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The Motley Fool May 10, 2010 Matt Koppenheffer |
Thanks for Making Things Worse, Congress! Legislators continue to set the bar lower for financial reform. |
The Motley Fool June 22, 2010 Ilan Moscovitz |
How to Avoid the Next Lehman Brothers Don't go crazy with leverage. Two provisions in the financial-reform bill are critical to avoiding the next Lehman Brothers. |
The Motley Fool October 8, 2009 Jennifer Schonberger |
We Haven't Learned Lehman's Lesson Yet Economist Simon Johnson reflects on the financial crisis. |
Bank Director 1st Quarter 2010 Jack Milligan |
A Look at the Hill and Beyond Steve Bartlett, head of a financial services lobbying group, talks about political gyrations in Congress and the concerns all banks ought to be having about the impact of banking reform on the U.S. economy. |
The Motley Fool March 16, 2010 Matt Koppenheffer |
How to Fail at Financial Reform Real financial reform still seems to be something of a pipe dream. What we got from Sen. Chris Dodd, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, fell far short. |
BusinessWeek April 15, 2010 James Pressley |
Too Big to Prevail? MIT's Simon Johnson and co-author James Kwak deliver a harsh take on U.S. banking. |
The Motley Fool December 2, 2009 Sean Ryan |
The Wrong Way to End "Too Big to Fail" The case against Glass-Steagall 2.0. Enshrine in law that henceforth, shareholders and creditors are on their own. No more privatized gains and socialized losses. |
BusinessWeek April 7, 2010 Paul M. Barrett |
The Wall Street Reform Fight We Really Need The coming Senate battle over the Dodd bill will distract attention from a simple, powerful change that could actually buffer banks against the next financial crisis. |
The Motley Fool July 16, 2010 Ilan Moscovitz |
Will This Stop the Next Financial Armageddon? What key measures in the 2,322-page financial reform bill actually matter, and will they stop the next financial Armageddon? |
The Motley Fool June 28, 2010 Matt Koppenheffer |
Our Government Failed Us The final touches have been put on the financial reform bill and it's just as bad as ever. |
The Motley Fool April 7, 2010 Matt Koppenheffer |
Is This Economics Nobel Laureate Wrong? Paul Krugman is looking at financial reform the wrong way. |
The Motley Fool May 13, 2011 Morgan Housel |
Long Live Too Big to Fail A panel of experts weighs in on big banks and the economic crisis. |
The Motley Fool May 18, 2010 Jennifer Schonberger |
The Man Behind the SAFE Banking Act on Fixing Wall Street Senator Ted Kaufman discusses why, despite the defeat of his SAFE banking amendment, there is still hope for real reform. |
The Motley Fool November 17, 2009 Morgan Housel |
What "Too Big to Fail" Means They screw up. We pay. We want a system where bank failures wreak havoc on stakeholders of just that bank, and nothing else. |
The Motley Fool June 15, 2010 Ilan Moscovitz |
The Coming Financial Meltdown With 43 Congressional members hammering out a final version of the financial-reform bill, one of the biggest contentions remains what to do about the mind-boggling, vast, and opaque derivatives market owned by the nation's too-big-to-fail megabanks. |
The Motley Fool June 8, 2010 Ilan Moscovitz |
The End Game for Wall Street Finally, an end to government support for the risky derivatives called swaps. |
The Motley Fool March 24, 2010 Matt Koppenheffer |
Why the Fed Will Fail Financial reform may give the Fed new powers, but will it help? |
The Motley Fool May 20, 2010 Jennifer Schonberger |
The Man Behind the SAFE Banking Act on Fixing Wall Street In a 61-to-33 vote, the Senate voted down an amendment that would have capped the size and leverage of banks in this country. That amendment, dubbed the SAFE Banking Act, was proposed by Sen. Ted Kaufman, D-Del. |
CFO November 1, 2010 Vincent Ryan |
Making Sense of Bank Reform The Dodd-Frank Act is arguably as inscrutable as the institutions and instruments it is supposed to fix. |
The Motley Fool June 17, 2009 Matt Koppenheffer |
Will Obama's Plan Lead to Financial Failure? Only time will tell if Obama's plan will lead to a better system or just a bureaucratic mess. |
The Motley Fool September 15, 2008 Morgan Housel |
Black Sunday on Wall Street This weekend will go down as one of the most spectacular unravelings in financial history. |
The Motley Fool September 15, 2008 Brian Richards |
Roundtable: Why You Should Care That Lehman Went Bust Lehman Brothers will soon be no more. Merrill Lynch is being acquired by Bank of America. And AIG is desperately trying to shore up its capital. These events are, without exaggeration, the biggest Wall Street headlines in a decade. |
CFO April 1, 2011 Vincent Ryan |
The Big Fail Despite the reach of Dodd-Frank, the "too-big-to-fail" bank dilemma lives on. |
The Motley Fool April 14, 2010 Matt Koppenheffer |
Geithner Just Doesn't Get It Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner weighs in on the financial reform package. |
The Motley Fool June 18, 2010 Matt Koppenheffer |
Financial Reform Is a Joke Congress has completely missed its opportunity to make the financial system safer. |
