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We need a stronger Glass-Steagall Act to regulate financial firms
"Bring back Glass-Steagall!" That's the cry you hear most often for restoring regulatory stringency to our misbehaving financial sector.
The 1933 law, which barred commercial banks from underwriting or investing in stocks — in effect, from owning...Tags: Federal Reserve, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Financial Markets, University of Chicago, Finance
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Cities to battle California in court for redevelopment money
The city of Adelanto had planned to spend $15 million on affordable housing. Artesia proposed to invest $2.3 million in downtown improvements. Atascadero budgeted $53 million for upgrades including a pedestrian bridge downtown and a better wall at the...
Tags: Property Tax, Laws, Finance, Economy, Business and Finance, Judges
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Paul Ryan coy on whether he'd join the GOP ticket
It is a ritual of the vice presidential audition: A contender for the role of running mate tries to profess just enough interest, but not too much. On Tuesday evening at the Reagan Presidential Library, it was Paul D. Ryan's turn to play coy when the...
Tags: Republican Party, Nancy Reagan, Arts and Culture, Michael Finnegan, Libraries
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Europe's debt crisis joins governments and banks at the hip
LONDON — The alarm over potential bank runs in Greece and Spain this week has highlighted an often-overlooked fact: Europe's debt crisis is also, in many ways, a major banking crisis. In capitals such as Athens, Madrid and Rome, large portions of...
Tags: National Government, Credit and Debt, Madrid (Spain), Finance, Economy, Business and Finance
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JPMorgan Chase discloses $2-billion trading loss
Barely four years after Wall Street's wrong-way bets plunged the world into a financial crisis, JPMorgan Chase & Co. admitted it lost $2 billion from a trading portfolio that was supposed to have helped the bank manage credit risk. "These were...
Tags: Quarterly or Semiannual Financial Statements, Wells Fargo & Co., Carl Levin, Citigroup Incorporated, Financial Markets
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Wall Street slides following European elections
U.S. stocks slid in early trading Monday following French and Greek elections that may shift the direction of the Eurozone's fiscal policy. The Dow Jones industrial average was down about 50 points, or 0.38%, shortly after the opening bell on Wall...
Tags: Europe, Elections, France, American International Group, Politics
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Romanian government is latest victim of EU austerity
World NowRomania's government fell after a no-confidence vote and the leadership of the Czech Republic narrowly survived a similar challenge Friday in the latest challenges to European efforts to heal the Continent's debt crisis with tough spending cuts and higher... -
S&P upgrades Greece out of 'selective default'
ATHENS — The Standard & Poor's ratings agency lifted Greece's credit grade out of default Wednesday after the country completed a major debt write-down with private creditors. It upgraded the country from "selective default" to CCC, still in junk...Tags: Athens (Greece), Greece, Finance, Economy, Business and Finance
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Large majority of investors takes up Greece's bond-swap offer, helping Athens avoid default
World NowMore than 85% of private holders of Greek debt agree to participate in a bond-swap scheme to relieve Athens' staggering load of public debt. The deal will allow Greece to secure a second international bailout and avoid imminent default.... -
Greece secures deal to lower debt, avoid default
Greece has successfully pushed through a deal to lower its debt burden and avoid defaulting on its outstanding bonds in the near future.
Holders of Greek bonds had until Thursday to agree to trade in their old Greek bonds for new ones with a lower face...Tags: Greece, Crime, Law and Justice, Labor Markets
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Bullet trains vs. book learning
SACRAMENTO — The bullet train boondoggle is looking more like a bullet bull's-eye. But one big question lingers: Where are the bucks?
And even if the state can find the bucks, should it spend them on building a high-speed rail line, a cool choo-...Tags: Republican Party, Finance, Economy, Business and Finance, Colleges and Universities, Politics
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CDR Financial Products founder pleads guilty in municipal bond case
Money & CompanyA Beverly Hills financial firm and its founder pleaded guilty to federal criminal charges that they defrauded government agencies by steering investment contracts to firms that paid them kickbacks. David Rubin, 50, and his company, CDR Financial...
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