Simon Johnson

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  Sandy Weill Wants Banks Small Again, Chris Dodd Wants Them Big

  By Gil Weinreich, AdvisorOne  |  July 26, 2012

  If politics makes strange bedfellows, it also makes for strange adversaries.

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  ‘Living Wills’ Expose Banks’ Fragility, but Won’t Forestall Disaster

  By Gil Weinreich, AdvisorOne  |  June 28, 2012

  Sunday is the deadline for the biggest banks to submit "living wills" providing regulators a roadmap to break them up if the financial system is threatened. But Simon Johnson says the time to break up too-big-to-fail banks is now.

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  JPMorgan’s Dimon Target of Effort to Be Booted From NY Fed Board

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  June 25, 2012

  After calling for JPMorgan's CEO Jamie Dimon to step down from his position on the board of the New York Federal Reserve, Simon Johnson, former chief economist at the IMF, started a petition.

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  Eurozone Slumps Further as Fidelity Predicts Bailouts for Spain, Italy

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  June 21, 2012

  Despite the formation of a new government in Greece and a rescue for the banking sector in Spain, it looks as if a long, hot summer is in store for the eurozone.

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  London’s ‘Whale’ Loses $2 Billion for JPMorgan

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  May 11, 2012

  CEO Jamie Dimon said that the office suffered an “egregious” failure and that losses from volatile synthetic credit securities could mount by another $1 billion in this quarter or the third.

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  Wave of New Bank Failures Predicted

  By Gil Weinreich, AdvisorOne  |  February 2, 2012

  An analysis of the nation’s FDIC-insured banks has identified 758 banks at risk of failure over the next two years, while administrative innovation at the FDIC should result in the orderly failure of larger banks previously thought too big to fail.

• Debt Crisis Spooks Investors: Survey

  By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne  |  July 29, 2011

  Investors are keeping an eye on the debt ceiling fight in Washington, and they don’t like what they see, according to a poll from UBS Wealth Management Americas, which also indicates that investor sentiment has reversed in recent days.

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  So much for civilized debate

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne  |  June 4, 2009

  Saw Karl Rove debate General Wesley Clark at the TD Ameritrade conference. A raucous affair, to say the least. Catcalls from the crowd, audience members...