Simon Johnson

Here's the question: Can sovereignty and effective international supervision be reconciled when it comes to complex large financial institutions? Simon Johnson lays out a compelling case that they cannot. As he has said time and again,…

The Vickers report came out in Britain identifying areas where Britain's banking system needed to alter its regulatory structure. Simon Johnson talked to Bloomberg about this report and banking regulation in general. His view is that first…

Simon Johnson, a former chief economist for the International Monetary Fund and author of 13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown, says the recently passed Dodd-Frank Financial Reform Act does little to…

TARP goes to the legal graveyard this Sunday. Looking back, Simon Johnson says some sort of injection into the American banking system was necessary. So, in a basic sense TARP or some Swedish equivalent would have been necessary to avoid…

This morning I attended a breakfast on financial reform hosted by the Agenda Project's Erica Payne. The purpose was to crystallize the issues most pertinent to the financial reform debate in these crucial weeks leading up to full Senate…

MIT’s Johnson Says Too-Big-to-Fail Banks Will Spark New Crisis – Bloomberg.com Streit um Griechenland-Hilfe: Deutschland isoliert – n-tv.de New York Fed Warehousing Junk Loans On Its Books: Examiner's Report GMO's Edward Chancellor:…

Simon Johnson, a former IMF Chief Economist, who blogs over at the Baseline Scenario, is testifying before Congress today about 'Too big to fail' financial institutions.  Below is a video in which he tells Bloomberg his thoughts on the…