Quantitative easing isn’t just failing, it’s sparking global unrest
Andy Xie, a board director at Rosetta Stone Advisors, is a man worth listening to. The 49-year-old former Morgan Stanley […]
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Cogent King makes case for radical bank reform
It’s virtually unheard for the governor of a central bank to launch an outspoken attack on the integrity and purpose
Why the Oscar for ‘Inside Job’ is a sort of turning point
Charles Ferguson’s movie about the financial crisis, Inside Job, released in the US in October 2010, richly deserved to win
Andy Haldane outlines proposals for breaking banking’s ‘doom loop’
The Bank of England’s Andy Haldane gave a fresh perspective on the causes of the global financial crisis and ran
An Irish financier tells it like it is
“Greed, greed, and more fecking greed.” This video was available on YouTube last year. Then it disappeared. But it is
‘Project Merlin’ doesn’t quite do what it says on tin
Project Merlin, the wizard scheme originally dreamt up in 2010 by ex-Barclays chief executive John Varley and RBS chairman Sir
Is the House of Lords’ crisis inquiry putting the FCIC to shame?
The many inquiries into the financial crisis have turned over plenty of stones but have failed to find any smoking
Bill Black: “Our financial institutions are being run by sociopaths”
Bill Black. As I’ve said before, William K Black, professor of economics and law at the University of Missouri, and
Mark-to-market is accounting a danger to capitalism
The interrogation of Barclays’ newly-installed chief executive Bob Diamond by the Treasury committee of the House of Commons last Tuesday
Danny MacAskill’s “Way Back Home”
This is remarkable. Okay the parkour-cycling phenomenon Danny MacAskill used a mobile home to carry him and his bike part
Bob Diamond living in La-La Land
The Barclays investment banker told MPs on the Treasury Committee that the “period of remorse and apology” is over, and
Charles Ferguson: The securitization food chain
Charles Ferguson, director of the seminal movie about the global financial crisis, Inside Job, has warned that we should continue
Review of 2010: Has the eurozone been made ‘crisis-proof’?
In 2008-09 developed-world leaders were focused on sorting out the carnage left by years of weak regulation, poor management and
Francine McKenna: Ten things you need to know about ‘Big Four’ audit firms
I’ve long suspected that, where banking and finance sector clients are concerned, the Big Four audit firms see their role
Charlie Munger: “The accounting profession is a sewer”
In this remarkable interview, Stanford University’s professor Joseph A. Grundfest talks Charlie T. Munger, vice-chairman of Berkshire Hathaway. It might
FSA will publish RBS report but, given sanitization, what’s the point?
The saga of the Financial Services Authority supposed “review” of the Royal Bank of Scotland’s pre-implosion behaviour is getting more
RBS executives seem to think they’re above the law
As they scramble to shore up their balance sheets, Britain’s banks are treating some of their corporate and small and
William K Black: “This is the financial equivalent of ‘Don’t ask, don’t tell”.
Here is a clip from Dylan Rattigan’s show on MCNBC. In it Charles Ferguson, director of the forthcoming movie “Inside
FSA’s attempts at an RBS whitewash take further knock… from WikiLeaks
A cable published by WikiLeaks and the Guardian suggests that, contrary to the recent “review” (or “whitewash”?) of RBS by
Dear PayPal: Wikileaks is not a terrorist organization
Much of the debate surrounding Wikileaks’s release of confidential cables sent by US diplomats to their bosses in Washington D.C.
The FSA/PwC investigation into Royal Bank of Scotland’s ‘bad decisions’ is a joke, right? — the FSA’s RBS report, Part 1
Royal Bank of Scotland probe THE Financial Services Authority’s obsession with “light touch”, laissez-faire regulation in 1997-2008 did more than