Tags: bank regulation

Banks Should Not be Allowed to Sell Their Loans

June 23rd, 2012
in Op Ed

by Elliott Morss Introduction Almost all the world’s economic ills in the last decade are attributable to unwarranted risks taken by banks. And all the remedies start by bailing out the banks, leaving the millions who lost their jobs resulting… more »

How I Was Dis-invited to Testify Before Congress about Derivatives

May 31st, 2012
in Op Ed

by William K. Black, New Economic Perspectives When I was the Deputy Director of FSLIC, House Banking Committee Chairman St Germain was helping Speaker Wright hold the FSLIC recapitalization bill hostage to extort favors for Texas control frauds, in… more »

Embedded Examiners: Married to the Bosses

May 29th, 2012
in Op Ed

by William K. Black, New Economic Perspectives Jessica Silver-Greenberg and Ben Protess have written an extraordinarily important column for the New York Times about embedded examiners at JPMorgan. Embedded examiners’ are federal regulators whose nor… more »