Topic: Jesse Eisinger

Can Anyone Manage the Too-Big-to-Fail Banks?

SeekingAlpha - 199 days ago
An interesting article: Once Unthinkable, Breakup of Big Banks Now Seems Feasible, appeared in The New York Times on Thursday. The basic question...

Why the Fed Won't Be Good at Bank Regulation

SeekingAlpha - 286 days ago
Kindred Winecoff has an informed view of the question raised by Jesse Eisinger this week - whether central banks should also be bank regulators. He...

When Will the Fed Start Caring About Bank Regulation?

SeekingAlpha - 288 days ago
Jesse Eisinger had a great column yesterday on the way in which the Fed is failing to embrace its crucially-important role as America's top bank...

5 Reasons Second Liens are Important to the Mortgage Settlement

SeekingAlpha - 334 days ago
Jesse Eisinger writes In Proposed Mortgage Fraud Settlement, a Gift to Big Banks, arguing that "when the principal on the first mortgage is...

The Lessons of CELF

SeekingAlpha - 444 days ago
Jesse Eisinger has the story of CELF, which has some interesting implications. Essentially, Goldman Sachs (GS) took a bunch of leveraged loans it...

Bank Self-Dealing and the Supercharged Financial Crisis

SeekingAlpha - 534 days ago
I think it's very useful to split the question of the housing bubble from the broken financial markets in evaluating the crisis, and then examine...

Magnetar: What's in a Name?

SeekingAlpha - 672 days ago
Jesse Eisinger and Jake Bernstein have a lengthy expose at ProPublica. The allegations involve a hedge fund named Magnetar, which was formed in 2005 to apply some new creative financial engineering to a flagging sub-prime mortgage market. As a result, according to ...

Regulatory Reform: The Pessimism Panel

SeekingAlpha - 874 days ago
I enjoyed the discussion last night about financial regulation between Joe Stiglitz, Jesse Eisinger, and Roberta Karmel.. Stiglitz has an interesting and rather international take, having chaired a panel with a typically long UN name: And Eisinger seems to be getting increasingly ...

Why in the World is Dov Charney on the Cover of Portfolio?

The New York Observer - 1217 days ago
At a moment when the market is crashing and we're still trying to make sense of why the Dow goes up 900 points one day and down 700 another, when The Washington Post, The New York Times and The Wall Street ...

The Long Crisis

SeekingAlpha - 1340 days ago
Jesse Eisinger reckons that America is cognitively incapable of understanding a long crisis as opposed to a short one: Eisinger's quite right that the investors who tried to catch the falling knife - be they Warburg Pincus with MBIA, or Joe Lewis ...