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  • Graham Fisher Sees Parallels to Fannie Mae in JPMorgan

    Joshua Rosner, co-author of a book detailing Fannie Mae’s role in the housing crisis, said he sees parallels between the failed mortgage-finance giant and the strategies JPMorgan Chase & Co. uses to win government and investor confidence.

  • D.C. Inquiry, Europe Circuit Breakers, Sifma: Compliance

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission opened an “informal inquiry” into Washington, D.C.’s finances after the city’s finance chief faced scrutiny for failing to disclose internal audits of his agency.

  • Occupy Vigilantes Write New Volcker Rule Script: Susan Antilla

    It isn’t every day that a reporter gets to sit in on a high-stakes policy meeting in New York’s financial district, but that’s exactly what I did on a balmy evening in late February at 60 Wall Street, the U.S. headquarters of Deutsche Bank AG.

  • Dodd-Frank Act Forcing Banks to Slim Down, Reshape Swaps: One Year Later

    Jamie Dimon keeps a tally of the ways Wall Street already has been affected by the largest overhaul of financial regulation in generations.

  • Too Big to Fail? Then Get a Living Will

    Jamie Dimon’s congressional testimony on trading losses has again stirred debate on the notion of “too-big-to-fail” banks.

  • U.S. Regulators Struggle to Keep Up With Dodd-Frank

    When Congress overhauled the financial regulation system last year, it handed the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission the tough task of policing the bulk of the derivatives business. Then lawmakers refused to give the tiny agency extra money to hire staff or upgrade its computer systems.

  • Out of Lehman's Ashes Wall Street Gets Most of What It Wants

    Wall Street’s biggest banks, whose missteps caused a global financial crisis and economic slowdown two years ago, were more agile when it came to countering the political and regulatory response.

  • How Senate's `Stupid' Derivatives Rule Emerged, Survives

    Of all the new rules for Wall Street being considered by Congress, few have the potential impact of a derivatives plan that emerged from nowhere and, to the surprise of its authors, has so far survived the debate.

  • Big Banks to Tell Regulators How to Dismember Their Corpses

    Nine of the biggest banks, including JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Bank of America Corp., are set to deliver plans this week for how their businesses could be unwound after a collapse as part of a U.S. government effort to show no financial firm is too big to fail.

  • The Unhealthy Politics of Health Care

    Respectable opinion takes it for granted that you can’t have too much politics. The model citizen of a healthy democratic nation is above all “engaged” -- informed, with strongly held views that he or she advances at every opportunity. Less politics means a passive, apathetic electorate. More politics must be good.

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