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							<title><![CDATA[Time to Start Worrying About Banks Again]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-20/it-s-not-too-early-to-start-worrying-about-banks-again.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 21 Sep 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Weil</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Commerzbank, Eric Holder &amp; Too-Big-to-Jail]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-14/commerzbank-eric-holder-and-too-big-to-jail.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Weil</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Dennis Lerner, a former taxdirector at Commerzbank AG (CBK) in New York, isn't too big to jail. But the bank he once worked for may well be, along with theother executives there who made his crimes possible.Lerner, 60, pleaded guilty this week to public-corruptioncharges. Commerzbank...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Exposing Jack Lew's Citigroup Cronyism]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-02-21/citigroup-s-man-goes-to-the-treasury-department.html?alcmpid=view</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Weil</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Jack Lew is the nominee for Treasury secretary whose own bonus as an investment banker was bailed out by the Treasury Department when it rescued Citigroup Inc. (C) in 2008. He owes much to America's taxpayers. He should also be grateful to Citigroup for agreeing to let him rejoin the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How the E.U. Let Spain's Banks Cook the Books]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-14/the-eu-smiled-while-spain-s-banks-cooked-the-books.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Weil</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Only a few years ago, Spain&rsquo;s banks were seen in some policy-making circles as a model for the rest of the world. This may be hard to fathom now, considering that Spain is seeking $125 billion to bail out its ailing lenders.But back in 2008 and early 2009, Spanish regulators were...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dream of Taxpayer Bailout Profit Is Just That]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-04-19/hope-for-treasury-bailout-profits-rests-on-fuzzy-math.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Weil</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Treasury Department wants the public to believe the government&rsquo;s bailouts of the financial sector might make money for taxpayers. It&rsquo;s easy to see why.If the government could show an overall profit, the implication would be that bailouts must be a good thing. Put...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Euro Bank Blowups Hidden With Shell Games]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-15/european-bank-blowups-hidden-with-shell-games-jonathan-weil.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Weil</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The last time the world had a major banking crisis, fair-value accounting rules were near the top of the list of scapegoats most likely to be denounced by government and industry leaders. Not so this go-around.Today many of Europe&rsquo;s largest financial institutions are seemingly on...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is There Enough Money Left to Save Banks?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-11/is-there-enough-money-to-save-world-s-banks-commentary-by-jonathan-weil.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Weil</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Forget free-market fundamentals. What matters most to the capital markets now is whether the governments of the U.S. and western Europe have the will and the wherewithal to save the global financial system from disaster yet again.A healthy climate for the efficient allocation of capital,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Big Bailouts: We're No Safer Than 2008]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-06-16/too-big-to-fail-ends-with-wave-of-a-magic-wand-jonathan-weil.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Weil</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the words of Sheila Bair, the departing chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., the era of too-big-to-fail banks isn't just ending -- it's already over. Consider her statement two weeks ago, in a news release heralding the creation of a committee to advise the agency on how...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Zombie Banks Winning Rigged Wall St. Game]]></title>
							<link>http://noir.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&amp;sid=aDO8.km0Vwt8</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 17 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Weil</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Two years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers and what rightfully should have been the death of American International Group, U.S. capital markets face a crucial question.How long will it take before we see some semblance of robust free-market capitalism return, where the value of an...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Waters Whacked, Barney Frank Untouched]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jonathan Weil</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For all the strange details to emerge in the Maxine Waters bank-bailout scandal, this one might be the most surprising: It turns out members of Congress are prohibited from doing "special favors" for anyone, even if they receive nothing of value in return.Who knew? Here I had been living...]]></description>
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