News Source: Miami Herald
| about 15 hours ago
Sen. Maria Cantwell wants to use state gambling laws to regulate parts of Wall Street, saying someone needs to police financial markets where "casino capitalism" involving highly speculative trades she likens to sophisticated betting continue
News Source: Times Online
| 1 day ago
But the PBR is late — not until December 9 — so there are two Sundays to go. As always with these things, that means a lot of decisions have yet to be taken. But the broad thrust of what Alistair Darling intends to say is taking shape...Last week
News Source: Connecticut Post
| 2 days ago
The choice facing the country, as Kaufman writes in his book "The Road To Financial Reformation" is to patch holes in the financial system or undertake fundamental reform. And while he is fairly certain the country will continue doing the former, he
News Source: Wichita Eagle
| 2 days ago
Momentum is growing in the United States and abroad to deal with the problem of financial institutions deemed "too big to fail" by breaking them up so they're not so big in the first place. "The era of the big bank is over," said Simon Johnson, a
News Source: The Age
| 3 days ago
The second is how some are referring to Bernanke's ever-increasing role in Asia. From Beijing to Hanoi, officials are concerned that low US interest rates are fueling bubbles. It's the clearest sign yet that Asian officials are worried about bubbles.
News Source: Summit Daily News
| 4 days ago
Is the current economic debacle a “legacy” of the previous administration? That is what Timothy Geithner would have us believe after being taken to the woodshed recently and asked to resign as Secretary of the Treasury by Congressman Kevin Brady.
News Source: The Observer
| 5 days ago
In an exclusive extract from his new book, John Cassidy explains why the huge salaries of Wall Street bosses created a culture that helped trigger the financial crisis John Cassidy Figures are payments made to American banking bosses in 2006, the
News Source: Open Democracy
| 5 days ago
Scottish politics often seem like a foreign land to the Westminster cognoscenti, its political class and media...After all the talk of the popularity of the SNP and Alex Salmond and problems of Scottish Labour what was the significance of the recent