Ezra Klein Archive: Financial Regulation

Wall Street owes the administration a really nice Christmas card

Things are getting ugly as Congress considers financial reform. Legislators don't like the (entirely accurate) perception that the banks got a sweetheart deal last fall. The public wants someone to lose a pound of flesh over what happened to...

The populist politics of financial regulation

The more I think about Dodd's financial regulation bill, the more I think the politics are going to be surprising. Its biggest surprise, for instance, is how much power it takes from the Federal Reserve, and how much it...

A future of financial crises

Felix Salmon recaps an interesting argument he had with Robert Pozen, author of the new book Too Big to Save: I’m also not fully convinced by one of Pozen's big ideas, which is that banks should have small and professional...

Does banker pay matter?

There have been two arguments for limiting bankers' pay. One is that it's a way to punish executives at corporations that took a taxpayer bailout. The other is that it's a way to reduce the incentives for taking risks and...

Cutting bankers' pay

The Obama administration is getting serious on bankers' pay: The Obama administration plans to order companies that have received exceptionally large amounts of bailout money from the government to slash compensation for their highest-paid executives by about half on average,...

Regulating Derivatives

The House Financial Services Committee just approved an amendment mandating that derivatives traded between financial institutions must be traded on an exchange. That would mean the pricing would be public and the counterparties clear, something that manifestly didn't happen when...

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Wall Street Loves Money, Ezra Klein , October 14, 2009

Confusing Disclosure and Information, Ezra Klein , October 1, 2009

Assume You Don't Have a Can Opener, Ezra Klein , September 29, 2009

While The Federal Reserve Slept, Ezra Klein , September 29, 2009

An Interview With Barney Frank, Ezra Klein , September 27, 2009

Barney Frank vs. the Government, Ezra Klein , September 25, 2009

How the Government Helped Moody's Effort to Crash the Economy, Ezra Klein , September 24, 2009

Rating the Raters, Ezra Klein , September 21, 2009

Watching Wall Street Watch Obama, Ezra Klein , September 15, 2009

The Department of Bad News, Ezra Klein , September 14, 2009

Obama's Financial Regulation Speech, Ezra Klein , September 14, 2009

The Problem With Leaving Financial Regulation Till September, Ezra Klein , September 11, 2009

Geithner Goes After the Banks, Ezra Klein , September 4, 2009

Much-Too-Big-to-Fail, Ezra Klein , August 28, 2009

'They Frankly Own the Place', Ezra Klein , August 28, 2009

How Financial Speculation Can Help America, Ezra Klein , August 3, 2009

High-Frequency Trading, Ezra Klein , July 31, 2009

Trapped in the Fine Print, Ezra Klein , July 24, 2009

Choice and Financial Products, Ezra Klein , July 21, 2009

What Do You Mean by "Innovation?", Ezra Klein , July 20, 2009

Too Big to Fail Gets Bigger, Ezra Klein , July 17, 2009

Stopping Earthquakes, Ezra Klein , July 14, 2009

The Problem With Blaming Joe Cassano, Ezra Klein , July 13, 2009

We Don't Need Red Tape. We Need Red Rope., Ezra Klein , June 26, 2009

Can Skin in the Game Fix The Financial Sector?, Ezra Klein , June 22, 2009

You, Me, and Every Financial Regulator We Know, Ezra Klein , June 22, 2009

Will Regulation Work When We Stop Wanting It?, Ezra Klein , June 19, 2009

Graphics! Get Your Graphics!, Ezra Klein , June 18, 2009

The Green Lantern Theory of Financial Regulation, Ezra Klein , June 18, 2009

The Need for Speed on Reform, Ezra Klein , June 18, 2009

Can't Follow the Acronyms Without a Program, Ezra Klein , June 17, 2009

Financial Reform for the Rest of Us, Ezra Klein , June 17, 2009

Primary Documents: Obama on Financial Regulatory Reform, Ezra Klein , June 17, 2009

Can't Live With Systemic Risk, Can't Live Without It, Ezra Klein , June 17, 2009

Why the Obama Administration Didn't Leave Financial Regulation to Congress, Ezra Klein , June 17, 2009

A First Look at Financial Regulation Reform, Ezra Klein , June 17, 2009

Why I'm Pessimistic About Financial Regulation, Ezra Klein , June 16, 2009

A New Spin on the "Giant Pool of Money" Theory, Ezra Klein , June 15, 2009

Speed Read: Tim Geithner and Larry Summers Preview the Summer's Hottest Regulatory Initiative!, Ezra Klein , June 15, 2009

We Love Markets, Says Larry Summers, Ezra Klein , June 12, 2009

The Left Wakes Up to Financial Regulation, Ezra Klein , June 11, 2009

Is the Obama Administration Getting Serious About Executive Compensation? (No.), Ezra Klein , June 11, 2009

Is The Administration Embracing a "Lock the Barn Door After the Horses Are Out" Theory of Financial Reform?, Ezra Klein , June 10, 2009