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Worried About TBTF Banks? Ignore Romney's Attacks in the Debate.

The big question is not whether to dismantle Dodd-Frank, but whether it gets implemented correctly.Wednesday's presidential debate had a relatively detailed discussion of the Dodd-Frank financial...

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What Explains Wall Street's Shift Away From Obama: Fat Cat Comments or...

In an interesting column on President Obama as the last of the "New Democrats" presidents, Michael Lind brings up the idea that the financial sector has permanently moved away from Democrats. "In 2012,...

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Three Election Thoughts: The Failed All-In Repeal Strategy, Warren, and...

The Consequences of the Conservative All-In Repeal Strategy: The attacks on Nate Silver have been fun to watch, but David Frum took the most heat for calling how this would all play out back in 2010. I...

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Live at Boston Review with a Forum on Debt Relief

I'm live with a forum on debt relief at Boston Review. Here's my lead essay, along with responses from Jacob S. Hacker and Nathaniel Loewentheil, Dean Baker, Tamara Draut, Robert Hockett, Barbara...

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Keep Calm and Get Excited About the Rolling Jubilee

Occupy has created a Strike Debt wing, which has a new project: a Rolling Jubilee. There will be a livestream of the Debt Jubilee fundraiser tonight, starting at 8pm ET, that you can access from their...

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How to Strengthen Financial Reform in the Next Four Years

As part of our series "A Rooseveltian Second Term Agenda," an outline of what needs to be done to build upon and safeguard Dodd-Frank.One of the Obama administration’s biggest vulnerabilities when it...

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What Does the New Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) Paper Tell Us?

There are two major, critical questions that show up in the literature surrounding the 1977 Community Reinvestment Act (CRA).The first question is how much compliance with the CRA changes the portfolio...

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Lifestyles of the Rich and Frustrated: How Much is Enough to Make a Banker...

Greg Smith's tale of exile from Wall Street shows that even the rich can feel inadequate compared to the super-rich.Last winter, Bloomberg published a much-discussed account of belt-tightening in the...

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What Was Just Watered Down in Basel's Liquidity Requirements?

Let’s say you were trying to make a personal budget. We can imagine two reasonable ideas you would want to incorporate into this budget. The first is that you want to make sure you can pay your bills...

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The Path to the Next American Economy: The Cult of Scale

An obsession with the largest economic players distracts us from the smaller companies that should drive our future economy.Both Richard Fisher, the president of the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank, and...

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Mike Konczal: How Would a Socialist Wall Street Work?

In the latest episode of the Roosevelt Institute's Bloggingheads series, Fireside Chats, Fellow Mike Konczal talks to Jacobin editor Seth Ackerman about Seth's recent article "The Red and the Black,"...

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Mike Konczal: How Would a Socialist Wall Street Work?

In the latest episode of the Roosevelt Institute's Bloggingheads series, Fireside Chats, Fellow Mike Konczal talks to Jacobin editor Seth Ackerman about Seth's recent article "The Red and the Black,"...

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Is the Right Shifting Course on Dodd-Frank?

During the 2012 election, conservatives' main goal was to either repeal Dodd-Frank completely or remove such large sections of it that it was a completely different bill. There was very little...

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Live at the American Prospect: On the Treasury's Second Term Financial Reform...

I have a new piece at The American Prospect, on what Treasury will need to do in the 2nd term when it comes to financial reform:Nevertheless, the Treasury secretary will be responsible for the overhaul...

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Why the Republican CFPB Arguments Are Wrong

It's been almost two years, and the GOP still refuses to approve a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) director without a significant overhaul of the agency. Check out Adam Serwer at Mother...

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Why the U.S. Could Use a Financial Transaction Tax

Taxing speculation would raise revenue and make markets safer for everyone.In January, 11 European countries implemented a Financial Transaction Tax (FTT), which places a small tax on stocks, bonds,...

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How Congress and the Courts Are Closing in on Dodd-Frank

What are the serious threats to Dodd-Frank? Last month, Haley Sweetland Edwards wrote "He Who Makes the Rules" at the Washington Monthly, which is the best single piece on Dodd-Frank implementation...

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What Does the Leaked Brown-Vitter Bill on Too Big To Fail Do?

Sens. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) and David Vitter (R-La.) have been working on a bill to block the largest banks and financial firms from receiving federal subsidies for being deemed Too Big to Fail. On...

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What Would the "Financial Instability" Argument Look Like For Any Other...

It’s becoming a surprisingly influential argument given that it hasn’t been well presented or argued, much less vetted and challenged. What is it? The argument that we should raise interest rates or...

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Daily Digest - June 5: Visiting the Bad Job Fair

Click here to receive the Daily Digest via email.Fed’s Raskin Bemoans Quality of New Jobs (WSJ)Eric Morath and Victoria McGrane report that Federal Reserve Governor Sarah Bloom Raskin, a panelist at...

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