Epstein Secrets

n the board of Citigroup, Richard Parsons told Bloomberg, "to some extent what we saw in the 2007, 2008 crash was the result of the throwing off of Glass-Steagall. Have we gotten our arms around it yet? I don't think so because the financial -services sector moves so fast." Scott Shay: Scott Shay, th

he Cyprus deal fatally undermined depositor confidence, thus making bank runs in other countries more likely. Certainly Cyprus and its paymasters in the European Central Bank have broken a taboo of the common European currency by imposing controls on the flow of capital into and out of the country, albeit "temporarily."

- also known as the Gramm-Leach Bliley Act - removed remaining regulatory restraints on Wall Street's powerful banking institutions. Repealing the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933, a New Deal reform put in place in response to corruption that had resulted in more than 5,000 bank failures in the years follo

emanke understood the depths of the problem early and responded energetically and creatively. The clearest vindication of his actions has been that the European Central Bank, after charting the opposite course for three years with disastrous results, has adopted policies similar to the Fed's — and averted a potential Leh

the banks' cost of capital and made leverage more attractive. Investment and commercial banks became integrated as the old division imposed by the Glass-Steagall act was abolished. Investment banking was no longer just about broking (conducting transactions in return for commissions) or giving advic

, Moody's and Fitch are back in the limelight. Every time they change the rating of a sovereign debt they move the markets. For a while the rules of the European Central Bank seemed to give enormous power to just one agency, Moody's. Had it downgraded Greece, the country's government bonds would not have been eligible fo