I am asked regularly to comment on news and I engage with media to help their coverage. This page includes a small sample of media in English that include my comments.
Selected Links
- Why regulators may have missed Archegos’ excessive risk warning signs, CNBC Squawx Box, | March 30, 2021
- Biden’s Transition Teams Suggest Tougher Wall Street Oversight, Alan Rappeport and Jeanna Smialek, New York Times | November 13, 2020.
- Why is the stock market doing well right now?, Marketplace | April 27, 2020
- The Hidden Dangers of the Great Index Fund Takeover, Bloomberg Businessweek | January 9, 2020
- Could the 2008 financial crisis happen again?, MarketPlace | March, 14 2018
- Why Do Corporations Ignore Corrupt Supply Chains?, Pacific Standard | December 14, 2017
- 5 Years After Financial Crisis, Are Big Banks Still A Threat?, NPR | September 12, 2013
2024
Nonsense and Bad Rules Persist in Banking, PDF Project Syndicate | April 8, 2024 (Memo to Jamie Dimond and other bankers: What benefits large banks doesn’t necessarily benefit Americans Republished by MarketWatch )
The Fight Over Bank Capital Keeps Missing the Point, Vetta Fi, Clive Cook of Bloomberg News | March 27, 2024
A year on from Credit Suisse’s rescue, banks remain vulnerable, Stefania Spezzati and Oliver Hirt, Reuters| March 16, 2024
Anat Admati on How to Never Bailout Banks Again, Odd Lots Podcast, Bloomberg| March 4, 2024
The Chuck Jaffe MoneyLife Podcast, | January 24, 2024
More Regulations? Big Banks Say They’re Safe Enough Already, Peter Coy, New York Times Opinion | January 22,2024
2023
When Will They Ever Learn? The Banking Crisis of 2023, Anat Admati, Martin Hellwig, Richard Portes, VoxEU | May 18, 2023
Credit Suisse: Too big to manage, too big to resolve, or simply too big?, Anat Admati, Martin Hellwig, Richard Portes, VoxEU | May 8, 2023
2022
The Economics Nobel Is Richly Deserved, but It’s Hardly the End of the Story, Peter Coy, New York Times | October 12, 2022
US Banks Passed the Latest Stress Test, But Are Still Unhappy, Bloomberg | July 29, 2022
‘Bloomberg Surveillance Simulcast‘ Full Show (start 1:52.45), Bloomberg Business Week | July 12, 2022
2021
Jerome Powell’s Future, Andrew Ross Sorkin et al, New York Times | October 6, 2021
The Fed Greatest Dissenter, Peter Coy, New York Times | October 4, 2021
Why regulators may have missed Archegos’ excessive risk warning signs, CNBC Squawx Box | March 30, 2021
Stanford economists weigh in on Robinhood controversy, Matthew Tuck, The Stanford Daily | February 9, 2021
GameStop stock chaos: What does it mean and how does it end? Stanford digital media video | January 29, 2021
US Money Funds, Treasury reforn likely to be forecrfully tackled by SEC-Nominee Gensler, experts say, Neil Roland, mLex Market Insight | January 21, 2021
2020
Biden’s Transition Teams Suggest Tougher Wall Street Oversight, Alan Rappeport and Jeanna Smialek, New York Times | November 13, 2020.
OECD Virtual Launch of The Financial Sytem Volume | September 29, 2020
Has the Corporate Sector Become Ever Reliant on Debt? Panel discussion Financial Times New Social Contract series | September 25, 2020.
Nasdaq Valuations Say You’ll Be Stuck at Home for a Long Time, Vildana Hajric and Lu Wang, Bloomberg News, | Auguest 8, 2020
Hope turns to disappointment, stoicism, as California rolls back reopening, Paul Rogers, San Jose Mercury News |July 14, 2020.
