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Why Sen. Dodd's Opposition to the Federal Reserve is Ill-Conceived

Georges Ugeux | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tarp, John McCain, Congress, Fdic, Hank Paulson, Liquidity, International Monetary Fund, Financial Reform, Senate Banking Committee, Ben Bernake, Federal Reserve, Monetary Policy, Chris Dodd, Democrats, European Central Bank, Frankfurt, Bank for International Settlements, Senate, Forum of Financial Stability, Treasury, Washington, Comptroller of the Currency, Central Banks, Sec, Global-Financial-Markets, Us, Sheila Bair, Republicans, Politics News
Georges Ugeux

Had Senate Banking Committee's Chairman Chris Dodd's proposal been effective before the crisis, where would we be today?

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Time to Stop the Regulatory Circus and to Steer the Ship to Safe Ground

Georges Ugeux | Posted 10.08.2009 | Home

Read More: Finance Ministers, Financial-Stability-Board, Nouriel Roubini, Economy, International Monetary Fund, World Bank, Fixed Income, Federal Reserve, Aig, Regulation, Gross Domestic Product, Istanbul, Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, Bank for International Settlements, G-20 Summit, Morgan Stanley, Lehman Brothers, Derivative Market, Bear Stearns, Home News
Georges Ugeux

The real issue for regulators around the globe is a serious definition of the financial world we want to live in. The current focus nearly exclusively on the banking sector could cause authorities to miss the broader picture.

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Economic 9-11: Did Lehman Brothers Fall or Was It Pushed?

Ellen Brown | Posted 10.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Naked-Short-Selling, Gordon Brown, Alistair Darling, Federal Bailouts, Bank for International Settlements, Sec, Global Currency, Financial Stability Board, Globalization, Northern Rock, Timothy Geithner, Lehman Brothers Bankruptcy, September 11th, Business News
Ellen Brown

Why was Bear Stearns saved from bankruptcy but Lehman Brothers was not? How could the decision makers not realize the dire consequences of letting Lehman go down?

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The Bloodless Coup of the Global Financial Stability Board: From Guidelines to Rules

Ellen Brown | Posted 07.25.2009 | Business

Read More: Bank for International Settlements, Treaties, Financial-Stability-Oversight-Board, Banking, Banking Crisis, Federal Reserve, Financial Stability, g20, G20 Protests, Business News
Ellen Brown

Political colonialism is now a thing of the past, but under the new Financial Stability Board guidelines, nations can still be held in feudalistic subservience to foreign masters.

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