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September 21, 2011
The House Agriculture Committee convened an early hearing looking at the implementation of Dodd-Frank's derivatives section. This section, one of the most important aspects of the financial regulatory reform effort,... Read More
September 21, 2011
WHAT’S THE RULE? The Financial Stability Oversight Council on July 18 approved a final rule that would designate large payment-clearing and settlement companies as systemically important, which would allow regulators... Read More
September 21, 2011
WHAT’S THE RULE? The Commodity Futures Trading Commission on July 14 published a final rule on the prohibition of market manipulation, which gives the agency new powers to go after fraud.
WHY IS IT... Read More
September 21, 2011
WHAT’S THE RULE? The Commodity Futures Trading Commission on July 13 approved a final rule that would for the first time define the term “agricultural commodity” to better regulate the swaps market and... Read More
September 19, 2011
Delta Airlines
Michael Greenberger
September 19, 2011
Americans for Financial Reform
Sen. Maria Cantwell
Council of Institutional Investors
Michael Greenberger
Sen. Carl Levin
September 11, 2011
Floyd Norris has a terrific piece today in the New York Times entitled "For Banks, Unfortunate Echoes of 2008."
The attached chart accompanies his piece, which you should read.........and worry... Read More
September 11, 2011
NYT Columnist Gretchen Morgenson lays out the story of yet another egregious example of the SEC not doing its job. This time relates to its utter failure to use the legal authority to make executives pay back their... Read More
September 11, 2011
"No Job, No Insurance, No Health Care" isn't just a title for a New York Times Editorial. It's a fact of life for tens of millions of Americans who want to work and provide for their families, but... Read More
September 10, 2011
There's no way Gillian Tett, FT's US Editor, could have known how timely her column today would be. It's provocatively entitled "From Mesopotamia to America's Subprime Slave System" and... Read More
September 10, 2011
"President Obama’s $447 billion jobs plan got generally good reviews from economists on Friday, though several noted one glaring omission: The plan does not include a comprehensive way to address... Read More
September 8, 2011
As you get through the many things you have to do today, tomorrow, this week, this month and, for that matter, the things you might do during your, at most, 100 years here on earth, remember that 200... Read More
September 7, 2011
Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for Treatment of Asset-Backed Issuers
September 7, 2011
Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for the Use of Derivatives by Investment Companies
September 5, 2011
The New York Times Public Editor has an insightful, if incomplete, piece in today's paper on the very profitable Dealbook section of the paper and its web presence entitled "Financial News for the Rest of Us.... Read More
September 5, 2011
What is the employment crisis doing to Americans, their families and their communities? Read this article in today's Washington Post to find out: Working on the Fringe.
"I'm sorry, but this is... Read More
September 5, 2011
Anyone who cares about the future of our country, must read Robert Samuelson's column today, which details a potentially depressing decade of unemployment and underemployment:
"We have entered a long period of... Read More
September 5, 2011
Railing about deficits in the short term while virtually ignoring the unemployment crisis has resulted in mass unemployment that is devastating not just families, but communities and, in many ways, our country, as Paul... Read More
September 4, 2011
FT's ever insightful Lex column has a wonderfully concise take down of the business lobbyist's charge that it would be "barking mad" to implement UK banking reforms now: "The policy conclusions... Read More