• Former Citi Chairman in favor of re-imposing Glass-Steagall 27 Oct 2009
• Volcker: ‘I wasn’t persuasive enough’ for Obama to heed my economic advice 3 Jan 2010
• Chart of the Day: Citigroup 20 Nov 2008

• In defense of the SEC — no, really 14 Nov 2011
• Citigroup gets $7.8 Billion for Japanese unit 1 May 2009
• Citigroup and Redecard: shedding international assets 25 Feb 2009

• Colombia Hikes Rates, Latin America Yields Very Attractive 28 Feb 2011

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: Too big to fail is “too big to exist” 21 Apr 2009
• Simon Johnson: The Coming Meta-Boom and Meta-Bust 19 Oct 2010
• Simon Johnson: TARP was a missed opportunity 30 Sep 2010

• Meredith Whitney says nationalization is wrong and banks will lose money 19 Feb 2009

• James Galbraith: How financial stability creates instability 1 Dec 2009

• Credit Suisse cautious on Citigroup due to regulatory hurdles 18 Nov 2009
• Citigroup: Panics, Banking Confidence, Bailouts and Fractional Reserves 23 Nov 2008
• Citigroup gets $7.8 Billion for Japanese unit 1 May 2009

• Banks can do ‘You Walk Away’ too 30 Mar 2009
• Cruising foreclosures, REO and short sales with Jim the Realtor 21 Jul 2009
• Extend and pretend and the growing divide between delinquencies and foreclosures 28 Oct 2009

• Citi to repay $20 billion in bailout money 14 Dec 2009
• U.S. forfeiting billions in future taxes to let Citi repay TARP 16 Dec 2009
• Credit Suisse cautious on Citigroup due to regulatory hurdles 18 Nov 2009