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Sandy Weill Regrets Breaking Glass
Keywords:
Glass Steagall, the "Citigroup Authorization Act," and Sanford Weill
01/15/2009
Sanford Weill pushed hard for repeal of the Glass Steagall Act, so much so that the legislation to repeal it was called the Citigroup Authorization Act. Weill said in July 2012 that the times had changed and he regretted repeal of Glass Steagall. He called for a breakup of the biggest banks because the experience of the housing bubble and the financial crisis had proved that this posed too many risks.
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Big-Bank Pioneer Now Seeks Breakup
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Sandy Weill Regrets Breaking Glass
Wall Street Journal 07/26/2012
Weill Calls for Splitting Up Big Banks
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The Glass-Steagall Act, its repeal and "too big to fail" in 2011-2014
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Weâre All Still Hostages to the Big Banks
New York Times 08/25/2013
Soothing Words on 'Too Big to Fail' But With Little Meaning
New York Times 12/11/2013
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Big-Bank Pioneer Now Seeks Breakup
Wall Street Journal 07/25/2012
Sandy Weill Regrets Breaking Glass
Wall Street Journal 07/26/2012
Weill Calls for Splitting Up Big Banks
New York Times 07/25/2012
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
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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
Evidence of "Too Big To Fail" in the US Federal Reserve's 2008 Bailout Files
01/20/2009
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GE Capital, AIG to Get More Government Oversight
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Weâre All Still Hostages to the Big Banks
New York Times 08/25/2013
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Wall Street Journal 12/02/2010
Hedge Funds Tapped Rescue Program
Wall Street Journal 12/02/2010
Liquidity Facility Was Lifeline for Wall Street
Wall Street Journal 12/02/2010
Not just "too big to fail" but too big to run.
10/01/2009
Bank of America is 10 times the size of Exxon. It has $2.3 trillion in assets.
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Weâre All Still Hostages to the Big Banks
New York Times 08/25/2013
Soothing Words on 'Too Big to Fail' But With Little Meaning
New York Times 12/11/2013
Wall Street Journal 05/01/2013
Economist 10/08/2009
Economist 10/01/2009
Irreversible Damage: Why Little Action on Banking Can Do Great Harm.
New York Times 04/30/2010
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?
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Letters to the Editors of the Wall Street Journal on the trading losses at JP Morgan Chase, the Volcker Rule and Glass-Steagall repeal
04/10/2009
Losses at Societe Generale by a single trader with losses over $7 billion in 2010, followed by a novice traders loss of $2 billion at UBS in 2011, and the ongoing loss at Chase of $2 billion in 2012, point to the dangers facing the banking systems in Europe and the U.S. without adequate regulatory oversight over risktaking by banks.
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Volcker Rule to Curb Bank Trading Proves Hard to Write
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The Volcker Rule on Bank Risks Approaches Its Final Edits
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New York Times 04/10/2009
The Lessons of JPMorgan's Trading Loss
New York Times 05/14/2012
Hedge or Bet? Parsing the J.P. Morgan Trade
Wall Street Journal 05/16/2012
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The perverse effects of lobbying in damaging the public interest.
04/10/2009
Finance industry lobbying, with $300 million alone spent to repeal the Glass Steagall Act which kept banks from getting involved in the securties business, is having the effect of making changes without the due diligence and care necessary for changing legislation that had deep reason embedded in experience during the Great Depression. Citigroup's failure is a result of its involvement in the securities business, and it was a principal backer for the repeal. Similar situation is playing out in the U.S. health-care area which has overtaken the finance industry in money spent for lobbying. Lobbying of this magnitude is having distortional effects on national priorities on necessary regulation, and on creating sustainable economical systems for health care in health care laws.
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Banks' Lobbyists Help in Drafting Financial Bills
New York Times 05/23/2013
New York Times 04/10/2009
Finance Lobby Cut Spending as Feds Targeted Wall Street
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New York Times 07/20/2009
New York Times 07/20/2009
Doctors' Payments Snag Health Bill
Wall Street Journal 07/20/2009
Different approaches to banking crises- South Korea and the U.S.
04/01/2009
The U.S. leaned on S. Korea to make radical changes in its banking system in 1997, with takeover of banks by the government, closing of loss ridden banks, and creation of a new banking sector. The moves were compressed into a short time because of U.S. pressure. The large influence of bank lobbying in the US, in Republican and Democratic administrations, has led to a situation in which the U.S. banking sector is similiar to what it was before the 2008 crisis, with the same too-big-to fail banks- only larger now- and with unresolved bad housing loans.
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Book portrays dysfunction in Obama White House - The Washington Post
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Seoul Forum Helps Heal IMF Wounds
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New York Times 04/01/2009
Plan to Help Banks Clear Their Books Is Halted
New York Times 06/04/2009
South Korea Makes a Quick Economic Recovery
New York Times 01/06/2011
'Too Big to Fail' Is Simply Too Big
Wall Street Journal 10/19/2011
Larry Kotlikoff and other economists who support strong action to strip banks of risk-taking activities.
02/04/2010
Among those who support such moves are Simon Johnson at MIT, Robert Lucas at the University of Chicago, Jeffrey Sachs at Columbia. Most recently Mervyn King, governor of the Bank of England. Glenn Hubbard of Columbia and an advisor to President George W. Bush compares the action needed to breakup "too-big-to-fail" banks to the action taken by Theodore Roosevelt, see the link to Hubbard.
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Weâre All Still Hostages to the Big Banks
New York Times 08/25/2013
How Larry Kotlikoff Would Fix the Financial System
BusinessWeek 02/04/2010
Irreversible Damage: Why Little Action on Banking Can Do Great Harm.
New York Times 04/30/2010
New Life for 'the Volcker Rule'
Wall Street Journal 05/01/2010
BusinessWeek 04/15/2010
Ireland Crisis Might Give China Break It Seeks
Unknown 11/19/2010
Thomas Hoenig and other experts on the "too big to fail" banking crisis that hovers over the U.S. economy
09/23/2010
Former Fed Governor of the Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank for 20 years, Thomas Hoenig, has followed Fed policy over a long period. He has maintained throughout that government backing takes away an essential element in the safe and conservative practices of financial institutions by encouraging the taking of excessive risks. The only way to ensure their safety is for creditors to know they bear serious risks and for the systemically important financial insitutions to know that not following safe financial practices can put these institutions and management out of business.
Grouped Articles
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
Soothing Words on 'Too Big to Fail' But With Little Meaning
New York Times 12/11/2013
BusinessWeek 09/23/2010
Wall Street Journal 05/01/2013
Banks Ordered to Add Capital to Limit Risks
New York Times 04/08/2014
WSJ's Francesco Guerrera on the lesson from the JP Morgan trading losses for tackling the "too-big-to-fail" problem
05/15/2012
Lessons from the JP Morgan trading losses for systemically important financial institutions.
Grouped Articles
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
Soothing Words on 'Too Big to Fail' But With Little Meaning
New York Times 12/11/2013
J.P. Morgan's Loss: Lessons From a Fiasco
Wall Street Journal 05/15/2012
Hedge or Bet? Parsing the J.P. Morgan Trade
Wall Street Journal 05/16/2012
Wall Street Journal 05/18/2012
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