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July 30, 2018
Wall Street’s biggest banks are not satisfied with just getting deregulation in the U.S. They are also fighting for deregulation in other countries, which is exactly what happened in the years before the last... Read More
July 24, 2018
Today, Trump’s nominee to be the Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) had a contentious hearing in the Senate Banking Committee, where she refused to answer even the most basic and... Read More
July 20, 2018
July 21st marks the eighth anniversary of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. Implemented in the midst of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, Dodd-Frank has helped establish... Read More
July 16, 2018
The Dodd Frank financial reform and consumer protection act had three core goals:
Prevent financial crashes, Wall Street bailouts and another Great Recession;
Protect consumers and investors from being ripped off; and... Read More
June 27, 2018
Wall Street’s Biggest Banks Are Gambling with Derivatives and Evading Regulation Again, Setting Us Up for Another Financial Crash
An all-star financial panel of former Federal Reserve Chair Paul... Read More
June 25, 2018
Trump’s Nomination of Permanent CFPB Director Is Nothing More Than a Shameless Ploy to Continue The Brazen Dismantling of the Nation’s Premier Consumer Protection Agency
In a move designed to attract as little... Read More
June 14, 2018
The wisdom and effectiveness of the Volcker Rule’s ban on proprietary trading can be seen since it was put into place: it has forced banks to shift from bonus-boosting but reckless short-term trading to... Read More
June 11, 2018
The book is an eye-opening, panoramic, tour de force that connects the dots of what has happened and is happening in America. It has that rare combination of historical information, in-depth reporting, insightful... Read More
June 1, 2018
Signaling a retreat from the more frequent and substantial sanctions imposed by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the past, a new report shows that enforcement activities by the SEC continued to... Read More
May 29, 2018
Why Put Taxpayers on the Hook by Allowing High Risk, Bonus-boosting Gambling Called “Proprietary Trading” at Wall Street’s Biggest Banks?
Want to go to Las Vegas with someone else’s credit card with... Read More
May 21, 2018
Described by a former CFPB official as a move that “defangs the watchdog and instead turns the office into a lapdog for the industry” acting director Mulvaney last week announced that the Bureau’s student... Read More
May 14, 2018
It seems almost everyone in finance is cheering on the deregulation frenzy in Washington and the demise of consumer protection and enforcement in the financial markets. Given that an historic crash happened just ten... Read More
May 14, 2018
Along with many, many others, we took note of CFPB acting director Mick Mulvaney’s recent remarks to the American Bankers Association, but not for the same reason. There’s no denying that his comments about... Read More
May 11, 2018
In an effort to bring a new weapon to their fight, opponents of common sense regulations of all types are seeking to use the Congressional Review Act in a new, untested, and dangerous way that could potentially threaten... Read More
May 3, 2018
Fed Vice Chairman for Supervision Randy Quarles in testimony before the House Financial Services Committee and the Senate Banking Committee made it clear that the pace of deregulation will be increasing at the key... Read More
May 1, 2018
Wall Street’s biggest banks keep breaking records for revenues, profits and lending. While all the banks’ first quarter results were uniformly pretty terrific, some were historically good. For... Read More
April 30, 2018
When you put your hard-earned money at risk by providing it to a broker for advice, shouldn’t he or she have to act in your best interest when giving you that advice? That would be a... Read More
April 26, 2018
This morning, Securities Exchange Committee (SEC) Chairman Jay Clayton will be testifying before a House Appropriations Subcommittee to discuss the fiscal priorities of the SEC for the 2019 Fiscal Year. Though it is... Read More
April 18, 2018
As we have been saying for a long time, Federal Reserve Chair Jay Powell stated after a speech to the Economic Club of Chicago that he does not see any proof that post-2008 crisis regulation have hurt the biggest... Read More
April 16, 2018
After a lengthy, secretive and controversial process, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York has a new President: John Williams, currently the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.
The criticism of the... Read More