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- The Real Price of Life in Bailout Nation
- Author and popular blogger Barry Ritholtz blasts Uncle Sam's massive economic intervention and warns that the cure for recession could be worse than the disease. What is the most common misconception about the crisis? That this was a perfect storm of...
- Articles 2009-05-29
- Too Big to Fail: What Really Happened
- Andrew Ross Sorkin's new book gives a behind-the-scenes look at the financial crisis. He tells Jill Schlesinger what he found, and what it means for us now.
- Videos 2009-10-30
- Too Big to Fail: Countdown to Meltdown
- In the hours leading up to the collapse of Lehman Brothers, JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon warned his top executives to prepare for the worst. ?There is no way that Washington is going to bail out an investment bank,? he told his team. ?Nor should they.? Here?s an excerpt...
- Articles 2009-10-30
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- JPMorgan's Dimon Says End "too Big to Fail"
- NEW YORK (Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase & Co JPM Chief Executive Jamie Dimon called the idea that any bank is too big to fail "ethically bankrupt" and said regulators should have the power to wind down even the largest lenders."If some unforeseen circumstance should put this firm at risk of...
- News items 2009-11-13
- JPMorgan's Dimon Says End "too Big to Fail"
- NEW YORK (Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase & Co JPM Chief Executive Jamie Dimon called the idea that any bank is too big to fail "ethically bankrupt" and said regulators should have the power to wind down even the largest lenders. "If some unforeseen circumstance should put this firm at risk...
- News items 2009-11-13
- Citibank: Too Big to Fail?
- Tom Evslin submits: It's easy to believe that Citibank is a tottering tower whose collapse would endanger us all in the canyons below. However, keeping a financial corpse walking further endangers every other financial institution. When Citi is declared too big to fail, it becomes a more...
- External links 2008-12-01
- Why Too-Big-to-Fail Shouldn't Be Codified
- Earnings Call ExcerptThe new legislation unveiled by Representative Barney Frank doesn’t end “too big to fail” — it codifies it. It also puts taxpayers on the hook for a large portion of future bailouts. Frank should go back to the drawing board. Per the recommendation of Bank of England...
- Earnings calls 2009-10-28
- Obama "too Big to Fail" Plan Blasted in Congress
- By Kevin DrawbaughWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration's new proposal for tackling financial risk in the U.S. economy, unveiled just two days ago, came under attack on Thursday from Congress and regulators, with questions raised about its funding and scope.U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner scrambled in a congressional hearing to...
- News items 2009-10-29
- Obama "too Big to Fail" Plan Blasted in Congress
- By Kevin Drawbaugh WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration's new proposal for tackling financial risk in the U.S. economy, unveiled just two days ago, came under attack on Thursday from Congress and regulators, with questions raised about its funding and scope. U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner scrambled in a congressional...
- News items 2009-10-29
- Too Big to Fail, or Too Metastatized?
- Paul Kedrosky submits: The idea of a company being "too big to fail" is wrongheaded. And I don't mean that no company should therefore require a bailout/bridge/whatever. No, it's just that focusing on size as the main metric is wrong. What we really want to know is,...
- External links 2008-09-24
- Richmond Fed's Economic Quarterly Features New Thoughts on Too-Big-to-Fail Banking Policy
- Bank Risk of Failure and the Too-Big-to-Fail Policy. The possibility that large banks may have access to contingent government bailouts creates a risk and a size distortion in their decisions: banks tend to become riskier and larger, asserts Richmond Fed economist Huberto M. Ennis and research associate H. M. Malek....
- Research articles 2005-05-31
- Too big to fail; To keep its assembly lines rolling, GM props up ailing key suppliers.(General Motors Corp. management)(Statistical Data Included)
- A financial crisis among suppliers is testing a high-stakes policy that has evolved at General Motors Corp. over the years: Some vendors are considered too big to fail, no matter how great their problems. The unwritten policy, seldom discussed publ A financial crisis among...
- Research articles 2002-05-27
- House Dems Sharpening "too Big to Fail" Plan
- By Kevin DrawbaughWASHINGTON (Reuters) - A key U.S. congressional panel moved toward toughening a plan for dealing with "too big to fail" financial firms on Tuesday, while rejecting a Republican alternative that is expected to reappear later.The House Financial Services Committee, locked for weeks in debate over financial reforms, voted...
- News items 2009-11-18
- Ratings Agencies: Too Big to Fail Too?
- The Baseline Scenario submits: By James Kwak I would have thought that the credit rating agencies would be at least one group that everyone could agree to throw under the bus. We know that the powerful chieftains of Wall Street are trying to pin the credit crisis on rating...
- External links 2009-06-19
- What do Banks Gain From Being Too Big to Fail?
- Of the U.S. financial companies the federal government has decided are "too big to fail," how much of their 2009 profits owe to being able to borrow funds more cheaply than smaller lenders? More than is commonly thought, concludes the Center for Economic and Policy Research. For...
- Blog posts 2009-10-01
- Too-Big-to-Fail and the Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight
- Jim Gobetz submits: A year or so ago in the aftermath of the Lehman Bros LEHMQ.PK) failure, as we stood on the precipice of economic Armageddon, our then Secretary of the Treasury came before the people and said that if we didn’t rescue a group of firms in the...
- External links 2009-10-30
- Goldman 'Too Big to Fail'? History Shows There's No Such Thing
- The Prudent Investor submits: I have been reading and hearing a lot about the "too big to fail" (TBTF) theory in the mainstream media since the onset of the credit crisis. There is only one fundamental problem: Not one former TBTF-candidate has remained alive very long...
- External links 2009-07-06
- When Banks are 'Too Big to Fail', Deposit Insurance Fund Doesn't Measure up
- The FDIC's deposit insurance fund wasn't designed to deal with "too big to fail" banks by Alain Sherter
- Blog posts 2009-09-25
- How Not to Solve the Too Big to Fail Problem
- Economist Dean Baker says a House bill aimed at solving the "too big to fail" problem will make matters worse by Alain Sherter
- Blog posts 2009-11-03
- "Too Big to Fail" Measure Passes Key Test; Still, It's a Long Shot
- A measure that would let lawmakers break up "too big to fail" financial companies has passed a key congressional hurdle by Alain Sherter
- Blog posts 2009-11-18
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