Sheila Bair Doesn’t Know What The Volcker Rule Prohibits
Sheila Bair, former head of the FDIC and cartoon-klutz-villain of Too Big to Fail, comes […]
View ArticleBut What Would We Do For Entertainment If Banks Were Boring?
Here is a standard set of moves in talking about bank riskiness: 1. Banks take […]
View ArticleSheila Bair’s Cruelty To Banks Included Trying To Get Them To Hang On To...
There are so many good stories in Jesse Eisinger’s piece in ProPublica about how the […]
View ArticleBanks Prove That They Are Not Too Big To Fail By Saying “We Can Fail” On A...
One way you could spend this slow week is reading the "living wills" submitted by a bunch of banks telling regulators how to wind them up if they go under. Don't, though: they're about the most boring...
View ArticleSheila Bair Still Feels Bad That JPMorgan Was Forced To Take Cheap Capital To...
Being in certain rooms at certain times seems to be a good predictor of selling […]
View ArticleSome Banks Hoping To Be Too Small To Fail
I feel like if I were the Financial Services Roundtable and I wanted to send […]
View ArticleJamie Dimon Has Only Begun To Fight
The JPMC chief really means it this time: This far and no further! On a […]
View ArticleRegulators May Finally Get Around To Dealing With The Things That Almost...
We all know that no one listens to what credit ratings agencies say, and that […]
View ArticleOf Course Wells Fargo Flunked Its Latest Living Will Test
Wells Fargo is failing tests like a hungover freshman who can't even read.
View ArticleFDIC To Bank Of America: We Could Use That $1 Billion About Now, Capisce?
No one fucks with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation – except maybe Brian Moynihan.
View ArticleGary Cohn Gets Another Grown-Up In The Room
Jim Clinger loves banks and hates Dodd-Frank, but at least he's read it!
View ArticleLatest FDIC Pick Already Looking For Excuse Not To Take Job
When the president asks you to do something, you find something else more important to do.
View ArticlePromised Regulatory Bonfire Might Finally Get Underway
Team Trump’s got a few months to do what they couldn’t in their first year-plus.
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