The FDIC Continues to Promote the Fantasy That It Can Resolve Megabanks
Due to being a bit under the gun before taking off for our holiday (I hope you all enjoyed the posts from Matt Stoller, Lambert, and the other guest writers), we didn’t address a May 10 speech by the acting FDIC chairman, Martin Gruenberg, on the FDIC’s current thinking on how to resolve so called systemically important financial institutions, or SIFIs. I’m turning to this despite the delay because I see some people who ought to know better, such as the normally solid John Hussmann, taking the FDIC”s claims at face value.
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