Cheer! FDIC Fund is at Post Crisis Highs

There is some good news in bank land. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. just released its quarterly banking profile update (executive...

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Obamacare Options?

So much for choice…. Source: NYT The Upshot

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The Department of Business Prevention

Let’s talk today about compliance in the financial industry. This topic seems to come up a lot lately. I hear complaints from brokers...

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Cleaning-up Bank Balance Sheets: Economic, Legal, and...

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BIS: When the walk is not random: commodity prices and exchange...

BIS When the Walk is Not Random Commodity Prices and Exchange Rates

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A Size Cap for the Largest U.S. Banks

A Size Cap for the Largest US Banks – Simon Johnson by ritholtz1 A Size Cap for the Largest US Banks – Simon Johnson

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Lobbyists and Corporations, Arm-in-Arm

Source: Bloomberg

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Japan’s Negative-Rate Experiment Is Floundering

Source: WSJ

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The Candidates and Wall Street

I had a chat last week with NPR about the candidates and Wall Street. What Does Wall Street Want In A Presidential Candidate? Source: NPR...

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An Hour with XMSR’s Pete Dominick…

I spend an hour discussing all sorts of really fascinating topics with Pete Dominick; its satellite, so there is the occasionally NSFW...

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