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Push comes to shove in EU-Dutch bank spat
Push is coming to shove in a stand-off between the European Commission and the Dutch government over the future of state-rescued banks. The outcome has implications for the whole of Europe. Markets...
View ArticleTreasury line of credit should be Bair’s last option
With the FDIC’s staring at an incredibly shrinking deposit insurance fund, it’s no wonder that Sheila Bair is out about talking about the regulators looking at options to replenish it. That includes...
View ArticleThe other GSE problem
It’s hard to keep all the U.S. housing agencies straight. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are still basket cases relying on government support, while the Federal Housing Administration and its partner,...
View ArticleChina might keep the weakest bank all to itself
Faced with a backlash against foreign investors, Beijing may be tempted to offer shares in the last of its big four banks to a domestic audience. That decision may reflect China’s new found confidence...
View ArticleThe commitments committee
The bursting of the dot-com bubble pales in comparision to the financial crisis. In retrospect, it seems a comic-book lesson about the all-too-obvious consequences of irrational exuberance: What were...
View ArticleIt’s good to be in finance
From WSJ: Wall Street on track to award record pay Major U.S. banks and securities firms are on pace to pay their employees about $140 billion this year -- a record high that shows compensation is...
View ArticleBarofsky audit a Fed, not Geithner, problem
Sure, Timothy Geithner led the negotiations with AIG counterparties when he headed the New York Fed last year, but TARP special inspector Neil Barofsky’s audit is damning where it really hurts the Fed....
View ArticleLet the Fed regulate
By John M. Berry John M. Berry, who has covered the economy for four decades for the Washington Post and other publications, is a guest columnist. Politics is trumping common sense in Congress as...
View ArticleBig banks get reprieve from FDIC
Due to new accounting rules -- FAS 166 and 167 -- banks have to bring certain off balance sheet assets back onto their balance sheets starting next year. More assets, same capital = lower capital...
View ArticleMove your money
Arianna Huffington and Rob Johnson are organizing a big bank boycott. They want depositors to take their money out of Too-Big-To-Fail banks and put them in smaller, high quality banks. They've launched...
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