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Big Bank News
Compiled by Wade Lee Hudson Where Bank Regulators Go to Get Rich by William D. Cohan Bloomberg April 7, 2013 …Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the best-selling author of the “Black Swan,” describes in his latest...
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Why We Need to Reform Wall Street
By Wade Lee Hudson The fundamental restructuring of our financial system is essential because Wall Street negatively impacts every aspect of our society. Most big bank profits come from buying and...
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New School Management
By Wade Lee Hudson When it comes to understanding Wall Street, my favorite blog is The Baseline Scenario by Simon Johnson and James Kwak. When they recommend something, I usually check it out. One...
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Brown-Vitter for Dummies
By Wade Lee Hudson When Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and David Vitter (R-LA) introduced their bipartisan “Terminating Bailouts for Taxpayer Fairness” Act on April 24, Occupy Wall Street tweeted,...
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“Banks Don’t Hold Capital.” Really?
By Wade Lee Hudson When I read Simon Johnson say, “Banks don’t hold capital,” I was mystified. Johnson is the economist whom I most respect with regard to the financial industry. When he was...
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The TBTF Act Confuses Me
By Wade Lee Hudson Just when I thought I had figured out some basic issues, including why Simon Johnson said, “Banks don’t hold capital,” I find a copy of the Brown-Vitter blil, or the TBTF Act, as...
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The TBTF Act and the Definition of Capital
By Wade Lee Hudson Wanting to get a better handle on how to talk clearly about the Brown-Vitter “TBTF Act” before Reform Wall Street screens the Frontline program “Money, Power and Wall Street” Sunday...
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The Definition of Capital is Often Confusing
By Wade Lee Hudson The Brown-Vitter legislation requires the biggest banks to “have a ratio of not less than 15 percent of equity capital to total consolidated assets.” It is important to bear in mind...
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Big Bank News (May 2013) – Vol. 1, No. 2
New Bill Threatens Wall Street Profound concern rippled through Wall Street on April 24 when a bipartisan “odd couple” in the U.S. Senate introduced the Terminating Bailouts for Taxpayer...
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Big Bank News (May 6, 2013)
Compiled by Wade Lee Hudson Fed’s Stein Raises Concerns on Basel III Liquidity Rule by Donna Borak American Banker April 19, 2013 Federal Reserve Board Gov. Jeremy Stein said Friday that policymakers...
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Big Bank News (May 7, 2013)
Compiled by Wade Lee Hudson Why Are Banks “Freaking” Over Too-Big-To-Fail Legislation? By Jon Queally Common Dreams May 2, 2013 ‘If this bill passes, these banks would no longer be Too Big To Fail. So...
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Big Bank News (May 8, 2013)
Compiled by Wade Lee Hudson Elizabeth Warren: Trade talks could weaken bank oversight By Kate Davidson Politico May 8, 2013 …Warren didn’t detail which rules could be weakened through trade deals, but...
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My Response to Barbara Rehm
by Wade Lee Hudson On May 1, Barbara A. Rehm, Editor at Large at American Banker, posted “Why We Don’t Need Brown-Vitter — Yet,” in which she concluded: The senators ought to turn up the pressure on...
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Why We Need to Reform Wall Street
By Wade Lee Hudson The fundamental restructuring of our financial system is essential because Wall Street negatively impacts every aspect of our society. Most big bank profits come from buying and...
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New School Management
By Wade Lee Hudson When it comes to understanding Wall Street, my favorite blog is The Baseline Scenario by Simon Johnson and James Kwak. When they recommend something, I usually check it out. One...
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How Can I Improve This Website?
Dear Follower: I very much appreciate your interest in Reform-Wall-Street.org and would like to know how I can improve the site so it will be more useful to you. Lately I’ve been concentrating on the...
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Transform America: A Declaration for Action (v 1.0)
Transform America: A Declaration for Action (v 1.0) aims to help America fulfill its highest ideals. After considering the nature of the problems we face, the declaration presents a worldview,...
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The Pursuit of Beauty
By Wade Lee Hudson To reform Wall Street, we must transform America – our institutions, our culture, and ourselves. No single effort will truly succeed unless all succeed. Ralph Waldo Emerson said that...
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