Stocks appear to be flying too high in light of the enormous number of risks that the U.S. economy faces over the next 12 months.
One of the great thorns in the side of the American public is that the too-big-to-fail banks that were the cause of the financial crisis are still around today. They are employing many of the same people and paying dividends to many of the same shareholders. And there has been no retribution for the havoc [...]
If there’s one thing this cantankerous nation can seem to agree on these days, it’s our hatred of too-big-to-fail banks and their well-compensated, if less-than-fearless, leaders. Likewise, the American media is rarely concordant, but they were unanimously gleeful at the news that Citi’s shareholders had voted against the banks decision to lavish its CEO, Vikram Pandit, [...]
Since 2008, there have been plenty of calls to forcibly dismantle the “Too Big To Fail” (TBTF) Banks, but few of those calls have come from those in positions of real power. But the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank President, Richard Fisher, has been consistent and vocal in his belief that our economy will not reach its full potential until those bloated financial institutions are cut down to size.
Fuld on the Offensive via Getty Images The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission on Wednesday took on the question of what led to Lehman’s failure and I’m not sure we came away with any answers. Although we did get a much better window into the lingering bad blood between Fuld and the Federal Reserve. The FCIC [...]
As the Senate takes up debate on financial industry overhaul, there is one issue above all others that is imperative to work out: how to deal with institutions that are Too Big To Fail. The reason the government stepped in with taxpayer money at firms like Citigroup and AIG is still alive and well. Our financial giants [...]
