World of Ideas

JPMorgan's Losses: Canary in a Coal Mine?
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Simon Johnson says the losses show something is fundamentally wrong with the way banks manage and control risk.
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On Democracy

By Bill Moyers and Michael Winship
Where Warriors Are Not the Only Wounded
In this picture taken Aug. 29, 2011 a US soldier who was wounded in Afghanistan is carried out of the bus at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Landstuhl, Germany. (AP /Michael Probst)
Inside a writers' workshop for hospital staff at Germany's Landstuhl Regional Medical Center.
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Moyers Moments

Paul Volcker on Jamie Dimon
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In this Moyers Moment, Paul Volcker responds to Jamie Dimon's assertion that the Volcker Rule will interfere with market-making.
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