U.S. International Investment Position, 2nd Quarter 2025 U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) The U.S. net international investment position, the difference between U.S. residents’ foreign financial assets and liabilities, was…

by Mike Kimel The Crux of the Problem in the Financial Industry A great set of lines from William Black posted at Barry Ritholtz’s Big Picture: The Jamie Dimons of…

…screwed up in the first place in charge of the burning building. Anyone stupid enough to hire Robert Siegel as a “financial reporter” should be defenstrated with all deliberate speed….

by Linda Beale A Year and Counting: re-regulation of Wall Street On Monday night, I participated in a symposium on the Financial Crisis: One Year Later, sponsored by the Center…

…and Brady Dennis The collapse was, of course, quick when it came. One interesting fact is that AIG Financial Products (AIGFP) stopped writing new CDSs in 2005. Another is that,…

…the statute and apply the statute’s tax credits toward premium payments—actually is just a website that lists healthcare policies and allows sign-ups but has no financial benefit to purchasers of…

By Jeff McCord of The Investor Advocate USA: History’s Largest Free Port for Financial Freebooters? The term “freebooter,” derived from the Dutch vrijbuiter, means one who openly steals property. Once…

…need for a fairer system that supported the middle class.. Mr Obama was scathing about the banks’ opposition to new financial regulations, saying they were only feared by “financial institutions…

…From the IBM/Waterfund link comes this excerpt: The principals involved sat down with the Daily Ticker to explain. “At one end of the spectrum you have housing, the most over-financialized…

…Democrats and Republicans alike agree that the proliferation of unregulated, non-bank lenders contributed significantly to the financial crisis by feeding millions of dangerous financial products into the economic system. Non-bank…