…to the public (other than mandated by securities laws, and even there they have a bank-friendly reading of disclosure requirements), only the rationale of making the most bucks possible in…

…economy. This is not a joke. First assume that the CDS market is transparent with full disclosure and mandatory trading on exchanges. We learn a lot if an investment bank…

…and discouragement of risk-taking is essential. 1. Transparency is needed, but that won’t be achieved without SEC-like disclosure requirements on all financial innovations and FASB accounting rules that minimize the…

…disclosure practices in connection with their use of repos. The sample SEC letter is available here. Financial institution reform needs to deal with a myriad of factors–over-leverage is one of…

Via alea‘s Twitter feed, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency—the people who were specifically selected by the company to regulate AIG—has launched a Financial Literacy campaign. (Full disclosure:…

…(and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution). Also noted for the record, in the interest of full disclosure: the Business Week piece cited by Dr. Black was written by my neighbor and former…

Mark Cuban gets the FTC’s artificial distinction between bloggers and journalism exactly correct. Full disclosure: I had a Press Pass to the Clinton Global Initiative, and got things such as…

…the 54-year-old Sotomayer has a $179,500 yearly salary but On her financial disclosure report for 2007, she said her only financial holdings were a Citibank checking and savings account, worth…

…of classified information whose disclosure would put the country at risk. Much of that information is extremely up-to-date. With his history – especially where it pertains to a very hostile…

…that are so important to US MNEs when they do business offshore. Similarly, when the Tax Foundation argues, as it does in the email message sending out the report, that…