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  • A Closer Look With Arthur Levitt: Anat Admati (Audio)

    Arthur Levitt, former chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, interviews Anat Admati, a professor at Stanford University and coauthor of "The Bankers' New Clothes: What's Wrong With Banking and What to Do About it." They spoke on Bloomberg Radio's "A Closer Look With Arthur Levitt."

  • Too-Big-to-Fail Bill Pitched as Fix for Dodd-Frank Act’s Flaws

    “Too-big-to-fail” legislation unveiled yesterday in Washington is needed to rein in the biggest U.S. banks because the Dodd-Frank Act has failed to guard taxpayers against future bailouts, the bill’s sponsors said.

  • Too-Big-to-Fail Bill Seen as Fix for Dodd-Frank Act’s Flaws

    “Too-big-to-fail” legislation unveiled in Washington today is needed to rein in the biggest U.S. banks because the Dodd-Frank Act has failed to guard taxpayers against future bailouts, the bill’s sponsors said.

  • Too-Big-to-Fail Bill Seen as Fix for Dodd-Frank Act’s Flaws

    “Too-big-to-fail” legislation unveiled in Washington today is needed to rein in the biggest U.S. banks because the Dodd-Frank Act has failed to guard taxpayers against future bailouts, the bill’s sponsors said.

  • Goldman’s Big Guns Fire Dud in Defense of Megabanks

    The six very large U.S. bank holding companies -- JPMorgan Chase & Co., Bank of America Corp., Citigroup Inc., Wells Fargo & Co., Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Morgan Stanley -- share a pressing intellectual problem: They need to explain why they should be allowed to continue with their dangerous business model.

  • Higher Bank Equity Is in the Public Interest

    In their important new book, “The Bankers’ New Clothes,” Anat Admati and Martin Hellwig challenge a cherished belief of people who run big banks: Equity is “expensive” and requiring banks to fund themselves with more equity (relative to their debts) will somehow slow the economy.

  • What’s So Radical About a Safer Financial System?

    Momentum is building in Washington for a reform that would make extremely large banks less threatening to the U.S. economy. Opponents are calling it “radical.” What’s actually radical -- and dangerously so -- is the behavior it seeks to change.

  • Admati Says Banks Have Problem With `Will' to Lend (Audio)

    Anat Admati, the author of "The Bankers' New Clothes," says banks do not have a problem with lending money, they have a problem with the "will" to lend money. Admati spoke to Bloomberg's Carol Massar and Matt Miller on "Bloomberg On the Economy."

  • U.S. Banks Bigger Than GDP as Accounting Rift Masks Risk

    Warning: Banks in the U.S. are bigger than they appear.

  • Why We Should Rip the Banks in Two

    What banks do -- sell short-term debt (like deposits) to fund long-term loans -- is inherently risky.

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