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Regulation

The Trade

Hold Companies, Executives and Government Officials Accountable

In this column, co-published with New York Times’ DealBook, Jesse Eisinger monitors the financial markets to hold companies, executives and government officials accountable for their actions.

No, the Banks Aren’t Losing

by Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica,

The Trouble With Disclosure: It Doesn't Work

by Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica,

Rent to Own: Wall Street’s Latest Housing Trick

by Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica,

Obama Stands At Crossroads On Financial Reform

by Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica,

The Wall Street Takeover of Charity

by Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica,

Now What? Failed Allergan Deal Strains Valeant

by Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica,

The Real Roots of Hedge Fund Manager Rage

by Jesse Eisinger,

The Big Bank Backlash Begins

by Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica,

The Fed Hates To Burst Your Bubble

by Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica,

The Sorry State of Bank Apologies

by Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica,

Mary Jo White was Supposed to Turn Around the S.E.C. She Hasn’t.

by Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica,

Nice Little Agency You Got There

by Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica,

Does Valeant’s Cost-Cutting Go Too Far?

by Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica,

BlackRock Doesn’t Need A Scarlet Letter

by Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica,

Seeking Tough Justice, but Settling for Empty Promises

by Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica,

The Justice Department’s Foreign Aggression

by Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica,

Valeant's Sugar Coating Helps its Acquisitions Go Down

by Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica,

The Buck Stops With Obama on Tepid Financial Reform

by Jesse Eisinger,

How the Case Against Bank of America CEO Fizzled

by Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica,

Goldman, the Muppets and the Mystery of ‘Pretty Fishy & Dodgy’ Holdings

by Jesse Eisinger,

When Regulation Threatens, Bankers Predict Doom For Main Street

by Jesse Eisinger,

Lucky Man: CEO's Repeated Good Fortune in Timing Stock Sales

by Jesse Eisinger,

Maintaining Ethics in the Move From Regulator to Regulated

by Jesse Eisinger,

Investors Are Chastened. That’s A Good Thing.

by Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica,

The Problem Is Bigger Than Too Big to Fail

by Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica,

Obama’s Mystery Man for Derivatives

by Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica,

The One Mortgage Fix Washington Isn’t Talking About

by Jesse Eisinger,

Panic, Please.

by Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica,

SEC Wins Big Fine From JPMorgan but Execs Skate Free

by Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica,

A Double Espresso of Questions for Green Mountain

by Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica,

The Bank-Friendly Eighth Governor of the Fed

by Jesse Eisinger,

Finally, Bank Regulators Have Had Enough

by Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica,

Congress Bungles Fannie and Freddie Reform

by Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica,

Why the Shareholder Rescue Never Comes

by Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica,

The Fed’s Credibility Problem

by Jesse Eisinger,

Big Banks are Victims of Their Own Success

by Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica,

Forever Blowing Bubbles

by Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica,

Why Risk Managers Should Be Spymasters

by Jesse Eisinger,

Ixnay on ‘Say on Pay’

by Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica,

Lesson of JPMorgan’s Whale Trade: Nothing Was Learned

by Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica,

Bank of America’s Legal Gambit: Keeping Reserves Low

by Jesse Eisinger,

Friends in Low Places: Where The Real Lobbying Happens

by Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica,

The .03% Solution

by Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica,

Explosive Charge: Morgan Stanley Peddled Security Its Own Employee Called ‘Nuclear Holocaust’

by Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica,

The Latest Myth About the Government’s Mishandling of the Housing Market

by Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica,

From Bernie Madoff to Steven Cohen, Enabling Suspiciously High Returns

by Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica,

New Financial Overseer Looks for Advice in All the Wrong Places

by Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica,

No, Obama Isn’t About to Crack Down on Wall Street

by Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica,

Mortgage Price-Gouging Courtesy of the Bailout

by Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica,

Tax Moochers: Banks

by Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica,

Ad Wars: The SEC Is Turning Hedge Funds Into the New Ginsu Knife

by Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica,

Small Banks Get Theirs Too: Treasury's Quiet Bailout

by Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica,

Why Do We Keep Swooning Over Failed Bankers?

by Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica,

Like Rate-Fixing Scandals? You’ll Love the Credit Default Swap Market

by Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica,

How Shareholders Are Hurting America

by Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica,

Incoming Regulator Promises No More Coddling of Banks

by Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica,

What Did JPMorgan Execs Know and When Did They Know It?

by Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica,

SEC Keeps Ratings Game Rigged

by Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica,

Whale of a Problem: Regulators Subvert Will of Congress

by Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica,

From Big State a Call for Small Banks

by Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica,

Congress's Genius Jobs Plan — for Fraudsters, Shills, and Wall St. Analysts

by Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica,

How to Kill the Volcker Rule: Just Add Fat

by Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica,

The SOX Win: How Financial Regulation Can Work

by Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica,

From CEO to Candidate, Romney Flip-Flops on Debt

by Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica,

Needed: A Cure for a Severe Case of Trialphobia

by Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica,

Wall Street Is Already Occupied

by Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica,

Dodd-Frank’s Derivatives Reforms: Clear as Mud

by Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica,

Why the SEC Won’t Hunt Big Dogs

by Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica,

Trust Bust: Why No One Believes the Banks

by Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica,

A Rogue to the Rescue: UBS Scandal Reinforces Need for Strict Volcker Rule

by Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica,

Tackling Reams of Bank Data Can Take Diligence, and Trust

by Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica,

Bank of America Gets Buffetted

by Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica,

In U.S. Stress Tests, a Tool to Gauge Contagion in Europe

by Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica,

Once Unthinkable, Breakup of Big Banks Now Seems Feasible

by Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica,

In U.S. Monetary Policy, a Boon to Banks

by Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica,

Misdirection in Goldman Sachs’s Housing Short

by Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica,

For One Whistle-Blower, No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

by Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica,

For One Whistle-Blower, No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

by Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica,

At a Time of Needed Financial Overhaul, a Leadership Vacuum

by Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica,

More Power Over Wall Street, but Little Chance to Discuss It

by Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica,

Vows of Change at Moody’s, but the Flaws Remain the Same

by Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica,

Vows of Change at Moody’s, but the Flaws Remain the Same

by Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica,

In Debate Over Bank Capital Regulation, a Trans-Atlantic Gulf

by Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica,

In Proposed Mortgage Fraud Settlement, a Gift to Big Banks

by Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica,

A Test Where the Banks Had the Questions and the Answers

by Jesse Eisinger,

Credibility Shaken, Hedge Funds Are Punished by Investors

by Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica,

In Postcrisis Report, a Weak Light on Complex Transactions

by Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica,

Goldman’s Self-Help: Eat, Pay, Trade

by Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica,

Standard & Poor’s Triple A Ratings Collapse Again. The Question is Why?

by Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica,

Where Are the Financial Crisis Prosecutions?

by Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica,

Trading for the Client? Or Winning on Its Own?

by Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica,

The Dukes of Moral Hazard: The Dangers of Quantitative Easing

by Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica,