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		<title><![CDATA[How Big Is Too Big for Banks?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[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]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 02:23:37 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Capital Requirements Are a Bad Thing, Says Morgan Stanley]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Baseline Scenario submits:  By Simon Johnson Just when momentum was starting to build for increased capital requirements as the core element of an approach that will reign in reckless risk-taking, Morgan Stanley MS effectively demolishes the idea. by The Baseline Scenario]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:31:20 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[More AIG Controversy: Maiden Lane III]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Baseline Scenario submits:  By James Kwak As everyone knows by now, Neil Barofsky, special inspector general for TARP, has a new report out on the decision by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York last Fall to make various AIG AIG counterparties (primarily some very big banks with...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:44:50 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Note to Jamie Dimon: Repetition Doesn't Create Truth]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fseekingalpha.com%2Farticle%2F173296-note-to-jamie-dimon-repetition-doesn-t-create-truth%3Fsource%3Dbnet&siteid=23&tag=seekingalpha]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The Baseline Scenario submits:  By James Kwak In the Washington Post, Jamie Dimon asserts that we shouldn&#8217;t &#8220;try to impose artificial limits on the size of U.S. financial institutions.&#8221; Why not? by The Baseline Scenario]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:16:16 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Blankfein's Goldman Defense]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fseekingalpha.com%2Farticle%2F172649-blankfein-s-goldman-defense%3Fsource%3Dbnet&siteid=23&tag=seekingalpha]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The Baseline Scenario submits:  By James Kwak Blankfein Defends Goldman Sachs Against Breakup. That&#8217;s the title of a Bloomberg article that also cites Bernie Sanders and Simon. Here are the direct quotes from Blankfein: by The Baseline Scenario]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:27:35 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[How Warren Buffett Is Smarter than the G20]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Baseline Scenario submits:  By Simon Johnson The G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank governors are meeting today in St. Andrews, talking about the data they will need to look at in order to monitor each other&#8217;s economic performance and sustain growth seriously. by The Baseline Scenario]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:23:26 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Accounting for Losses at BofA and Fannie]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Baseline Scenario submits:  By James Kwak Via Yves Smith, John Hempton analyzes the quarterly results of Bank of America (so-so) and Fannie Mae terrible. The underlying issue is that bank quarter-to-quarter results are largely driven by the amount of provisions they take against future loan losses. You can...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:35:45 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Breaking Up the Big Banks: Ackermann vs. Hoenig]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Baseline Scenario submits:  By Simon Johnson Josef Ackermann, chief executive of Deutsche Bank and chairman of the Institute of International Finance (an influential group, reflecting the interests of global finance in Washington) is opposed to breaking up big banks.  According to the FT, he said, by The...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 07:22:58 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Britain Moves on Too Big to Fail]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Baseline Scenario submits:  By Simon Johnson The WSJ reports (on-line):  &#8220;The U.K.&#8217;s top treasury official Sunday said the government is starting a process to rebuild the country&#8217;s banking system, likely pressing major divestments from institutions and trying to attract new retail banks to the market.&#8221; by The...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:47:31 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Worrisome Things Bank CEOs Say, Vikram Pandit Edition]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fseekingalpha.com%2Farticle%2F170560-the-worrisome-things-bank-ceos-say-vikram-pandit-edition%3Fsource%3Dbnet&siteid=23&tag=seekingalpha]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The Baseline Scenario submits:  By James Kwak &#8220;Our distinctiveness is we connect the world better than anyone else. We have a great capability of building a business around that. And we are in the process of building a culture around that.&#8221; by The Baseline Scenario]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:42:48 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Fixing GMAC: Paging JPM]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Baseline Scenario submits:  Surprise, surprise &#8212; GMAC needs more money. As you may recall, GMAC was the one institution that got a C- on the stress tests this spring that were impossible to fail. I imagine the analysts at the Fed really wanted to give it an F,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:16:01 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Bank Switching Costs: Why Bother?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Baseline Scenario submits:  By James Kwak One of the Free Exchange bloggers (some people know who is who by name, but I don&#8217;t &#8212; if anyone wants to enlighten me, I&#8217;m listening) admits choosing his bank because it was big, and staying there because it is big. He...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 03:53:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Trouble with Moody's]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Baseline Scenario submits:  By James Kwak Kevin Hall of McClatchy has an article  about Moody&#8217;s MCO that goes beyond the usual &#8212; giving AAA ratings to products &#8220;structured by cows&#8221; and taking money from the cows (actually, the &#8220;cows&#8221; comment was from S&P). He documents how Moody&#8217;s...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:08:38 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Of the SEC, Foxes and Henhouses]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fseekingalpha.com%2Farticle%2F167358-of-the-sec-foxes-and-henhouses%3Fsource%3Dbnet&siteid=23&tag=seekingalpha]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The Baseline Scenario submits:  By James Kwak One of our readers emailed in a link to this Bloomberg story about the new &#8220;chief operating officer&#8221; of the enforcement division of the SEC: Adam Storch, &#8220;a 29-year-old from Goldman Sachs Group Inc.&#8217;s business intelligence unit&#8221; who &#8220;had worked since 2004...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:10:07 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Who Is Carlos Slim in Today's Market?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Baseline Scenario submits:  By Simon Johnson The US increasingly displays characteristics that we have seen many times in middle-income &#8220;emerging markets&#8221; &#8211; new dimensions of vast inequality, forms of financial instability that benefit the best connected, and consistently easy credit for the privileged.  But this raises the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 01:34:41 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[A Short Question For Senior Officials Of The New York Fed]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Baseline Scenario submits:  By Simon Johnson At the height of the financial panic last fall Goldman Sachs GS became a bank holding company, which enabled it to borrow directly from the Federal Reserve.  It also became subject to supervision by the Federal Reserve Board (with the NY...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 01:31:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Bank of America's Gain, Taxpayers' Loss, Part 2]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fseekingalpha.com%2Farticle%2F163669-bank-of-america-s-gain-taxpayers-loss-part-2%3Fsource%3Dbnet&siteid=23&tag=seekingalpha]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The Baseline Scenario submits:  By James Kwak Last Wednesday I wrote a highly critical post about the agreement between Bank of America BAC  and the government (Treasury, the Fed, and the FDIC) to terminate BAC&#8217;s asset guarantee agreement in exchange for a payment of $425 million. I&#8217;ve learned...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 09:18:02 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Bank of America's Gain Is Taxpayers' Loss]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Baseline Scenario submits:  By James Kwak I&#8217;m trying to figure out if I should be infuriated about the agreement allowing Bank of America BAC to walk away from the asset guarantees it got as part of its January bailout in exchange for a payment of $425 million. I...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:03:02 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Regulatory Arbitrage, the Latest Edition]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Baseline Scenario submits:  By James Kwak Gillian Tett has the latest perspective on a curious deal that Barclays BCS did earlier this week hat tip Brad DeLong. The deal goes something like this. Two former Barclays execs are starting a fund called Protium Finance. Protium has two equity...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 08:34:55 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Economic Donkeys]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Baseline Scenario submits:  By Peter Boone and Simon Johnson   An edited and shorter version of this post appeared today in the Sunday Times of London. by The Baseline Scenario]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 09:37:31 -0700</pubDate>
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