Posts Tagged ‘banks’
Regulators Loosen Limits on Risk in Latest Drafts of Key Financial Reform Rules
by Marian Wang | @mariancw The regulatory agencies in charge of finalizing some of the most controversial rules mandated by the financial reform law are leaning toward making them looser and more favorable to banks and other traders. Read more...
How-to Guide for Fixing America’s Banks
Posted: 28 Aug 2011 12:00 PM PDT This week’s Washington Post column is (finally) out, and its a look at the Buffett’s bailout of Bank of America, and what it means for the overall financial systems. “Many investors assumed the Wall Street bailouts of Bank of America and the other big banks more or less healed the sector. [...]
Orwell Watch: Banks Put a Happy Face on Demolishing Foreclosed Homes
Our thanks to Naked Capitalism for uncovering this scam! - Hazel Henderson In the through the looking glass world of reality according to banks, tearing down foreclosed houses is a good thing. Really. The spin that Bank of America is using to justify the notion of bulldozing buildings is that the houses in question are worth bupkis, say [...]
You Want to Fix the U.S. Economy? Here’s a Start
Charles Hugh Smith publishes Foreclosure Crisis Weekly, dedicated to documenting the often-amazing foreclosure crisis. A simple 8-point plan would restore both the banking and the real estate sectors, and end the political dominance of the parasitic “too big to fail” banks. Read more...
Sheila Bair’s resignation from FDIC
A publication from The New York Times Sheila Bair’s Bank Shot By JOE NOCERA Published: July 9, 2011 It was midmorning on a crisp June day, and Bair, the 57-year-old outgoing chairwoman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation — the federal agency that insures bank deposits and winds down failing banks — was sitting on a couch, [...]
Five Questions about SRI – Weekly Expert Interview with Robert Rubinstein
An interview from Emerging Markets ESG Five Questions about SRI – Weekly Expert Interview with Robert Rubinstein, Founder and CEO, TBLI Group, Amsterdam, The Netherlands – May 6, 2011 By Geoffrey on May 6, 2011 Each week Emerging Markets ESG publishes an interview entitled, “Five Questions about SRI.” The interview features a [...]
The Vickers Commission Report On Banking
An article from The Baseline Scenario The Vickers Commission Report On Banking Posted: 11 Apr 2011 07:14 AM PDT By Simon Johnson Will the Vickers Commission report on UK banking – with a preliminary report released today – have a major positive impact? Not likely in our assessment – see today’s Daily Telegraph. The fight to [...]
Five Questions about SRI – Weekly Expert Interview with Paul Clements-Hunt
A publication from Emerging Markets ESP Each week Emerging Markets ESG publishes an interview entitled, “Five Questions about SRI.” The interview features a practitioner’s insights about SRI in emerging markets and through Emerging Markets ESG shares this expertise with a wide global audience. The goals of Five Questions about SRI are [...]
Today’s Study: The Real World 2011
NewEnergyNews Daily Headlines click here for main page: http://www.NewEnergyNews.net/ Today At Newenergynews, 2-1: * Today’s Study: The Real World 2011 * Quick News, 2-1: For A Clean Energy Bill; Worried About A Clean Energy Bill; Money Flows To Hydrokinetics; Those Nat Gas Emissions Yesterday * Study: Banks’ Principles Fail To See [...]
Today’s Study: Banks’ Principles Fail To See Coal For What It Is
NewEnergyNews Daily Headlines click here for main page: http://www.NewEnergyNews.net/ TODAY AT NewEnergyNews, 1-31: * Today’s Study: Banks’ Principles Fail To See Coal For What It Is * Quick News, 1-31: Wind Beating Nat Gas In Texas; China Hcpv Demo Goes Live; So. Dakota Wind Goes West; Money In Transmission Sunday World, 1-30: * [...]
