• A brief note on Corporatism 10 Mar 2011
• Corporatism and the Boston Tea Party 8 Apr 2011
• The Revolving Door of Corporatism Continues 16 Mar 2011

• German Constitutional Court and Parliament on euro zone aid 14 Jun 2011

• Regulation in Defense of Capitalism 18 Sep 2009
• The housing bubble: In Bernanke’s defense? 9 Jan 2010

• Government banking Irish edition 31 Aug 2009
• Catalysts for Change in the FX Driver 2 May 2011
• Links: 2010-05-10 European Shock and Awe Edition 10 May 2010

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, there is no meaningful resolution authority capable of dealing with large complex cross-border institutions like Lehman Brothers. We either let them fail like Lehman or bail them out.

Meanwhile people like Tim Geithner are arguing that financial institutions should be allowed to get even bigger.

Video below.

• Simon Johnson: U.S. Banks Need More Capital 12 Apr 2011
• Simon Johnson: TARP was a missed opportunity 30 Sep 2010
• Simon Johnson: Too big to fail is “too big to exist” 21 Apr 2009

• NY Fed Joins Attorneys General in Pursuing Foreclosure Frauds 21 Oct 2010
• Bill Black: To rob a country, own a bank 30 Mar 2010
• Market Is Facing Major Headwinds 21 Oct 2010

• UK: Darling confirms government to break up too big to fail banks 1 Nov 2009
• Market turmoil confirms FDIC’s tough position 14 Jul 2008
• Bhagwati: The U.S. is underestimating inflation risk 15 Jul 2009

• SEC may limit disclosure on AIG until 2018 12 Jan 2010
• Chart of the Day: Citigroup 20 Nov 2008
• Citigroup: Panics, Banking Confidence, Bailouts and Fractional Reserves 23 Nov 2008

• Lehman Brothers to post $3 bln loss; sets $6 bln stock sale 9 Jun 2008
• Cruising foreclosures, REO and short sales with Jim the Realtor 21 Jul 2009
• Is the short covering rally over? 24 Jul 2008

• U.S. forfeiting billions in future taxes to let Citi repay TARP 16 Dec 2009
• Regionals options suffer due to accounting rules 10 Sep 2008
• Reaching for yield in the post-TARP era 4 Dec 2009

• Citi to repay $20 billion in bailout money 14 Dec 2009
• Wells Fargo becomes last of big banks to repay TARP 14 Dec 2009
• Ten big banks receive approval to repay TARP funds 9 Jun 2009

• Dubai bailed out by Abu Dhabi after property bust 22 Feb 2009
• The bust in Dubai and exogenous shocks 27 Nov 2009
• Denmark bails out Roskilde Bank 11 Jul 2008

• How is Citi going to deal with $38 billion in deferred tax assets? 11 Nov 2009
• GM and Chrysler to get more bailout money 21 Apr 2009
• GM looks to use US and Canadian tax money to bailout Opel 15 Nov 2009

• Next Stop: US sovereign debt downgrade 16 Jul 2008
• Macro Maven: Expect a long difficult recession 13 Dec 2008
• Irish sovereign debt interest rate spreads 31 Oct 2008

• UBS and Credit Suisse must pony up $70 billion 6 Jul 2008
• Credit Suisse and UBS have hands out for more capital 24 Mar 2009
• How well capitalized is Citigroup? 12 Nov 2009

• The Citigroup Bailout 24 Nov 2008
• Citigroup talks with US Government as bankruptcy looms 22 Nov 2008
• The Citigroup Bailout: a blogosphere post-mortem 24 Nov 2008

• Hypo Real Estate: 600 billion in off-balance sheet assets 20 Feb 2009
• Citi agrees to do cramdowns 8 Jan 2009
• Merrill and Citi are the big losers this season 18 Jul 2008

• Was repealing Glass-Steagall the cause for the present Depression? 4 Feb 2009
• Is Citi being forced to downsize by Obama? 26 Oct 2009
• Citi agrees to do cramdowns 8 Jan 2009

• Does Obama have the legal authority to take over Citi? 9 Mar 2009
• How to downsize the US financial sector 16 Oct 2009
• BofA, Citi, Wells and GMAC biggest losers in stress test leaks 6 May 2009

• Citibank has cut all lending in Denmark 19 Feb 2009
• Law firm confirms the disaster at Lehman 12 Nov 2008
• Why Lehman failed 17 Sep 2008

• Freddie and Fannie are getting nationalized 5 Sep 2008
• Nationalized banking predators 27 Oct 2008
• De-leveraging redux 4 Jun 2008

• RBS reports a record loss of 24 billion pounds 26 Feb 2009
• JPMorgan: Beats expectations despite writedowns 15 Jan 2009
• JPMorgan Chase: Large exposure to real economy downturn 30 Nov 2008

• Warren Buffett: Wells passes my own stress test 2 May 2009
• Stress tests reveal Citi and BofA need more capital, but you knew that already 28 Apr 2009
• Merrill and Citi are the big losers this season 18 Jul 2008

• Citi close to selling German unit 11 Jul 2008
• Citigroup grabs Wachovia on the cheap 29 Sep 2008
• Citigroup and Redecard: shedding international assets 25 Feb 2009

• Meredith Whitney: Regardless of stress tests, banks will still need more capital 21 Apr 2009
• Are Citi and BofA gaming the Geithner Plan already? 26 Mar 2009
• Reinhart: Not everybody can be above-average in stress tests 22 Apr 2009

• What if a large US regional bank goes to the wall? 28 Jul 2008
• Large US bank failure coming 19 Aug 2008
• JPMorgan Chase: Large exposure to real economy downturn 30 Nov 2008

• Krugman: Geithner Plan “won’t work” 25 Mar 2009
• Roubini: Nationalization “fully on the table” in Geithner’s Plan 25 Mar 2009
• Citi: looking for as much as a 40% stake from the government 22 Feb 2009

• Citi: looking for as much as a 40% stake from the government 22 Feb 2009
• David Beim: Citi is too big to nationalize 5 Mar 2009
• Citi agrees to do cramdowns 8 Jan 2009

• Did Sweden really nationalize its banks? 25 Feb 2009
• Citi: looking for as much as a 40% stake from the government 22 Feb 2009
• Merrill and Citi are the big losers this season 18 Jul 2008

• How Goldman profits from the credit crunch 22 Jun 2008
• TARP dividends are killing bank profits 22 Jan 2009
• Did Tim Geithner blow it? 11 Feb 2009

• The Citigroup Bailout 24 Nov 2008
• The Citigroup Bailout: a blogosphere post-mortem 24 Nov 2008
• Citigroup talks with US Government as bankruptcy looms 22 Nov 2008

• Chart of the Day: Citigroup 20 Nov 2008
• The Citigroup Bailout 24 Nov 2008
• Citigroup to slash jobs 22 Jun 2008

• Lehman tried to sell a 50% stake to foreign governments 20 Aug 2008
• Merrill and Citi are the big losers this season 18 Jul 2008
• Citi close to selling German unit 11 Jul 2008

• Denmark bails out Roskilde Bank 11 Jul 2008
• Denmark out of recession 2 Sep 2008
• Denmark wants in on the Euro 22 Jan 2009