<![CDATA[A Tame Regulator for the SEC]]>

1.0 link 152204 <![CDATA[A Tame Regulator for the SEC]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-kuttner/a-tame-regulator-for-the_b_152204.html President-elect Obama's appointment of Mary Schapiro to chair the Securities and Exchange Commission does not augur well for Obama's commitment to get at the roots of the financial crisis. Schapiro, who heads one of our broken financial system's main institutions of self-regulation, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, is known as a technically competent and politically moderate regulator who does not make waves. She served on the SEC beginning in 1988, having first been appointed by President Reagan.

The agency she heads...

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