Dodd-Frank

This past weekend, Barron's online covered topics including the annual ranking of the world's most respected companies, the Treasury's auctioning of the remaining TARP shares, small cap company RealD and mid cap firm Corrections Corporation of America. Cover Story "The World's Most Respected...

William Greene believes Washington is unfairly pressuring "relationship Main Street" in favor of "transactional Wall Street." He believes current regulation compliance has become so unfeasible for banks with sub-billion-dollar asset bases, that we will see a whole wave of consolidation through...

The New York Times published a column by its leading financial experts, Gretchen Morgenson and Louise Story, on November 22, 2011 which contains a spectacular charge against the Obama administration's financial regulatory leaders. I have waited for the rebuttal, but it is now clear that the...

Steven J. Davis, Senator McCain's chief economics advisor during his presidential campaign, has written a political hit piece on the man that defeated his candidate. His co-authors were Scott R. Baker and Nicholas Bloom. For the sake of brevity I will refer to the authors as “the authors” or “...

J.P. Morgan (NYSE: JPM), the New York-based investment bank, reported third quarter earnings of $1.02 per share on $24.37 billion in revenues. That is better than what Wall Street had been expecting. Wall Street expected earnings of 96 cents per share on $23.73 billion in revenues. J.P. Morgan...

This is not the first time we've heard this either. At the CNBC Delivering Alpha conference the other day, hedge fund managers were there to give their best ideas, have some good food, network with other hedge-funders and talk about a variety of issues pertaining to the world economy. Many of...

NEW YORK TIMES -- "Call it Dodd-Frank Inc. A year after Congress passed the broadest financial overhaul since the Great Depression, the law has spawned a host of new businesses to help Wall Street comply — and capitalize — on the hundreds of new regulations. Besides the lawyers, there are legions...

After Jamie Dimon went on his little tirade in early June, calling out Ben Bernanke and telling the Fed chair not to heavily regulate banks, Dimon and his team at J.P. Morgan (NYSE: JPM) delivered exceptionally strong earnings this morning. This may be the "all-clear" sign that the banking sector...

It was less than three years ago that the entire banking system of the world collapsed, weighed down by a series of complex and ultimately stupid and greedy investments in fancy instruments. Reluctantly, and against the wishes of the American people, the American government bailed out those sinking...