Temple Associates

When well-paid (overpaid?) top executives behave like this one should not wonder that Capitalism and the Market System increasingly lose pub...

Anti Money Laundering laws - nearly as useless as the attack on alcohol during the 1920s in the USA. And instigated from the same legislativ...

Can one call a $5 million fine significant given that Cooperman is a certified billionaire? Slap on the wrist would be more appropriate. And...

Apart from finance professionals being clairvoyants it is extremely tricky to safely fulfil the regulator's insistence to report all su...

The US 'authorities' (if you can name them as such as the country becomes more and more ruled by out-of-control lobbies and zealots)...

Not sure if one should cry or laugh when reading headlines such as this one . How did the parties to this shameful deal arrive at the number...

In the Lobby-infested cesspool that is Washington it is no surprise to find that the Fed 'accidentally' sent copies of the latest Mi...

Anyone who thinks that I take too negative a view of the 'efforts' of the regulators should have a look at this article. ( Mises I...

Talk, talk, talk - that is all the regulators and their political puppet masters seem to provide with respect to the derivatives market. Cou...

While I am critical of some aspects of high-frequency trading - esp the speed advantage that technology provides and which undermines the pr...

The US Commodities and Futures Trading Commission certainly knows how to make a hash of their task. While major regulatory disasters such as...

Since news about the trading loss in JP Morgan's Chief Investment Office broke in April there has been any number of commentators who vi...

The reported 'loss' that JP Morgan took on its investment account may appear to be large but in the context of a portfolio size of ...

The publication of the results of the latest stress test performed on US banks does little to inspire longterm confidence in the ability of...

"But I confidently predict that there are big troubles to come. The system is almost insanely irresponsible. And what people think are ...

all banks in the USA may see their ratings downgraded. That seems to be the logic behind the thinking that causes Tom Brown to decry the la...

That is what we would call the Manuel defence - remember the funny Spanish waiter in the television comedy 'Fawlty Towers'? But as ...

The sorry saga surrounding the Bailout of major financial institutions during the banking crisis of 2008 should teach regulators and politi...

writes Thomas Brown

When Warren Buffett spoke of derivatives as 'weapons of mass destruction' not a few belittled him as old-fashioned. Now that the ful...