Airlines are warning they may need bailouts as the virus outbreak brings more countries into lockdown, while central banks are injecting trillions of dollars more into the financial system to grease the gears of the global economy. Business confidence is ...

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Taxpayers may despise Wall Street’s culture of greed, view bankers as amoral and abhor the idea of government bailouts. What they really can’t stand is watching the bailed-out banks throw their new-found wealth at their employees without getting a piece ...

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The simplest solutions continue to escape those trying to fix our broken financial system. Consider banks’ need to have enough capital on hand to weather market storms. Instead of requiring banks to simply raise and hold more common equity – ...

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It’s amazing what a little sunshine can accomplish. Check out the footnotes to Regions Financial Corp.’s latest quarterly report, and you’ll see a remarkable disclosure. There, in an easy-to-read chart, the company divulged that the loans on its books as ...

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From Alaska to Oklahoma, states are declaring themselves fed up with the bossing around they get from Washington. Sick of being told do this, don’t do that, they sound like banks. Whether the problem is meddling in drivers’ license requirements ...

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If you want to make some big money, buy a chunk of those toxic mortgage-backed assets dragging down banks. You might harvest a bundle. Money is there to be made because investors, spooked by the bursting of the housing bubble, ...

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Here’s hoping the big audit firms get busy living, and start sounding alarms at banks that are dying. Credit raters, regulators, Wall Street executives, even hedge-fund managers all got summoned to Capitol Hill last fall for televised floggings. And yet ...

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The Federal Reserve’s top two officials urged a new effort to address the toxic assets held by financial companies, warning that they threaten to prevent banks from resuming lending to households and companies. Chairman Ben S. Bernanke and Vice Chairman ...

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At a time when central banks are attempting to prevent deflation, the hottest investments in the government bond market are securities that protect debt holders against rising consumer prices. Inflation-linked debt from the U.S. to Japan returned 5.77 percent since ...

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