Tag Archives: investment banking

3 People we can blame for the financial crisis

One of our most popular articles discusses repeal of Glass Steagall. Robert Reich is Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley. He has served in three national administrations. He also explains why our article was so popular:

Thank you Phil Gramm, or “Who was padding your pocket?”

The United States has had as much of Phil Gramm as we can stand. While Americans expect almost everyone to be on somebody’s payroll, we are now at a point where we wonder about two main subjects: “Who was paying Phil Gramm for stupidity?”, and “Where am I going to be working next week?”

Clinton repeal of Glass-Steagall faulty as seen today

Even as the Fed helped to stabilize the situation over the weekend, the stock market is down again on Monday morning. What is alarming from our standpoint is that CIT, Lehman, and National City Corporation all are down – by 25 to 31 percent as we write this. Liquidity questions surround Lehman after what we [...]

Last in – first out or fire the weakest – layoffs continue

As the perception of a slowdown continues the perceived over-employment picture might indicate a need for layoffs. It sounds like market agitators in the oil industry where fear of a hurricane that might agitate Nigerian rebels who could… – you get the picture. Anyway, it is close enough for some. More layoffs were announced as [...]

Bank of America layoffs reported

Bank of America is making more changes although some may be lost in the news about BofA’s acquisition of Countrywide. Let us not overlook job losses as the bank said on Tuesday it would eliminate 650 corporate and investment banking jobs and sell its equity prime brokerage business. Bank of America will cut back operations [...]