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Occupy Wall Street Alternative Banking Group Files Amicus Brief on Side of Judge Rakoff in SEC v. Citigroup

Below you'll find the amicus brief filed by the Alternative Banking Group on May 21 in support of Judge Jed Rakoff's ruling questioning a proposed $285 million settlement in the SEC v. Citigroup Capital Markets (ruing here, summary and discussion here).

Tom Ferguson: Senate Banking Chair Calls Jamie Dimon to Testify -– But JP Morgan Chase is His Biggest Contributor!

By Tom Ferguson, Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts, Boston and a Senior Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute. Cross posted from Alternet It’s good that the watchdog is barking, but we’d all better watch closely to see if it will bite.

Europe is Falling Apart

By Delusional Economics, who is horrified at the state of economic commentary in Australia and is determined to cleanse the daily flow of vested interests propaganda to produce a balanced counterpoint. Cross posted from <a href="http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2012/05/europes-problems-multiply/">MacroBusiness.

It feels as if Europe has rolled the clocks back to 2011 as the effects of the ECB’s LTRO...

More Evidence of Lax Oversight of JP Morgan Chief Investment Office

As reporters keep digging into the "London Whale" story, the picture that emerges about the caliber of risk controls and management supervision at JP Morgan only look worse and worse.

Recovery Begins When Addiction Ends: An Open Letter to Jamie Dimon

By the Alternative Banking Working Group of Occupy Wall Street Dear Jamie Dimon: We, the Alternative Banking Working Group of Occupy Wall Street, are staging an intervention on your behalf.

Michael Crimmins: Why the Cops Should be Knocking on Jamie Dimon’s Door Soon

By Michael Crimmins, who has worked on risk management and Sarbanes Oxley compliance for major banks The scandal surrounding JP Morgan's losses in its Chief Investment Office is not going away, and for good reason. Its trading book continues to lose money at an astounding rate. The most recent report estimates that the losses have...

Brett Scott: The Safe Deposit Box – Creating a Financial Wikileaks

By Brett Scott, who operates as a consultant bridging the gap between finance and those involved in socio-environmental justice and international development. He has also written for the Guardian, the Ecologist, New Internationalist and Open Democracy. Brett blogs at www.suitpossum.blogspot.com and tweets as @Suitpossum. He is a fellow of the

Mirabile Dictu! The SEC Finally Investigates Magnetar

More than four years after Serena Ng and Carrick Mollencamp of the Wall Street Journal first took notice of the highly destructive ways of the Chicago hedge fund Magnetar, which created a series of toxic CDOs, the SEC finally appears to be taking a serious look at some of their deals.

Abigail Field: Jamie Dimon’s Hedge Fund

By Abigail Caplovitz Field, a freelance writer and attorney. Cross posted from Reality Check Jamie Dimon, John Stumpf, and to a lesser extent, Vikram Pandit and Bryan Moynihan, are running massive hedge funds. They're placing enormous, incredibly risky bets.

So Much for Schneiderman Being Tough on Wall Street

As regular readers no doubt recall, Eric Schneiderman abandoned the dissident state attorney general effort to get a better mortgage settlement, assuring the Administration a win on this sellout to the banks. The bright shiny prize Schneiderman got in return for his betrayal was serving as one of five co-chairmen on a Federal mortgage task...

Mark Ames: Failing Up With Citigroup’s Dick Parsons

Last month, shareholders finally rebelled against Citigroup, the worst of the Too Big To Fail bailout disasters, by filing a lawsuit against outgoing chairman Dick Parsons and handful of executives for stuffing their pockets while running the bank into the ground. Anyone familiar with Dick Parsons’ past could have told you his term as Citigroup’s chairman...

“What Scares Me Isn’t $2 Billion Loss JP Morgan Made, What Scares Me is the Record $19 Billion in Profits”

Even with all the focus on JP Morgan's loss bomb in the past few days, some critical elements of the story have not gotten the scrutiny they deserve, and Amar Bhide fills those gaps.