What Experts Are Saying

[Alex Pollock, Senior Fellow of the American Enterprise Institute and one of the sharpest thinkers I know, wrote a wonderful blog in the American Banker about on the Federal Reserve on May 17, 2013 that I commend to you. It’s short, sweet, and to the point. You can find it through the link below.] Jim [...]

[Robert Pringle, Chairman and Founder of Central Banking Publications, recently published a provocative piece on current massive interventions in the markets by the Federal Reserve and other central banks throughout the world. I recommend that you take a few minutes to read it.] Money is too loose globally. Trouble is, there’s no obvious trigger that [...]

Fifth Third Bancorp Chairman William Isaac does a lot of traveling and gives a lot of speeches and presentations about the banking business during the year. It’s not typically about Fifth Third, but Isaac’s background as former chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. puts him in high demand. So it’s no surprise he had [...]

Tom Hoenig, currently Vice Chairman of the FDIC who formerly served as President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City for 20 years, gave an excellent, wide-ranging policy speech at The Asian Banker Summit in Jakarta, Indonesia on April 24. I spoke at the same conference so I had the pleasure of hearing Tom’s [...]

By Lanny Davis [Lanny Davis, a Washington attorney and founder of Lanny Davis & Associates, who is probably best known for serving as President Clinton’s special counsel from 1996-1998, wrote the the article below on President George W. Bush on the occasion of the dedication of the Bush Presidential Library at Southern Methodist University. Lanny [...]

There’s considerable debate these days on whether the roles of chairman and CEO should be separated in publicly held companies. I’ve reviewed hundreds, if not thousands of failed and problem banks – both as chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and as a consultant since leaving the FDIC. I have also served for the [...]

Where have all the leaders gone? That’s the question I hear everywhere I travel at home and abroad. I can’t answer the question, but it caused me to reflect on what makes a good leader. When I think of leaders I admire, the first thing that stands out is their vision. A leader knows where [...]

Last week, President Obama nominated Penny Pritzker, a philanthropist and successful businesswoman, to be Commerce secretary . I have known Pritzker for over a decade and believe she will be an outstanding secretary of Commerce and a great ambassador for the U.S. throughout the world. In my view she will be among the most able [...]

[I was honored to deliver an address on the importance of sound bank regulation to a sound economy at the 49th Annual Conference on Bank Structure & Competition hosted by the Chicago Fed on May 10, 2013.] SOUND BANK REGULATION CRUCIAL TO SOUND ECONOMY By WILLIAM M. ISAAC Former Chairman Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Senior [...]

I had the honor of delivering a keynote address to the Asian Banker Summit 2013 in Jakarta, Indonesia on April 23, 2013 followed by an address that evening at the Asian Banker Awards dinner celebrating excellence in leadership among the Asian Banks. I gave the keynote address again on April 26, 2013 at an Asian [...]