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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
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
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
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
The watering down of banking reforms in Congress.
10/15/2009
Not allowing states to regulate banks risks repeating some of the mistakes made in the events leading to the mortgage related global financial crisis,
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Trench Warfare: Send In the Deputies
New York Times 04/16/2010
New York Times 04/18/2010
Obama Presses Regulators to Finish Financial Rules
Wall Street Journal 08/20/2013
Volcker Rule to Curb Bank Trading Proves Hard to Write
Wall Street Journal 09/10/2013
Compromise Bill Could Block States on Bank Rules
New York Times 10/22/2009
Obama Promises Butchers No New Financial Regulations
Unknown 10/25/2009
Congressional action for stronger requirements from the banks to prevent future crises.
12/08/2009
This reflects growing public anger against banks.
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Financial Bill Hits Big Banks Hardest
Wall Street Journal 12/08/2009
Washington Post 12/27/2009
Bachus Is Wall Street's Man in Jefferson County
BusinessWeek 05/26/2011
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