effort to Burnish the Reputation of Goldman Sachs
New York Times 10/23/2013
Bank of England governor Mervyn King sees the need to breakup the biggest banks.
01/28/2008
Volcker in the USA and Mervyn King in England both agree that speculative and utility banking should be separated, and too big to fail banks broken up. Regulation to prevent a future banking crisis they agree is something of an illusion.
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Weâre All Still Hostages to the Big Banks
New York Times 08/25/2013
BOE's King: Big Banks Should Get Broken Up
Wall Street Journal 10/21/2009
Britain and Its Central Bank Disagree on Banking Laws
New York Times 10/22/2009
Less Talk, More Action Needed by Fed
Wall Street Journal 10/24/2009
Fed's Tarullo Shakes Up Bank Rules
Wall Street Journal 10/26/2009
Economist 10/26/2009
The U.S. Federal Reserve's Large Institution Supervision Coordination Committee
10/21/2009
Fed chairman Bernanke and Governor Tarullo set up the LISCC in 2010 to provide expert supervision at Fed headquarters that reports to them. Before this supervision was left to the 12 Federal Reserve Banks. Now the Fed can draw on the 42 PhD's and other experts in its ranks to review individual bank's financial position for systemic risk in adverse scenarios and flag these risks. This is critical to effective supervision of large banks.
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Central Bankers Hone Tools to Pop Bubbles
Wall Street Journal 07/08/2013
The Power Behind the Throne at the Federal Reserve
New York Times 07/31/2013
Fed Boosts Pressure on Banks Over Capital Levels
Wall Street Journal 08/20/2013
Banks Ordered to Add Capital to Limit Risks
New York Times 04/08/2014
The Federal Reserve's Too Cozy Relations With Banks
Wall Street Journal 09/10/2014
The Fed Needs Governors Who Aren’t Wall Street Insiders
Wall Street Journal 11/18/2014
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