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- How Big Is Too Big for Banks?
- The Baseline Scenario submits: By Peter Boone and Simon Johnson As legislation on restructuring the banking industry moves forward, attention on Capitol Hill is increasingly drawn to the issue of bank size. Should our biggest banks be made smaller? by The Baseline Scenario
- External links 2009-11-27
- GMAC: Three Key Questions
- The Baseline Scenario submits: By James Kwak I’m a little late to the GMAC bailout story, but after reading all the newspapers and blogs I usually read, there are still some things I don’t understand. I’m particularly confused about the announcement that GMAC will start lending to anyone with...
- External links 2009-01-01
- Why Fiscal Stimulus Isn't Enough
- The Baseline Scenario submits: By James Kwak Ben Bernanke gave a speech Tuesday day that will be discussed for, well, at least a few days, outlining the Federal Reserve’s response to the financial crisis. We will probably devote a couple of posts to it (Simon already mentioned it below.)...
- External links 2009-01-14
- A Good Bank / Bad Bank Primer
- The Baseline Scenario submits: For a complete list of Beginners articles, see the Financial Crisis for Beginners page. What is a bad bank? . . . No, I don’t mean that kind of bad bank, with which we are all much too familiar. I mean the kind of...
- External links 2009-01-22
- Bank Reprivatization After Paulson
- The Baseline Scenario submits: By Simon Johnson The worst possible way to nationalize would be to assume responsibility for the liabilities of banks, while at the same time not putting in place adequate oversight and failing to ensure that the taxpayer gets any upside. Even worse, we could install...
- External links 2009-02-17
- Guaranteeing Bank Stock Prices Is Not the Answer
- The Baseline Scenario submits: By James Kwak Less than a week after pulling off the media coup of publishing his universal credit insurance proposal in both the FT and the WSJ on the same day, Ricardo Caballero has a new proposal for solving the banking crisis, this one in...
- External links 2009-02-21
- Privatize the Banks Already
- The Baseline Scenario submits: By Simon Johnson The debate on bank nationalization in the United States is off to an inauspicious start. Most of the arguing so far is framed in terms of: yes/no, or what kind of in-between strategy can be tried and for how long....
- External links 2009-02-23
- Deciphering the Issue of Tangible Common Equity
- The Baseline Scenario submits: By James Kwak You may have seen in the news that the government is thinking about exchanging its “preferred stock” in Citigroup C for “common stock.” Here’s one of many articles. Which, if you are at all sensible and have any sense of proportion in...
- External links 2009-02-24
- Explaining the Citi Arithmetic
- The Baseline Scenario submits: Since I’ve been writing about preferred and common stock so much this week, I thought I would just try to explain the arithmetic of the Citigroup deal announced today. (By the way, it isn’t a done deal: All it says is that Citi is offering...
- External links 2009-02-27
- AIG Bailout Saga in Review
- The Baseline Scenario submits: By James Kwak Well, it’s done. AIG is getting another bailout. by The Baseline Scenario
- External links 2009-03-02
- Looting Goes Mainstream: The Trouble with Government-Backed Risk
- The Baseline Scenario submits: By James Kwak A week ago, Simon wrote his “Confusion, Tunneling, and Looting” post, which argued that the confusion created by crises helps the powerful and well-positioned siphon assets out of institutions and out of the government. The revelations that much of the AIG AIG...
- External links 2009-03-12
- Political Will: Bernanke On The True Cost Of Banking
- The Baseline Scenario submits: By Simon Johnson Stabilization programs in emerging markets often come down to this: the government needs to do something unpopular, e.g., reduce some subsidies, privatize an industry, or eliminate the crazy credit that goes to oligarchs (no one likes oligarchs, but their factories employ a...
- External links 2009-03-17
- Morgan Stanley Blocks Another Blog
- The Baseline Scenario submits: A reader reports his firm has blocked Internet access to BaselineScenario.com, and his requests to change this policy have so far gone unheeded. Access to our site has been blocked in the past by China - for reasons that should be obvious...
- External links 2009-03-18
- Financials: Cleaning House Is Always Better
- The Baseline Scenario submits: By Simon Johnson AIG AIG is arguing that its people are uniquely qualified to clean up the mess they made and therefore need big retention payments. by The Baseline Scenario
- External links 2009-03-20
- How We Could Let AIG Fail, Sort Of
- The Baseline Scenario submits: By James Kwak Simon and I wrote on op-ed in the New York Times today, trying to debunk the idea that, as we put it, “A.I.G.’s traders are the people that we must depend on to save the United States economy.” The AIG AIG ...
- External links 2009-03-20
- The Economics of Vilification
- The Baseline Scenario submits: By Simon Johnson CEOs of major banks have started to push back against the critics - their primary job, after all, is lobbying (rather than, say, risk management). As such, they are typically sophisticated communicators who use a wide range of symbols, words, and...
- External links 2009-03-21
- Is Citigroup a Non-Bank?
- The Baseline Scenario submits: By James Kwak I’ve read the NYT and WSJ articles, and the prepared testimony by Bernanke and Geithner, and I have a very basic question. Bernanke and Geithner said they needed new power over “systemically important nonbank financial firms” or “large, interconnected, non-depository financial institutions”...
- External links 2009-03-25
- Bond Holders: New Masters of the Universe?
- The Baseline Scenario submits: By James Kwak Back in the early days of the Clinton administration, James Carville was credited with saying something like this: by The Baseline Scenario
- External links 2009-04-01
- Why Should Life Insurers Be Bailed Out?
- The Baseline Scenario submits: by James Kwak That’s the question I woke up with yesterday morning. Sad, isn’t it. by The Baseline Scenario
- External links 2009-04-12
- Goldman: Is It Really This Good?
- The Baseline Scenario submits: By James Kwak Goldman Sachs released its quarterly earnings yesterday, and the headline was net income of $1.8 billion, doubling analysts’ estimates. I would say this is definitely good news for Goldman; whether it’s good news for the banking sector as a whole is...
- External links 2009-04-14
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