Bank's 'Egregious' Senate Report, Obamacare Rejection Costs, Gold Scandal And More

March 14, 2013 Subscribe · Forward Damning Senate Probe Blasts JPMorgan's Top Execs WASHINGTON — A Senate panel on Thursday issued a scathing assessment of JPMorgan's $6.2 billion trading loss last year. The investigation found that bank officials ignored growing risks and hid losses from investors and federal regulators. Officials at JPMorgan understated the trading losses to federal examiners by hundreds of millions of dollars and dismissed questions raised about the trading risks, according to the report from the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. Continue reading... States' Obamacare Rejection Could Cost Employers $1 Billion Something Fishy About Gold? Warren Buffett Is The Best Boss LOOK: 600-Year-Old Coin Found Moms Outraged Over Hot Wheels Misstep Applying For Obamacare May Not Be As Easy As He Thinks Holder: Banks Too Big To Prosecute Paul Krugman Responds To Paul Ryan's Attack Costco's Profit Soars Days After CEO Endorses Minimum Wage Increase Moms Outraged Over Hot Wheels Misstep LINCOLN MITCHELL Paul Ryan's Road Back to Relevance Ryan's newest budget is much more about communicating with his party's leadership and activists than about usefully contributing to the policy debate. It could perhaps most accurately be described as the "make Paul Ryan relevant again budget." Continue reading... ROBERT L. BOROSAGE A Tale of Two Futures: Ryan Against the Congressional Progressive Caucus Both parties agree that we suffer from mass unemployment, declining wages, and growing inequality. Both agree that rising future deficits should be addressed. But they offer completely different responses to these realities. The question, of course, is where Congress lines up. Continue reading... DAVID COATES The Problem With Charm Offensives: If They Are Needed, They Have Already Failed Please, Mr. President: no grand bargains with the defeated. No toleration of their scorched-earth policies. Stop inviting Republicans to dinner. Start eating them for lunch. Democratic charm-offensives focused on Republican lawmakers can come at too high a price. Continue reading... TONY SCHWARTZ Want Productive Employees? Treat Them Like Adults For more than a decade now, I've struggled to define what fuels the most sustainably productive work environment. Perhaps nothing I've uncovered is as important as trust. Continue reading... MICHAEL RUDERMAN Rethinking Mentorship Our dynamic, global economy demands creative leaders who are able to forge new paths. Mentorship must be more about empowering the mentee than about shaping the mentee to be like the mentor. Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here. Unsubscribe here.