Wall Street Reaps a Bonanza on Fed’s Support for Corporate Debt, Paula Seligson and Lisa Lee, Bloomberg News, Washington Post | July 13, 2020
Silicon Valley is Throwing Money Behind Covid-19 Efforts, Hoping for Results, CNN | May 27, 2020
Macro Musings with David Beckworth Podcast Interview, Bonus Segment, Transcript | April 30, 2020
Why is the stock market doing well right now?, Marketplace | April 27, 2020
Relief Available to Drivers on Car Payments, KTVU Fox News | April 11, 2020
Small Businesses Will Need More Help after Coronavirus Pandemic, The Street, | April 8, 2020
Regulators Free up $500bn Capital for Lenders to Fight Virus Storm, PDF , Financial Times | April 5, 2020
COVID-19 Update, the Relief Package, Coronavirus Origins, 2020 Election, Expert Panel, Newswise | March 26, 2020
Economists to Congress: Don’t Bail out Big Business, GSB Insight, March 26, 2020
Economics & Finance Professors Speak Out on Impact of Congress’ Coronavirus Relief Bill, Newswise Press conference | March 25, 2020
Buddy, can you spare a dime? Echoes of ’30s in viral crisis?, Associated Press, Marcy Gordon | March 24, 2020
What happens to the economy when COVID-19 throws on the brakes? (Anat’s audio starts @ 2:45), NPR MarketPlace | March 16, 2020
Markets Plunge. Economies Stall. Panic Spreads. It All Feels Very 2008, New York Times | March 13, 2020
The Hidden Dangers of the Great Index Fund Takeover, Bloomberg Businessweek | January 9, 2020
2019
Marketplace, Public Radio | September 5, 2019 (at 5:05-5:57)
Surveillance: Fed’s Dramatic Pivot with Citi’s Mann (starts at 22 min), Bloomberg Surveillance Radio | July 19, 2019
A Banking Mystery, Investigative Reporting Workshop | June 19, 2019
US mid-sized banks may bulk up. (Is that safe?), Risk.net | May 23, 2019
Well, Socialism Couldn’t Give Us Trump, The New York Times | March 20, 2019
It’s Corruption, Not Socialism, That Brought Down Venezuela, Pacific Standard | March 14, 2019
2018
The Illusion of UK Bank Capital Strength , Financial Times | December 2, 2018
US Banks Poised for $170bn in Shareholder Payouts, Financial Times | June 17, 2018
Why the Swiss should vote for, Vollgeld, Financial Times | June 5, 2018
10 Years After The Financial Crisis, Have We Learned Anything?, CNN Money | March 16, 2018
Could the 2008 Financial Crisis Happen Again?, MarketPlace | March, 14 2018
US Banks’ Mission to Boost Investor Payouts Sparks Concern, Financial Times | January 18, 2018
Big Banks Score a Win in Switzerland, New York Post | January 15, 2018
2017
Why Do Corporations Ignore Corrupt Supply Chains?, Pacific Standard | December 14, 2017
Senate Compromise Bill Would Roll Back Stress Tests For Small Banks, WSHU | November 15, 2017
The Fed has a rare chance to prove it’s not Wall Street’s bank, Business Insider | November 7, 2017
The New York Fed president is first among equals, MarketPlace | November 6, 2017
Inside the C.E.O Rebellion Against Trump’s Advisory Councils, New York Times |August 16, 2017
When did the financial crisis begin? Some say August 9, 2007 in France, MarketPlace | August 9, 2017
The 93 Words That Could Unlock $200 Billion in Bank Capital, Wall Street Journal | April 30, 2017
Trump and Brexit Could Change Global Bank Rules, Bloomberg | April 27, 2017
The Trump effect on the Federal Reserve, MarketPlace | May 3, 2017
Dismantling Dodd-Frank May Have to Wait, Bloomberg | March 2, 2017
Risky Shadow Banks Become Campaign Fodder For Democrats, NPR | February 24, 2016
Dismantling Dodd-Frank — And More, The American Prospect | February 6, 2017
Dodd-Frank law’s legacy: safer banks, banker headaches, CBS News | February 6, 2017
Trump Cites Friends to Say Banks Aren’t Making Loans., They Are. Bloomberg | February 4, 2017
2016
New York’s new bull on Wall Street, WRVO Public Media | October 24, 2016
How a Goldman Sachs trader can make $100 million in the Volcker Rule era, MarketWatch | October 20, 2016
Who failed at overseeing Wells Fargo?, MarketPlace | September 28, 2016
Is Wells Fargo Too Big to Manage?, American Banker | September 14, 2016
Goldman Sachs could face new Fed sanctions, MarketPlace | July 26, 2016
Decision to Loosen U.K. Banks’ Capital Constraints Divides Experts, Wall Street Journal | July 18, 2016
