Until we fix the perverse incentives of executive compensation we will have recurrent epidemics of fraud and global financial crises. Kill TARP and PPIP. Use the funds to help honest homeowners that would otherwise lose their homes …

Truth is, after the last twelve months, dating back to when Hank went deep on Fannie (FNM) and Freddie (FRE), Lehman got toe-tagged, American International Group (AIG) almost brought down the entire global financial system, Goldman (GS) …

Saft’s conclusion about the impending doom was echoed at the Reuters Global Finance Summit in New York this week. Reuters reports that office buildings and other commercial real estate financed during the credit bubble “will generate …

Janet Tavakoli: Goldman Sachs Nearly Bankrupted AIG. Goldman Sachs wasn’t the only contributor to the systemic risk that nearly toppled the global financial markets, but it was the key contributor to the systemic risk posed by AIG.

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Changes in the realm of international finance have been even more dramatic than in international trade. The liberalization and integration of global financial markets began in the 1980s, but accelerated significantly in the 1990s.

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UK Prime Minster Gordon Brown will today urge the introduction of a so-called Tobin tax on global financial transactions, the Guardian has reported.

Given the tottering state of global finance as a whole, a default by AIG would have triggered toppling-domino failures of investment banks, commercial banks, insurance companies and investment funds around the world.