In the roaring 2000s, just as in the Roaring Twenties, America’s big banks used insured deposits to underwrite their gambling in private securities, and then dumped the securities on their customers.

The senator may not be running for president, but, as George Zornick noted this week in The Nation the speech she gave last Wednesday would likely be her agenda if she was.

Senators "lambasted" William Dudley for his responses to questions about the Fed's independence.

After the broadcast interview ended, the senator talked about the warning Larry Summers gave her when she first started "causing trouble" in Washington.

The Massachusetts senator talks to Bill about taking on the entrenched political and Wall Street interests that have rigged the game against the rest of us.

Last week, the bank agreed to a record-setting $16.65 billion settlement for selling toxic mortgage securities during the housing boom. The deal includes $30 million for legal aid, but it's not enough.

A Nation article about JPMorgan Chase’s $13 billion settlement should confirm the public’s darkest suspicions about that institution and its CEO, writes Richard Eskow.

The New York Times profiles Anat R. Admati, the Stanford finance professor who makes "banks shudder." Watch her interview with Bill from earlier this year.

Thanks to the efforts of people like Anat Admati and Sheila Bair, there is some good news in the area of financial reform, focused on greater equity in the financial system.

Our banks are larger than before the 2008 crash and they're still living dangerously, economist Anat Admati tells Bill.