Media
Note: This page covers 2013-2016. For updates see Anat Admati’s personal website or Martin Hellwig’s personal website
Reviews
“‘The Bankers’ New Clothes’ is Not a Fable,” Tom Selling, The Accounting Union
“The Right Way to Control the Banks,” Roger E. Alcaly, New York Review of Books
“How to Avoid Another Catastrophic Financial Crisis,” John Reeves, The Motley Fool
“Profits of Doom,” Will Hutton, New Statesman In the Critics
““Why Bankers are Intellectually Naked,” Martin Wolf, Financial Times
“Running on Empty,” John Cochrane, Wall Street Journal (Cochrane blog)
“Let’s Consider Kate,” John Lanchester, London Review of Books
“Rethinking the Principles of Bank Regulation,” Roger Myerson, Journal of Economic Literature
“Bankers New Clothes… Yet to be Made,” Nina Roehrbein, Investment & Pensions Europe
“The People versus the Bankers,” M.C.K., The Economist
“Speaking Truth to Bankers,” Wandorf Walerius, Roll Call
“Naked Self Interest,” George Hay, Reuters
“Bankers Should Stop Whining about Costs of Equity,” Susan Antilla, Bloomberg
Brendan Greeley, Bloomberg Businessweek
“Pour en Finir avec la Dictature des Banquiers,” Philippe Ries, Mediapart (in French)
Review and Interview, Owen Sweeney, Lafferty Insights Retail Banking bulletin
“Banks not Too Big to Regulate,” Dale Singer, St. Louis Post Dispatch
“Unless banks are sound, our economy will never be,” Heather Stewart, The Observer
Hazel Henderson, Seeking Alpha I. Walter,
“Die Märchen der Banker,” Susanne, Schmidt, Hadnesblatt (in German) (“The Fairy Tales Bankers Tell,” English translation)
“How Much Capital does a Bank Need?” T T Ram Mohan, Economic and Political Weekly
“Die Bankenlobby redet Schwachsinn,” Von Gerald Braunberger, Frankfurter Allgemeine (In German)
“The Real Problem with the Big Banks,” James Surowiecki, The New Yorker
“Too Big to Free Ride,” Christopher Whalen, The National Interest
David Wilson, South China Morning Post
“Risk Streaks and Naked Bankers,” Douglas French, The Freeman
How I Learned to Love Higher Capital Requirements,” Matthew Yglesias, Slate
“We Need to Change Our Approach to Banking Reform,” David Olive, Toronto Star
“Are Banks Bluffing about the Danger of Banking Regulation?” Christopher Matthews, Time
“The Bankers’ Friend? Rising Leverage May Sink All Boats,” Thomas G. Donlan, Barron’s
“The Bankers’ Old Clothes,” John R. Talbott, The Huffington Post
“Bankers, Exposed,” Diane Coyle, The Enlightened Economist Blog Kirkus Book Reviews
Interviews
John Cassidy, New Yorker, May 5, 2015
Tommaso Manzin, Finanz and Wirtschaft, April 6, 2014 (English) (German)
Guy Rolnik, Haaretz, The Marker, February 28, 2014 (Hebrew)
Erin Ade, RT TV Boom and Bust, February 12, 2014 (minutes 3:15-12 and 14-22:20)
Michael McKee and Tom Keene, Bloomberg Surveilance, February 12, 2014
CNBC Closing Bell, February 12, 2014
Thomas Seifert, Weinter Zeitug, January 29, 2014 (German)
Kathleen Hays and Vonnie Quinn, Bloomberg radio, October 8, 2013
Marshal Auerback, INET (Recorded April 5, 2013, posted September 26, 2013)
CNBC Europe, September 16, 2013 Todd Zwilich,
The Takeaway, September 9, 2013
Alphachat with Izabella Kaminska and Frances Coppola, podcast recorded July 26
Mark Crumpton, Bloomberg Bottom Line, July 12, 2013
Kate Welling, Welling on Wall Street, June issue
Gregg Greenberg (video), thestreet.com, July 8, 2013
Bloomberg Surveillance (TV), July 8, 2013 Bloomberg Surveillance (radio),
July 8, 2013 C-SPAN BOOK-TV (April interview, June airings)
Kim Clark, Money Magazine, June 2013 issue (graphics from print version)
Heather Stewart, Guardian (video), May 8, 2013 full length podcast, posted August 14, 2013
A Closer Look with Arthur Levitt, Bloomberg, May 2, 2013
Calcalist Magazine, Isreal, April 18, 2013 (Hebrew) (English translation)
Bloomberg on the Economy Radio with Carol Massar, April 2, 2013
EconTalk with Russ Roberts, March 27, 2013
National Public Radio, Morning Edition, March 14, 2013
NRC (in Dutch), March 13, 2013
The Globe and Mail, March 12, 2013 Andrew Sawers,
FS Focus, March 11, 2013 (appears in May Issue)
derStandard.et (in German), March 11, 2013
Goldstein on Gelt (Radio) , March 6, 2011
NewsTalk 910 Radio, February 22, 2013
CBS MoneyWatch, February 22, 2013
Fox Business, February 19, 2013
Conversation with Rob Johnson (INET) February 15, 2013
Bloomberg Surveillance TV, February 13, 2013
Bloomberg Surveillance Radio, February 13, 2013
Nightly Business Report, February 11, 2013
Related Media news and Commentary