The Motley Fool December 14, 2009 Anand Chokkavelu |
Roundtable: The Future of Banking Where Motley Fool analysts see banking in 10 years. |
The Motley Fool September 22, 2008 Anand Chokkavelu |
Fool Poll: The Biggest Financial Shock of the Week Last weeks financial stories were amazing. Crazy rumors trumped by crazier reality. Which one of these made you gasp the loudest? |
BusinessWeek May 13, 2009 Peter Coy |
Failure: A Bankrupt Idea Why the bankruptcy process that sorted out the mess when companies failed no longer works. |
Bank Director 2nd Quarter 2010 Jack Milligan |
A Shot in the Arm The financial services industry needs a prescription for the mess that's been created because this is an industry that can't afford another crisis. |
The Motley Fool April 4, 2008 Tom Hutchinson |
Congress Grills Bernanke Over Bear Recent hearings debated the Fed's role in bailing out Bear Stearns. |
The Motley Fool December 17, 2009 Morgan Housel |
A Practical Way to End "Too Big to Fail" Incentives, not directives. |
The Motley Fool November 10, 2010 Morgan Housel |
A Short History of Bank Failures Why the financial system is more vulnerable now than ever before. |
The Motley Fool May 24, 2010 Moscovitz & Koppenheffer |
Wall Street Reform: The Good, the Meh, and the Ugly A Foolish take on what's in the Senate bill. |
The Motley Fool May 17, 2010 Ilan Moscovitz |
61 Senators Perpetuate "Too Big To Fail" Unfortunately, the Senate hasn't fixed the underlying problem that gives rise to bailouts: "too big to fail." |
Wall Street & Technology October 28, 2008 Greg MacSweeney |
Deconstructing "Too Big to Fail" With increased regulation an almost foregone conclusion, the financial services industry will have to work to regain trust and credibility. |
The Motley Fool February 16, 2010 Jennifer Schonberger |
Could This Bill Kick Growth Into Gear? Sen. Bob Corker on financial regulatory reform. |
The Motley Fool September 9, 2009 Alex Dumortier |
One Year Later: The Big Risk We're Still Facing This fundamental risk is larger than ever. Banks that are "too big to fail" benefit from an implicit taxpayer subsidy since their funding costs do not adequately reflect the risk of failure. |
The Motley Fool January 22, 2010 Morgan Housel |
Will This Fix Our Financial System? Will yesterday's proposed overhauls -- touted by some as a return to the Glass-Steagall days -- sufficiently stomp on sin and folly? |
The Motley Fool March 24, 2009 |
Geithner and Bernanke Call for More Power Should the government have more control over financial institutions? Fools chime in with their thoughts. |
The Motley Fool September 11, 2009 Morgan Housel |
Lehman Brothers and the Age of Stupidity Next Tuesday, Sept. 15, marks one year since Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy protection. One year later, we ask: What's changed? |
BusinessWeek December 30, 2009 Vekshin & Kopecki |
Not So Radical Reform How New Democrats and Wall Street are watering down financial regulation in Congress. |
The Motley Fool February 11, 2010 Nicole Gelinas |
The Volcker Rule and Congress' Unlearned Lesson How do we protect the economy from old-fashioned bank runs in the new-fangled credit world, without arbitrary bailouts that obliterate market discipline? Here are the three rules we should be enacting. |
Financial Planning April 1, 2010 Vitaliy Katsenelson |
Breaking Point Greater government involvement in the financial sector is not something you thought you may ever ask for, but it has turned into a necessity in order to preserve -- not destroy -- capitalism. |
The Motley Fool April 19, 2011 Alex Dumortier |
Here's How Lehman Should Have Gone Down In a paper released yesterday, the FDIC prepared a case study in which regulators manage Lehman's failure with the tools and mandate they have under the Dodd-Frank Act on financial reform. Here's how things might have gone. |
The Motley Fool July 2, 2010 Jennifer Schonberger |
The Man Behind Congress' Too Big to Fail Remedy Weighs In on Reform Paul Kanjorski says regulators would have more power with the new legislation. |
The Motley Fool April 1, 2010 Morgan Housel |
Lehman Brothers' Bankruptcy: The Greatest Hits An in-depth look at the largest bankruptcy in history. |
Finance & Development March 2010 |
Big Bad Bonuses? Pros and cons of bankers' bonuses: one defends bankers' bonuses; one says they are a symptom of a bigger problem -- reckless risk taking by big financial players. |
The Motley Fool September 16, 2008 Morgan Housel |
Financial Meltdown: Day 2 Investors' worst fears came true, as insurance giant AIG had its debt downgraded, sending it frighteningly closer to the brink of bankruptcy. |
The Motley Fool March 27, 2009 Matt Koppenheffer |
Does Anybody Have Any Idea What's Going On? The government is taking bold action, but do we really know what needs to be fixed? |
The Motley Fool September 16, 2008 Morgan Housel |
Goldman Feels the Heat Though it wasn't a terrible quarter for Goldman Sachs, it's become apparent that banking is a terrible industry right now. And after a crazy week, some question even Goldman Sachs' future. |