Wall Street Rolling Back Another Key Piece of Financial Reform | Matt Taibbi

A manhole cover in Jefferson County, Alabama. Reuters/Marvin Gentry/Landov Sept. 20, 2012 (Rolling Stone) -- Wall Street lobbyists are awesome. I’m beginning to develop a begrudging respect not just ...

The Smartest Man is a Firedancer | Byron Wien

Byron WienJuly 2, 2012 (Blackstone) -- When the New Democracy party in Greece defeated the anti-bailout Syriza, I was anxious to learn what The Smartest Man in Europe thought of it all. The next day ...

U.S. Banks Aren’t Nearly Ready for Coming European Crisis | Simon Johnson

Simon JohnsonJune 24, 2012 (Bloomberg) -- The euro area faces a major economic crisis, most likely a series of rolling, country-specific problems involving some combination of failing banks and sover ...

There’s Something Rotten in Banking | Bloomberg Editors

llustration by Bloomberg View Jul. 2, 2012 (Bloomberg) -- You might have missed the latest bank scandal, the one involving Barclays Plc (BARC), in the hubbub of last week’s U.S. health-care ruling an ...

The Euro is a Big Success - No Kidding | Greg Palast

June 27, 2012 (Nation of Change) -- The idea that the euro has "failed" is dangerously naive. The euro is doing exactly what its progenitor -- and the wealthy 1%-ers who adopted it -- predicted and p ...

A Huge Break in the LIBOR Banking Investigation | Matt Taibbi

Oli Scarff/Getty Images June 28, 2012 (Rolling Stone) -- This is a huge story: On Wednesday, Barclays won the race to reach a deal with U.S. and British regulators, beating UBS, which was reportedly ...

Is Your Mortgage Payment Based on Lies? | Mark Whitehouse

Jun. 27, 2012 (Bloomberg) -- Anyone who thinks it's a good idea to trust a group of banks in London to set a benchmark borrowing rate that affects the value of some $360 trillion in mortgage loans, d ...

Banker to the Bankers Knows the Numbers Are Lying | Jonathan Weil

June 28, 2012 (Bloomberg) -- The Bank for International Settlements, which acts as a bank for the world’s central banks, should know fudged numbers when it sees them. What may come as a surprise is h ...

Everything You Need to Know About Wall Street, in One Brief Tale (Matt Taibbi)

2 The Hotel Jerome in Aspen. Walter Bibikow/Getty Images/AWL Images RM Jan. 13, 2012 (Rolling Stone) -- If there was ever a news story that crystalized the moral dementia of modern Wall Street in one ...

Global Systemic Crisis -- USA 2012/2016: A Country Ungovernable And Insolvent (LEAP/E2020)

Dec. 16, 2011 (LEAP/E2020) -- Public announcement GEAB N°60 -- As announced in previous GEABs, in this issue our team presents its anticipations on the changes in the United States for the period 201 ...

MF Global And The Great Wall St Re-Hypothecation Scandal (Christopher Elias)

Image from Business Insider Dec. 7, 2011 (Business Law Currents) -- A legal loophole in international brokerage regulations means that few, if any, clients of MF Global are likely to get their money ...