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Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Will I be hired as the Chairman of the Board for Common Securitization Solution, LLC?

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Given that I literally invented the idea of a common securitization platform and know more about how this business should operate than liter...
Monday, September 23, 2013

Writing book on FDR Framework & current crisis

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For the next couple of weeks, I will be finishing writing a book on the FDR Framework and our current financial crisis.  As a result, I will...
Friday, September 20, 2013

London Whale trading scandal legacy is requirement banks disclose their exposure details

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The JP Morgan London Whale trading scandal showed how important it is that all market participants, not just management and regulators, have...
Thursday, September 19, 2013

We need a fair system for restructuring debt

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Since the beginning of the financial crisis, your humble blogger has predicted that the global economy will not recover until creditors reco...

As JP Morgan pays over $1 billion in fines today, it is worth noting bad behavior occurs across banking industry

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As JP Morgan pays over $1 billion in fines today (including for lying about London credit default swap trade and for lying about credit card...

Why we are not in recovery mode or having seen the end of QE

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Deutsche Bank's Jim Reid, global head of fundamental credit strategy, explained why the global economy is not in recovery mode and why ...

Roger Lowenstein: Obama should name banker, not economist, to Fed

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In a Bloomberg column that sent fear through macro economists everywhere, Roger Lowenstein laid out the case for why Obama should appoint s...
Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Is Barclays raising capital simply to absorb existing losses on its balance sheet?

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In its independent analysis of Barclays, PIRC, a UK institutional investor consultancy firm, raises the question of is the bank raising capi...

UK banks received favorable accounting treatment from regulators

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PIRC, a UK institutional investor consultancy firm, looked into how UK banks were required to report their financial statements since the be...
Monday, September 16, 2013

Hard evidence that bankers frame the discussion of the financial crisis and financial reform

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Mike Berry at Cardiff University provides hard evidence that the mainstream media effectively allowed the bankers to frame the discussion of...