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By Joseph Stiglitz
With all the talk of “green shoots” of economic recovery, America’s banks are pushing back on efforts to regulate them. While politicians talk about their commitment to regulatory reform to prevent a recurrence of the crisis, this is one area where the devil really is in the details – and the banks will [...]

Standard & Poor’s downgraded the credit rating of Ireland for the second time this year.  S&P cited the vast amount of money the government must continue to throw at the nations banking system.
The rating was cut down to AA, from AA+,  moving it to the same  level the United Arab Emirates as Japan, and Slovenia [...]

The U.S. economy is in for “a lasting slowdown” and won’t recover this year, while “the banking system as a whole is basically insolvent,” billionaire investor George Soros told Reuters Financial Television on Monday.
While nationalization of banks is “out of the question,” he said stress tests being conducted by the U.S. Treasury could be a [...]