Where is the Courage to Act on Banks? Anat Admati, Bloomberg View, October 12, 2015
“Why Won’t Regulators Rein in Big Banks?” Foreign Policy Magazine Podcast, Recorded October 12, 2015
“Where is the Courage to Act on the Banks?” Anat Admati, Bloomberg View, October 12, 2015
“Anat Admati: Are the Banks Safe Now?,” Stanford GSB News, May 19, 2015
“Watching the Watchers of Global Banking,” 100 Global Thinkers, foreign Policy Magazine November 17, 2014
“A Simple Plan to Stop the Next Financial Crisis,” Pat Ragnier, CNN Money, September 15, 2014
“When She Talks, Banks Shudder,” Binyamin Applebaum, New York Times, August 9, 2014 (Blogs: John Cochrane, AEI (James Pethokoukis), Bill Moyers )
“Big Banks Still a Risk, Gretchen Morgensen,” New York Times, August 2, 2014
“Obama: Bank System Still in Need of Reform,” Jim Kuhnhenn, Associated Press, July 2, 2014
“Too Much Debt and Not Enough Equity,” Anat Admati, New York Times Room for Debate, May 21, 2014
“Anat Admati: The Economist who Dared to Say the Bankers Have no Clothes,” Time 100, April 24, 2014
“Capital Requirements: Limiting Banks’ Leverage,” Yalman Onaran, Bloomberg, March 24, 2014
“Big Banks Score Win in Switzerland,” Jonathan Coppage, American Conservative, January 15, 2014
“The WSJ Best Nonfiction of 2013,” Wall Street Journal, December 14, 2013
“Bank Capital and Other Fallacies,” by Adam Creighton, The Australian, December 5, 2013
“Books of the Year,” Financial Times, December 1, 2013
Big Banks Shadowy Dance,” by Simon Johnson, Project Syndicate, November 29, 2013
“What’s Missing in Bank Reform: Political Will,” Darrell Delamaide, USA Today, October 2, 2013
“A room full of naked bankers,” Diane Coyle, The Enlightened Economist, September 19, 2013
“2008 Financial Crisis: Could it Happen Again?” Kevin McCoy, USA Today,
September 8. 2013 “Bloated Business of Banking,” Adam Creighton, The Australian, August 17, 2013
“Fear, Greed and Bank Capital,” Edward Hadas, Reuters, July 17, 2013
“The Problem with Record Bank Profits,” John Cassidy, New Yorker, July 16, 2013
“The Bankers’ New Clothes,” Jack Peat, The London Economic, July 15, 2013
“Bringing Banking Regulation to the Masses,” Jack Ewing, New York Times, July 12, 2013 (Haaretz, July 15, 2013, Hebrew)
“Summer Reading List for Commercial Bankers, 2013” American Banker, July 12, 2013
“A Call to Battle on Bank Leverage,” Simon Johnson, New York Times Economix, July 11, 2013
“Regulators Finally Start Standing Up to Big Banks,” Christopher Matthews, Time, July 10, 2013
“Summer Book Guide,” Martin Wolf (Economics), Financial Times, June 28, 2013
“British Banks Comedy of Terrors,” Simon Johnson, Project Syndicate, June 26, 2013
“The Bankers’ Blame Game,” Nina Rohrbein, Investment & Pensions Europe, June 2, 2013
“The Bankers’ New Clothes,” Emre Deliveli, Hurriyet DailyNews, May 27, 2013, Also in Turkey Tribune
“Ask a Banker: Capital, Capital!” Matt Levine, NPR Planet Money, May 20, 2013
“Should Big Banks be Broken Up?” Guest commentary, Anat Admati, Economist Debate, May 15, 2013
“Support Grows for Higher Bank capital Ratios,” John Plender, Financial Times, May 8, 2013
“The Case for Megabanks Fails,” Simon Johnson, New York Times Economix, May 2, 2013
“The Magic Lever,” by Donald MacKenzie, London Review of Books, May 9, 2013.
“Obama’s Big Bank Opportunity,” Ted Kaufman, Huffington Post, April 18, 2013
“What’s so Radical about a Safer Financial System?” Bloomberg View Editorial, April 9, 2013
“Basel III: A Well Intended Illusion,” Remarks by Thomas Hoenig, Basel, April 9, 2013
“Seven Dumb Things Bankers Say,” Mark Whitehouse, Bloomberg View, April 5, 2013
“Bungled Bailout Heralds Shift in Attitudes,” John Kay, Financial Times, April 2, 2013
“Masked by Gibbrish, the Risks Run Amok,” Floyd Norris, New York Times, March 21, 2013
“Big Trouble from Little Cyprus,” Martin Wolf, Financial Times, March 19, 2013
“Banking Myths Hindering Reform,” Jason Douglas, Wall Street Journal, March 12, 2013
“Bank Lobbyists Dispute Our $83 Billion Subsidy. They’re Wrong,” Bloomberg View, March 12, 2013
“Some Advice for Our Next Financial Crisis,” Kevin Drum, Mother Jones, March 8, 2013
“Stress Tests Don’t Mean Banks are OK,” Mark Whitehouse, Bloomberg View, March 7, 2013
“Higher Bank Equity is in the Public Interest,” Simon Johnson, Bloomberg View, March 3, 2013
“Why Banks are Still Unsafe,” Margaret Hefferman, CBS Moneywatch, February 26, 2013
“US Banks Bigger than GDP as Accounting Masks Risk,” Yalman Onaran, Bloomberg News, February 20, 2013