You could spread around a lot of blame for the current state of our two-tiered system of justice and lack of accountability, particularly as it relates to the financial sector. But if you wanted to find the most pathetic figure involved in that whole rigamarole, all roads lead to Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller.
Read more...PricewaterhouseCoopers faces three potentially serious trials over allegedly negligent audits of failed financial firms. The most significant launched earlier this month in a Florida state court. Other big four firms successfully settled claims.
Read more...Big Wall Street firms like Goldman and Morgan Stanley offer “dog ate my homework” excuses for failure to comply with the Volcker Rule.
Read more...Thomas Friedman, who needs to be renamed “Wrong Way Friedman,” tries peddling the canard that deregulation is a plus for bank stability.
Read more...Help us, Tom Friedman is at it again…
Read more...How the New York Times does its readers a huge disservice by not telling them that so-called “instant payment services” are anything but that.
Read more...NZ’s promised Foreign Trust reforms still don’t look quite right
Read more...North-South, or developed-emerging economy dealings, are becoming more contentious.
Read more...Americans for Financial Reform, an influential group, calls on the SEC to act to combat a long-standing private equity abuse.
Read more...Investors in European bank shares are in a bit of a panic, and for good reason.
Read more...Yet another half-baked European bail-in plan.
Read more...Germany just cut Spain and Portugal some budgetary slack. What’s driving this unexpected outbreak of reasonableness?
Read more...How bad is the Italian banking mess?
Read more...Two Johnson & Johnson executives were prosecuted in a health care case for illegal marketing but their superiors got off scot free.
Read more...European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker achieved a significant win by appointing Michel Barnier as a lead Brexit negotiator.
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