Jonathan Weil
Jonathan Weil joined Bloomberg News as a columnist in 2007, and his columns on finance and accounting won Best in the Business awards from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers in 2009 and 2010.
Weil was a reporter for The Wall Street Journal from 1997 to 2006, and before that at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in Little Rock. He grew up in Hollywood, Fla., and has a bachelor's degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder and a law degree from Southern Methodist University.
Articles By Jonathan Weil
JPMorgan Makes Groupon’s Disclosures Look Good
Who are you going to believe? Jamie Dimon? Or your own eyes?
Facebook's Whiny Investors Should Start Their Own Group
After three days of trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market, Facebook Inc. shares now fetch 18 percent less than their initial public offering price. And even before today's 9 percent drop to $31, the press was smelling blood.
How JPMorgan Is Like Enron
Put this one in the category of the famous quote often credited to Mark Twain: "History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme."
Regulators Snooze While JPMorgan Lights the Fuse
Don’t worry your pretty little heads, JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chief Financial Officer Douglas Braunstein seemed to assure listeners on the bank’s quarterly earnings conference call last month. Regulators knew everything JPMorgan’s chief investment office was doing, he said.
What Jamie Dimon Doesn’t Know Is Plain Scary
Could Jamie Dimon really be as clueless as he sounded on the phone yesterday?
China’s Big Banks Look More Like Paper Tigers
After spending time combing through the financial reports of China’s biggest publicly traded, state- owned banks, I now understand what Jim Chanos, the famous short- seller, means when he keeps saying they are “built on quicksand.” He’s definitely on to something.
Puerto Rico Is No Paradise for UBS Customers
When Congress passed the Investment Company Act of 1940 to prevent abuses of mutual-fund shareholders, it exempted Puerto Rico. The island was "so far away from America that the policing aspects are quite difficult,” testified David Schenker, then the general counsel of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Sean Egan’s Mistake Was Seeking U.S. Government Blessing
The first time I wrote about Sean Egan and his small, independent credit-research firm, Egan-Jones Ratings Co., was in December 2007 for a column about the bond insurer MBIA Inc. And man, did he nail it.
Dream of Taxpayer Bailout Profit Is Just That
The U.S. Treasury Department wants the public to believe the government’s bailouts of the financial sector might make money for taxpayers. It’s easy to see why.
JPMorgan’s London Whale Could Use New Nickname
Late last week, a little-known trader at JPMorgan Chase & Co. in London, Bruno Iksil, awoke to find his life changed forever.
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