- Financial Reform ·
An Agenda for Genuine Financial Reform
Photo by Angel Evangeline on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/photos/lIYoJZwXy2U In this final act, Act IV of my booklet Finance for a…
- Capitalism ·
Broken Trust
At this year’s World Economic Forum gathering in Davos, Switzerland, PR firm Edelman shared its comprehensive annual Trust Barometer, confirming what…
- Carbon Bubble ·
Capital Institute’s “Dog Days of Summer” Reading List
Are you looking for summer reading recommendations? We humbly suggest looking back on these recent posts from John Fullerton’s Future…
- Financial Crisis ·
High-Frequency Trading is a Blight on Markets. Tobin Tax Can Help.
This blog post previously ran in The Guardian’s Business section. A tax on financial transactions can calm the frenzy of…
- Financial Reform ·
Can We Escape Bank Regulation by Lawsuit?
When I worked at JPMorgan in the 80s and 90s, even in the context of deregulation, the concept of “self-regulation”…
- Evergreen Direct Investing ·
6 Reasons Why Stock Markets Are No Longer Fit For Purpose
Another version of this post ran earlier today on The Guardian’s Sustainable Business Blog. 6 Reasons Why Stock Markets Are No…
- Financial Reform ·
Are We Not All Jasmines Now?
What is it about a Woody Allen film that leaves us always with a discomforting feeling of identification with its…
- Derivatives ·
What JPMorgan’s Recently Released Internal Reports Unintentionally Say
After apologizing at Davos – but only to his shareholders – according to William Cohan on the Bloomberg View, the…
- Capitalism ·
Of Guns, Whales, Freedom, and Justice
After visiting an awe-inspiring women’s empowerment program at work in several rural villages north of Delhi, our host at the…
- Financial Reform ·
Of Ina and Ahab
In her New York Times Magazine cover story on the fall of the well-regarded Ina Drew titled “Swallowed by the London Whale,”…
- Financial Reform ·
Is Jamie Dimon’s Business First Class?
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon will today, once again, stand before the authors of Dodd-Frank and attempt to make the case…
- Financial Reform ·
Is There a Case for Public Banking in America?
Last week I participated in the inaugural Public Banking Institute conference in Philadelphia – not a coincidence, freedom from the…
- Financial Reform ·
Financial Statesmanship for a New Economy
Reactions to departing Goldman derivatives salesman Greg Smith’s “Why I am Leaving Goldman Sachs,” which appeared as an op-ed in…
- Financial Reform ·
A Systems Approach to Financial Reform
I spoke last Thursday at the Congressional Progressive Caucus Policy Summit in Baltimore on how our work at Capital Institute…
- Financial Reform ·
A Tax for the Supercommittee to Embrace
Last Friday, I participated in a Special Briefing on Capitol Hill in support of the Financial Transactions Tax (FTT). I…