Countercyclical Capital Buffer Gets Its Day in the Sun, Wall Street Journal | July 5, 2016
A milestone for financial reform, but skeptics remain, The Washington Examiner | July 1, 2016
Banks Tell Basel to Back Off Credit-Risk Capital Restriction, Bloomberg | June 7, 2016
US capitalism in crisis while most Americans lose out, The Guardian | May 2016
The Shifty Linguistics of ‘Capital’, Foreign Policy | May 19, 2016
Two Cheers for the Leverage Ratio, Cato at Liberty | May 12, 2016
Fed official raises pressure on ‘too big to fail’ banks, The Globe and Mail | May 3, 2016
Breaking Up The Banks May Be More Complicated Than It Seems, National Public Radio | April 19, 2016
Banks’ living wills remain a work in progress, Marketplace | April 13, 2016
US Rejection Of Wall Street ‘Living Wills’ Ratchets Up Pressure On Too-Big-To-Fail Banks, International Business Times | April 13, 2016
Bernie Sanders: “Make banking boring again”, CBS News | April 8, 2016
Regulators seen as exhausted in effort to end too-big-to-fail banks, MarketWatch | April 4, 2016
Bank of England rapped for misleading public on UK financial safety, Independent | March 10, 2016
Risky Shadow Banks Become Campaign Fodder For Democrats, National Public Radio | February 24, 2016
Are Italian Banks at a Boiling Point?, Bloomberg | February 19, 2016
Global Growth Fears Hit Bank Stocks, Wall Street Journal | February 8, 2016
2015
Bernie Sanders And Hillary Clinton Tout Wall Street Reform, But Who’s Toughest On Big Banks?, International Business Times | October 14, 2015
Can Bank of America make the grade?, Marketplace | September 20, 2015
Lew unwilling to declare too-big-to-fail is over, Market Watch | July 8, 2015
Banks Plead Guilty, Pay Billions to Settle Currency Rigging Charges, KQED | May 21, 2015
How criminal charges became another day at the office for banks, BBC | May 21, 2015
Bank Capital Rules: Would Smaller Banks Really Be Safer?, Bloomberg | March 5, 2015
The Fed stress tested 31 big banks and everyone passed. Don’t you feel better now?, QZ | March 5, 2015
Bank of America U.S. Deposit-Taking Unit Financed Tax Trades, Wall Street Journal | February 11, 2015
How Obama plans to tax the biggest banks, Marketplace | January 19, 2015
2014
Fed tests the business model at US banks, Financial Times | December 11, 2014
JPMorgan’s $22 Billion Shortfall Is Basically An Illusion, Huffington Post | December 14, 204
Senate critics to examine if regulators are too cozy with banks, Washngton Examiner | October 31, 2014
How Goldman’s Libya case could disrupt derivatives, CNBC | October 21, 2014
Wall Street scared new Attorney General could be Preet, New York Post | September 26, 2014
Bank of America’s $17 billion penalty is arguably too little, definitely too late, Vox | August 20, 2014
Is Wall Street Reformed?, MSNBC | July 21, 2014
Report says bank funding advantage erodes, Financial Times | July 31, 2014
Is Measuring the TBTF Subsidy a Distraction?, American Banker | May 2, 2014
JPGoldman Stanley Intact as Basel Change Keeps Bank Ties, Bloomberg | April 21, 2014
Banks pay out $100bn in US fines, Financial Times | March 25, 2014
US Banks Braced for Stress Tests, Financial Times | March 18, 2014
2013
Big U.S. banks keeping door open to another financial crisis, Los Angeles Times | September 13, 2013
5 Years After Financial Crisis, Are Big Banks Still A Threat?, NPR | September 12, 2013
Banks Seen at Risk Five Years After Lehman Collapse, Bloomberg | September 10, 2013
2008 Financial Crisis: Could it happen again?, USA Today | September 9, 2013
Looser Basel rules boost European banks, Financial Times | January 7, 2013
Masked by Gibberish, the Risks Run Amok, The New York Times | March 21, 2013
2012
JPMorgan, warned earlier over risk governance, highlights oversight challenges, Reuters | May 15, 2012
Enter the revolving regulators, Financial Times | April 23, 2012
Committee to Save World Repudiated by Successors, Bloomberg | March 22, 2012
Banks shored up by stress test success, Financial Times | March 13, 2012
15 of 19 Big Banks Pass Fed’s Latest Stress Test, The New York Times | March 13, 2012
2011
The hunt for a common front, Financial Times | September 7, 2011
Regulatory Reform: A Disappearing Act?, Financial Times | July 20, 2011